Fanon:Kallistrata Pellaia

Kallistrata Pellaia (alias Callistrata of Pella), created July 20, 1991, is a core member of the Union of the Insane as well as its Archbishop of the Town-Diocese of Hekatonschoinos, having joined right after the secession of Stratonike and Lysistrata in the aftermath of the Romance heresy. Kallistrata is also a key character, helping Kallisto create her codex and one of the three involved in enacting the codex (other one being Hypatia) Kallistrata's unique factor is 1) her complete lack of music skils whatsoever (Stratonike had 1 point in piano, Kallisto 1 in guitar, Eurydike 2 in bass, and Hypatia 4 in guitar), 2) Her completion of various challenges, including all challenges for the Invention and Painting skills, and 3)being innately immortal, not requiring the age freeze potion whatsoever. Kallistrata has mastered Writing, Painting, Sculpting, Inventing, Handiness, Nectar Making, Mixology, Martial Arts, Athletic Skill, Cooking, Fishing, Gardening, and Logic, and has no other skills. Kallistrata is of blood type B just like Kallisto from whom Kallistrata is cloned from.

Kallistrata is a powerful psyker just like Kallisto, whose rumors led to the actual interest and development of the said abilities. Kallistrata specializes in telepathy and other mind manipulations, having successfully telepathically persuaded a Unicorn and having weakened the already feeble psychic resistances of several sims to facilitate usage of more intrusive psychic abilities.

Genesis and Introduction
Kallistrata's origins is actually a mystery: although Kallistrata has been confirmed to have been derived from Kallisto, it is not known how and by what entity her creation was attributed to. Only thing known about Kallistrata's creation is that it took place in Pella at July 20th, although some conspiracy theorists believe that it was a doing of Kallisto, since Kallisto would codify the active practice of what was called the Alexandreian faith, and since July 20th was one of the two possible dates of the birth of Megas Alexandros. Whatever the origin was, Kallisto denies any charges of actively being involved in the creation of Kallistrata. The currently accepted theory is that it was supposed to be a clone of Kallisto, although the warp forces, now that it locked on to the anything related to the Union of the Insane, affected Kallistrata and changed her appearance slightly.

With all that aside, Kallistrata uneventfully (surprising since her relations, real or imaginary, with Kallisto gave her a 5-star status right from the beginning) migrated towards Sunset Valley, moving into the house right next to the abode of the Union of the Insane, which was about to implode.

Paving the Road
Although Kallistrata moved alone, for some reason Kallistrata decides to get a body of retinue. Kallistrata proceeds with the plan, gaining for the retinue who would be collectively called the Mathetai, or disciples. Despite their incredibly fast relation building and skill development, the time the retinue spent under Kallistrata's tutelage was minimal. However, Kallisto found this an interesting phenomenon, and soon looks to this case as a shining example of an organized academic discipleship system outside school. Kallistrata would create what would be the predecessor to the current Meris Sophiston, dividing between the masters and the disciples, somewhat reminiscent of the guild system of the old dividing between the masters (the core members), the disciples, whether it be the journeymen or the apprentices, apprenticies mostly neophytes to the system.

Despite the fact that the Alkmaionid Kleisthenes took Kallistrata well, Kallistrata was pretty much a nobody among the other members, some of them just not willing to put up with another "overskilled" insane sim who will just transfer out. Thus without the movement of the Alkmaionidai to take in Kallistrata, Kallisto seized the chance and scouted Kallistrata, eventually taking Kallistrata into the fold of the Union of the Insane.

Rise of the Librarian
Kallistrata was alongside Kallisto and Hypatia as one of the most skilled sim even in the uber-household known for almost unnatural presense of skills. Kallistrata was originally named the Inquisitor to smash romance: however, that role was of minimal importance, due to Eurydike's withdrawal from romance, as well as Hypatia's ebbing interest in romance as well as the current loss of Stratonike and Lysistrata. Kallistrata yearned for a different role, and decided to codify the doctrine in actual documents: The first, the codex itself, was a hit, and Kallistrata was encouraged to make more doctrinal documents, although such efforts met with much less success.

