Alto Sterling

Alto Sterling is John's player character from the HEXverse, appearing in the 1930s iteration of the continuity, Hollow Earth Expedition.

Biography
Alto was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming near the turn of the century. He attended the University of Wyoming after high school where he met Dorothy Cunningham, the woman he would later marry. After university, his interests turned to law enforcement and detective work, and he found himself employed as a private eye in his hometown. Life was not ideal for long, however. Dorothy soon became afflicted with a strange disease which would eventually claim her life. Devastated, Alto turned to alcohol and womanizing to cope. This pattern of behaviour continued into his thirties, during which he was tasked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to rescue film star Kitty MacDougal from the Hollow Earth.

Personality
Alto is notoriously overconfident, a trait which plays well with his self-admitted status as "sucker for a dame." He is motivated, above all, by love (especially in matters pertaining to Kitty).

Current Life
Presently, Alto is adventuring in the Hollow Earth with Rebecca Stone, Kitty MacDougal, William Flint, Pirate King of the Hollow Earth, and Sir Edward Killer of Bunny aboard an airship, flying across the false skies of the Hollow Earth.