MGS:PO Codec
Para-medic: Snake, I know it's been a while since you last saw combat. Do you still remember how to manage your physical condition?
Snake: Yeah, I think it's starting to come back to me...
Para-medic: Really? That's great. Then I've got some good news for you.
Snake: Good news?
Para-medic: Yep. First of all, Colombia is a country of diverse climate and terrain. It stretches hundreds of miles from north to south, straddling the Equator, and the terrain varies from the 15,000-foot high Andes to the Amazon rain forest to the desert.
Snake: Okay...
Para-medic: So it's home to a lot of rare plants and animals. Over 3,000 different species of mammals, birds, and reptiles have been identified so far, which gives Colombia the highest species density of any country in the world.
Snake: ...Yeah, and?
Para-medic: What, that doesn't make you happy?
Snake: How exactly does this constitute good news?
Para-medic: Well, it means there's lots of rare species of animals that no one's ever eaten before. So there's plenty of food out there to hunt. You enjoy that, don't you?
Snake: No...Sorry, but we've got enough food this time around. I can survive just fine without having to catch and eat wild animals.
Para-medic: Oh... That's too bad.
Snake: ...(Too bad?)
--
Para-medic: Snake, have you ever heard of "El Dorado?"
Snake: Nope. What's that?
Para-medic: It's a city of gold that's rumored to exist somewhere deep in the Andes. They say the people there cover themselves in gold, the streets are filled with gold and silver treasures--there's even a lake full of gold.
Snake: A lake full of gold? Is this place real?
Para-medic: No. For almost 300 years starting in the 16th century, explorers searched for El Dorado, but in the end they never found anything.
Snake: Huh. Just a legend.
Para-medic: Well, it's not entirely made up, either. This place really was rich with gold...at one time. A lot of treasures have been dug up from the ancient ruins, and they say some of the natives in the remote areas of Colombia still use golden combs and knives to this day.
Snake: Golden knives, huh...
Para-medic: Intriguing, isn't it?
Snake: Yeah, I could use it to distract the enemy while I nail them with CQC.
Para-medic: That's NOT what I meant...
--
Para-medic: What's up, Snake?
Snake: Para-medic, there's something I've been wanting to tell you since the last time we met.
Para-medic: Ooh. What's that?
Snake: Congrats on launching the paramedic corps. Looks like all your hard work finally paid off.
Para-medic: ...Thank you, Snake. But we've still got a long way to go. Just establishing a unit isn't enough. We have to get out there and start saving lives.
Snake: Yeah...Good point.
Para-medic: Speaking of which, what about you, Snake?
Snake: Eh?
Para-medic: What have you been doing since that mission? I heard you quit the FOX unit...What'd you do after that?
Snake: Nothing.
Para-medic: Nothing?
Snake: That's right. I though maybe I'd make a peaceful living as an instructor or a hunting guide, but somehow I ended up getting dragged back onto the battlefield. Nothing's changed since the last time I saw you.
Para-medic: So it seems...But you know, some things are better off not changing.
Snake: Better off not changing?
Para-medic: Well, for instance...your skills and conditioning. It must have been pretty tough to keep yourself at that level for all those years, huh?
Snake: Not really. I just had to keep up my normal training regimen.
Para-medic: Seriously?
Snake: Yeah. But now that you mention it, you're starting...
Para-medic: Starting to what?
Snake: Nothing...Never mind.
Para-medic: Liar. You were about to say something. Let me guess...I'm starting to look a little old. Is that what you were gonna say?
Snake: N-no...That's not what I was thinking at all.
Para-medic: Yeah. And you'd better not start. Got it?
Snake: ......
--
Para-medic: Hey, have you ever heard of "Planet of the Apes?"
Para-medic: It's a movie. You've never seen it?
Para-medic: These astronauts crash land on an unknown planet where humans are ruled by talking apes.
Para-medic: The apes put collars on humans and treat them like cattle. So the main characters make friends with a smart chimpanzee and escape, but at the end, they come face to face with an unbelievable reality.
Para-medic: I can still remember the shock of seeing that last scene.
Para-medic: The author of the original novel, Pierre Boulle, was taken prisoner by the Japanese Army during World War II. Some say he based his book on that experience.
Para-medic: If we humans keep waging war with one another, one day our civilization really might collapse, and we'll become lower than apes.
Para-medic: I hear there are monkeys living in Colombia. Watch out or they might take you prisoner.
--
Para-medic: This is Para-medic. Do you need something?
Para-medic: Oh, you want to know how to cook?
Para-medic: Mm hmm. So you need some recipes to spicen up the food you're getting there, huh?
Para-medic: No problem. I actually came prepared for such an occasion. After all, the first rule of survival is to make the most of the food you have.
Para-medic: OK, so what kind of food are we talking about here?
Para-medic: Frog? Scorpion? Squirrel? Bat? Or is it...snake?
Para-medic: What? Not that kind of food?
Para-medic: You want to know how to cook South American yams and corn?
Para-medic: But I never looked up how to cook regular food...
Para-medic: No, it's not like that. I just thought that since you were with Snake and all, you were going to eat wild animals and stuff. It's not like I'm a master of gruesome cuisine or anything.
Para-medic: Come on, say something!
Para-medic: It was just a big misunderstanding! Really!
Para-medic: What's that? I'm just as weird as Snake said?
Para-medic: Now just a minute! What's that supposed to mean?
