[KRI] Curiosity Bought the Cat (Marcus)

Marcus heads over to the Kelvic Research Institute to peruse their sales...

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A city floating in the center of a lake, Ravok is a place of dark beauty, romance and culture. Behind it all though is the presence of Rhysol, God of Evil and Betrayal. The city is controlled by The Black Sun, a religious organization devoted to Rhysol. [Lore]

[KRI] Curiosity Bought the Cat (Marcus)

Postby Kalina on July 9th, 2013, 9:30 pm

The Kelvic continues to tug on the man's loose clothing, only letting go when he begins to to move. Her eyes follow him, and soon she is following too. Still attached to him by the annoying length of material connected to her collar. She calms slightly, thinking he was going to a cupboard to pull out her blanket. The flaws in her logic were clearly lost on the kitten. Ego centric as she was, everything any anything that mattered to her was in her immediate vicinity at all times. And vice versa - only the things in her immediate vicinity mattered to her. By this logic, Kalina's blanket should have always been in the room, just ready to whip out at any point she thought about it.

Her tail flicks occasionally as she watches the man, straining to see what he was fiddling with. At one point, mewling, she jumps up onto her back legs and, falling forward a little, rests her front paws on the man's thigh. Now she had a clearer view. Sniffing, she stretches as far as possible, intrigues as to what she was smelling. Mewling again, she drops to the ground and takes a step back, having lost her footing and balance when her owner crouches down beside her.

Stepping forward once again, she dips her head, eyeing the odd object in Marcus' hand for a few moments before padding forward more to sniff it. Is was... sweet... like nothing she had ever smelt before. Pulling away, she looks at it again, then looks at her owner, then back to the sweet object.
What is it? And, more importantly, what do I do with it? In the Institute, food had never been handed to her, not like this. They had only ever been chucked onto the floor of her cage. But they were slabs of meat. And, on occasion, plates of human food. Never... this.

Eventually, Kalina leans forward once again and, sticking out her tongue, licks it.
Yup. Sweet. She hesitantly opens her jaw and nips at the object, not surprised at how easily her teeth sank into it. She was getting better at judging things without having to use her teeth as a guide. Taking more of it into her mouth, she pulls it out of the man's hand and shuffles backwards a short ways.

Dropping it to the ground, she takes a bite out of it, chewing it a little.
No, don't like it, she decides, no longer interested in knowing what it was. Take it back. Spitting it out, the young Kelvic retches, as if trying to get rid of a hairball. Immediately, she plunges her head into the newly situated bowl of water beside her and laps greedily at it. This was not only to get rid of the taste, but to quench the thirst that had been building up over the day.

She wonders why anyone would want to eat - she assumed that was the purpose, given the fact that she hadn't been stopped by the man - something like that. It was foul. Then again, she remembers, lots of things that she hated as an ocelot, she liked, even loved, as a human. Maybe this would be the same.

The blanket already gone from her mind, she sits back once she had finished drinking from the bowl. Moss green eyes staring at the man, brightly and inquisitively, she tilts her head to the side.
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Postby Marcus Ahysen on July 17th, 2013, 10:01 pm

Marcus sighed as the kelvic spit back up the food. Just like a normal cat, she had no manners or sense of cleanliness, at least in human terms. He would have to teach her that. Luckily, Marcus had been around kelvics before as a child, so he knew he shouldn't get too frustrated with her.

"Well, I guess we'll have to find you something else then. At least you enjoy the water."

Marcus removed the collar from around Kalina's neck, tossing it and the leash onto the bed. He was running short on time, and still had other things to do that day, so he would put the stuff away when he got hom. For the time, however, his attentions were focused on the kelvic. He needed to get her to eat.

"What about fish? Do you like fish? Do you even know what fish are? Oh, and you may shift if you like. I have clothes for you in your pack."

Marcus went over to the pack, unwrapping it and producing the clothes. They were of very poor quality, something that did not please Marcus, and he knew he would have to buy her a new outfit the first chance he got. He also pulled out the blanket, dropping it on the chair next to him with hardly a thought. Marcus turned back to the young kelvic, holding up the clothing.

"If you can, shift and put these on, then we will go get you something to eat."
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Postby Kalina on July 18th, 2013, 6:42 pm

The ocelot returns to the half-chewed sweet... thing... on the floor. She sniffs it again and licks it, thinking it might have changed in the few moments that she had turned away from it. No such luck. She pulls away, again, standing still and dipping her head to allow the man to remove the collar. She purrs, her tail flicking as a sign of approval. Once free, the Kelvic shakes herself out before sitting back down and twisting her body, stretching her neck and raising her back leg, where she scratches at the itch on her neck.

