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Tweak says, "You'll have to toss me!"

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

Entry tags:

: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 2014-02-24 04:11 am UTC (link)
	[He gives her an apologetic smile.] The good kind are a little few and far between where I'm from. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-02-24 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Maybe they're all just in hiding? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-02-28 05:17 am UTC (link)
	[He tilts his head a little.] That might make sense actually. We're usually tracking bizarre murders. No murders, no hunting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-03-01 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Typical. Shoot first, ask questions never. Kind of reminds me of Salem a bit, honesty. [Not that she had been around at the time. But what magic user wasn't intricately familiar with that part of history?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-03-03 05:44 am UTC (link)
	Hey, I...ask questions. [Usually. Sometimes.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-03-04 04:16 am UTC (link)
	Very convincing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tallerthanthou
2014-03-04 04:47 am UTC (link)

If someone isn't a threat then they aren't a threat. [He isn't sure how strongly he believes this. He's had some bad experiences back home thinking he could trust Ruby or others and it turned bad. Worse than bad. Bad enough there aren't words with enough impressive syllables to convey how bad it got. But then he came here and there was Elena and she was a doppleganger and now a vampire and he wants to believe it can be okay.]

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notbabymagic
2014-03-04 05:04 am UTC (link)

Well, sure, if everything was that Black and White. But it's not.

There are some people who might consider me a threat just because of what I can do. Same with my friends, and that's even including the ones without metahuman powers. It's only because they get to know us and our fabulous personalities that they come to realize we're actually on their side.

You know, unless they try to rob a bank or something. Then all bets are off.

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	tallerthanthou 2014-03-11 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	What I mean is, if they aren't killing people or disfiguring them or maiming. You know. [But there are definitely hunters who would kill just because of that potential. Hell, sometimes he's been one. Dean definitely has. He wants to see beyond it. Sometimes he does. Sometimes he just gets disappointed.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-03-12 01:05 am UTC (link)
	Again with the judging. I mean, personally, I with the people on the whole 'no killing' side of things. But you never know what happens if someone gets desperate. ...the maiming might be a bit much, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-03-16 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	So, if someone was going around doing those things you'd just assume they have the best intentions and let them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-03-17 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Hey, I never said that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-03-23 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Okay then. [Definitely feeling a little defensive. He's had his motives questions a lot since being here—deserved and less so.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notbabymagic
2014-03-25 12:02 am UTC (link)

[And she was very protective of her and hers. Though still a few years away from the mass mistrust of Superheroes and metahumans in general, it was always something that had a lingering presence in her life.]

Some bad things are obviously bad.

I'm talking about the things that don't always look so black and white. I mean, for example...what if you came across a coven that was in the middle of a perfectly innocent ritual which did happen to involved the use of a knife?

...I mean, yeah, most modern girls don't really go with that part, but for the more serious ritualistic blood spells, we do still use a few drops here and there.

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	tallerthanthou 2014-03-31 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Why am I coming across them if I'm not there investigating deaths? [It's not like it couldn't happen or that they haven't come across covens where some were innocent and others weren't.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-03-31 12:20 pm UTC (link)
	...coincidence? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-03-31 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	I'd like to think we'd ask questions first. [Of course when it comes to witches sometimes all they have on their side is the element of surprise.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2014-04-01 01:05 am UTC (link)
	If you say so. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tallerthanthou 2014-04-06 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, well... I do. [It's believing it where it gets trickier.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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