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Kaiser
Movie/Game/Character
The Kaiser is a creation
of J. F. Sebastians', a "genetic designer" for the Tyrell Corporation, who produces realistic toys. To combat his own loneliness
he created automated, humanistic playful 'dolls' that provide him with companionship. J.F. Sebastian is greeted by two of
his doll-toys, a miniature, three-foot-high, but long-nosed Kaiser Wilhelm dressed in a military uniform, and a teddy bear
dressed like Napoleon. They march up to him after he enters the apartment and say:
"Home again, home again, jiggety jig"
(taken from a Mother Goose rhyme).
He is also featured in
the Westwood game marching about in JF's apartment.
Role performed by actor John Edward Allen
See
also:
Bear
J. F. Sebastian
Tyrell Corporation
Kingston Kitchens
Game/Location
Located in Hawker's Circle in
Westwood's Blade Runner game. Mama Isabelle runs the take-away delicatessen. Ray McCoy will find a clue that will lead him
there (a "Kingston Kitchen Take out box"). You'll want to have Ray stop by a couple times throughout the game. Although she
doesn't provide any clues she can identify someone in a photograph and point you to another lead.
Kipple
Book/Game/Term
[1] - Kipple, as described
in the book (DADoES), are "unwanted or useless objects that tend to reproduce
itself". The first law of Kipple is...Kipple drives out nonkipple. Other forms of the word; Kipple-ized, kipple-factor, and
kippleization. People can turn into "living kipple". An apartment can become "kipple-infested". Buster Friendly liked to declare, Earth would die under a layer--not of radioactive dust--but of kipple.
These and other descriptions in the book suggests an analogy to entropy.
External References:
Wikipedia: Entropy
[2] - In the Westwood Game, also describes
the city outer limits, uninhabitable to ordinary Man.
This term comes up again in other PKD books such as
in "Now Wait for Last Year". Here Dr. Eric Sweetscent is also under a pile of kipple, especially in relation to his wife and
relationship to his employer.
Philip K. Dick liked the catchy term so much used it in some of his other books as well.
1.) Kipple is also mentioned in "Galactic Pot-Healer". Joe Fernwright is on the shore of Mare Nostrum, where Glimmung is
submerged and possibly dead. Phrases idly run through Joe's head: "Do you like Yeats?" "I don't know, I've never had any."
"Do you like Kipling?" "I don't know, I've never kippled."
2.) And in "A Maze of Death":
"I'll pile her stuff
outside and then get mine aboard. I'm under no mandate to load her kipple".
3.) And again in "Now Wait for Last Year". Here Dr. Eric Sweetscent is also under a pile of kipple, especially
in relation to his wife and his employer.
Dino Klien
Game
He runs the lab at police headquarters.
Only found at the LAPD lab, 3rd floor.
Leon Kowalski
Movie/Game
Movie
One four Nexus 6 Replicants reported seen on Earth. We are first
introduced to Leon in the opening scene at Tyrell Corportaion being tested on the Voight-Kampf machine by Holden.
Despite
Leons' brevity in the film he had some memorable quotes;
* "Wake up! Time to die."
* "Fearful to live in fear,
isn't?"
* "Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never
scratch."
Replicant (M) Des:
LEON
NEXUS-6 N6MAC41717
Incept Date: 10 APRIL, 2017
Func: Combat/Loader (Nuc. Fiss)
Phys:
LEV. A
Mental: LEV. C
Brion James performed the role of Leon.
First encountered in Act 3 in cinematic feature at the Yukon Hotel
threatening the hotel clerk. Ray can ask Leon questions. The interaction is more of a nostalgic trip than anything else.
Brion
James reprised his role as Leon for the game.
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