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

[You can, except what was previously a spiral on a cog has self-seperated and turned into two little mechanical arms that fold the rainbow paper into a crane.]

[:o Rainbow crane!]

[Going to reach to take it out.]

Are you here for something?

[Kain is seated to the side of the shrine now, just by the crane. Proceed?]

[Oh hell yes. :D]

Uh huh. You can give tools, right?

I can. Tools aid creativity.

[Reaches in for the crane. :o]

Then I wanna get a hammer and some nails. Probly a saw, too.

What would you like to do with them? [is the crane moving? Could it be a trick of your eyes?]

[Is it? Can I pet its little paper head?]

We're gonna need a table, probly, and I bet Aoi wants a couch. That'll be harder to make, though... maybe some kind of bench?

[it will seem to tremble under your hand]

Very well. Bring me two pairs of beetles. And the answer to this question: "Where does the paper bird fly?"

[kain picks the crane up and hands it to you]

Edited 2012-02-04 05:24 (UTC)

Gimme a sec. I bet I can give you the answer right now.

[Gonna try and fly it like a paper airplane. :o]

[unfortunately whatever motion, real or imagined seems to have disappeared and the crane will flop down on the ground, quite sadly.]

[Oh no. :(]

[P-picks it up again.]

...it'll fly somewhere, right? If I bring it somewhere it likes?

You must find me the answer and I will show you the answer.

[deep gaze, but not unfriendly]

Kay. I'll find out, then.

[Sorry I threw you, little crane. Have headpats as an apology. :(]

[d'awww]

[a smile before he turns back to the shrine to start anew]

...can I ask one more thing, since I'm here?

For the tenderness you showed a thought made of paper, you may.

What would I have to do to get a ball machine like that? Just a little one.

[laughs and smiles brightly]

I can teach you how to make one if you'd like to learn.

Seriously? Yeah.

Let's do it.

Edited 2012-02-04 08:27 (UTC)

Consider what you would like as one element in yours and come tell me when you are ready.

I'm ready already.

I wanna use a model of the planets- or of a planet. Or maybe some stars.

Planets and stars, the world in your hand. The idea of a rube goldberg device- [runs a hand over the closest part of the shrine] is cause and effect, reaction and change. What one thing starts- [a finger knocks the dominoes that have reset themselves and they knock down one after another] and where one ends, another begins. [the dominoes end and tap the top of a wheel which starts to spin.]

So to make it work, you've gotta be sure it's connected the way it's supposed to be.

[Watching the wheel. :|a]

You must see with more than your eyes the big picture of what you want to happen.

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