No one knew where she came from, although a few people speculated
she was related to Cruella De Ville, or possibly a skunk, since her hair
was stark white on the right side of her head, and pitch black on the
other side.  Naturally.  They'd been assured of this by a passing Amazon
named Hairdye.  She'd just sit at the bar with her apprentice, a young red
haired girl with a huge umbrella, and quietly watch everyone else's
antics.

       Finally, one day, Bob simply got smashed out of his mind, sauntered
up to her and said, "Who the hell are you and how did you get here?"

      The woman smiled faintly.  "My home universe was destroyed, and only
my little band of adventurers escaped."

       Bob laughed.  "Yeah, yeah, everyone claims that.  Tell me another."

       Not quite everyone claimed it, but the Floating Vagabond, a bar
sitting inside a forcefield on an asteroid that MIGHT be the center of
space and time, or possibly just a rock, did seem to attract more than its
fair share of interdimensional travellers from destroyed universes.  It
certainly wasn't Squint's personal beauty that drew these people like
flies.  (Squint was the bartender, and he was almost ugly enough to
require a sanity check just for looking at him.  Rumor had it that he had
once scared away Cthulhu just by glaring at him) Or the beer, which was
passable, but not that great.  You could get some interesting mixed
drinks, though.

        "Okay, I'll tell you how it happened," she said, then turned to
the woman sitting next to her.  "In fact, I've got an even better idea.
Hey, Help, mind if I..."

        "No!  No questions!  There will be NO QUESTIONS!"  She sounded
frantic.

       Bob laughed.  "Okay, I'll ask you.  How did you two get here?"

       Help went rigid and began to speak with an eerie voice...

*****************

End of the Third Age

by 

John Biles

****************

     The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving  memories
that become legend.  Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long
forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.  In one Age,
called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a man 
was pinned to the wall. It was not his first time to be pinned to the
wall. It would, however, be his last.  It was not a beginning.  There are
neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time.  But
it was a beginning.  The Beginning of the end.


        It was a dark and stormy night at Thom's Bar and Grill in scenic
downtown Ebou Dar.  Thom had pissed off his wife again, and was spending
the evening pinned upside down on the wall, surrounded by some of the less
valuable members of his wife's knife collection.  She was busily serving
drinks and having two for every one she served.  Meanwhile, Blind Drunk
Hari was regaling the crowd with a story.  He was a great gleeman, even
though he was the sort of person who wakes up in the middle of the night
in a pool of his own dried vomit and goes back to sleep by drinking until
he passes out.  Blind Drunk Hari had seen the inside of every dumpster in
Ebou Dar, and often could identify each one individually by smell.

          But that wasn't important right now.  Neither was his habit of
trying to get high by snorting beans up his nose.  But we'll mention it
anyway.  Enough about him, on with his story.  

         "And so, in the last days of the war against the shadow, the
council of Aes Sedai was very desperate and approved many projects which
might provide some help.  One of the Council members was named Timmy
Sedai, and he believed that since the Shadow had bred monsters to use
against the nations, the only way to defeat them was to make BIGGER,
BETTER monsters to use against the Shadow.  Normally, this was forbidden,
but the council was desperate and probably would have been willing to
approve a new Olsen Twins movie if that would have defeated the Shadow."

        Billi Axe, a frequent visitor to the bar despite being only nine,
frowned.  "A what?  What's an 'Olsen Twins movie'?"

