oi_theoi | Kain

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

Comment with "Day x, Time" as the subject header.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

If everything is here because nature has overridden this place, it's accidental, isn't it? All of it is.

The fact that it provides light is probably coincidental.

Nothing in life is accidental. [brushes his hands on the fairy light which seems to pulse brighter for just a second]

The plants here need something for it to grow, just as you need light. Darkness doesn't just overwelm, it can kill the life in organic life. This plant that gives you light, gives light to those plants out there so that they may grow as well. Just as you enjoy its gifts, so does the flora and fauna that you hate.

Edited 2012-01-18 19:09 (UTC)

That makes sense. In the absence of sunlight, they must use something else, instead.

Yes.

[Holds out the fairy light. :|b]

Does it count?

[reaches into his pocket and then hands him a scroll-like sheet that contains all the shrine information of the current gods in the pantheon]

Here. Perhaps this will help you.

[...more than I asked for, even. Not complaining though.]

[Takes a second to read it through. :|b]

Lessons and answers?

These are the answers. You have to find the questions. [:)]

[I hope you realize you are infuriating. >_>]

Obviously. I meant what do you charge for them?

[It's Kain's speciality. He never understands why people get mad at him :(]

Ah...that. Let us say that the trade itself is more than the sum of its parts or even of its traders. [looks thoughtful]

For a god of knowledge, you don't dispense it very freely, do you?

Learning. [taps the paper]

The journey is sometimes more important than the destination. Just knowing isn't enough, you have experience the process of acquiring the knowledge. If I had told you that these flowers produce usable light and they help cultivate the other plants, it wouldn't have been as appreciated by you than when you discovered it for yourself.

[picks up and holds the wooden cup of golden liquid up in the air]

If I pour this out, what will happen?

[:|a]

That depends what's in the cup. If it behaves like normal liquid, it will fall onto the floor.

[smiles at your expression]

What if I told you it would become a dragon that could fly you out of this place back to your home?

I'd assume you were lying. If you could do something like that, at very least you'd ask for something substantial in payment, first.

...can you do something like that?

[mona lisa smile]

What matters is that you question and consider the possibility. It's different than for me to just tell you everything.

[In other words, you're not going to tell me. >.>]

Then instead of asking "what do you charge for them?" I should have asked "what do you expect for them?"

[Considers again.]

Or rather, "how can I find them?"

A good and worthy start.

What specifically would you like to know then?

I want to know if there is a way to leave this place, and how it can be found.

If that isn't a possibility, I want to know how I can affect another world from this one.

For the first, that is not information I can give because it is not possible for you. The explanation behind how the worlds are connected is too complex for you to understand and would take a good part of your life time to explain. Know just that the powers we utilized to bring you here are not so simple. You can not leave here, except for death. And that is not something I would wish.

Why would you wish to affect another world?

There's something that I left behind. Something unfinished.

It's important.

You died on your world. We did not just simply pick you up and drop you off here. In the same way, there is no known way to return you to that world.

That will not be possible. I'm sorry.

Were you listening at all? I just said that if that isn't possible, I want to know whether something about the world I left behind can be changed.

[calmly]

Not by you physically.

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