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So, I’m not sure how many of you are into video games, but Outer Worlds is a sci-fi game that came out a couple of years ago. Delightfully, for all the dark themes the game itself has a lot resemblances to a campy old comic book: plasma guns, alien monsters… and a shrink ray.

Basically, there’s a set of Science Weapons with unique, OOC abilities, and the shrink ray is the first of those you can find, right after the starting mission. Gameplay wise, it’s not ideal; it’s focused on debuffing the enemy rather than flat damage, but OW is game that wants you to commit to a build, a strategy, and there’s a stat especially for these weapons, and if you double down on the Science stat to the max (like, say, a mad scientist…) you can get that duration and damage up substantially. Plus, the roleplay value of doing that is real (and, there’s a story somewhere in imagining what your character could do with that over time, if they commit to being an amoral mad scientist, and just the whole corporate dystopia environment of Outer Worlds. Shrunken indentured maids?) Sadly, though you do fight women as well as men, any human enemies are in armor so not quite the ideal visual there, and the shrink itself is very temporary, even when you get the duration up.

I’m about to start a Shrink Ray focused build right now, but I thought I’d bring this up; Outer Worlds is old enough (there’s a sequel coming soonish! …As games go), that it should be relatively cheap at this point, and it’s widely held as an very easy game to boot, to the point where it’s often advised to start on hard mode, so in theory it should be accessible to the casual player.

Also, there’s similarities to Firefly if that’s your jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTqiPYDJ1ms

@FairyFanatic
As far as I can tell, no. On one hand, it’s useful because you can say, ‘Hey, that means the woman has reached the height of a child, or an infant’, but… yeah, it’s annoying. I’ll go dig up the tweet I found it on, see if there’s any clarification (in google translated Japanese, lol), but I don’t think I’ll find anything.

Amusingly, once you get adult and taller they take on a few different poses, and seem more confident, so you can get a looming sort of a giant easy enough, lol.

Edit: Yeah… can’t find it. I don’t know if it’s Twitter changes, or it got deleted or what, but I can’t find the Tweet I got this off of. For the record, I think it was pretty much just posting this, and I don’t think there’s really anything to miss… but yeah, there’s a reason I saved the website as soon as found it.

https://hikaku-sitatter.com/en/

Found this on Twitter awhile ago; kind of surprised I didn’t post it yet…

Basically, it lets you put a bunch of people in front of one of those scale walls and mess around with sizes, make them tall or small, and there’s a few other props you can add for reference. Honestly, I love it, because I know what I want, but I can never put that in numbers, and then if I put that in numbers I’m not sure what that means… anyways, I highly recommend this for writers. I’m using it right now to fine tune some details for a new story idea.

I know Minimizer had an X-Files story; Scully got shorter and Fox got younger. It was one of those wish situations where the change never stopped.

It seems like a great NWO kind of concept, though I’ll admit I’m perhaps a tad biased to them. Women shrink because Reasons, then give it some time for society to adjust. Rights would probably be reduced, pardon the pun, so it could easily be an owner of a bunch of what are basiclly exotic pets, maybe with some somewhat questionable legal maneuvering to make it legal. Or, it could be one of the few jobs left for the reduced in any real capacity, give them some freedom and their own income free of whatever caretakers they may have.

@Olo
Personally, I imagine it going in one of two ways:

First, a singular focus on the scientist experimenting on the giant, coming to realize that a powerful man bound up in chains is, in fact, hot to her. And that he’s really, really big, and that’s hot. And even between his legs, he’s bigger than her. And she has a shock prod, and it’s actually kind of fun to use it, and it’s hard to feel guilty about it considering how little reaction he has to that.

Fun times insue, with the scientist exploring her new found kinks with her somewhat willing partner. Story eventually ends with giant breaking out in a, ‘oh shit’, kind of way.

The other would be flipping perspectives between the giant and the scientist: the scientist is very into the whole giant thing as well, but she’s also forced into experimenting on him by her superiors and so she’s very conflicted morally about what she’s doing. Still, she ends up striking a relationship with her test subject.

Meanwhile, the giant is planning his escape; he’s been growing stronger steadily, and hiding that, and is at a point where he could escape his chains easily enough, but isn’t sure about the facility itself, so he’s biding his time as he gets stronger and stronger. He’s been acting compliant even as the various things they use to hold him back stopped working as well, and is faking unconsciousness when he’s drugged and the like, because he doesn’t want them to up their preparations about him before he’s ready.