Change? No. Why? Kalina glances around as she drops the leg to the ground again. The pair were most definitely alone in the room, and nothing had gone wrong last time.. the ocelot watches as the man walks over and, after a little rummaging, pulls out some oversized, old clothes and her blanket. Oh! Yeah...

Marcus asks a second time and Kali thought it best not to force the man to ask a third. With one final glance around herself, she remains sitting as she morphs for the third time that day. Though she still hadn't eaten, the child had slept enough whilst on the water that she had regained enough energy to change. Once human, she jumps up to her feet, unashamed of her naked form in front of a compete stranger. She beams up at the man as she passes him, snatching up the filthy green blanket and hugging it close to her body.

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Hi!" She says to the rag; most of her language practice had been to the piece of cloth, if not to the other Kelvics in the Institute. The Kelvic had a vivid imagination, and anything could be real to her. She might have had a full blown conversation with the blanket, sharing what she had been up to, had her stomach not rumbled at that moment, and she moans, bending over a little and clutching her stomach. Food... Oh, yeah, he was offering her something to eat. Dropping the blanket back onto the chair, and grabs the clothes from Marcus, though she offers no form of thanks to the man; uncomprehending of social conformities.

Dropping the pile onto the floor, Kalina picks through them methodically, taking care to work out what went on her body first. Last, she picks up the final layer and fiddles with it for a moment, making sure it was the right way around, before pulling it over her head. "
What's... fiss?" The girl asks, having not heard properly and mispronouncing, as she fumbles with the clothes, struggling to pull her head through the hole. If it was anything like the apple, Kali doubted she would like it. After a few attempts, she succeeds, and the expression on her face as she emerges and scrapes the knotted hair out of her face is one of pure glee. "All done!" She states the obvious proudly as she twirls about a few times, showing off her newly dressed state to her new owner.
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Postby Marcus Ahysen on August 7th, 2013, 8:51 pm

Oh good, Marcus thought to himself as he watched the young kelvic wriggle the clothes onto her body, She already knows how to dress herself. One less lesson to give.

"Good job!" Marcus knew that praise generally worked will with children, and saw no reason why it wouldn't work on a Kelvic child as well. "Whenever you are in this form, I want you to wear clothes, alright? If you are in here, I don't care, but if we go outside you need to wear clothes. I will get you some new ones later, better ones. You'll like them."

Marcus walked over to the table and grabbed his miza pouch, fastening it to his belt, before heading over to the door. He motioned for Kalina to follow along, only telling her to out loud if she didn't understand the gesture. Once they were out in the hall he answered her other question.

"Fish is a type of food. I hope you like it, because it's hard to find anything else in Ravok."

Marcus lead Kalina down to the small cafeteria that was located in each of the NHC apartment complexes. As he figured, he could already smell the fish. Normally Marcus chose to eat at the finer establishments in the city, but he was in a bit of a hurry. On the menu that day was nothing unusual. The fish was speckled trout, the most common fish used for food in Lake Ravok. Luckily it was also fairly delicious, even raw, though Marcus chose the pan-fried fish, lightly salted, for himself. After a moment of thought, he ordered Kalina a raw portion of the trout. For vegetables, it was steamed cattails, another regular source of food in Ravok. He doubted Kalina would want hers, but the meal came with it, and so he offered it to her as well.

"Your fish is prepared different from mine. If you don't like that one, try a bite of mine.. but from what I understand, Kelvics usually like their food raw."
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Postby Kalina on August 8th, 2013, 5:19 pm

If there was one feature that gave away Kalina as not completely human, it was her eyes. Not only were the pupils chatoyant as a physical manifestation, but they were also wide, and rarely closed; a protective film of sorts covered them, meaning that she did not have to blink as regularly as others. It was this which gave the apparent seven year old an unnerving appearance, especially on the few occasions that she stood still, like now. She takes in the man's words as she watches him move about the room, and nods. The smile remains and her eyes brighten at the prospect of getting something new.

He opens the door and the girl wastes no time in skipping out after him. As the man answers her question, the smell of said answer hits her nostrils, though it isn't until he orders the food and she sees them properly for the first time that she associates the smell with the name. They smelled of the big water they had just left, which immediately put up her guard. But Kalina was hungry, and she knew she had to give the food a go, knowing it couldn't be worse than the apple.