However, Kallistrata found a niche: In the day of the opening of the public Amphitheatron and the party, Kallistrata was invited to Thornton Wolff's house at nearly the end of the party: Kallistrata was already a good friend of Thornton, and Kallistrata believed that it was a time of proselytizing even when the role of missionary was with Eurydike. Thornton was quite amused by Kallistrata, but when Kallistrata offered skill lessons, Thornton learned at an alarming rate thanks to both the Vampiric vigor and Kallistrata's Skill Professor challenge: it was so fast (Thornton gained 5 points in logic and 4 points in mixology in less than 2 hours) that Thornton was impressed, or to put it in better words, enthusiatic about the new religion and became the first convert to the cause. Kallistrata was too eager to use the new convert to divert the kids from the main Union household, because Kallisto and Kallistrata wanted Lysistrata and Stratonike back into the house. Morgana eventually returned, and Kallistrata attempted to do similar things, although with much less success, even though Morgana was definitely happy about the idea of children in the house.

Kallistrata is also the head of the nectar production in the family, having a good combination of life fruits, fire fruits and a condiment, often a pomegranate, that Kallistrata calls the the Nectar of the Throne of Pella, many of them aged well enough to reach the 1000 simoleon bracket, and the primary producer of Nectar in the neighborhood, as well as the chief gardener of Union of the Insane. Kallistrata also is an active evangelist, particularly among vampire population of Sunset Valley.

Mercantilist Movements
Although Kallisto was the one promoting the idea of mercantilism in the house, it was Kallistrata who was the vanguard of putting that to actual practice: Kallistrata started by expanding on her niche: the nectar making by buying 3 more Nectar Makers, quadrupling Kallistrata's production capabilities. In addition to that, Kallisto and others supported Kallistrata's pursuit by sculpting nectar racks. In matter of days, production jumped from merely few bottles a week to tens of bottles of nectar, more than doubling income derived from Nectar. To support the increased production capabilities, Kallistrata personally oversaw the expansion of the Life Fruit production, the main ingredient in Kallistrata's nectar.

Kallistrata's nectar however did not generate much income, since most of the money came from old nectar that aged quite a lot. However, Kallistrata spearheaded the movement, galvanizing others to produce more, leading to the Union of the Insane's insane success in the mercantilist March of 500k, where the household would earn more than 500k in merely 6 days.

However, Kallistrata's drive didn't stop there: noting the decline in the quality of the nectar after the expansion due to the lack of perfect fruits, Kallistrata first purged the Union inventory of all nonperfect fruits, and further expanded the garden as the chief gardener, inventor, teacher and Nectar maker of the Union of the Insane. Once that was completed, Kallistrata saw even better quality than the pre-expansion nectar, and Kallistrata carefully managed her assets to ensure top quality wine for sale. All while that was happening, all the other core members devoted themselves to making top quality paintings and sculptings, making many masterpieces left in the household to fetch good prices.

Kallistrata once again demanded to have a disciple, and urged others to time travel in search of a kid, and despite numerous attempts at it and expansion of the time travel equipments, the search for the kid was in vain, and only success came in some cash and tomes. Fed up, Kallistrata decided to adopt a kid and named her Chrysanthema Pellaia Kinnamonona, and strived to train her as a core member unlike the others who went short.

Kallistrata deemed the nectar producing capabilities not enough, and sought to expand it even more, increasing the number of nectar making devices from 4 to 10, increasing production capabilities theoretically by 150%. Kallistrata's obsession with mass production has led the others to help out with the gardening, which helped Lysistrata and Antigone some, since they had not mastered gardening. With the Tiberium income at a high tide, Kallistrata started to worry about the inability of the Union to actually use the cash, and came up with the...

Palace of Versailles Pella-Syrakousai
Kallistrata's plan was to create the ultimate palace to further reduce the discontent and scandals. Kallisto and Kallistrata had in mind to burn the cash in some way, and Kallisto saw this plan as a gamble, but the growing wealth levels was a greater enemy, and so Kallisto agreed to Kallistrata's plan to construct a palace with all the splendor of an exclusive lounge with none of its exclusiveness.