He absolutely plans to flatten everyone in a lab coat he can find on his way out.

Then this one scientist tries to make things better for him and apologizes and he is Confused. Fully planning for the scientist to find out he’s not nearly as bound as they thought, him almost kill her to hid that knowledge, but decided not to out of trust, while she returns that trust by not ratting him out, even as it sends her into mental spirals.

Basiclly, the first one is a short story, the second is the much longer version.

Something I think that people forget is that, in a more ‘realistic’ scenario, as much as that word can be applied to our fetish, a giant isn’t going to be walking around wild and free, smashing everything with hordes of worshipping followers, not unless they have a bunch of other things happen or are just absurdly, no-interaction-feasibly-possible-big. Oh, it might happen for a bit, but after a point the military is probably going to wanting a word, and they have missiles.

Among other things, I’m wondering at GT story that flips that usual dynamic: the giant is a lab specimen, trapped in some secret lab somewhere, and largely at the power of the woman scientist experimenting on him. It flips the dynamics, of the little woman giving the orders, making the threats, but his own power is still there, especially if the giant is just… waiting for the right moment to break free, for revenge, and she knows it.

shrug
Not that that doesn’t have it’s charms, but at that size, there’s a very real threat of the SW simply leaving if they’re that large. Not only is the enforced helplessness of not being able to do normal things part of the normal charm, at that point you basiclly need to treat them like a kidnapped person, unless there’s something keeping them there, while a foot tall or inch tall woman will never be able to open that front door, no matter how much time you leave them alone with it.

Like I said, it’s not bad, but the dynamics go in completely different directions that way.

…I have this really affectionate cat; she loves to be held. She runs up to me all the time crying for attention. Every time I pick her up, even when she’s asking for it, there’s this moment where’s she’s startled, but as soon as I put her on my shoulder, the spot she loves? She melts against me, and just starts purring happily.

I love that. I want to do that with a SW, scoop her up, feel that one second of surprise, maybe flail a little against my grip before she realizes what’s happen, but then I just hold her against my chest, wrap my arms around her, and then she just melts.

Beyond that, though… I’ve noticed that GTS stuff has, for lack word… depth to them?

I think it’s the sheer amount of content kinda of forcing evolution in the artists, but once you get past the most basic, low level ‘i kill stuff cause funny’ stuff, there’s a lot of GTS stuff where they have a lot better, like, interactions, gradual dehumanization of tinies and the like (which is almost always men sadly) than GT stuff (which, to be fair, is probably in part because there’s not a lot of GT stuff, and art especially, beyond a simple picture or concept), and it feels like they’re often more… integrated in a setting than a GT is. This, the yandere vibe? That’s one of those; a little work would probably find dozens of ‘giant women obsesses over man’, or ‘woman shrinks man she obsesses over’ things, but it’s never really the reverse?

There’s so many interactions and scenarios I’ve seen that I’ve found interesting, and I would just like if it wasn’t happening to a man every time.

I just crave to use those vibes, but turned towards SW/GT ends.

@TakoAlice8
Oh, it’s somewhere on the site if you want to read what I have so far I guess, but I haven’t updated it in… a year? More? I’ve just had a lot of stuff going on and I’m always down on my own stuff, so the longer I do nothing with it the more I feel discouraged to work on it.

…Guiltily looks at yandere-y story he should really get back to working on.

But, yeah. It’s something you see in GTS stuff a lot, being so possessive about someone that you escalate absurd extents to have them, and it’s always kind of surprising I never see it the other way around.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131206123743/http://violentsw.com/viagra_syndrome.html

Huh. Found it after all.

@rand
No idea, sorry. If someone had a Wayback link to the old VSW board, you could find it easily enough, but the board itself is down, I think.

There was an old, old VSW story called Viagra Effect. It wasn’t the best written, but the idea was they tested Viagra, it made men grow, and women shrink because of the men’s sperm. They all got tossed into a company town to hide this from the world where the men used the women at will and the women just were used to it, and literally gossiped about who was using them and whatnot, and then at the last minute the author had a couple from outside both try it and join the town as a GT/GTS couple.

No idea where’d I’d find it, but this makes me want to reread that.