        Hari paused to drink another bottle of Saldean Vodka.  "I don't know.  The legends say it was some sort of horrible thing, so evil that even the Shadow would not use it as a weapon."  He shrugged.  "Anyway, so Timmy Sedai retreated to Tohio Island, where he began to breed giant monsters.  Three headed flying turtles.  Giant moths.  Huge serpents.  Andrew Dice Clay.  Some sort of fat slobbering beast known as a 'limbaugh'.  Whales that breathed fire.  Apes with a strange building climbing instinct.  But none of them were adequate.  Finally, he created his greatest creation, but before it hatched, the Shadow found the island and its armies stormed the base.  He was forced to trigger the formation of a volcano, which destroyed the attacking army, but also sent the egg of his great creation tumbling into the ocean, and it lies on the ocean floor still, waiting for the day when it is disturbed and rises, to hunt the Shadow."  He paused to knock back more Vodka.  "Okay, this Saldean's farmer's daughter noticed one day that the family horse was giving her funny looks and..."

        Billi said, "Hey, what about the egg?"

       "What about it?"

       "Where is it?"

       Hari laughed.  "The bottom of the ocean.  It's said that if the
Shadow awakens again, the egg will finally hatch."

        "There's a monster army that's taken over our city!"  Billi was
referring to the army of the Seanchan, which wore armor that made them
look like insectmen, and rode strange beasts.  "Is the monster going to
eat them?"

        Several Seanchan soldiers, listening from the door, simply
laughed.  "There's no such thing as giant sea monsters, little boy.  We've
travelled all over this world and never seen one.  And if we did, we'd
just leash it like we did the damane and all our other beasts of burden
and war."

        Billi shook his fist.  "You sank my daddy's fishing boat!  The
monster's gonna come eat you!"

        Luckily for Billi, these soldiers didn't take him seriously the
way some Seanchan would have, so they just chased him around a little
until he yelled and ran off, but they let him go.  

****************

        Commander Ichimaru frowned.  The stupid boat was rocking for no
reason.  He yelled at one of his damane, "Dammit, we're in the harbor!
Stop the boat from rocking!  There shouldn't be any tides!"

        The damane simply cried.  "I'm trying, sir!"

        Her sul'dam slapped her.  "Don't address the commander."

        Lieutenant Haoh said, "It's not her fault, sir.  There's
thousands, maybe millions of fish in the harbor, and they're ramming into
the boats."  He pointed at all the rocking ships.  "See, the surface is
calm, but you can see the dark streams of fish pouring into it beneath the
surface."

        The Commander frowned.  "Why would fish be pouring into the
harbor?"

        "Maybe some sharks are cruising around out there?"  Haoh shrugged.
"I'd suggest calling Captain Higg.  His family owns fishing boats, I
think."

         Soon enough, they had gone to Captain Higg's boat.  Captain Higg
was watching the fish and frowning.  "Probably a Leviathan.  We'd best not
send any boats out of the harbor."  She put her fists beneath her chin and
leaned on the railing.  "Ever seen one of those, Commander?"

         Commander Ichimaru frowned more.  "A what?"  She was an army
commander really, not navy.  She knew the basic principles of naval
combat, sort of, but that was it."

         "These really HUGE whales.  Some crazy Aes Sedai made them during
the breaking of the world, it's said.  They're pretty rare, but they could
eat an entire ship with one gulp."  Captain  Higg shook her long black
hair.  "When the fish leave in a few days, it'll be safe to go."

          "We can't wait that long.  We have orders to move on to Illian.
Today."

          "Well, if we hug the coast, we'll probably be safe.  Leviathans
can't come in to the shallows.  They're too big."

         "If we hug the coast, word of where we're going will go ahead of
us.  I'm not afraid of a big whale.  Be ready to sail in two hours."

         Captain Higg frowned.  She hadn't joined the navy to commit
suicide, but failure to obey orders was ALSO suicidal.  

***************

          The Seanchan navy freely uses channeling to control the weather
so they always have the winds they want.  Now, given that a butterfly can
potentially create a storm by flapping his wings, imagine what would
happen if every butterfly on earth flapped at once.  Then multiply by
twelve.  The Seanchan never had figured out why they had so many typhoons
around the coast of their homeland when the locals had assured them there
hadn't been any before the Seanchan began to leash the Aes Sedai.  Clearly
a plot by renegades.

