Nothing to see here, folks.

[justatuna.livejournal.com]

[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.))

Comments

[justatuna.livejournal.com]

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???

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

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.

[justatuna.livejournal.com]

[SIIIIIGH. Geez, this guy sounds just like MAX.]

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.