The young Kelvic nods at her owner as he explains the difference in their meal and, sitting down, she wastes no time in devouring the trout. And what a feast it was; Kalina practically inhales her meal, delighting in its taste. There was something Marcus said that she didnt completely grasp, "
What's Kelvic?" She questions again in her broken language, though the words were even less clear than normal, given the fact that she was still chewing a large potion of fish.

Kalina knew she was different, in some respects, from the people on the other side of the bars at the Kelvic Research Institute. And, in her few bells away from the KRI, she was slowly realising that she was even more different, and that there was life beyond her small enclosure. The prospect of a bigger world was frightening and exciting all at the same time, an she'd have to explore it one question at a time. There was no concern in her voice though, no indication of resentment towards her unusual home, because there was none. It was all she had ever known; why should she hate it?

The vegetables, however, were a different matter. She picks one up between her finger and thumb and analyses it closely. a quick glance over to Marcus, and his own plate, shows her that they were theoretically edible. She watches him with interest, before taking a bite out of her own. Within moments, her mouth falls open in horror and she spits it back out onto her plate, "
Eurgh!" The remnants of her mouthful fall, half masticated, onto her plate and she pushes it away from her, towards the man. "Don't like it. Here."

Food finished, she continues to watch the man eat, her eyes darting between the fish, parts of which were still on his plate, and his face. She considers reaching over and taking some, but then it occurs to her how much she would hate that, if he did it to her, so she doesn't. Growing bored, she begins to swing her legs back and forth, eyes turning away from the man to find some other diversion, though she doesn't move away, wary of the fact that Marcus was all she knew and she felt relatively safe in his presence.
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Postby Marcus Ahysen on August 23rd, 2013, 9:35 pm

Her question gave Marcus pause. Not because he did not know what a Kelvic was, but because he had simply assumed she knew. He knew that he was human, afterall, so it was surprising to realize that not everybody knew what race they were automatically. If he thought about it, it was likely that his mother or father had told him he was human at a young age, though he could recall no such conversation. It was just something he knew and did not ever think about.

"You are a kelvic," Marcus began, "And I am a human. Kelvic means that you have two forms, that you can change. The form you are in now is human, like me, but you also have an animal form. I can't change like you can. I am just a human."

Hopefully that explanation would be enough. Marcus wasn't really sure how to explain it better. He had never really thought about what actually makes somebody what they were. As the agent munched on his food he could not help but notice Kalina was looking at him. She did not like the cattails, which didn't surprise him much. Plus.. they were called cattails. It was almost cannibalism.. well, almost. Okay, not really. But the thought amused Marcus, and he went with it. Marcus took a final bite of his fish, leaving about a third of it behind.

"Would you like to try mine?"

He slid the plate over to Kalina, wondering curiously if she would like the cooked fish. Marcus loved it, but she was a kelvic, so her tastes were clearly different than his. While she finished off his food, Marcus slid her plate over, carefully nudging the chewed up bits away from the rest before eating it.
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Postby Kalina on August 26th, 2013, 6:33 pm


The man speaks and Kalina listens, though she is only half listening. It wasn't that she did not care about the answer she was getting, because she did. But she was young and easily distracted. More importantly, however, half of her attentions were on the people around her; she had so many people today, more than she had ever thought existed. There were too many people, she had decided, and she was beginning to grow nervous. Her only display of this was to continue her rocking back and forth, legs swinging below her.

The man's words led Kalina to come to the conclusion that she, and everyone on one side of the metal meshing and bars at the KRI, was a Kelvic, rather than a... human. Her next question would have been why, for what purpose, were the Kelvics on one side and the humans on the other, and why were so many Kelvics leaving the island today. Had Kalina been aware that monies had been exchanged for her purchase, the young girl would have also asked why there, as she had no concept of property, let alone that a sentient being might be property. But for all of these questions, she did not have the language with which to ask, and so she remains silent.

The Kelvic's head snaps back to Marcus', her eyes locking onto his as he offers her the leftovers of his fish. Almost as quickly as Kalina's eyes met his, they dart away to the fish, and they widen in pure joy at the prospect of more fish. Reaching out, she drags the plate towards her and dives in without another word. Like her own, she makes quick work of the remaining cooked trout. She doesn't even take the time to examine it before consuming it; she had spent so long smelling the delicious cooked goodness that there was nothing she could do but eat it..

