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fissionmailed2009-01-24 12:51 pm
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Nothing to see here, folks.
[There's a giant big-eye tuna in the middle of the hall. Looks pretty dead.]
((All post-2006 Philanthropy members might want to take a peek at my journal post before responding. Everyone else- feel free to poke the tuna. Or not.))
((All post-2006 Philanthropy members might want to take a peek at my journal post before responding. Everyone else- feel free to poke the tuna. Or not.))
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I'm just a tuna.
And I've started to rot. Not too tasty anymore, sorry.
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And how come you're talking if you're rotting? I believe life is required for speech, sir fish.
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Pyramid power.
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[So confused.]
Does that have to do with the Patriots or the Philosophers?
[And he's got his hornets at the ready with the stinging and his gun, just in case.]
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PATRIOTS!?! The secret organization whose authoritative power outstrips that of even the united states presidency!? That's who you are???
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You've heard of them?
I am not one of them. I was one of their first victims in 1964. Yes, from the past; this place takes people from all times and places.
Tell me what you know, and I'll tell you what I know.
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...............
[Still.... Gary risked far too much just to trust this mysterious person that he can't even see just yet. Then again, his book should be published soon. If this is some sort of Patriot trick, then it doesn't matter much. The whole world will know the truth soon enough.]
I don't know much. Like I said, I'm just a tuna.
You first.
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[Pain isn't up for getting tricked either.]
How about you get out of your tuna suit and then we talk. I'd prefer to see who I'm talking to.
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[Well, if he was a Patriot spy or something, he probably would have attacked by now. Gary wiggles his way out of the tuna, and blinks a bit at the balaclava-clad man a few times before speaking]
.....You got a bad case of the measles or what?
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[He grimaces.]
Young, aren't you? How do you know about the Patriots? From what I know of them, they kill those who know too much. Myself included.
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*Clears his throat and extends a hand, ignoring the remark about his age*
The name's Gary McGolden. I'm a counterculture journalist from New York, and a nonfiction writer on the side.
...I recieved an optical disk in the mail a while back, with information about The Patriots and various recent terrorist activities. I'm aware of the risk I take in exposing the truth, but... [He looks off into the distance, dramatically] as a journalist, it's my job to learn the whole story, no matter what has to be sacrificed. Even my dear neighbor whose name I'm kinda forgetting at the moment.
[Sighs] He too was an unfortunate victim of this organization.
--Which brings me to my first question.
What do you know about a woman named Nastasha Romanenko?
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I've been told they're my best feature.
Are you coming on to me, Mr. McGolden?Ah, a reporter. I'm assuming you're from the early 21st centry, no?
...and what's this about sacrificing your neighbor?
[He shrugs.]
I'm afraid I don't know any Nastasha Romanenko....or at least, I've not met anyone of that name here, as far as I can recall.
What do you know about Snakes?
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Just saying whatever's on my mind. It's what I do.Indeed I am. [Snaps out of his dramatic gaze off into the distance to address Pain directly]
My neighbor was a starving college student. He let me use his computer to read the content of the optical disk, but I had to knock him out with a punch to the solar plexus. He was trying to read over my shoulder. [Sighs] My landlord said something about him going missing after that. The patriots probably got to him 'cause of the disk.
Poor kid. I should probably apologize if I ever see him alive again.
BUT ANYWAY- I'm pretty sure she's here. [Gary recalls the smell of cigarette smoke] ...All I know is that she's a smoker and a nuclear weapons expert. Keep an eye out, will ya? I need to speak with her ASAP.
.....
Snakes with venom or Snakes that get cloned from Big Boss and try to start and or prevent World War 3?
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You're lucky I'm a gentleman or I'd make an innapropriate comment.Why not use your own computer? And why didn't you warn him of the danger you were putting him in?
[Pain does not approve of such amoral tactics.]
How should I contact you?
[Headtilt.]
The latter kind; anything you can tell me about any of the three would be good.
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Orly?Don't have one. All I have is a typewriter. It's what REAL journalists use, after all.
[Shrugs] I had no clue what was on the disk before opening it. And it's a good thing I was over there, too. Otherwise he wouldn't have been able to break through the protection that was on the file. I don't know jack-squat about hacking or all that moonspeak jazz.
The kid did the free world a favor. Now I need to make sure I honor his memory by reporting the facts to people who will listen, right? Some things are bigger than the individual.
[Thinks] ...Oh.... right.
[Pulls out a cell phone] I guess you don't have one of these, huh?
Okay. Well, it all started with this legendary soldier who--Did you say 3???
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Ya rly.That may be, but computers are what everyone else uses. You should learn else you get left behind by time.
[Frown.] If you didn't know what was on it, why did you take it?
The needs of the few outweigh the many, yes, but the few that are sacrificed should know and consent to that sacrifice first.
All I have is a radio.
[His eyes widen.]
Three, yes. Solid, Liquid, and Solidus. And I'm well aware of who Big Boss is; he killed me, after all.
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Yeah yeah... I get that a lot.
Well, I got it through the mail. At first I thought it was a letterbomb.
So naturally, I got curious and opened it.
It was sent to me from a friend. My old editor Max, from MEGASURPRISE magazine. He wanted me to run a story about the info within. ...I have no idea how HE got his hands on it, though.
[Shrugs] As I said, I didn't know beforehand that anyone would have to sacrifice anything.
Wouldn't have mattered to me anyway, though.That'll work.
Solid..us...? Wow. The disk never mentioned that...
[Blinks] Oh. Uh, sorry 'bout that.
Well, apparently Big Boss was such hot shit that the government decided to clone him. One of his clones, Liquid Snake, took over an Alaskan base and tried to build his own army of genetically-enhanced super soldiers.
Solid Snake, his twin, was sent there to stop him and rescue a few hostages... or so he THOUGHT...
In reality, he was injected with a virus called FOXDIE, and sent there to spread it to a few selected individuals. It causes a heart attack to occur within people with a specific genetic code. This was the pentagon's way of keeping the whole thing hush-hush.
Snake probably should have died that day. But for some reason he didn't, and accomplished his mission.
The Nastasha woman I'm looking for was a member of his support team during that time. She knows A LOT more than I do. Romanenko is also the one who wrote the book that explained all this to me- called "In the darkness of shadow moses". It was part of what was contained in that disk.
She was already a pretty secretive person before that, and hard to get a hold of. But after that incident, she dropped off the face of the Earth COMPLETELY. I thought she got capped. And maybe she DID die.
But she's also here in this building.