4-Kallisti

**4-Kallisti** is a innocuous device from Oneiros INC. in Corridoria, taking the form of an ordinary apple that causes chaos wherever it is brought, with settings inside the device affecting the associated degrees and type of chaos. This is known because of a manual that was provided, which also mentioned this device was the fourth in a series of chaos-inducing machines, hence the name, **4**-Kallisti, which is also seems to be a reference to the Apple of Discord in Greek mythology.

## Settings

When one rotates the twig of the apple clockwise three times the apple will split into two halves which be rejoined by holding them together for a minimum of three seconds. Once the apple is open one will observe four rows of four pits each, which require seeds to activate. These seeds may be seeds from any apple. When there are no seeds in any or all of the pit rows, 4-Kallisti has no observed effects and will be in it's 'Null State'.

Each row of pits controls a certain chaotic aspect such that the first row controls "amplitude", the second "frequency", the third "simultaneity" and the fourth "range". They work as follows:

* **Amplitude:** The leftmost row of pits controls the amplitude of chaos, or how severe the chaos is. The sequence of seeded vs. unseeded pits in this row can be corresponded to a binary number from 0 (all pits, no seeds) to 15 (all seeds). The chaos degree appears to be a logarithmic scale where each step up in chaos results in actions that are about twice as severe as those before.
* **Frequency:** Frequency is determined by the middle-left row of pits and determines how often a chaotic or destructive event is likely to occur, with this row again being corresponded to binary numbers such that the nth number corresponds to the chance of an event happening about once every 2n minutes on average.
* **Simultaneity:** The middle-right, or third, row determines the simultaneity of chaos, or how "chaotic" and unrelated the events induced by 4-Kallisti are. At a low number, events will be highly corresponded and may target one object or person, while at the highest setting any misfortune or chaos will be directed to all parties equally.
* **Range:** The right-most and last row of the apple controls the range of chaos, which is proportional to the binary number formed by seeded/unseeded pits N by 6\*2N feet, such that the maximum range is 6\*215 feet, or almost 37 and a fourth miles.

Given 15 possible states for each row as well as the null state it means 4-Kallisti has 154 + 1 = 50,626 possible settings. Each setting beginning from the first row of pits (amplitude to range) is assigned a hexadecimal numbers based on the permutation of seeds, so a maxed out 4-Kallisti apple would be denoted as FFFF, while one with all minimum settings would be 1111. The Null State may be denoted as 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, 0110, 0111, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110, due to the presence of a seedless row nullifying all other rows.

## History

4-Kallisti was discovered by the rest of TAOCEAR after the disappearance of Henry G. Gordon in 1993. Later, going through his knapsacks, it was found out he would carry around this device for fun just to watch what would happen. He seems to have especially favored the "31C3" setting, corresponding to a high-frequency high-simultaneity but low-amplitude and low-range setting. There are multiple pages in his journals devoted to the pranks he played on his college campus with this device, noting the effects.

After 1993 the apple was put in display within A 1920s Museum, which holds many other interesting artifacts.

**ℂ𝕆ℝℝ𝕀𝔻𝕆ℝ𝕀𝔸**

**Artifacts** **4-Kallisti** • MMC-OB6 camera (Operating Manual) • Oneir.OS • Starspeak

**TAOCEAR** *Overseers* Henry G. Gordon (1990 - 1993) • Mary Cindworth (1993 - 2020) • Marvin Levin (2020)
*Charting* Expeditions • List of Dimensions • Map

**Miscellaneous** *Corridoria Unlocked*

```
             █                The Final Realm
             ^
             ^  •
          █  █  █             The 300 Mile Outpost
         █████████
          █  █  █             Cloverworld
             ^  •
             ^

```

```
              █
             ███•              Aqueous
              █
           █  █  █
          █████████
           █  █  █
              █
             ███
              █
     █        █        █
   •███      ███      ███      The Meadows
  •  █        █        █
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Bilbous Plane
•███████████████████████████   The Garden
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Needleworks, A 1920s Museum
  •  █        █        █  •
    ███     •███•     ███      Stickerworld, The Tower
     █        █        █       The Omega Beach, YggdraCole
     •        █        •
            •███•              The Glassworks, Picasso's Nightmare
           •  █  •
           █  █  █             Oneiros INC., Penultimate Forest
         •█████████•           The Hill's Pockets, Streamerworld
           █  █  █             A Verde Planet, The Woodworks
           •  █  •
            •███•              Koiworld, Mirrorworld
              █                Entrance

```

```
   █ = Aquatic            • = Safe
   █ = Celestial          • = Quasi-Safe
   █ = Structural         • = Dangerous
   █ = Surreal            • = *Unknown*
   █ = Terrestial
   █ = *Unknown*

```