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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

[saltsplash]

Do you guys have any lead on exactly what shrunk us down to such a small size? I didn't think that the human body could function on a small scale like that.

[thisloveisjustice]

We're forensic scientists, not magicians. And biology isn't my specialty. But if you look at matter from more of a chemistry standpoint, there's actually a lot of empty space in the human body, between electrons. If you could overcome the charge issue, you maybe theoretically could shrink something.

[saltsplash]

Obviously you're not doctors, I'm still trying to analyze blood samples I took from myself but I don't have full-time access to a lab anymore. I mean were you able to find anything like signs of an injection, evidence of breaking and entering, stuff like that?

And no you definitely can't normally shrink stuff, if we were supposedly condensed like that then we shouldn't have been able to normally eat or breathe since the rest of the world wasn't condensed, right? Let alone the fact that our brains were perfectly functional at that size which just flies in the face of science and there were supposedly medical studies about it last week and I'm just

losing my mind here??

[when being a doctor is directly an obstacle to handling your first absolutely crazy experience]

[thisloveisjustice]

As far as my apartment goes, I found no evidence of forced entry. Even if they picked my lock, I still have a deadbolt and chain. My windows all have locks. I'm not really trained to investigate bodies, so I didn't think to look for an injection site.

But here's a thought. We were somehow shrunk. Whatever if whoever did that to us gained entry to our living spaces by being tiny themselves? They could have squeezed under my front door, there's a gab that would be just big enough. And if they injected us while that size, once we shrunk down the injection site would be so small as to be invisible.

I don't think this is what experiencing a break with reality feels like? But I could be wrong. But for so many people to also be experiencing the same dissonance...
kind of points to us all being perfectly sane?

I hope.

[yeah, Tatsuo is feeling the same way]

[saltsplash]

It points to some sort of mass delusion?? I don't know what kind of con man could give all these people on this weird network the same messed up illusions, but there's something going on here that's just not right.

[thisloveisjustice]

But who is experiencing the delusion? Us or the people not using the app? Which reality do you choose to validate? Your own or theirs?
But yes, something is definitely not right.

[saltsplash]

I hope it's the reality where eight years of medical school didn't turn out to be a complete waste.

[thisloveisjustice]

or all the money spent on said medical school

[saltsplash]

THAT'S EVEN WORSE

[thisloveisjustice]

what will you do if it does turn out that way?

[saltsplash]

Hire a babysitter and get smashed at night

[thisloveisjustice]

you got a kid?

[saltsplash]

Yeah, a son. He's 14 but he's also

[How to describe his very awkward son...]

I worry about him

And with the stalker thing I want to make sure he's safe

[thisloveisjustice]

is he on the app too or...?

[saltsplash]

He's not. God, poor kid, I don't want him to get the whole fake-memories things, he has such a hard time already.

[thisloveisjustice]

Oh, that's good. We have way too many teens mixed up in this already.

[saltsplash]

My thoughts exactly. I hope all this doesn't rub off on him.