Monday, December 6, 2010

Introducing The Ghost-Czar™

Aside from the Peeping-Tom alien™, and perhaps The Cardinal, I don't think I've ever got more mileage out of a character than the Ghost Czar™, Alexander II Romanov. Here are his critical stats:


   Ghost Czar (or Tsar)™
   Size: Moderate
   Weapons: Spectral Luger (automatic pistol)
   Fear Factor: Low*
   Likely Outcome of Hand-to-Hand Struggle: Back shooting™ with
   Spectral Luger followed by Loss of Liberty™
   Likeliness of Attack: Relatively High for socialists and cowards, both
   of whom are despised by the Ghost Czar™. Everyone else, very low
   Defense: None. Maybe hiding behind cases of Courvoisier and expensive
   paintings in the Winter Palace.
   Bad Move: Hanging out in movie theatre lobbies, or turning your back.

   *Since few people know about the Ghost Czar™, the fear level is
   commensurately low. However Lenin was known to jump out of his shoes at
   the pop of a champagne bottle, while Trotsky took to wearing a mask in
   his likeness on the back of his head, and wearing his coat backwards.
   Dzershinsky tried unsuccessfully to have his back surgically removed.
   After that, he wore a heavy guage steam pipe with arm-holes cut out of
   it, even in the shower.

   Additional: Why is the Ghost Czar™ in Such a Bad Mood™?
   How would YOU like it if you had to haunt the Winter Palace in
   St. Petersburg and have to watch communists drinking your fine
   wine and farting in your favorite chair?

  Getting in touch with the Ghost Czar:
  *Not recommended* unless you don't mind getting back-shot in a dark
  movie theatre lobby. Your capitalist and aristocratic credentials must be
  impeccable. If you've got your ducks in a row, however, flash the
  Faberge Egg Signal on one of our many cloudbanks to summon
  the Ghost Czar™.

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