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The 26th ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel. The fifth in the Death/Susan theme, although they are not the primary protagonists of the story.

The Auditors of Reality are at it again. This time, they plot to stop time and therefore all the messiness of life, freezing it perfectly. To do so, they approach a driven, unstable watchmaker called [[ShoutOut Jeremy Clockson]] - so called because he was a foundling of the Clockmaker's Guild - to build, or rather ''re''build, the Glass Clock of [[{{Pun}} Bad Schüschein]]. This Clock, built by a MadScientist, previously stopped time briefly [[TimeCrash before breaking and then shattered history]], causing the History Monks to have to put it back together imperfectly (and incidentally [[AWizardDidIt explaining all the Discworld series' continuity errors]]). Its existence survives only in a fairytale and the memory of an [[TheIgor Igor]], the grandson of the one who helped build the Clock. In order to interact with Jeremy, an Auditor makes a human body and inhabits it under the alias Lady [[MeaningfulName Myria Lejean]], but in the process finds herself losing her former nature and becoming addicted to life.

Meanwhile, another foundling called Lobsang Ludd has been taken away by the History Monks and is taught their disciplines - chiefly chronological kung fu. A difficult but know-it-all student, he is apprenticed to Lu-Tze (from ''Discworld/SmallGods''), spoken of with fear yet claiming to be only a simple sweeper, and thus outside the system. Via their Mandala, the monks learn of the attempt to reconstruct the Glass Clock, and know that this time there's no hope of repairing history if it strikes. Merely a birth pang of the coming doom causes the room of Procrastinators (time manipulating machines) to go haywire, yet Lobsang somehow instinctively calms them. Lu-Tze, who failed to stop the first clock, is put on the case by the Abbot, a serial reincarnator currently in the body of a baby. He and Lobsang journey down towards Ankh-Morpork...

Preceded by ''Discworld/TheTruth'', followed by ''Discworld/NightWatch''.
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!! ''Thief of Time'' provides examples of:
* AgainstMyReligion: Used by an (unusually creative) Auditor to explain his irrational behavior while disguised as a human.
* AlmightyJanitor. Lu-Tze, and ''how''.
** Arguably, [[spoiler:Ronnie Soak, also known as Kaos]].
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Invoked when Susan takes a paper tube away from Jason and informs the boy that, no, the cardboard animal which the class is constructing is a polite horse.
** Possibly a reference to a 20th century joke campaign to clothe animals: "A nude horse is a rude horse." was their slogan.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Time; it had previously been hinted in an earlier version of the ''Discworld Companion'' that she was female, because "Time waits for no man"... [[spoiler:except Wen]].
* ArcWords: Lu-Tze reminding everyone of [[RuleNumberOne Rule One]], which is "Never act incautiously when facing a small wrinkly bald smiling old man!" [[spoiler:He proves it by beating the tar out of ''the new personification of Time.'']]
** But only because [[spoiler: Time]] was holding back, which was entirely according to Lu-Tze's plan.
*** Possibly; his fighting style was described as using ''time itself'' as a weapon.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Mr White. ''Literally''.]]
* BadassBaritone: War employs one of these, briefly, [[spoiler: just before the Horsemen ride against the Auditors]].
* BadassGrandpa: "[[RuleNumberOne Rule One]]: Never act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!"
** "Rule 19: "Always remember Rule One and ask yourself, ''why was it created in the first place?''
* BerserkButton: "Not the hair."
* BittersweetEnding: For [[spoiler:[=LeJean=]/Unity, since she decides to kill herself rather than live as an insane auditor trying to be human once she stops the invasion. Death considers it a waste of her potential, but we do see that unlike the other auditors she has earned a soul.]]
* BrickJoke: More like a convoluted way to get to a 'perfect moment.' At the start of the book, it's mentioned that the history and lead-up to a 'perfect moment' is not straightforward. At the very end of the book, [[spoiler:Susan and Lobsang have their [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming 'perfect moment.']]]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Soto - one of the best field agents the Monks of Time have - refuses to cut his hair, as he believes it to be a separate entity that simply happens to live on his head.
