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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[and then practically balls over laughing.] Oh my cephalopod friend, your hidden talents! How is it that you are indeed, so dashing and adorable? [reaches down to gently take one of your tentacles as if shaking your hand] Your eyes are still quite inquisitive, my tiny companion.
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[The tentacles curl around your fingers as the rest hoist the squidy thing up to stand on tiptoe.]
Do you think? I must say, of all things I'm looking forward to setting up, a mirror shall be one of them. Another surprise to await me!
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Did you pick this form? Or was it one given to you? Most curious... [leans down to allow the squid to climb on his hand if it would like] And amphibian...you can swim as well?
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Where I originated, we were not so at odds with nature, in fact, by the end, we were all that sustained it. Though I will say, they were always my favorite creature. I could go on and on about them.
And. Oh yes, they're quite excellent swimmers. They could exist in literally any habitat except lava and space. ... I'm honestly not sure about space, and given enough time and a source of food, I'd lay odds on lava eventually as well. [The skin of the creature flushes and turns a bright orangish red, following his thoughts.]
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Ah…nature. [a look of bereavement crosses his face briefly and then it brightens] But to take it upon yourself to choose to become something as vastly different, to carry on in form and substance- though not completely, I sense or you would not be able to speak with me now. And your colors…do you change with your moods and feelings? You remind me of a flower, I once saw, that would change as the day passed, from red to gold to plum, though if the weather was cold, it would forever stay blue. I never saw it again, that flower…
But this, you were drinking as your smaller, gentler self as well? A far safer experiement at this stage in your life than lava, I suppose.
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It can and will, of course, there are other traits I've picked up. [The squidrat's skin SPARKLES.] Of course, this particular effect comes with the unfortunate disadvantage of vampirism, but what can you do? [It vanishes, settling back into a soft greenish blue hue.]
Indeed! I will admit, I'll give lava a miss unless left absolutely no choice. I simply don't think I could afford enough moisturizer.
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We would need to coat you quite thickly. [lifts up to look god eyes to squid eyes] Does it have any method of protection? It does seem rather easy to take a hold of. I would not suggest you use it while in the wild to escape.
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Not particularly, outside of being practically inedible... The difficulty being that nothing here already KNOWS that from generations of learned behavior, it's really quite vexing.
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Oh dear, I do hope no one has tried to consume you lately.
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Fear not! It's been weeks since something's tried.
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That's good. It's one experiment that I do not wish to see.
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Neither do I, as in particular, I wouldn't be around to properly credit or discredit the hypothesis. Really gums up the idea of scientific process.
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What do you think of the people here? Not the gods and our pantheon, but the ones that you live, breath and think with.
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I HAD thought that I understood them.. but in truth it is the understanding of an observer... stilted by my perceptions. I find I do not even slightly fit in, nor can quite match my thoughts to theirs.
... I have found a place though, as trying as my presence may be.
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I much feel the same way, even about the ones around me. Perhaps that is the price of always wanting to see and learn more- you can never sit still long enough to fit in.
A place to stay? [laughs] Do they indeed find you trying?
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It's true, I somewhat balance the scales for my teammates more accepting tenancies.
Tell me though, is it refreshing for you? To see all of these new things arrive, from so many backgrounds?
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Different. But I like this change.
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It is hard.. in my experience, to remain unattached while being so close.
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Why?
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You pulled yourself away?
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[He nods, and then shakes his head.] I've stumbled us upon a droll subject. I apologize, my friend.
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You are sad...it pains you. Then we will not speak of it. There is time in this world for the rising of the sun and the dying of the day. There will be other times for these memories if they are ones that bring you sadness.
...I'm sorry if I can not understand. I am not used to seeing, breathing... touching, do closely.
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