         Some creatures can sense channelling.   Every Aes Sedai can sense
it, and the more you channel, the farther away it can be felt.  The
creature that felt it now had never felt so much channelling.  It stirred
memories in his brain.  His purpose.  He had slumbered for centuries,
waking only fitfully to eat a passing Leviathan or an entire school of
fish.  Now, he moved towards the source of the power, ready to do what he
had been made for.

************

         The Seanchan navy was flopping about like butterflies in a
tornado or someone trying to ice skate during a hurricane.  The water was
almost black with desperate fish trying to move through the Seanchan navy,
and while the damane were channeling like maniacs trying to control it,
they weren't succeeding.  

         Captain Higg stared gloomily at the water.  We're all going to
capsize, she thought.  And if we don't, we'll make it out into the deep
water and the Leviathan will eat us.  As a result of her staring, she was
the first to see the huge, solid dark blur approaching through the water.
There were no fish behind it.  It looks awfully small for a Leviathan, she
thought.  Maybe it's just deep beneath the water.

         She ordered her ship to peel off.  Better to risk a treason trial
than to become the first person eaten, she thought.  She also ordered that
a warning be sent to the commander.

          The shape was getting larger, but not much larger, and closer to
the surface.  As the warning spread, the fleet began to scatter in a
panic.  Captain Higg could hear Commander Ichimaru shouting at the top of
his lungs, though she couldn't comprehend the words.  The water was
getting even choppier and a few of the smaller boats had capsized.  She
turned her ship to make for one of those, hoping to save it's crew.

          Then the head of the oncoming creature broke the water.  It was
somewhat like an alligator head, with two huge eyes, scaly skin, and an
incredibly long mouth/beak.  It had teeth as big as a person, and a tongue
long enough for a large family to sleep on it.

           It kept coming, rising out of the water with the slope of the
ground beneath the waves.  As its shoulders broke through the surface of
the water, triggering a wave that swamped four corvettes, Captain Higg
realized to her horror that it was walking on the bottom of the ocean,
which meant it had to be...way too big.  It was the only time in her life
she ever wished that it was just a Leviathan coming for her.  

        The Commander was worried, but confident.  The Seanchan had never
met an opponent they could not defeat.  Orders went out and soon, every
damane in the fleet was concentrating on the beast, wrapping it with
invisible chains of air.  It howled and thrashed, and the waves swamped
more ships, for with the damane busy, there was no one and nothing to stop
the waves.  Seanchan ships were built for rough waters, but not when
tightly packed, trying to leave the harbor.  Waves struck the interior of
the harbor, knocking down buildings near it.  

       Captain Higgs ordered her ship to steer off to the right, away from
the fleet.  She had a very bad feeling about this.  Her feeling was soon
proved right.  The creature had reached the point where it was halfway out
of the water before they had leashed it.  Suddenly, it stopped struggling
and fell forward, crashing into the water.  Its head struck two ships,
destroying them.  The rest were hit by the wave, which flung ships about.
Nearly the entire fleet capsized except for a few lucky ones; Captain
Higgs' ship, the Yamato, was one of them.  

        The problem with Seanchan armor is that you drown in it really
well.  All of the soldiers and marines drowned nearly instantly.  So did
the Damane, especially the unfortunates whose collars were damaged in the
wreck of their ships.  The bonds of air were broken and the creature was
freed.  Captain Higg set a course for Tarabon, watching as the creature
destroyed what was left of the fleet.

        Lieutenant Smeagol came up to her.  "What in the name of the
Creator was that?"

        Captain Higg frowned.  "A lizard that walks like a man.  Whether
it is the wrath of the Shadow or the Creator, I do not know."

****************

         The channeling that had finally roused it was over.  The creature
looked out upon the odd rock formations by the shore and all the scurrying
ants that inhabited them.  They were not his concern.  He could feel
something.  A pull.  Something he had to destroy.  Something he had been
made to destroy.  That way.