** Turns into a BrickJoke near the end of the story, [[spoiler: when the last surviving Auditors attempt to kill him, but instead wound his hair, which actually ''is'' a separate creature.]] This turns out to be a mistake on their part.
* CallBack: Susan asks if Lobsang has "rhythm in his soul", a reference to ''Discworld/SoulMusic''.
* ColourCodedTimestop: Not only the passages in which time is sliced are described as having weird colours, Lobsang eventually confirms that there are scrolls explaining how the world changes its colours as time is sliced.
** FridgeBrilliance: The colours correspond to the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect Doppler effect]].
*** And the reduced speed of light on Discworld - just 600 mph - makes the effect visible at even mild time slices.
* ColourfulThemeNaming: Thanks to Lejean blurting something out upon first introducing them, the other Auditors are all named Mr or Miss [Colour] -- possibly a ShoutOut to ''ReservoirDogs''. Or else a shout-out to the British board game ''Cluedo'' (named ''Clue'' in the American version), with characters named "Colonel Mustard", "Reverend Green", "Miss Scarlett", "Dr. Black", etc.
** The theme of Auditors in human form all dressing in monochrome grey -- grey clothes, grey hats, grey shoes -- might be a {{homage}} to the Grey Gentlemen in Creator/MichaelEnde's fantasy novel ''Literature/{{Momo}}'', published in 1973 (alternative titles in English were ''The Grey Gentlemen'' or ''The Men in Grey''). The villanous (and non-human) Grey Gentlemen were also called "time thieves" because they stole time from humans by persuading them to "save" time and deposit it in the Grey Gentlemen's time banks to be paid back with interest at an unspecified date.
*** Refer also to MichaelMoorcock. In his scifi novel ''The Final Countdown'', time-travelling hero ''Jerry Cornelius'' - another J.C. - is duped by his adversary Miss ''Brunner'' into helping to devise a supercomputer that puts a stop to human history - ending effectively the passage of time...
* ContestWinnerCameo: Marco Soto
* ContinuityNod and FandomNod: In reference to the ContinuitySnarl mentioned below, Lu-Tze points out several issues that fans have pointed out over the years about ''Discworld'' continuity as examples of problems caused by the new patchwork history. For example, there's the opera house/theatre business and the fact that Ephebe's philosophers are so long-lived (they appear both in ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'' and ''Discworld/SmallGods'', set about a century earlier).
* ContinuitySnarl: In-universe example, this is what happened to Discworld history after the first Glass Clock struck and the History Monks were unable to completely repair it. There's even a ShoutOut to specific continuity errors fans have previously pointed out, such as some characters crossing over between ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'' and ''Discworld/SmallGods'' despite the books taking place decades apart ([[EpilepticTrees ... probably]]) and the setting up of a Shakespearean-style theatre being new and radical in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' when it turns out that the city has had a Victorian-style opera house for many years in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}''.
* CosmicRetcon: The aforementioned ContinuitySnarl is used to HandWave plot holes and SchizoTech in the rest of the series.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Readers with an eastern philosophy bent will quickly notice that "Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised" -- a.k.a. the History Monks -- is Buddhism with a dash of Taoism thrown in for taste. Wen is even the name of the mythological author of the I Ching, an important Taoist/Buddhist book. (In this case, Wen falling in love with [[spoiler:Time]] is probably a subtle pun.)
* DefectorFromDecadence: Lejean decides to stop the other Auditors' plan after experiencing the sensations and thoughts that come with being alive.
* DeliciousDistraction: Made easy since the Auditors are not used to their new senses.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: Lu-Tze beating down ''Time''.]]
* DivineParentage: [[spoiler:Lobsang and Jeremy are the son of Time. In fact they are the same person, but her powers made two of them. [[MindScrew Best not to think about that]].]]
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: This book provided the page quote. Also the reaction of Qu when Lobsang starts picking up things in his workshop.
