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[argentstrength]

[This is not Loz’s phone. He knows it’s not, because it doesn’t have the little gash in the screen from when the Turk lady threw it to try and keep Loz from taking it. It LOOKS like his phone, but it’s not. So he’s just staring at it for a moment before he starts messing with the buttons. These look a little different, light up when they didn’t

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[ysobritish]

[Kadaj? That was the name Yaha mentioned a few moments ago...]

Your Kadaj is here somewhere. I do not know about the other one.

[Such odd names... but he's one to talk.]

[audio]

[argentstrength]

[Oh hey the little not-his-phone thing is talking to him. Maybe it is a phone! But he doesn't recognize the voice over the line at all, and that earns a frown.]

We're all here. We were supposed to go together, we're all here. Gotta be.

[It's stated with almost childish certainty, just slightly petulant.]

Who're you?

[audio]

[ysobritish]

Nobody intends to come to this place. This is Siren's Port. It brings us all unwillingly.

[The tone raises an eyebrow, but he makes no comment as to it.]

I am Liquid Snake.

[audio]

[argentstrength]

...that's a really stupid name, guy.

[This is a welcome distraction.]

[audio]

[ysobritish]

It's a codename. You're several levels of formal classification too low to be made aware of my real one, I'm sure.

[audio]

[argentstrength]

[That earns a laugh.]

Don't you...like...pick your own codename?

So you picked that? On purpose?

[audio]

[ysobritish]

No, actually, I did not pick it. They're assigned. My Brother is Solid Snake and my father used to be known as Naked Snake. My unit also have similar names.

[He reinstated it, but he ain't admitting that.]

[audio]

[argentstrength]

So everyone has stupid codenames?

[THIS IS HILARIOUS.]

[audio]

[ysobritish]

Everyone in FOXHOUND has codenames, but they are hardly stupid. Really, your own names are ridiculous enough without mocking those of others.

[audio]

[argentstrength]

[Blink. Glower.]

Our names are fine. We've got good names. We don't have stupid stuff like "melty lizard" for names.

[audio]

[ysobritish]

It's Liquid Snake. [Snerk.] You're telling me "Loz" and "Yazoo" are actual names in your world?

[audio]

[argentstrength]

Melty. Lizard.

[He's sticking with that.]

How can a name that someone uses not be an actual name? Yours is just words, ours are real names.

[audio]

[ysobritish]

That's not my name.

Back at home, people's real names are more like David, or George, Richard or Talib.

[audio]

[argentstrength]

Where we're from people have names like Cloud and Sephiroth and Marlene and Denzel and Loz and Yazoo and Kadaj.

[So THERE.]

[audio]

[ysobritish]

...

What an interesting world. Sephiroth... in our world it's a religious symbol, the tree of life. And a cloud is a weather pattern. Still, whatever works for you. I hardly expect every world to be the same. Regardless, you have no right to mock my codename.

[audio]

[argentstrength]

'Course I do. It's a stupid name.

Melty Lizard.