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Detective Ibrahim's police unit breaks into a flat and finds a body surrounded by ritualistic paraphernalia. The corpse has decomposed so badly that it has no identifying marks and there are no papers present which name the deceased, leaving the police in the dark as to the man's identity. Even more concerning, however, are a series of bizarre supernatural events which afflict the police once they enter the apartment: a scream with no apparent source, a wave of horrible cold, and the consecrated crests on their uniforms turning black. Fortunately for Ibrahim, he's able to find a set of diaries in a locked drawer, and so in conjunction with his fellow policeman (and trained faith healer) Officer Jafri, he resolves to translate the books and figure out what happened.
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Detective Ibrahim's police unit breaks into a flat in Singapore and finds a body surrounded by ritualistic paraphernalia. The corpse has decomposed so badly that it has no identifying marks and there are no papers present which name the deceased, leaving the police in the dark as to the man's identity. Even more concerning, however, are a series of bizarre supernatural events which afflict the police once they enter the apartment: a scream with no apparent source, a wave of horrible cold, and the consecrated crests on their uniforms turning black. Fortunately for Ibrahim, he's able to find a set of diaries in a locked drawer, and so in conjunction with his fellow policeman (and trained faith healer) Officer Jafri, he resolves to translate the books and figure out what happened.
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** In the end, the bomoh summons an extremely powerful jinn which had been enslaved by his grandfather many years ago. He's so weak, however, that the jinn is able to escape from his control and kill him.
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** In the end, the bomoh summons an extremely powerful jinn which had been enslaved by his grandfather many years ago. He's The bomoh is so weak, however, that the jinn is able to escape from his control and kill him.
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** The bomoh wants an easy national service role where he won't have to drill and will be able to spend his time as he pleases. He gets such a role and finds it painfully boring.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After spending most of the story as one of the most powerful magicians around, the bomoh runs into a superior rival while in the middle of summoning a very powerful jinn. The rival easily banishes the jinn, beats the bomoh in a martial arts fight, and then wrecks most of the jinn that the bomoh proceeds to send after him.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
** After spending most of the story as one of the most powerful magicians around, the bomoh runs into a superior rival while in the middle of summoning a very powerful jinn. The rival easily banishes the jinn, beats the bomoh in a martial arts fight, and then wrecks most of the jinn that the bomoh proceeds to send after him.
** The bomoh's father runs into this too. He sends a jinn after his wife and daughter to punish them for leaving, but the wife and daughter eventually find a skilled faith healer who is able to crush the strongest jinn that the father sends after them.
** After spending most of the story as one of the most powerful magicians around, the bomoh runs into a superior rival while in the middle of summoning a very powerful jinn. The rival easily banishes the jinn, beats the bomoh in a martial arts fight, and then wrecks most of the jinn that the bomoh proceeds to send after him.
** The bomoh's father runs into this too. He sends a jinn after his wife and daughter to punish them for leaving, but the wife and daughter eventually find a skilled faith healer who is able to crush the strongest jinn that the father sends after them.
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* ArcWords: 'Flowers without fruit.' This is how the bomoh describes the non-lethal variants of silat which he encounters in dojos and competitions: those variants have a lot of moves which look cool, but they're all for show and don't include anything that would be actually useful in a real fight. [[spoiler:The words wind up applying to the bomoh himself, who in the 2017-2018 section of the diaries has all the outward appearances of success but hasn't reaped any rewards which he feels are meaningful]].
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* ArcWords: 'Flowers without fruit.' This is how the bomoh describes the non-lethal variants of silat which he encounters in dojos and competitions: those variants have a lot of moves which look cool, but they're all for show and don't include anything that would be actually useful in a real fight. [[spoiler:The words wind up applying to the bomoh himself, who in the 2017-2018 section of the diaries has all the outward appearances of success but hasn't reaped any rewards which he feels are meaningful]].meaningful. It also applies to the bomoh's religious activities; he continues to present himself as a devout Muslim by praying and invoking Allah, but his imam makes it clear he's turned away from the faith in every meaningful sense, and at the botched exorcism it's finally proven that Allah is no longer empowering the bomoh and his attempts to appear pious are just a charade.]]
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** Due to the bomoh's evil deeds, he is ultimately exiled from his local religious mosque, martial arts school, and even Singapore's [=BDSM=] scene, leaving him completely alone.
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** Due to the bomoh's evil deeds, he is ultimately exiled from his local religious mosque, martial arts school, and even Singapore's [=BDSM=] scene, leaving him completely alone.
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** One of the bomoh's motivations for becoming a wizard was to not have to deal with people ehe despised, but he finds he still has to because he needs to keep hunting for clients.
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** One of the bomoh's motivations for becoming a wizard was to not have to deal with people ehe he despised, but he finds he still has to because he needs to keep hunting for clients.