* DramaticSlip: This causes the second half of the plot. Lobsang and Lu-Tze were running to reach the Glass Clock before it struck and would have made it if not for this trope. The stupidity is later lampshaded:
-->I'm sorry? You were dashing to prevent the end of the world but you stopped to help some old man? You... [[IdiotHero hero!]]
* EldritchAbomination: Rarely for a late Discworld novel, the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions are mentioned, as statues in the History Monks' garden (they call them ''dhlang'', demons). An Auditor statue is among them and called the most dangerous of them all, despite its unassuming appearance.
* ElementNumberFive: As in the previous book, it is said that on the Disc the Fifth Element is "Surprise". Fitting the number, Lu-Tze has a 'Garden of Five Surprises' which Lobsang attempts to puzzle out after only finding four of them. [[spoiler:He's convinced it's some meta explanation like Lu-Tze himself being the fifth surprise, but the actual fifth surprise is just a cheap carnival mask Lu-Tze puts on with a "Boo!"]] "I never said it was a ''good'' surprise..."
* EurekaMoment:[[spoiler: For the first six Auditors to become human after Lady Lejean is trying to stop the clock. For beings who hated imagination and could never lie, the way they countered her attempts to stop them were quite impressive.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: After [[spoiler:killing many of the Auditors]] with chocolate, Lady Lejean [[spoiler: drowns herself in chocolate.]]
** Also works as a StealthPun - [[spoiler: "Death By Chocolate" is the name of an actual dish.]]
** [[spoiler:Killing the Auditors also works as a ShoutOut: [[Discworld/SoulMusic an earlier book]] had noted that Susan's mother's favorite dish was Genocide By Chocolate.]]
** Both women are shocked that Lu Tze can just have one and lose interest.
*** Susan's certainly changed from the schoolgirl who said "I think it's possible to have too much of [chocolate]" [[Discworld/SoulMusic some years back.]]
* FairyTale: Invoked to explain how stories work.
* FalseReassurance: Someone from the Guild of Clockmakers regularly checks that Jeremy is taking his medicine. Igor assures him that [[ExactWords he sees Jeremy pour out a spoonful every day]] -- but doesn't mention that he then pours it down the drain.
* FantasticTimeManagement: The title character can make time flow faster or slower for himself relative to the world around him. He regularly uses this ability for mundane everyday schedule management. (And for stealing things.)
* GRatedDrug: [[spoiler:The Auditors eventually become somewhat addicted to life; narrowing their senses down to five is easy-peasy, but they are unprepared for the sheer intensity of them. It literally drives them insane.]]
* HesBack: [[spoiler:Kaos becomes Chaos, which is something the auditors loathe, allowing the horsemen to finally turn the tide.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: We are finally given a canonical, in-Universe explanation for Discworld's [[ContinuitySnarl continuity anomalies.]] Later in the book, Lu-Tze [[DetectiveComics punches]] [[InfiniteCrisis Time.]]
* HistoricalInJoke: One of Lobsang's instructors recounts to the Abbot how, in an attempt to embarass Lobsang into paying attention, he challenged the boy to solve the problem on the blackboard; only Lobsang was looking at the wrong problem, and instead solved part of a lesson that had been impossible even for the advanced students who it had been intended for. This is more or less what happened to George Dantzig in 1939 when he was a graduate student at Berkeley; he arrived late to a statistics class one day and scrawled down what he assumed was part of his homework assignment. Six weeks after he turned it in, his professor came to him and told him he'd solved two rather famous unsolved problems that had been giving mathematicians trouble for years.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: [[spoiler: Five.]]
* HumanityIsInfectious: [[spoiler:The Auditors, especially Lejean and Mr White.]]
* HumanMail: Jeremy gets an Igor mailed to him in a box.
* TheIgor: Or rather ''an'' Igor. The Auditors hire one to assist Jeremy in making the clock.
* IKnowKungFaux: Several techniques are named, including ''Okidoki, Upsi-Dasi,'' and the mystical Déjà Fu.