         He went, oblivious to the destruction in his wake.  It was
nothing compared to what he had to do when he reached his destination.

*****************

        The Amyrlin Seat frowned, tossing down the report.  Elaida had no
doubt that the Eyes and Ears had screwed up again.  There were no such
thing as 500 foot tall giants, scaly or otherwise.  Probably a storm had
destroyed that Seanchan fleet and someone had exaggerated things.  She
firmly resolved to discipline the two fools she had sent to Ebou Dar.
Undoubtably trying to cover up their failure to deal with the Queen
adequately.  Their reports were usually encouraging, but Elaida had
learned to smell slackers long ago.

        "So you don't believe it?"  her Keeper of the Seals asked.
Alviarin had her usual unctous tone concealing the usual barely hidden
contempt.  Elaida eyed Alviarin. Elaida ran through the possibilities in
her mind.  Alviarin might have rigged this up in order to distract her
from something important.  It might be a simple practical joke.  But what
if Alviarin wanted her to ignore this?  She might be trying to manuever me
into not dealing with it, and then something horrible will happen.  Or she
might be trying to make me think that, so I overreact.  Or what if she
wants me to think that she's trying to trick me into acting, so I don't
act, but then when I do act...

        Elaida's brain went into the spin cycle.  Eventually, she decided
to go browbeat some novices into working harder on her new palace and to
select some new wallpaper patterns for it.  Then she felt much better.

*************

            It took a long time for the creature to clean those annoying
ants off his feet.  He never did figure out why two bands of ants had been
going the same direction as him.  He only had to kill half of them before
the rest ran away and stopped that annoying...whatever it was.  His
vocabulary consisted of 'ROAAAAAAARRR!!!!!' and 'AAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!', for
the most part.  If you counted various stomping noises and miscellaneous
cries of pain, it got a little better, but not by much.

************

          Demandred shuddered, standing before the Dark One in the great
maw at Shaol Ghul.  "Yes, My Lord, he destroyed the entire fleet."

          I AM NOT AMUSED, DEMANDRED.  IF YOU SCREW UP AGAIN LIKE YOU DID
THE LAST TIME THE THIRD AGE CAME AROUND, I WILL NOT BE AMUSED.

         "But you're already not amused."

         HERE WE GO AGAIN.

         *Zot!*

****************

    
          Mesanna shuddered, standing before the Dark One in the great maw
at Shaol Ghul.  "I really think this goo detracts from the decor of this
place.  What made you decide to redecorate?"

          I AM NOT AMUSED, MESANNA.  DON'T FAIL ME LIKE DEMANDRED DID.

         "What did Demandred do?"
     
         HE DIED TOO QUICKLY.

         Mesanna shuddered some more.  "How may I serve you, Great Lord?"

         FIRST, THE DARKFRIENDS NEED A NEW NAME.  TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE
CONFUSING US WITH THE SUPERFRIENDS.

         "The what?"

         DON'T INTERRUPT.  SECONDLY, THERE'S A 500 FOOT TALL LIZARD COMING
TO ATTACK HERE.

         "..."

         YOU WILL LEAD WAR ROCKET AJAX TO ATTACK HIM.

        "Lead what, my lord?"

         Pause.

         OH WAIT, WRONG AGE.  SORRY.  WHO AM I IN THIS AGE?

         It's a terrible thing when you begin to suspect that the greatest
force of evil in all of creation is getting senile.  And he owns your
soul.

***********************

        Rand frowned.  A giant lizard monster was headed directly for
Caemlyn.  Ebou Dar was a pile of rubble, quite likely with Elayne in it.
While part of him contemplated letting Caemlyn be destroyed, he knew that
if Elayne was alive, she'd kick his butt if he sat back and let Caemlyn be
destroyed.  On the other hand, even in his most maniacal moments, he knew
he couldn't fight something that big.  Maybe with all of the Ash'aman.
Maybe.  And all the Aiel.  And everyone else on the planet.  

