Kain

[oi_theoi]

Kain Learning & Innovation	❧ Played by t-chan
Appearance: Kain has a boyish charm and a baby face to match. He's not very physically strong, more lean than built. He has problems keeping his hair out of his face. He looks absentminded but is almost always smiling if a bit confused. He's usually in plain clothes or shirts with a lot of pencils, notes and papers sticking out of all his pockets. He falls asleep at the drop of a hat and a soft, ethereal looking pillow is usually a good sign he’s around somewhere nearby. Characteristics: Absentminded, flighty, dreamy, imaginative, creative, short-attention span, insecure, forgetful, wordy, inspired. Likes: Innovations of any kind but especially technology, knowledge, sharing of information, daydreams and imagination. Dislikes: Destruction of knowledge, murder, broken devices, false information, violence.
Shrine: A 2x2 square feet Rube Goldberg device. Ritual: You start the device by placing pushing the shiny gold ball at the very top of a ramp, which delivers it to a staircase, falls onto a seesaw, sets off a pully system as well as a water powered pump which triggers a set of chimes. Eventually the end of the device drops the original ball into a small wooden cup, which will usually alert Kain's attention. Sacrifices are placed in a small platform above the cup which allows the ball to land on it instead. Please don't try to play around with the shrine, Kain doesn't like that.
❧ Will Take	❧ Will Give
All flower plants (whole plants except vines. Orchid petals in water is a plus ) Plant fruits/nuts Animal teeth/claws/hide/bone (no snakes) Water beetles (single or paired) Food (sweets or vegetarian, no meat) Building something useful Discovery (finding new plants, animals, technology and bringing it back)) Innovation (new ideas/new things) Original designs (drawings, blueprints) New Knowledge Construction or repairing tools (no weapons) Nonfictional books Models Anything created with a device/appliance given by Kain	Knowledge (lessons, guides, information) Specific answers to questions Purified fruits/flowers Blessing fruits to offer mental stimulation for limited time Writing/drawing materials (blueprints, drawing tools, pen, paper) Repairs of tools and machines (no weapons) Tools/supplies for construction or maintenance (drills, screwdrivers, hammers, wrenches, nails, glue, string, etc) Appliances used for changing or creation (stove, microwave, washing machine, sewing machine)
❧ Exchange Rate
Items to Units Worth Offering 1 Unit Story about your world’s technology/history 5 different size, shape and colored seeds 5 different color, shape, or type of flowers 5 fruits or 5 large nuts Learning a new skill or talent Bowl of orchid petals in purified water Answering or solving a puzzle or painting Being the first to discover or name a creature or plant Sharing knowledge from Kain with someone else 2 Units Pair of beetles or 3 flowers with roots intact Building something (even if it fails) Making a sweet dish Redesigning something to make it more efficient or useful Pound of bones or fur or clean leather 3 Units Teamwork to accomplish a building or creation task Varied Units (2-6) Creation of something (depending on scale) (3-7) Teaching a class (depends on size and information) Kain is flexible and will take purpose into consideration when offering tasks. He gains power from the gaining of knowledge and creation so his requests are many times for the purpose of teaching or pushing the questor to learn or accomplish something. Units to Items Cost Reward 1 Unit 1-5 answers to a question about the world/gods Fruit or vegetation purification Basic writing material (eg. pen & paper, colored pencils) Basic tool (screwdrivers, hammer, nails, screws) Repairing a tool or more basic machine Basic building materials 2 Units Tool set Skill lesson- teaching a specific skill or lesson Bag of fruits and vegetables Non fiction books Water purifier or boiler Fruits offering Mental Stimulation 3 Units Microwave Blender Power tools (drills, blowtorch, etc) Slow cooker or Toaster Sewing Machine 4 Units Small fridge Small steam dryer or washer Portable stove 5 Units Oven/stove Washer or Dryer 6 Units Create something big and useful that’s been blueprinted.
❧ Inventors/Scholars
No current Inventors/Scholars. Expectations and Powers of Inventors/Scholars

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Comments

[over_the_fop]

[The fingers that had been sliding through Kain's hair idly, now pause, hovering.]

What else do you call it when your thoughts keep twisting that way, when every discovery you consider... what would they think of that? What would they DO with that? To want to see it all, the warmth and the flaws, the shallowness and the depths...

My first love was for mortals in general.

I got a little specific later, but as it goes, it was wildly puppyish and enraptured. Kokoli even got - as I knew later, naturally - a little jealous over my split attention.

[oi_theoi]

Is that the name of your...mate? [puzzles over that] I have seen gods' jealousy and it can be like a hurricane compared to a human's soft patter of mossy rain.

I had not thought of humans as warm...but they do exude a type of warmth... like the flame that draws the moth. Or perhaps it is the other, that they are filled with that flame themselves, drawing them to that insatiable curiosity.

[over_the_fop]

[He laughs and shakes his head.] No, no, more like a best friend for ages and ages. He did fancy my sister so very deeply, though. He was a clever one and proud of that cleverness. He was not one for competitions that he did not win.

It is, it is just so. A magnetism, if you will.

[oi_theoi]

He sounds like a lively soul, with a rich history.

[over_the_fop]

Oh certainly, there are few cultures without some guise of him, the trickster spirit.

[oi_theoi]

In every world as well...you should meet ours here soon, I think.