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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 86 Decimated by the Dreadnought, is now posted.

Episode 86 Decimated by the Dreadnought

In this exciting episode, the eerie Eighth Men retaliate to the devastation wrought by Colonel Preston Lost and his Twenty-First Century weapons and tactics, replying with the superweapons of circa A.D. Twelve Million. Down from a dark heaven the warship Ever-Defiant-of-Entropy descends in her strength, like a warrior queen adorned for battle, fair as snowfall, deadly as hailstorms.  

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 85 Fall of the Fortress of Phthia, is now posted.

Episode 85 Fall of the Fortress of Phthia

In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost displays to the military men of a posthistoric age the advantages of gunpowder. All hell breaks loose. 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 84 Death of the Dark Conquerors , is now posted.

Episode 84 Death of the Dark Conquerors

In this exciting episode, after long delay, Colonel Lost unleashes the horrific secret weapon of the Sudden Death of Threno. Yet this is not the sole weapon at the command of the man of the Third Millennium. 

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 83 The Seventh Men Strike, is now posted.

Episode 83 The Seventh Men Strike

In this exciting episode, unexpected allies unforeseen arrive in the last moment of defeat and reverse the fortunes of war! Why are the mighty beasts of battle trampling the golden men of Elelin? Who has summoned wind and whirlwind to vex and scatter the levitation vessels of the Watchers?  

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 82 War in The Wind, is now posted.

Episode 82 War in The Wind

In this exciting episode,  the sky-ships of the corsairs, after long delay, enter the aerial fray, and fill the sky with death! But now the foe commits its reserves: prehistoric man-eating birds, lumbering ungulants, giant ground sloths, and brontosaurs big as living fortresses afoot! Grind Goldtooth orders retreat, giving up the city for lost — but Preston recovers his hope, and sees a last, desperate chance! 

A reader named Zjerzy asked for a map of Threno. Unfortunately, unlike my map of Pangaea Ultima, which is, or, rather, will be, a real place for which ready made maps can be found, this result is crude.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 81 Massacred by Morlocks, is now posted.

Episode 81 Massacred by Morlocks

In this exciting episode, his secret weapon, and all hope of victory, now gone, Colonel Lost, the Roman Legionnaires, and the exiled giant Grind Goldtooth, trapped aboard the wreckage of their crashlanded sky-pirate ship, must battle desperately in hand to hand combat against the overwhelming numbers of subterranean albino cannibals from the 8028th Century, who advance through clouds of poisonous gas with pincer-blades clashing and lunging! 

And yet what is the sudden alchemical apparition of fire, long forgotten since the days of the glory of Byzantium, which comes to the aid of the doomed corsairs? 

Is there evidence for Christ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHo-_VR_N50

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 80 The Skirmish on the Sky-Ship, is now posted.

Episode 80 The Skirmish on the Sky-Ship

In this exciting episode, The pirate warship of the air bearing Colonel Lost is rammed by a flying saucer, and is boarded. Colonel Lost, sword in hand, along with the Legionnaires of Rome, must fight giants! Then the sky-ship crashlands, the city gates are stormed, and all hope is lost.

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 79 Fate of the Happy Fortune, is now posted.

Episode 79 Fate of the Happy Fortune

In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost and the sky-pirates of the City of Swift Death launch a desperate assault on the high command of the Fifth Men!

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 78 The Battle Pyre of Lemuria, is now posted.

Episode 78 The Battle Pyre of Lemuria

In this exciting episode, a strange, prophetic voice issues from the lips of Colonel Preston Lost, as the sky-pirate battleships stoop like hawks above the ferocious Lemurians. But what fatal error has the enemy made? For now, seeing the observation platform holding the high command of the Fifth Men has drifted into striking range, the Vengeful Widow orders an all-out attack! 

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Note: please forgive that this week’s episode is tardy! My schedule has changed and Monday may be easier than Wednesday for my weekly deadline. Does any reader have a preference?

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 77 The Apparition from Atlantis, is now posted.

Episode 77 The Apparition from Atlantis

In this exciting episode, desperation leads to a sudden sortie on the bloodstained field before the feet of Theno, City of Sudden Death! The personal guard of the pirate queen, the Vengeful Widow, the feared and fearsome Air Lords of Han, now enter the fray! The supernal weapons of the Kshatriya of Lemuria blaze up in response, undefeatable! But what is this strange waking dream, or words from another world, which commands Preston to call on higher powers, and defeat the dark necromancy of long drowned Lemuria?

You asked to see a map of Pangaea Ultima.

This is getting to be a weekly feature. Minor updates and corrections made to the map, including two name changes. Serves me right for drawing a map on a work in progress.

To see a full image, right click  on it, and select ‘Open Image in New Tab” from the popup menu.

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 76 The Wreck of the Reprisal, is now posted.

Episode 76 The Wreck of the Reprisal

In this exciting episode, the corsairs of the City of Sudden Death stain earth and sky with blood!  Captain Pheleg rides his flaming wreck to victory and death! The hairy cannibal Gnophkehs of primordial Catalhoyuk are maneuvered into a death-trap, and butchered by the Air Lords of the Han! The fortunes of battle vary and change, and roaring chaos reigns, sole umpire of the carnage!