         As he sat on his throne, frowning, Thom Merrilin walked in.  He
wasn't expecting this, as the last he had heard, Thom was in Ebou Dar with
Elayne.  Why Elayne and Nynaeave had gone to Ebou Dar, he had no idea.
Where Thom had gotten the butt ugly kid he was carrying, Rand had no idea,
either.  "Thom?"

          Thom said, "I know an ancient legend which MIGHT help us stop
that giant thing."

        "Where's Elayne?"  Rand asked.

        "Birgette is in Tear with everyone but me and Olivar here, waiting
for their broken bones to heal."

         Rand sprung to his feet.  "They were all injured by the monster?"

         "Mat and Elayne finally had it out over which one of them were
stupider, and by the time it was over, Lan, Nynaeve, Mat, Aviendha and
Elayne all had broken each other's legs and arms.  Birgitte and I had to
beat them all unconscious to get them to stop."  He sighed.  "Julin came
with me; he's around here somewhere."

         "So what is your plan?"  Rand asked.  He frowned.  Delivering
Elayne to Caemlyn with broken limbs would not look very good to the local
nobles.  And he didn't want her to be hurt like that.  Unfortunately,
unless she wanted him to balefire off her injured limbs, he couldn't do
much.

         "Well, there's a legend about the giant king of the monsters and
how he is a friend to children..."

         Olivar smiled.  "I thought he was really cool!"  He stomped
around, pretending he was crushing a city.

         Rand had a bad feeling.

***************

         The creature had a name now.  He had had it before, and he would
have it again.  Such is the way of the wheel of time.  The boy, his new
friend and rider, had named him.  Sure, it had been the boy's pet cat's
name, but he'd had that experience too before, in previous turnings of the
wheel.  He was so pleased with his name that he had only destroyed the
ugly outer part of the stone outcroppings where his ant friend had lived,
and left the inner part of the formation untouched.

        Godzilla kept going, following the instinct that drew him north.

**************

         "Maw, maw!  Something's coming!"  Timi ran towards the house, his
collie following him, yipping excitedly.

         Maw Bell stomped out of the house and looked suspiciously at her
son.  "If you've fallen down the well again..."

         Timi stared blankly at his mother.  "Huh?  I'm right here."

        "Dammit, boy, what did you call me out here if you didn't fall
down the well again?"

         Timi hated it when his mother had flashbacks to things that had
never happened.  "Maw, there's something coming."

        "Not another 500 foot Jesus, I hope."

        "A what?"  His mother seemed stuck in some past life in a
different age, much of the time, as far as Timi could tell.  Like the way
she had named his male dog 'Lassie'.  "It's a giant lizard."

         His mother sighed.  Living on the northern border of Arafel
stunk.  Most of the time Timi was making things up, but sometimes monsters
did come out of the Blight and eat the house.  This was house #12.  "I'll
go get my crossbow.  Get your axe, Timi."

         They soon did, and then she went and looked north.  "I don't see
nothing, Timi," she said.

         The ground shook.  "South, Maw."

         "Ain't no monsters south of here, boy."

         He pointed.  "It's got some kid riding on its shoulders.  Hey,
he's waving!"  Timi waved back.

          Maw Bell turned around and nearly fainted.  "I shoulda listened
to your father when he wanted to move to Tear."

          Soon, the Bells were working on building house number thirteen.

************

     Graendal  shuddered, standing before the Dark One in the great maw at
Shaol Ghul.  "Balefire?."

          I AM NOT AMUSED, GRAENDAL.

         "I'm afraid I can't quite follow your logic in saying that in
response to my question, Great One."

          SORRY, HABIT.

          "So you want me to balefire it?"

         WITH THE TRUE POWER. NOTHING LESS CAN STOP IT. 

         "Didn't Mesaana already try that?"

