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[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara 5/11 near Utsuki Dojo, Tisse

Okay, now that we're all back to our usual heights, I just want to introduce myself. My name is Tatsuo Kihara and I'm a CSI with the Retrospec Police Department. I specialize in fingerprints, but I also handle non-biologic trace evidence and ballistics. So, if Retrospec is sending you any weird items you want examined, I can try to help you learn a bit more about whatever it is you got sent.

Comments

[true_noir]

Yes, a fair way to put it, I think. I am less "used to" as much as I am accustomed to seeing these things. And, that is basically the problem. Once I see them, it is not like the movies. You put yourself in the character's shoes, but it is always a fantasy. This, even if I call it a hallucination, it is as if I lived it.

[thisloveisjustice]

[Tatsuo is silent for a moment, as he mulls over what Chloe has said. She's described pretty much how he feels about the hallucination he had the other day, but also touched on the reason he's felt such unease ever since.]

Are you worried that if this continues, the memories could start affecting 'you'? I mean, so much of what makes us 'us' is the experiences we've lived through. But if these 'memories' start integrating themselves into our psyche, could they change who we fundamentally are?

[true_noir]

Yes, though I have been attempting to take the attitude that I will take what I wish from them, and refuse to take the rest. [She was firm in that resolve, even trying to use some of these skills in ways that were clearly not what Chloe in her memories would have done.]

But at the same time, the fact that they linger, complete with her impressions of people and situations... well, they aren't replacing who I am, so they can't completely affect me. I still worry, though.

[thisloveisjustice]

[he nods]

Take what you want, leave the rest. That's about as good approach as you can take at this point, I guess. Without more information about how we even get them in the first place, there's not much more we can do.

[true_noir]

Basically, I'm afraid that it's that simple. Right now, we're dependent on information we just don't have... and as frustrating as it is, some of the things we get from these hallucinations are at least useful.

[thisloveisjustice]

Like how to throw sharp pointy objects with accuracy?

[Tatsuo sighs]

Hopefully my looking at the things Retrospec is sending us will shade some light on something.

[true_noir]

mmm, I hope that won't be as useful as the acrobatic skill that came with it. I really do. But I do hope that you manage to glean something. Be patient if not, though. This has been a slow process to be sure.

[thisloveisjustice]

Acrobatic skills? Spy thriller indeed.

[Tatsuo rips off the pages he's made notes on, folds them in half, then tucks them into a pocket in his backpack.]

I'll let you know when I'm done looking your knife over and ready to return it. Shouldn't take more than a week or so. I'll have to squeeze any tests in between the ones I already run for work.

[true_noir]

[She smirked at that. Yeah, there was a reason she'd included the phrase 'thriller' in her descriptions. Real spies didn't do acrobatic flips before hurling daggers like ninja with shuriken. Guns worked fine.]

That sounds fair. I will wait to hear from you. Please do not hesitate to give me a call. But for now, I should take my leave. You, no doubt, have work to do.

[thisloveisjustice]

Yeah, I've a few things to wrap up before I get to leave.

[Make sure the students cleaned the dojo properly, make sure all the equipment is put away properly, make sure no one is hiding somewhere they shouldn't... Tatsuo pushes back his hair to stand.]

Let me show you out.