Kain
Learning & Innovation | 
❧ Played by t-chan |
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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. |
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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. |
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| ❧ 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
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- 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)
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| ❧ 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. |
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| ❧ Inventors/Scholars |
No current Inventors/Scholars.
Expectations and Powers of Inventors/Scholars |
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Yes! [leaning forward and pulling a sheet of paper from his pocket and a pencil, drawing a scene as Ptou describes, except instead of just graphite, colours across the spectrum including some with no name to describe them comes from the tip of the pencil as flames engulf a sunset and the scales of a snake surround them, so vibrant it might be real.]
Logic is birthed out of the greater realm of learning- but learning is also learning to be illogical, to grasp at the infinite possibilities. The god- [stops for a second and blinks curiously at Ptou]
Then you would have been a god as well?
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And seems to snap out of it as Kain stops, asking a question.]
Humanism, progress, communication and the arts. They connect much deeper than many give them credit for, much like underground rivers of thought and expression.
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And for you? What does that mean for you here? Can you deduce the purpose for which you are here? Aspiration and desire, determination and resolve, can you understand?
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.. But I digress, certainly.
For me is it the simple, boorish answer most would give you. It is what is beyond that that fascinates me. I wish to grasp it, settle deep into the push and pull of opinion of you and your peers and in it find the spark that lights up what reality is. I wish to find the root and the cause, but also the resolution and the end that becomes a beginning. I wish to see it, even should my view fail and my understanding falter... after all, it is progress, not process...
But ... I really have only but one question to ask you. Perhaps it is the only reason I am here, to be honest.
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What do you miss the most, of what is gone now? May I ask you for a memory?
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How does one quantify loss? Perhaps I will share it with you one day...but not yet. We are too new right now, at this beginning of a journey together. To share something like that would be a burden as well as...well, something more. [silently considers the paper he drew for a few seconds and then looks up as if he'd been distracted]
What of you? What memory do you have that would turn you from this mortality, to ask for the past? Do you regret for the tiniest moment that you have returned as less than what you were before?
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I had, offered to me, an opportunity to live, and turned away from it.
... I do not regret my death, not even a moment. I have regretted the foolishness that lead to it, for many, many ages.
[The pause is now longer, but he hasn't looked up yet, fingers of one hand tapping an idle pattern across the other. It, of course, follows the time and tempo of the pulse.]
Once, when I was quite young and the world was new, I forgot a word. Perhaps it was not meant for me to keep, for the very moment I finished it, it flew away, caught by the wind and taken from me.
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[He sets his chin on his palms and then looks up, smiling at Kain.]
It wasn't until I'd checked the earth, I found a child in a mask, about my age.. perhaps a little younger. I'd asked him if he'd seen it, even though I no longer knew what it looked like.
He said, it was his now, he'd found it. And he'd "had the last word on the subject. And the first."
And at that, he began to laugh and crow and cackle. He'd snort and giggle and then burst into another round at his own joke. He fell over onto his side in the dirt and just rolled with it, causing such a fuss of mirth I couldn't help but join in.
The word, of course, was humor. I only know it now, as it was shared with me. It's a very GOOD thing that it's infectious.
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But even if you take it back, it will never be the same. Because you will always know what once was and thus, it shall always in part, be. Though the past is not a new story, history inspires us to think of more than once we saw. Hindsight, some say. But perhaps, what if and what could have been will always trump what was and what is.
I thank you for your story. [reaches out and touches Ptou's face gently with an understanding smile.] Is there anything you would have of me as a gift for it?
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Lets see... what I would want...
[A grin] A second conversation, sometime soon. In fact, I can think of nothing else.
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I think that is one gift that I can assure. Are you planning on visiting all of us in turn?
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Not all of them are as friendly to inquisitiveness and experimentation as I am.
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Although you may want to visit him seperately from Eizon. They don't...get along very well.
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But, oh yes, I quite believe that. There'd be absolutely no reason to be as accessible as you've made yourselves if you did not wish to be of mutual aid.
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[laughs] He's not so terrible. [pauses] Well, if you don't make him upset at you, he won't be so terrible. You should say hi, he likes it when people have manners.
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Still!
[A pause, and then.] And what of you, whom amongst you do you like?
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Can you dislike the end anymore than you can the beginning? I suppose it's like...painting a picture. You can like one color more than the other, but without the other to be complimentary, you would have nothing to compare with.
They are all kind to me and so I like them all.
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A fair enough answer... the stability that comes with duality is the necessity of silence to music, of light to dark, and of enemies to friends. I imagine, even should I avoid those who I shall not blend well with, I shall never see a full picture for how it is meant to be.
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Do you miss being a god?
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