Once finished, her face and fingers were greasy and filthy, but she licks said fingers of the remaining flavour before dragging the back of her hand across her mouth to clean that a little and then wiping her hands on the bottom of her oversized dress. Now that both plates have been cleared, with exception to Kalina's vegetables, she considers asking for more; she wasn't hungry anymore, but both types of fish tasted so good that she imagined that she could go all day eating it.

But, it might have been the little Kelvic's imagination or it might have been fact, but it seemed to her that the number of new arrivals to eat was multiplying, and Kalina, growing more and more nervous by the moment, didn't like it. The stubborn girl would also never admit it to herself, let alone anyone else, but she was tired too. Despite a short sleep on the boat, and now having eaten, it wasn't quite enough for her to recuperated from changing so often, as well as the general excitement for the day. Kalina didn't want to miss a moment of her time away from the Intitute, and she would deny it the moment anyone said anything to her, but, if she was to be left alone, without anyone to distract her, she would probably drop.

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Want to go now." She speaks just as firmly as ever, with little hint of politeness in her tone. Rarely did she ever get the chance to ask for something, but when she did, her requests were never really so unobtainable that she didn't get it. Suffice to say, the Kelvic was relatively used to getting her way, in her sheltered life so far. It did not even occur to her that that might be changing now that she was with Marcus.

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Postby Marcus Ahysen on September 11th, 2013, 9:26 pm

Marcus watched as Kalina ate her food, shaking his head a bit. He would have to teach her to eat slower, to savor her food, and to actually taste the flavor, and all the subtleties the chef tried to work into it. He would have to teach her not to lick her fingers in public, and not to wipe the food on her dress. There was so much the little kelvic needed to learn, but unfortunately time was running out that morning. Marcus had other business to attend to, and teaching Kalina all about life would have to wait. He never noticed Kalina growing nervous, but when she asked to go he was thinking the same thing.

"Yes, let's get out of here before it gets too crowded. I don't feel like having a headache this early in the morning."

Marcus led Kalina back up the stairs and to his room. While he left Kalina to do whatever she would do, Marcus gathered the things he would need for the day. After he was done he turned back to the kelvic, wondering how she would react to his next words.

"I have to go now, for a little while. You need to stay here. You can sleep in the bed, and if you need water, just go down to the place where we got the food and they will give you some. If you need to relieve yourself, there is a chamber pot in the corner." It did not occur to him that she likely knew nothing about chamber pots. "If you do leave the room, make sure not to go far. It is easy to get lost, and you need to stay close to home until you get used to things. I will be back in a few bells."

Whether Kalina protested or not, Marcus had to go. There were meetings to attend to, and things to be done, and he simply could not spend any more time on the kelvic that morning. They would have plenty of time together when he came back, so it wasn't as if he was abandoning her. When he left he made sure to stop by the clerks desk, asking the man to keep an eye out for the girl.. or cat, and to have somebody watch her if she left the building. After that, Marcus waved down the nearest Ravosalaman and was on his way.

OOCI figured we were at a good stopping point. If you want to make a final post, feel free to do so. If not, let me know and I'll submit the thread for grading.
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Postby Vanari on December 9th, 2013, 9:07 pm

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Observation +5 XP
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Lores :
  • A Blanket of My Own
  • Marcus: Smells Nice
  • First Steps Out of KRI
  • Hate Water, But Not All That Bad
  • Dressing Oneself
  • Icky Vegetables
  • I am Kelvic, Marcus is Human


Marcus
Observation +3 XP
Rhetoric +3 XP
Persuasion +1 XP
Interrogation +1 XP
Teaching +1 XP
Philosophy +1 XP
Leadership +2 XP

Lores :
  • Aurum: The Trouble with Avian Kelvics
  • Kalina: Ocelot Kelvic Child
  • Kalina's Neck Scar
  • How Smart is a 1 year old 7 year old?
  • Kalina: Afraid of Lakes
  • Kalina: Doesn't Like Apples
  • Kalina Can Dress Herself!
  • My New Kelvic Likes Cooked Fish
  • Mental Note: Teach Kalina to Savor Food

Loot :
-25...some sort of mizas :P

Wounds :
+1 scratch to the arm, minor


Notes :
All fixed and good to go!

Please don't hesitate to PM me with questions, comments, or concerns! Also, remember to either delete your grade request or edit it as "graded."

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