Kallistrata's Palace would initially start out with a lavish fountain moat, main courtyard connected to it by a bridge. The courtyard would feature some life fruits and other decorative amenities, leading to the atrium with some partying devices.

Hekatonschoinos, Unicorn, China, and Ascent to More Power
Kallistrata was one of the 4 core sims to move into Hekatonschoinos and establish the main chapter at the said place. Like Kallisto, Kallistrata was very eager to acquire the unicorn, since they believed that the Unicorn's blessings will do them much good. While they continued to scan for the Unicorn, Kallistrata took personal responsibility to construct the Second Palace of Pella-Syrakousai to serve as the center of public entertainment, while also coming up with the idea for the Ergasterion Demoutikon, a public workshop for all the residents to work and improve their skills. As they have expected, immigrants came by droves to occupy the sparsely populated land, and along the drove came the Klerouchoi, whom the Greeks found quite useful in ensuring the land stays under the hands of the Church.

Eventually, Kallistrata overcame the requirements necessary for a Unicorn: Kallistrata circumvented it by simply using telepathy to persuade the Unicorn. The telepathy was not unique: Stratonike also demonstrated such abilities in China, teaching Pyrrha across the living room bordered by the kitchen.

Soon, Kallistrata used the psychic power that was innate to Kallisto (which was emulated in Kallistrata as well), and took ther research to new heights. Kallistrata got Kallisto to recall Tessa and her sibling Nicole, and once they have arrived, Kallistrata took the initiative to use the Swansons as guinea pigs for her body snatching project, and when Kallistrata successfully possessed Nicole, Kallisto followed suit and possessed Tessa for a short time as well. What most people didn't realize however, was that Kallistrata was already aware of Tessa's sibling, and this was why Nicole constantly felt sleepy and not just Tessa: Kallistrata selected the Swanson sisters to be the guinea pigs for the said project from the beginning (i.e. when Tessa was taken to China and were given lessons, along with boring words which were actually mind reading. So some suggest that Nicole was actually being influenced (or outright mind controlled) to rejoin Tessa, since they were estranged in the first place), and thus projecting psychic waves on both of them to make them more conductive to Kallistrata's (and her origin Kallisto's) psychic manipulations.

Despite Kallistrata's love of experimentation, Kallisto and Kallistrata both cared quite a bit for the Swansons, and despite their frequent experiments on them, they ensured that they were accounted for: Kallisto and Kallistrata were all too happy to tutor them in skills, and soon both Tessa and Nicole had the skills necessary to pursue the career that fulfills their lifetime wish. In fact, the development of telepathy to influence their decision was to keep the Swansons from falling into heresy, which they believed to be a critical issue especially since Kallisto and Kallistrata knew that they were weak-willed (or more fittinly, open-armed) to romance. Knowing that the psychic waves constitutes a drain on the recipients, the Kallisto and Kallistrata gave the Swansons plenty of time to recover before subjecting them to more experiments.

While at it, Kallistrata developed a penchant for pyrokinesis, and caused two fires in the house because of it. Meanwhile, Kallistrata soon took inventory and removed unnecessary gem (that included Stratonike and Kallisto too), and raised nearly 300,000 simoleons just by disposing of unused gems and metals. Furthermore, Kallistrata took to the consignment stores some of the aged nectar, even before that having a value of somewhere near 200,000 simoleons (and thus more than most households), and churned out 250,000 simoleons from the first series of products sold.

