History Literature / TheLastContinent

** For those whose Latin is a bit rusty, those translate to "No Bloody [[MontyPython Sheilas]]" and "[[GDayMate No Worries]]" respectively

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Non-deadly creatures of Xxxx include ... um ... some of the sheep.
** You sure about that? With how they're constantly staring and all...
** Only SOME of the sheep. Not even most of them.
*** And you really don't want to be around when they're in a large group and ''running''.

** For those whose Latin is a bit rusty, those translate to "No Bloody [[MontyPython Sheilas]]" and "[[G'DayMate No Worries]]" respectively

** For those whose Latin is a bit rusty, those translate to "No Bloody [[MontyPython Sheilas''" and "[[G'DayMate No Worries]]" respectively

* AustralianWildlife: disturbingly accurate in that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Everything Really Does Try To Kill You]] down under. Yes, this includes the spiders, the snakes, the kangaroos, the koalas ''and'' the earth itself. Also, a surprisingly accurate analogy of the Melbourne underworld (... and no, sadly enough, I'm ''not'' kidding).

* AustralianWildlife

* StableTimeLoop: A very complicated one, but a stable time loop all the same.

At Unseen University, the wizards are concerned as the Librarian has contracted a form of magical flu which interferes with his morphic field, turning him into random beings and objects every time he sneezes. In order to transform him to cure him, they need to know his real name, but he refuses to tell them as he's afraid someone will turn him back into a human. The wizards realize that beside the Librarian, only Rincewind knows this name, so they have to try and bring him back.

At the end of ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind was left stranded in Xxxx, the [[TitleDrop Last Continent]], and he's still there, somehow surviving on the burning desert. This is because, a {{Trickster}} posing as a kangaroo named Scrappy tells him, he's been kept for a ''purpose'': he has to bring rain back to the arid continent. Rincewind immediately runs away, of course, but in so doing ends up on that very quest.

Meanwhile the wizards, looking for the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography to help them navigate to Xxxx, discover that he's missing and his office conceals a portal to a nice sunny island. They, and housekeeper Mrs Whitlow, all end up trapped there and learn that it's also thirty thousand years in the past. The isle, called Mono Island, is run by the God of Evolution - who keeps making new creatures as one-offs and has not grasped the idea of sex, which Mrs Whitlow has to explain to him amid many red faces by the wizards. The God gives them an organically grown ship and they set sail in search of Xxxx.

Rincewind travels haphazardly, meeting a dwarf road warrior named [[MadMax Mad]] who brings him to a town called [[PunnyName Dijabringabeeralong]], followed by inadvertently winning a sheep-shearing competition, inventing Vegimite and being arrested for sheep-stealing. He escapes from prison, encountering the Luggage (which has become a transvestite) and ends up in the city of Bugarup's famous opera house, where he has to invent the Peach Nellie. As Scrappy remarks, all he has to do is invent some kind of bat and ball game and build some tall buildings with borrowed money, and he's got a full house.

Back in the past, the wizards witness the creation of Xxxx, which was built by a different Creator to the main Discworld and brought into existence only thirty millennia ago. The magic required for this means that they all become temporarily super-powered and fight between themselves before Xxxx's creator locks them inside some of his Dreamtime drawings.

Rincewind finds the city's university, apparently a lost colony of UU, whose Archchancellor is called Bill Rincewind. Assisted by beer, he manages to bring UU's wizards through into the present with his own drawings, and then the two faculties argue over how to bring rain to the continent. Rincewind and the Librarian go up BU's tower and the Librarian threatens to drop Rincewind over the side if he reveals his name -- Rincewind, of course, hastily promises not to.

While boredly spinning a yo-yo-like device (a sacred bullroarer) around his head, Rincewind inadvertently learns it belongs to the Creator, and sets off a pressure wave which indeed brings the rain clouds back from their endless circulation around Xxxx. Then the tower is hit by lightning, shocking the Librarian into being cured. The wizards set off for home.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See {{Awesome.Discworld}}
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See {{Funny.Discworld}}

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* AuthorFilibuster: There's a brief one (also referenced in ''TheScienceOfDiscworld'') where it talks of a famously stupid race somewhere in the cosmos that watched a world-shattering comet strike a neighbouring planet - ''and then did nothing about it'' "because that sort of thing only happens in Outer Space". This is a reference to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet and the bit about outer space is in fact a real TooDumbToLive quote from some woman on the news. SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, evidently.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See {{CrowningMoment.Discworld}}

*DoctorJekyllAndMisterJackDaniels: Rincewind's personality almost inverts when he drinks enough of the local beer, and at one point has to remain sufficiently drunk to figure what he needs to do.

*MsFanservice: Mrs. Whitlow

** And another with Scrappy the Bush Kangaroo.