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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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[true_noir]

It's re-assuring to finally have someone with your skills stuck using this app. My condolences, but we haven't had someone who could look that closely. I keep finding knives in my home that I didn't purchase. If I were to bring one too you, what precautions should I take about it?

Seriously, the last one was in the freezer under a piece of chicken I was going to cook. It is becoming ridiculous.

[thisloveisjustice]

That does sound rather alarming. It's one thing to receive something in the mail and another thing entirely for it to just turn up in your home.

Mainly, don't touch the knife with your bare skin. If you wrap it in anything to handle it, make sure to also give me that item as well. You can place it in a plastic or paper bag, whichever is on hand. With a knife it'll be best to meet outside the crime lab. The security protocols at the lab would not allow you to bring me the knife there, even to the front desk.

[true_noir]

Especially since I have a deadbolt that doesn't have a lock on the outside. But I have gotten a few items that way, with no sign of anyone breaking in.

Ok, I can do that. I imagine at this rate that I will find one in the next day or two, and I can bring it to you outside of the lab, if you'll give me an address. I'll do my best not to touch it. Anything else they've given me I've touched already unfortunately. And some of it defies explanation.

[thisloveisjustice]

What about your windows? >Did you try setting up a camera?

I'm usually at the Utsuki Dojo most evenings, so that would be a convenient location. It's on [street] near [other street] in Tisse. Just message me through the app when you find one and we can meet there.

[true_noir]

To be honest, I hadn't considered the windows, as I don't live on the first floor, but for a variety of reasons I might want to set up a camera. Perhaps I will learn something.

I would be happy to meet you at the Dojo. And, when we meet I might be interested in learning more about that. I have been looking into finding one.

[thisloveisjustice]

Yeah, a lot of people disregard windows once they're second floor or higher. But if someone is determined, height isn't an issue with the right tools.

Sure! I can show you around. We've got classes for all ages and skill levels.

[true_noir]

[Yeah, she was pretty sure the girl in her hallucinations was someone that fell into the 'when someone is determined enough' category, especially when she knew the kind of agility she was capable of now.]

I am seriously tempted to put bars on them right now, but that might be a bit expensive, and it's not good if there's a fire is it?

That sounds wonderful. What sort of martial arts does it teach?

[thisloveisjustice]

No, they do make things rather difficult in the case of a fire, and some buildings might have restrictions against them. But locks are fairly cheap and easy to install.

It's a branch of the Kyokumei school, which is in layman terms full-contact karate.

[true_noir]

I also don't own the complex, so perhaps a simple lock would do the trick. I'll look into it either way. Thank you for the information, though. Perhaps I'll have the chance to meet you again soon.

(OOC: We can either handwave a near future meeting or play it out here or in logs. All up to you. ^_^)

[thisloveisjustice]

Happy to best of service to you.

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

Action

[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.]

[foretellable]

Roderic Dennis Valdez So you're a cop then?!
Roderic Dennis Valdez A REAL cop who does investigating stuff??
Roderic Dennis Valdez That's awesome!!

[thisloveisjustice]

Tatsuo Kihara Uh, not exactly.
Tatsuo Kihara I work with the police, but I'm not actually a cop.

Re: Action

[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.

Re: Action

[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.

[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.

Re: Action

[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?]

[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]

[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.)

[longwei2go]

i got an arm in the mail the other day
that up your alley at all

[thisloveisjustice]

please tell me it's not a flesh arm

[he kind of wishes he could erase the image of a severed arm in a box from his brain]

[longwei2go]

nah
not sure if thatd be more or less creepy
than a robot arm made in just my size

[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.]

[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]