Smellulus Bacharach

*"Children love me! Men want to be me! Women want to be with me! It's SMELLULUS!"*

## Podcast Information

### Player

Tim Platt

A mighty loxodon tax collector played by Tim Platt. He is immensely insecure despite his impressive size and intimidating appearance. He is a humanoid elephant in a toga and is slim for his elephantine race.

He has a single earring in his large ear and makes frequent use of his trunk. He appreciates poetic speeches and breaks into song when he is especially emotional. He is also bad at managing his money, struggling with the concept of selling things rather than giving them away. While desperately seeking approval from anyone he can, Smellulus can be quick to anger and similarly quick to violence.

He is fired within minutes of his first appearance for not collecting enough taxes, only to be recruited by Snake Professional moments later. He believes in taxes and The Cordelian Empire, despite his general mistreatment at his job and lack of benefits he’s seen from their reign. He is coerced into the job for the money to make up for his lost job, but admits he’s considering other means to obtain the same wealth. It doesn't take long for him to grow more convinced to go through with their plan to kill the emperor the more he learns about his comrades and their target's secrets.

## Relationships

Smellulus has a desperate need for validation by others and is intensely lonely. He is delighted to have the party visit his house, treating them as friends to a point of making the others uncomfortable. Much of the party voices early on that while he's pleasant enough a person, his mood swings and pathetically overly eager nature repels others. While many of his teammates are wary of each other early on, Smellulus' vocal belief in the empire makes all of them particularly cautious about him.

During Come At the King: Chapter 4, Smellulus suddenly adopts Torrin as his own child after she helps remove his blindfold. Torrin immediately accepts this so that she gets to live in his house. While she is tentatively committed to the idea, Smellulus desperately clings to the idea as the series goes on.

By the end of the series, both Butter and Grimothee state that they had occasionally enjoyed his company.

Deli simply seems to enjoy tormenting him as much as most other people she meets, if not more so.

During The Power Ball, a fortunate Charisma check leads to a budding relationship with Sundown Samara.

## Trivia

* Smellulus owns a two-story house in Payola that was in a fashionable area at some point in the past. It is rather comfortable and suited for hosting parties, but it is obvious that it is not used as such. Smellulus’ home is where he keeps his collection of chilli pepper paraphernalia and his bell collection.
* Early in the series, Smellulus has -1 Strength.
* Smellulus likes how chili peppers look more than they taste.
* Smellulus is intimately familiar with the tale of The Trim Cuckold.
* Smellulus has a recurring theme of being treated as a clown. He is dressed as one in mockery by Jean-Luc Robespierre, and several scenes centered around him feature the iconic music of the opera Pagliacci . The opera features and literally translates to "clowns."