* IndividualityIsIllegal: A number of Auditors takes human form and individual names, a venture that ends in bloodshed and chaos, with the last survivor deciding to commit suicide in a vat of chocolate.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Mr. White did not handle incarnation well. Jeremy is a milder case - the only violence he did was offscreen, a NoodleIncident, and apparently was very, very messy. [[FalseReassurance He has medicine for it now.]]
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: The Angel Clothèd All in White of the Iron Book from the Prophecy of Tobrun is keen to remind you that 'Clothèd' is pronounced "cloth-edd". "It's the slanty thing over the E".
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: There's a recurring metaphor about "opening a box with the crowbar you'll find inside".
* LetsGetDangerous: Death rides out to gather the Horsemen for the coming Apocalypse, but finds that [[spoiler: each of them has, in some way, been rendered effectively useless by the qualities they acquired from being an AnthropomorphicPersonification.]] The trope comes when they [[spoiler: actually come to Death's aide, along with ex-Horseman Chaos, and War pushes his image as a HenpeckedHusband aside (to his Valkyrie wife's nostalgic delight) to show that they're every bit as dangerous as they were prophesied to be.]]
* LogicBomb: Used by [[spoiler:Lejean/Unity]] against the orderly-minded Auditors, such as signs that point right but say "Keep Left" and signs that read "Ignore This Sign -- By Order", and "Do Not Feed the Elephant" when there is no elephant.
** Not to mention going metaphysical when she puts up a sign that says "Duck" when there's no reason to duck.
*** ... and no waterfowl in sight either.
** The Auditors finally find a way around it by creating the new category of orders that are "bloody stupid" and thus don't have to be followed -- after taking heavy losses.
* LoopholeAbuse: Used heroically by the Horsemen in the climax:
-->'''Death:''' Nowhere does it say ''to whom we must ride out against''.
* MadScientist: Jeremy Clockson, though he's described as being too sane rather than not sane enough.
** Only by himself. Igor considers it to be just another type of crazy.
* MagicFeather: The portable procrastinator, but only for Lobsang: he makes his own time [[spoiler: since he's Time's son]].
* MathematiciansAnswer: Was the most accurate one. [[spoiler: "Are you Lobsang or are you Jeremy?" "Yes."]]
* MeaningfulName: Doubles as punny -- Wen the Eternally Surprised. His name sounds like "when", and interestingly enough, ''wen'' in Chinese means "to ask a question", which he did after his enlightenment.
* TheMenInBlack: The Men In Saffron, the History Monks.
* MistakenForProfound: Lu-Tze thinks what Mrs. Marietta Cosmopolite says is deep wisdom.
** It shows up Lobsang, who assumes the Way is more mystical, when Lu-Tze manages to use the Way to ignore the cold by [[spoiler:wearing a masterfully crafted pair of longjohns made by Mrs. Cosmopolite.]] Lu-Tze is later called a master at seeing "the wisdom hidden in plain sight."
* MundaneUtility:
** [[spoiler: Chaos (Ronnie Soak) has an impossibly cold sword, and, like Death, the ability to be where he needs to be. He uses the sword to keep milk cold, and the ability to deliver milk and dairy products to everyone in Ankh-Morpork. Every day. At ''precisely'' 7 AM. Everywhere.]]
** Susan, as part of her inherited powers from being Death's Granddaughter, can stop time for herself. She mentions this power is great for grading her students' work. She also uses the compelling voice to get some time off. The voice, however, won't be able to get her a pay raise.
* MyGreatestFailure: For Lu-Tze, it's his failure to stop the first TimeCrash.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When the Auditors "die" in their artificially made human bodies, the bodies sometimes simply break down at the atomic level, seeming to turn to dust.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: Marco Soto.
* NoMedicationForMe: Jeremy takes medicine to make sure he doesn't become "too sane", but then decides he thinks better without it.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Jeremy did to that guy who kept his watch fast. He has medicine now.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Lu-Tze. In truly epic amounts.
* OhCrap: When the Sweeper and Lobsang cut through a dojo as a shortcut, one of the students angrily stops him and challenges him to a fight when the Sweeper won't leave. Then the Sweeper introduces himself to the student, triggering this reaction.