         HAVE YOU BEEN SPYING ON MESAANA AGAIN?

          "No, no."  Graendal was more nervous now.  "What do I do if it
doesn't work?"

         I SUGGEST BALEFIRING YOURSELF SO I CAN'T PUNISH YOU.

         This wasn't the kind of incentive Graendal liked.

****************

          Godzilla was quite surprised when the ant made his big toe
vanish.  So he leaped into the air and came down hard on her.  She
squished remarkably well.

****************

           Shadar Haran stood on the slopes of Shaol Ghul.  He could see
the giant lizard coming across the landscape.  Half the trollocs in the
Blight were dead.  The rest were now following it, worshipping it as a
god.  They probably think it IS the Dark One, Shadar Haran thought.  It
was pausing to wipe a few Fades off its feet.  He sighed.  It would take
decades to recover all the losses of troops.  Even Trollocs could only
breed so fast.  

           Only one thing remained to be done.  Wait for the creature to
come closer, and then unleash as much True Power on it as possible right
here at the Bore.  With any luck, it might actually break the Bore wide
enough to let the Dark One reach through and kill the creature.  If not,
then they would wait for it to eat everything in the Blight and starve to
death.  

         As it got closer, he could see a small child riding on its
shoulders.  Was the child controlling it somehow?  It was worth a shot.
He raised one finger and pointed, firing a precision stream of true power
balefire.  He missed.  The creature had gone airborne, jumping as only
hundred foot long muscles could do, soaring into the air.

          Shadar Haran was pleased.  The creature could not dodge in
mid-air.  He tracked it and fired again.

          Unfortunately, by that point, the creature had gotten close
enough to unleash its ultimate weapon.  Its great maw opened wide and a
cascading sheet of pure white hot light erupted from it.  It looked almost
like it had been drawn with crayons, but when it struck Shaol Ghul, the
entire mountain vanished, along with Shadar Haran, who was erased from
existence before he had even fired off his first shot of balefire, so the
one coursing towards Godzilla was obliterated.

          The destruction of the mountain had also obliterated the wards
holding the bore closed.  The Dark one would have smiled, if he had a
face.  Indeed, the blast of balefire had widened the bore more, and the
Dark One extended what might have been a hand on a creature with a body,
in order to rip the bore open wider and finally break free.  He did this
even though he knew what happened next.  It always happened, but being a
creature of habit, the Dark One always hoped that maybe this time it would
be different.  Godzilla would fall down the hole, land on the Dark One's
head, knock him and himself down, then breathe balefire on himself when
they hit bottom and this would undo Godzilla having balefired the bore
wider.  

         Unfortunately, the Dark One had forgotten that the Wheel doesn't
repeat itself perfectly.  Tiny errors build up over time, so that each
iteration very slowly becomes different.  For example, Elaida had been
named Jo Ann the last time around.  This tiny difference had reverberated
through the universe, subtly changing things.  As a result, a small boy
was riding on Godzilla, which meant his jump wouldn't carry him QUITE as
far.  

           Godzilla landed just short of the bore, took a deep breath in,
leaned over, and fired another breath of balefire out.

****************

           Imagine if the world was a huge wheel, spinning around an axis.
In fact, imagine if the universe was the big wheel they spin on the Price
is Right.  No, no, imagine all of creation as a giant hamster wheel.  The
hamster runs in place and never moves, trying to get somewhere, but never
getting there, and as he runs, the wheel turns under his feet, and he
keeps going through the same motions over and over for eternity.  Now,
cover the outside of the wheel with a long piece of film in which the end
of the film is the same as the beginning, and set the hamster on fire so
his light shines through the film and creates a continually repeating film
on the wall that goes over and over.  

