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Sam Winchester (tallerthanthou) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-02-16 14:34:00

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:class, :mingle, anya jenkins, doctor facilier, martha jones, nathan harris, nico di angelo, sam winchester, zatanna zatara

Day 258 : Paranormal Studies : Open Class Mingle
[Sam looks over the class. There's someone missing. He knew Reid would be gone from Kitty's announcements earlier, but maybe he was still hoping for something else. He hasn't really allowed himself to get close to people here—not many anyway. Reid was getting in that circle.

But life and class goes on, right? He clears his throat.] Today, we're going to talk about the djinn. Some of you might know them as genies.

Overview : Djinn

But they don't actually live in lamps. They don't even really grant wishes, they just make you think they do.

They're a humanoid species with ornately tattoo-covered skin who usually live in ruins with lots of hiding places. They have the ability to read minds and see a person's deepest desires. They also create a poison they use to infect their prey. This will knock the person out, putting them in a hallucinogenic dream state where they think their wish is being granted. During this time the djinn feeds on their blood—slowly. It can take a few days before the victim dies, but it would feel like longer than that in the dream world.

There are lots of references to the djinn in the Qu'ran and Arab folklore. They're believed to occupy a parallel world to mankind. It's said that they were created by Allah in a smokeless fire.

[ DJINN ]

Practical : Defense of Djinn

If you encounter a djinn the most important thing is not letting them touch you. That's how you get infected and once you're trapped in your own fantasy the chance of breaking out of that is pretty low. During the infection their eyes and hands can glow.

You can break their hold over a person by killing the djinn with a silver knife dipped in lamb's blood.

[ Silver ]

Case Study : Joliet, IL

We came across one in Joliet, Illinois. Some girls had gone missing and we were tracking it. Dean found it in an abandon warehouse, but it got the better of him. Before I got there he managed to play out a couple of days in dream reality. He told me later that he was able to break free of it by killing himself in the dream. You just have to be really sure you're in a djinn-fueled dream to do something like that. Anyway, I had the knife on me and the djinn showed up, there was a fight, and we managed to get one of the girls out of there in time.

[ Joliet, IL Case ]

Questions & Discussion
Okay, I think that's everything, so thoughts? Questions? Anyone want to say be careful what you wish for?

(OOC: Mingle style. Notifs are off so tag Sam during class with questions or catch him before or after. Use your discretion with the links provided. Sam didn't necessarily cover every detail, but feel free to bring more into it, but his canon point is toward the send of season 5, so nothing beyond that. Also, this is backdated to class time.)

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	tallerthanthou 2014-02-16 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	[Sam is just putting his notes in order. Feel free to bother him before or after class.] (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-02-17 04:08 am UTC (link)
	[Nico waits until the lesson is over. He only came here by accident, but stayed because he'd never met a djinn. New knowledge is never a bad thing, especially where monsters are concerned.] Does it have to be silver? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tallerthanthou
2014-02-17 04:13 am UTC (link)

Yes. There may be other methods. [He imagines the colt would do it too, but since there's only one of those he doesn't mention it.] But to be safe you'd want silver dipped in lamb's blood. At least on a djinn from my world. Different realities are...different. [This is a top-notch Stanford education right here.] But in my experience silver is a powerful metal that many supernatural beings respond to like werewolves and shifters. The lamb's blood is specific to djinn though. [And he sure did just go on about that to a teen.]

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	nico_di_angelo 2014-02-17 04:36 am UTC (link)
	Hm. I've never experienced that. Why is the blood necessary? [His mind is sorting through a long-gone stack of cards, trying to recall any monsters with a blood weakness.] What about Celestial bronze? Imperial gold? Stygian iron? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-02-17 04:45 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure exactly, but blood is a symbol of life. They also feed on blood to survive like vampires and dead man's blood can kill them too, so maybe something about turning their lifeforce back on them. And I haven't heard of any of those metals. [Although "Stygian" resonates with him.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-02-17 05:00 am UTC (link)
	Sort of like empousa. I never needed blood to kill one though. [Nico shrugs. It's just information to file away.] I've never heard of using silver to fight a monster, except in movies. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-02-17 05:09 am UTC (link)
	Empousa? [He frowns, but he knows that name too.] The daughter of the goddess Hecate and the spirit Mormo. She seduced men and drank their blood while they slept. [He says it with the lilt of a question to see if that's what he meant. Sam has read the lore, but as far as he knows she's just a story. Possibly the basis for the succubus.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-02-17 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Um, yeah. There's actually more than one... But yes. Nasty creatures. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-02-17 05:22 am UTC (link)
	More than one? What's your name? [Since you know some interesting things.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)