--> '''Lu-Tze''': "My name is Lu-Tze."\\
'''Student''': "Oh shee... oh shee-yit..."
* OldMaster: Played with. Lu-Tze has a fearsome reputation among the History Monks as a powerful warrior, but over the course of the story, he reveals that most of his feats are accomplished by simple trickery. Then he [[spoiler:puts a physical embodiment of time in a submission hold.]]
* OrderVersusChaos: Comes down on the side of chaos, because life and emotion and free will are disorderly: that's why the auditors want to destroy it.
** One can argue that the side of chaos won because [[BigDamnHeroes Chaos was on its side.]]
* [[spoiler:ThePeteBest: Kaos.]]
* PrettyInMink: Lejean wears a huge white fur coat when she first meets Jeremy, then a mink stole later.
* PrimordialChaos: Kaos, the Fifth [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Horseman of the Apocralypse]].
* ProphecyTwist / ExactWords:
** Tobrun was ''right'' about the Horsemen bringing terror to the multitudes. [[spoiler:He just failed to specify that they'd be multitudes of Auditors.]]
** The Horsemen will ride out at the Apocalypse. [[spoiler:The prophecy never said against ''whom''. Death is able to convince his fellow Horsemen to ride out ''to save the universe.'']]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Death trying to reunite the Four Horsemen.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: Everyone is shocked when Lobsang becomes the apprentice of Lu-Tze The Sweeper. Even if they don't recognise The Sweeper in person, they are shocked by his rep, and because he ''never'' takes apprentices anymore. In fact Lobsang's apprenticeship is a punishment posting for both of them in different ways.
* RogueDrone: Lady Myria [=LeJean=]. Once she picks up a physical body, a name, and a gender, she starts seeing life as less of a blight on the perfection of the universe.
* SaveScumming: The yetis have avoided extinction (three times) by working out how to perform what amounts to a quicksave. [[spoiler: Lu-Tze learned it from them later.]]
* SchizoTech: A key part of the backstory -- when the monks repaired history, they did a somewhat patchwork job.
** In fact, this book manages to HandWave every single instance of SchizoTech ''in the entire Discworld series'' by outright stating that all of the inconsistencies were created when the time stream was essentially pieced back together by little men in robes wielding glue-sticks.
* SdrawkcabAlias: [[spoiler:Ronnie ''Soak''.]]
** According to Pratchett, [[spoiler:he only realized who Soak really was a minute or two before Lu-Tze did, and ran into a bathroom with a pen and a piece of paper to check to see if it was recognizeable when it's mirrored.]]
* SecretArt: Deja fu. [[spoiler: Of course the monks don't know it, Lu-Tze hasn't taught them!]]
* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Cutting off the yeti's head to demonstrate his SaveScumming ability.
* SenseFreak: [[spoiler: The Auditors in human form, to the point that they die by taste bud stimulation.]]
* ShoutOut: As usual, plenty.
** [[spoiler:Kaos being 'the one who left before they became famous' is a reference to Pete Best, former drummer of Music/TheBeatles.]]
** The inventive monk Qu is an obvious CaptainErsatz of Q from JamesBond.
** Lu-Tze tells Lobsang he won't [[Series/KungFu call him some insect nickname]].
** Lu-Tze's line after figuring out [[spoiler:Kaos']] identity is a reference to a famous Rolling Stones song.
** "Jeremy Clockson" is almost certainly a pun on Jeremy Clarkson of TopGear, though the two don't share anything apart from the name (and, possibly, a fascination with engineering). This is debated ''[[http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Talk:Jeremy_Clockson here]]'' on the L-Space Wiki. It may be another case of Tuckerisation?
** The stance used to stop falling is called Stance of the Coyote, anybody else reminded of a certain cartoon coyote?
** Lu-Tze being a simple sweeper might also be a ShoutOut to the wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, where the most powerful character is a sweeping monk in the Shaolin temple who only appears in a few scenes and is never named.
