"Shrunken": FAQ and profiles

[AmyRoberts]

"Shrunken"

FAQ and profiles

(Please, no chat in this thread. Thanks)
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The gist of the story

FAQs


Characters: FYI, there are 25 Shrunken at the Lab and who knows how many others beyond it.

Hannah Taylor, PhD scientist in charge of Flogiston Laboratories.​

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Rollins, college student​

Information on its way.

 

[AmyRoberts]

The gist​

Hannah Taylor, PhD, has spent 20 years researching teleportation. Over the past 6 years, her team at Flogiston Laboratories has successfully teleported inanimate objects, insects, a Guinea pig, and a chimpanzee named Mabel. Mabel, who spoke more than 1,000 words through sign language, was able to communicate to Hannah and her team that she felt no side effects from the teleportation. This led to the approval of human trials.

But when they attempted to teleport volunteer, Sally Park, something went horribly wrong. Throughout the lab and even beyond it, people were shrunken to 1/12th their normal size: feet down to inches.

More will be added here as it happens.

 

[AmyRoberts]

FAQs
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In addition to the affected humans, what objects shrunk?

Internal objects such as implants, pacemakers, pins, hip replacements, even contact lenses shrunk. Clothes, eyeglasses, watches, etc., however, did not.​

How "realistic" are we being concerning the "science" of being tiny?

Good question. We aren't going to be "religious" about everything. We'll have to feel things out as we go.​

 

[AmyRoberts]

Hannah Taylor, PhD

Physical description:

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5'8" (68"), now just over 6 and 3/4 inches tall​

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Place in the story:

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She was the lead scientist on the transporter project for Flogistan Laboratories. She was in the lab's control room when the incident occurred.​

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She can't believe this happened, but she will be eager to help her fellow scientists figure out what happened. She will initially be willing and even eager to help, but what will happen when she learns the Shrunkens' fate? Standby.​

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Her history:

Born in 1989. She was 36 at the start of the RP.​

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She was a genius and child prodigy in STEM. She graduated from a STEM Charter High School at 16.​

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She started MIT at 16 and received: her 1st and 2nd bachelor's at 19; her 1st master's at 20 and her 2nd at 21; her first PhD at 23, her 2nd at 25, and her 3rd at 27.​

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All the while at MIT, she was working for Flogiston Laboratories, researching teleportation.​

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In 2021, they successfully teleported an inanimate object from one location to another. They continued with more involved inanimate objects; then living objects (insects, worms, mice, guinea pigs); and finally, in December 2024, they teleported a chimpanzee named Mabel.​

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By April 2025, Flogiston's board of directors agreed to human testing.​

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The Incident:

When it happened on May 12, she was in the Flogiston Laboratories Control Room with Roger Kline. Both were shrunken.​

 

[AmyRoberts]

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Rollins

Physical description:

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5'6" (66"), now just under 6 and 3/4 inches​

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Her situation at the time of the incident:

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She was a high school dropout party girl who had just passed the necessary tests to return to school. She was planning on going to Lane County Community College.​

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She was in her new dormitory room on the campus, about 70 50 yards from the Flogistan Laboratories building where the incident occurred. Somehow, it affected her and the man she was with, too.​