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[saveyourserpent]

[At first, it seems like there's nothing on the video. It's lower quality than the video from the MID, suggesting an outside source, and there seems to be something in the way of fog or mist onscreen. Or smoke, actually, as it gets a little darker and thicker. Occasionally it seems to take the shape of a humanoid figure, then just seems like a cloud again.

After a few moments, Liquid Snake's voice can be heard.]

Just a tip. If someone's coming towards you with smoke billowing from their orifices, run in the opposite direction and never look back. Don't try to fight them, as much as you're sure you're going to win. You can thank me later.

[Sounds like he speaks from experience. Soon enough, something materializes in the air: a clenched fist, then an arm, then part of a torso. He's trying.]

Public service announcements aside, did anyone see the Flyers at the championship? We bloody shredded the competition. Make sure to check out the highlights if you get a chance. A shame about Xoxxorx, but he did what he had to.

[Xoxxorx will have a lovely memorial.]

They've been begging me to stay for next season, but I think my sports career's done for now. Not quite sure I can handle the groupies anymore.

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[saveyourserpent]

Now that, I can't even remotely believe.

[Says the guy who is clearly having trouble keeping his body parts solid.]

Unpleasant. Not that it isn't usually. But there's no cigarettes or the like involved.

[procedures]

I could say the same about people steaming out of their ears, but here we are.

This isn't a common medical condition now, is it? Because this is really alarming.

[saveyourserpent]

Ha ha. Hilarious.

[Okay, so far so good on the arm and everything. Just have to be careful.]

No, I don't really think it is. Now, I'm no doctor, but I've never even heard of this sort of thing happening until, well, it happened.

[procedures]

I wasn't joking about the nipples, for the record.

[ Hmmm. ]

You know - and this is just a suggestion, you don't have to listen if you don't want to - you could get it checked at the medbay, see if we can do anything for— That. Maybe figure out what triggers it, at least?

[saveyourserpent]

That's. Kind of terrifying, to tell the truth.

[He still doesn't actually believe it, though.]

Yeah, I was planning on getting it checked out once things were in a little better order. If I can make this work for me, I will.

[procedures]

Doors are always open. Smoking nipples or otherwise.

—Don't take this as an insult, or anything like that, but if the smoke got bottled. What do you think is gonna happen to you? Is the smoke part of you?

[saveyourserpent]

Hopefully I'll be able to keep my nipples solidified.

The smoke isn't just part of me, it is me. So I can only imagine bottling things up would be... well, not very good, don't you think?

[procedures]

Fair enough, we might end up bottling your eye, or your spleen. Not sure if we have the equipment to reattach those, too.

...But how do you become you again, if you're a gaseous state? Wouldn't you, I don't know, dissipate? What if you got caught in a fan?

[saveyourserpent]

I don't want any part of me sitting in a jar on your desk, trust me.

Hell if I know how it works, though. I'm still trying to figure out how to work it. I seem to stay together in a sort of... cloud. Space nonsense, I suppose.