*** His name is also a distortion of [[{{Laozi}} Lao Tzu]], the legendary founder of Taoism.
** The Procrastinators are so called after the saying that "procrastination is the thief of time".
** Death breaks it to the Angel of the Prophecy of Tobrun that the Omnian Church has written him out of canon, deciding that the prophecy was actually a metaphor for the struggles of the early Church, which is a reference to a similar controversy over the Biblical Book of Revelation.
*** In the same vein, the idea of Kaos being the Fifth Horseman and riding in a chariot stems from a controversy over whether, when the Book of Revelation says "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him", is this a description, or is Hell (or Hades) supposed to be a separate entity, making five in total?
** Kaos' helmet has eye-slits that look like butterflies' wings, in a reference to TheButterflyEffect in chaos theory (which was also mentioned in ''Interesting Times'').
* SplitAtBirth: [[spoiler:Lobsang and Jeremy. In a very literal way.]]
* SuperReflexes: The History Monks use "slicing time" to give themselves enhanced perception and response. [[spoiler:Lobsang was taken by the monks because he could do this despite being untrained in their arts.]]
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Though timekeeping is not ''exactly'' an art form, this describes Jeremy and Lobsang's differences to a T. Note how high-strung and terrifying exact the "technician" Jeremy is, while Lobsang is such a performer half the time he has no idea what he even ''is'' doing, but his talent is spilling over everywhere.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: The Auditors in human form reporting their emotions without knowing the term for it. Including pain...
* ThemeNaming: The Auditors with colours, so much so that they run out of colours and start calling themselves Mr. Taupe, for example.
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: The main plot focuses on Lobsang/Lu Tze and Jeremy/Igor/Lady [=LeJean=], with Susan and [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: Death ]]
as C-plots.
* TimePolice: The History Monks.
* TimeStandsStill: {{Deconstructed}} with slicing -- a small pocket of space around the slicer is still subject to the ordinary passage of time, so it is necessary to move around so that the air around you doesn't get used up. Also, touching a fast-moving object like a crossbow bolt is a really bad idea.
** Further deconstructed when it's mentioned that this is what happens when you do it ''right''. If you screw up slicing, your sorry-ass feet get sliced to ribbons on the grass. And ''then'' you suffocate.
** And then there's what happens if you master the basics and try to go for the high-level stuff. Going for the sweet spot at high slicing levels (where there's a valley in the energy required) and ''missing'' is '''not''' recommended. The guy who discovered the first valley ''theorised'' there existed another, even closer to the point at which no human would survive. It's still only a ''theory'' because, attempting to discover it, he imploded.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Oh the headache. [[spoiler:After two {{Time Crash}}es things are very messed up but still fixed by the end of the book.]]
* TitleDrop: "So easily does a thief of time repay his debts!"
* {{Tuckerization}}: While the book was being written, a chance to appear in the book as a character was offered as a prize in a charity auction. The winner, Marcus Soto, appears as a history monk (the one with the Hair).
* UncertainDoom: Because no one knows what happens after death if the Glass Clock kills you.
* UnusualEuphemism: One of the Auditors starts spouting absolutely [[Discworld/TheTruth ---ing]] ''[[spoiler: organ]]ic'' modifiers and interjections after discovering how unpleasant it is to have a body and failing to express her frustration through normal human expletives.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Angel of the Iron Book seemed pretty indignant, then vanished.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Assuming she qualified as a woman at all, Myria [=LeJean=]/Unity. the Auditors copied her features from what was considered the most beautiful ''painting'' of a woman in the world, then improved upon them by erasing imperfections, it's likely that they created this trope without actually comprehending what "beauty" is!
** What makes it very odd is that if memory serves, that painting was a portrait of a younger [[IWasQuiteALooker Nanny Ogg.]]
*** That is indeed the Mona Ogg, assuming that is the painting they started with. However, so above under UncannyValley.
*** It was actually 'Woman Holding a Ferret', a reference to 'Lady With an Ermine'.
* TheXOfY: The title.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Lobsang has to try and outrun a lightning bolt about to hit the glass clock, which would stop the flow of time. [[spoiler: He fails, time stops and the auditors plan succeeds. The heroes must now work to set things right again.]]
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