           That's basically how the Wheel of Time works, except that the
hamster isn't really on fire, but he does keep trying to chew a hole in
the film.  Now imagine that someone aims an industrial laser through the
hole in the film.  Never mind how it keeps up with the wheel as it turns.
The wheel turns on an axle. *ZAP*, you fire the laser.  Oops, there went
the Axle.  And the other side of the wheel.  And the wall.  And your
annoying neighbor.  Maybe you should have read the instructions.

           Now imagine what happens to the Wheel of Time when someone
fires balefire through a hole in it into the interior of the wheel.

          Godzilla's last thought was 'RAAAARH!'

           The Dark One's last thought was 'I WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE
UNIVERSE AND FINALLY GOTTEN EVEN WITH THE CREATOR IF NOT FOR THAT MEDDLING
KID AND HIS LIZARD.'

            Verin's last thought was, 'Hmm, I think I left the gas on when
I fled Paaran Disen during the end of the Second Age.  I bet I'm gonna get
a horrendous bill if they ever find me.'

           Rand's last thought was, 'At least I don't have to chose
between my three women'

          Olivar's last thought was 'Can we do that again?'

          All of creation flew across the Creator's living room, crashed
into the wall, knocked over a lamp, and started an electrical fire.  When
his wife got home, she kicked his butt and forced him to stop keeping
universes in the living room.

*************

          The eerie voice fell silent.

          Bob said, "..."  

         Squint peered at Terri.  "If the entire universe came apart and
smashed into the wall of some god, how did you get out?"

         Terri got up and turned to Help.  "Come, I believe it's time for
us to go."

         "Hey, answer my question!"

         Terri simply smiled at him, with the sort of infuriating smile
that people would expect from Aes Sedai, if all the others hadn't been
completely erased as if they had never existed because they hadn't.
"Check, please."

          Then the Space Nazis burst out of the bathroom.  But that's a
story for another time.

The End 


Author's Afterword:

After watching Godzilla, this story came to me in a flash.  Originally, I
was going to have the Seanchan discover Monster Island, but then I came up
with an origin for the second/third age Godzilla.  Like most of my comedy
writing, this story is riddled with obscure cultural references, such as the
two WOT RPG characters created by Tory Baybrook and Stefan Gagne respectively for an online game I ran back in 1995-6.

Help is modelled after a character from a series of Cyberpunk stories that
Stefan wrote.  If I ever finish it, they'll appear in the 'novellization'
of our campaign.

Squint and the Floating Vagabond: Invented by Lee Garvin for the Tales
from the Floating Vagabond RPG.  Sadly, Avalon Hill was too stupid to
advertise this game meaningfully, but the rights have now reverted to Lee.
Toho holds the rights to Godzilla and made a TON of monster
movies in the fifties and sixties, increasingly sillier and sillier.
Godzilla lived on Monster Island.

Ichimaru and Haoh: Japanese names.  I can't remember where I got them
from.  But since Seanchan has a psuedo-oriental culture, I thought it
appropriate.

Captain Higg: In the last ten minutes, I forgot where I got her name from,
but it IS an in-joke.  I can't remember what, though. 

Leviathan: An old term for whales, especially BIG ones. Also used by Hobb 

War Rocket Ajax: 'Dispatch War Rocket Ajax.  To bring back his body'.
Quote from an evil woman in Flash Gordon.

'Thom Merrilin walked in.'  This is a WOT character, NOT the Bar and Grill
owner.  This isn't the maintainer of the FFML either.

         "Well, there's a legend about the giant king of the monsters and
how he is a friend to children...": As seen in the Godzilla movies.  



The Price is Right: A Gameshow that has probably been running on TV since
the Third Age.

'I WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE UNIVERSE AND FINALLY GOTTEN EVEN WITH THE
CREATOR IF NOT FOR THAT MEDDLING KID AND HIS LIZARD.': A riff on the usual
Scooby Doo episode ending.  

Space Nazis: Also invented by Lee Garvin for the Tales of the Floating
Vagabond RPG.

That's all the OCRs (Obscure Cultural References) I can find