Soon, Kallistrata prepared the mobilization of the Church, and it was Kallistrata who made the second revision to the Palace at Hekatonschoinos, adding the Eastern Orthodox style icons. In addition, Kallistrata was using the Church resources to find more agents for the cause: Kallistrata was a firm advocate of the plausible deniability as well as black operations, and Kallistrara was all too happy to use subvertive methods against dissident factions, and wanted to expand the Church's (to be more exact, Kallisto's and her own, as Eurydike and Lysistrata were excellent speakers) access to excellent practitioners of speechcraft, and thus Kallistrata also sought to absorb Demetria into the fold, since Demetria stands out in Hekatonschoinos as the most charismatic. Like Kallisto who had Esomena who was very compatible with Demetria in terms of traits and affinities, Kallistrata also sought resources that would appeal to Demetria. Kallistrata withdrew all Church assets from Appaloosa Plains, and decided that the Swansons were unfit to spy on the town with dangerously heretic elements. To Kallistrata, Demetria was the shortcut. However, Kallistrata was well aware of Demetria's records, and while making such moves, sought to take on the art of speechcraft, while seeking more potential agents to be trained in the art. Kallistrata further expanded the life fruit production, as Kallistrata would attempt to use Nectar culture as a secondary arm against the apparent romantic plague. Kallistrata's broader plan was to produce euphoric nectar full of life and heat in order to lure the people out of romance, while the sharper stroke would be dealt by missionaries, now evolving from a role reserved for powerful members into a role of increasingly common agents alongside that of a kataskopos.

In terms of managing the internal matters of the Church, Kallistrata made the knowledge of cheaper loans a public thing around the faithful. However, the ones that wanted the loans were not initiate members as Kallistrata wanted to believe, but rather the Klerouchoi, who despite the blessings of the Church had difficulty settling in for the most part: the Kang family eventually found a footing, but the Kagawa family mostly worked as merchants: a poor choice, due to low population of the neighborhood to a point where the elderly Iori took a job as a Test Subject. Kallistrata was also a firm supporter of centralization to a point where Kallistrata championed the idea of a consolidated core household, and to do away with the resident disciple system. Kallisto and Stratonike however disagreed, and the resident disciple system and the multiple main chapters would remain.

Surprise Visit and the Quest for the Omni Plant
Kallistrata, like all the other members of the Hekatonschoinos Chapter, visited Sunset Valley in a surprise that had already compounded with many other happy events in Sunset Valley. From the records, Kallistrata soon figured that the primary limiting factor for the mass production of ambrosia had been the lack of death fishes: despite the fact that the harvesting of death fishes by the Church (or any sim in the fanon history) was at all time high, Kallistrata and the others knew that it still was the primary limiting factor. However, Kallistrata hit the tomes recording the history of the fanon universe, and hit upon an entry written by Hypatia in the first timeline, when the Scholars' Alliance was created. Hypatia noted of some plant that took as an input things, including death fishes and life fruits and yielded several more, and on top of all that, the plants did not perish.

Kallistrata knew that the plant was the way to maximize the efficacy of Hypatia and Eurydike's revival business that had been very effective in turning public opinion in the favor of the Church by eliminating the need to constantly catch and store a stock of death fish (asides from one to feed the plant). Conveniently enough, Kallisto was contacted about raising cheese plants: Kallistrata had surfed the web like how Stratonike surfed the web and gathered information about the Death Flower, and it was Kallistrata who personally led the project, despite the Church's disdain for cheese. The Omni Plant's lack of lifespan was also desired by Kallistrata: Kallistrata was not happy about continually having to replant important stocks of fruits such as the life fruit that is the heart of Kallistrata's Nectar industry. Having an solid supply of life plants would allow Kallistrata not only to keep producing the fruits needed to maintain the nectar output, but also Kallistrata's plan to apply the similar logic used to create a Simbot to create a vessel for Megas Alexandros: after all, they had cloning technologies and succeeded in restoring recently deceased sims: who is to say that the Church cannot bring old figures back to life?

Trivia

 * Kallistrata's log states that the type of food that Kallistrata had prepared the most was the Ambrosia.
 * Kallistrata is the only sim to have completed the Flavorful Feet, and the first one to have completed the Skill Professor Challenge, later to be completed by Kallisto and Hypatia as well.
 * Kallistrata's now almost completely flat-chested, along with just about every member of the Union of the Insane! Celebrate! YAAAAAAY!!!!
 * Kallistrata has a streak of no humor: sometimes, the No Sense of Humor is used to emulate Kallistrata's unfortunate side effect with some sims.