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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.

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[thisloveisjustice]

Happy to best of service to you.

[ooc: I'm good with playing it out here!]

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[true_noir]

[After a few pleasantries were finished being exchanged, she would go about her business. Within twenty-four hours, though, there would be another knife. Honestly, she was finding them almost every day this month, which was ridiculous.

This time, however, she followed Tatsuo's directions to the letter, making sure it was sealed, that any fabric she used was bagged, and that she hadn't touched it with her hands. Once she had it ready, she sent him a message to say that she would meet him that day at the dojo, and made her way over at the proscribed time.

Looking around at the entrance, she knocked gently and waited to see if there was someone who could direct her to Ikuo.]

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[thisloveisjustice]

[One of the students cleaning the building after the conclusion of classes lets Chloe inside, and points the way to the office. Tatsuo is inside, sitting at the desk, still wearing his gi, making notes about the class that just concluded. He looks up when he spots movement in the doorway.]

Ah, hello. I hope this wasn't too out of the way for you.

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[true_noir]

[She took it all in as she walked, but as soon as she was in his office, her focus went on Tatsuo. A quick shake of her head and she set the package down on the desk before seating herself opposite.]

No, it was just fine. My day was finished, and I have not started classes at the university yet. Besides, it is important that I find out what little I can, even if I suspect there will be nothing to learn.

They seem to be very thorough normally.

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[thisloveisjustice]

[Tatsuo finishes up his last note, then sets it aside for the sensei to look over later. He picks up the package, weighing it in his hand for a moment, before he reaches down to place it in his backpack. Best to open it inside the lab, to not risk cross-contamination.]

As long as it's not something completely mass market produced, like a Swiss Army knife, I can probably at least tell you where the knife might have been made and how old it is.

Sometimes when you start a case, you only have a single shred of evidence to work with. But you go over that evidence again and again. Then you go look for more evidence, and go over that again and again.

Piece by piece, we'll eventually get to the big picture.

[ooc: Aside from likely her own prints (via her original self), is there anything else Tatsuo will be able to glean from the knife?]

[true_noir]

I... haven't seen a knife like it before, but I think it is a style meant more for throwing more than stabbing. It has the open ring in the middle and no guard of any sort, so you would have to be skilled not to cut yourself.

[And if Tatsuo had asked her in December how to tell the difference between types of knives, she would have said something along the knives of "This knife is for deboning, and that one is for pairing fruit...]

You sound like a friend of mine... but considering that she wishes to become a police officer one day, I am not surprised. She's very ... meticulous. [She smiled as she said it.]

(OOC: They're mass-produced throwing knives, European manufacture though they don't match any currently sold brands. Steel is High Carbon, making them very high quality knives for retaining their edge. The hole is to reduce weight and improve balance for a small blade. They're extremely well maintained but have also obviously seen use, and definitely have her prints. Canon Chloe wore fingerless gloves routinely.)

[thisloveisjustice]

Meticulous. That is certainly a good trait for a police officer to have.

[Speaking of meticulous, Tatsuo picks his pen back up and writes down what Chloe has said about the knife. Considering she's the one ending up with random knives, he figures it's good to take down her impressions.]

How many knives have you found so far, including this one? Have they all been of the same design, or are they different?

[ooc: oho, that'll be an interesting find. I'm thinking he'd contact her through the app in maybe a week, to report his findings and that he couldn't find a match for the prints. granted, he'd only have immediate access to Recolle's local fingerprint database.]

[true_noir]

Or a future one as well. [She nodded, while considering his question.]

Twelve, so far, counting that one. I continue to find them every day or every other day. They've all been identical, and came with a strap and holster that I found early on that was clearly designed for them. It's meant to be worn over the shoulders, along the back.

(OOC: Actually, as she recently went through all the security protocols to become a US citizen, her prints would be in the database almost certainly, just without a criminal record. Provided that those prints are accessible locally, they'd be there.)

[thisloveisjustice]

Huh, so they're a set. Interesting. Is there room for all twelve of the knives in the holster?

[ooc: huh, if she processed the paperwork while in Recolle, they just might be. let's go with that.]

[true_noir]

Yes, I would say that twelve could be fit. There are ten slots on either side, tightly packed. So, I would also not be surprised if I found more.

[The girl had always seemed to have a never-ending supply of them, and had to have been quite healthy to have carried as many knives around as she did. Even with the hole lightening the weight, it was still easily ten or more pounds in total of extra weight she always seemed to have.]

(OOC: That she did, so we can definitely work with it.)

[thisloveisjustice]

[Tatsuo taps his pen against the notepad.]

That's a lot of knives. Still, I can't say it's outside the realm of what a hobbyist thrower might have.

[Though that still doesn't answer why they keep showing up in Chloe's home.

[true_noir]

Oh, the woman whose memories I see as a hallucination is no hobbyist, sir. [She shook her head.] It is like watching a bad spy thriller come to life. She clearly knows how to use them.

But, I suppose you might call me a hobbyist, unintentionally.

[thisloveisjustice]

I imagine that was a bit... disturbing to experience.

[He only got his first one the other day and he's still trying to reconcile the odd dissonance of not understanding what he'd seen with how familiar it'd felt.]

[true_noir]

A few of the sights have been disturbing. Watching her and others taking on the triads was... frightening to say the least, though I am starting to get a little... well, not used to it. However, it has happened several times now.

It's just strange, because the hallucinations linger, almost as if they were normal memories, not like watching a favorite show.

[thisloveisjustice]

It's hard to say you're getting 'used to' something, when it's not really something you want to get used to.

I've only had one so far, but I only got the app this month. It's like I can't get it out of my head. I close my eyes and I can still picture it pretty clearly.

[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.