Kain

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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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[over_the_fop]

Curious and a little panicked, I ran after it. I knew already that some words were dangerous, and others unpredictable, and I'd been berated quite soundly for messing with verbs, honestly. I sorted through time. I sifted through a dream but woke too fast. I checked in memory and innovation, the forgotten and the new, but it hadn't caught any of those places...

[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.