Welcome to the Alter-Ego Archive, where I'll be reviving a few favorite characters from old RPGs. Today I'll be reviving Alexander Todd, a character I played in New World of Darkness a few years ago. This is all reproduced as best as I remember it, but I make no promises that I've recalled every detail in perfect accuracy.
Alexander Todd is something of a local celebrity. He hosts a moderately successful marriage counseling program on local access television. Of course, this means his own pending divorce and alcoholism must be closely kept secrets for the sake of the life he's built for himself. Still, when his wife is captured by cultists, he has enough feeling left for her to get involved in storming the cult that caused all this kerfuffle in the first place.
On his travels, he allied with an NRA lobbyist and a career butler with an encyclopedic knowledge of occultism. His highlights in their quest to stop the summoning of Nyarlthotep included some great moments.
1. When the lobbyist was having trouble talking his way into the back rooms of an upscale bar, Alexander fell across the other man's shoulders. He booped the lobbyist's nose, slurred, "C'mere beefcake." and then turned to the bouncer with a, "S'okay, he's with me." This worked at getting them into the VIP rooms.
2. When confronted in the cult's subterranean tunnels he, still drunk from the incident in the club, cried out "La, la, Nyarlthotep f'tagn!" The cultists shook their heads, tsked about how insistent the leaders were about not turning up drunk to the celebration, and, assuming him to be a fellow cultist to eager to start the revelry, helped him find his way to the summoning ritual.
Of course, he wasn't much good in the final fight, but he found his way there like a boss.
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