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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No. No, I'm afraid it can not. Nor can knowledge be forgotten or destroyed. Not with us.
Things became...bad, here. Perhaps we allowed that ball to drop. Perhaps we even encouraged it. Good intent has always been an excuse of those who know better, is it not?
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Indeed, and it is the mourning cry for those who did not.
... I do not judge you though, for what has been done. It is frightfully easy for such to fall out of control; the mortals here have no idea even in the slightest.
It is what shall be done that is the concern that flits by now and again, when all have gathered what power they need.
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What will be done has already begun. Even now the numbers increase and with growth comes change and with change comes belief. You are here.
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I am... And I have no problem being here. For all it is an adjustment, it is a wealth of what is new, [He smiles.] and some peace with the old.
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It is a cruel game that is played, of gods and of men. But the worst that could have happened already has. We can only look towards the future. Though the old has passed, the future can be different. Have your suspicions if you must, but remember that we...at least, the ones here, mean no harm, my thinker.
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A powerful promise, the promise of words.
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The most dear I could offer.
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Tell me another story?
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Think of a word, or ask me a curiosity, and I will tell a story of what it reminds me of.
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A story of...a discovery. Something that surprised you.
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Surprise... well I imagine that would be meeting humans for the first time.
At the time, I had hardly a few I spoke with regularly at all. For those inclined to orderly things, I was a bit too precocious and curious, and for those who favored chaos, I was a bit too scattered and a difficult to move.
As a result, I spent a great deal of my time wander a cross the face of the world as it formed itself... It was, simply an amazing period, I've never seen the like, by the way.
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They were curiously vulnerable... all soft and squishy and not much in the way of defenses... to be very honest, I didn't figure they would last long.
The first surprise was, I think, seeing them again. The next time clothed and traveling in small groups, one or two with crude tools.
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And then again, another who were skinning another creature... but for some reason, as I walked, none of them really ... seemed to do what the others were.
-Now, back then, we didn't resemble them, we were more ... elements than anything else. So as not to scare them, I took the appearance of one of them, just a wanderer from another tribe... and was nothing but frustrated.
I tried to show them what the others were doing, but could not explain it. I tried to see what they were doing better, and could not get a good look since they did not know me.
It was all confusing and annoying at once. In my frustration, I gave them a handful of my words, to explain what I needed. A bit of cheating... admittedly, but I was very young then too.
It didn't work, it seemed to confuse them more than anything. Dismayed, I left, even more simply baffled and boggled as to why these creatures were catching so much attention.
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And when they were done with utility, they played with them. Stories wove themselves, each greater than the last, and they'd developed adjectives and exaggeration to make them glow with color and passion. They took tone and wove it with words to make the fabric of songs. They then discovered rhyme and to smith emotions with simple statements and elaborate prose... poetry.
With them, they learned from each other, organized, began to come up with rules to go with their culture. They taught, technology and cleverness spreading like mad.
I'd never seen such amazing drive in any other creature. It was, of course, the first time I fell in love.
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...Love?
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What else do you call it when your thoughts keep twisting that way, when every discovery you consider... what would they think of that? What would they DO with that? To want to see it all, the warmth and the flaws, the shallowness and the depths...
My first love was for mortals in general.
I got a little specific later, but as it goes, it was wildly puppyish and enraptured. Kokoli even got - as I knew later, naturally - a little jealous over my split attention.
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I had not thought of humans as warm...but they do exude a type of warmth... like the flame that draws the moth. Or perhaps it is the other, that they are filled with that flame themselves, drawing them to that insatiable curiosity.
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It is, it is just so. A magnetism, if you will.
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