Para-medic: I said it was all a misunderstanding... (grumble grumble)
--
Para-medic: Hey, have you ever heard of "Fantastic Voyage?"
Para-medic: It's a movie. You've never seen it?
Para-medic: So this big shot guy has a brain hemorrhage, and to save his life, they use a shrink ray to send a team of doctors in a submarine into his body.
Para-medic: I love the special effects they used to portray the inside of the body. They get caught up in the bloodstream, get lost in the veins and are attacked by white blood cells, stuff like that.
Para-medic: But it kind of left me with mixed feelings as a doctor.
Para-medic: Think of all the people we could save if technology like that really existed.
Para-medic: Still...Even if we did have shrink ray technology, it'd be pretty dangerous to go inside the human body.
Para-medic: I know! We could send in an agent like Snake. That'd solve the problem real quick.
--
Para-medic: ......
Para-medic: Oh, sorry. This is Para-medic.
Para-medic: I was pouring myself some coffee, so I couldn't respond right away.
Para-medic: It's important to keep yourself refreshed in battle. That's what they used coffee for when it was first discovered--as a drug to stay alert.
Para-medic: Caffeine gets rid of drowsiness and fatigue and improves concentration. It's also been found to act on the central nervous system to increase breathing and muscle performance.
Para-medic: It guards against arteriosclerosis by lowering blood cholesterol, and some believe that it even helps protect against cancer.
Para-medic: Colombian coffee is a mild, high-quality variety with a perfect balance of acidity, body, flavor, and aroma.
Para-medic: Some sports players drink coffee before a game to improve their concentration and endurance. I'll bet it can do the same for a solider, too.
Para-medic: Just don't ever mention coffee in front of Major Zero.
Para-medic: I can't count the number of times he's yelled at me and said "Don't drink that mud in front of me"...(sigh)...
--
Para-medic: This is Para-medic. Got a question for me?
Para-medic: You want to know about my relationship with Snake? Well...I guess you could call us old war buddies. I respect him as a brilliant agent.
Para-medic: And I'm sure he thinks of me as a beautiful, clever, dependable wonderful woman.
Para-medic: The first time I met him, he was in the hospital, badly wounded.
Para-medic: He was unconscious at the time, completely naked, all wrapped up in bandages with tubes sticking out.
Para-medic: During the mission, I supported him the entire time over the radio.
Para-medic: The terrible things he had to do in that mission...
Para-medic: Escaping from a prison cell naked, wandering around naked in the sewers, stripping a GRU major naked and stuffing him in a locker...
Para-medic: D...don't read too much into that, OK? Those were simply the first scenes that came to mind. Really, that's all.
Para-medic: Huh? Is "Naked" Snake always living up to his name?
Para-medic: Yeah, that must be it. That's why...
--
Para-medic: This is Para-medic. How are you feeling?
Para-medic: Not so good, huh?
Para-medic: You're experiencing headaches, dizziness, nausea and a lack of appetite? But you don't have a fever? Any other symptoms?
Para-medic: Mm hmm. I see...Sounds like a classic case of altitude sickness.
Para-medic: Any soldier, no matter how hard they train, can experience symptoms of hypoxia at high altitudes in mountainous areas.
Para-medic: In severe cases, these symptoms can even develop into pulmonary or cerebral edema.
Para-medic: If possible, it's best to move down to a lower altitude, but as long as you take it easy and watch out for fatigue, it should get better.
Para-medic: That's funny, though...I know there are cities in Colombia with elevations over 6000 feet, but you're not up that high, are you...?
Para-medic: Wait, don't tell me...You had too much to drink last night, didn't you?
Para-medic: Oh, for Pete's sake...It's just a hangover!
Para-medic: It's easier to get drunk at high altitudes, so try to go easy on the booze.
--
Para-medic: How's your Medical Level coming along?
Para-medic: I'm not jealous or anything like that, but I bet that if you get it over LV 80, one of her...
Para-medic: ...personalities, may join your side.
*This conversation is a hint about how to recruit Elisa/Ursula.
--
Para-medic: Hey, have you ever heard of "Orgy of the Dead?"
Para-medic: It's a movie. You've never seen it?
Para-medic: It's about how this horror writer goes to a graveyard for inspiration and ends up getting sucked into a banquet for dead spirits.
Para-medic: It's basically a series of dead naked women dancing one after another...
Para-medic: What's so scary about it...?
Para-medic: ......
Para-medic: I'd say the scariest thing is the fact that it was made in the first place.
Snake: Yeah, I think it's starting to come back to me...
Para-medic: Really? That's great. Then I've got some good news for you.
Snake: Good news?
Para-medic: Yep. First of all, Colombia is a country of diverse climate and terrain. It stretches hundreds of miles from north to south, straddling the Equator, and the terrain varies from the 15,000-foot high Andes to the Amazon rain forest to the desert.
Snake: Okay...
Para-medic: So it's home to a lot of rare plants and animals. Over 3,000 different species of mammals, birds, and reptiles have been identified so far, which gives Colombia the highest species density of any country in the world.
Snake: ...Yeah, and?
Para-medic: What, that doesn't make you happy?
Snake: How exactly does this constitute good news?
Para-medic: Well, it means there's lots of rare species of animals that no one's ever eaten before. So there's plenty of food out there to hunt. You enjoy that, don't you?
Snake: No...Sorry, but we've got enough food this time around. I can survive just fine without having to catch and eat wild animals.
Para-medic: Oh... That's too bad.
Snake: ...(Too bad?)
--
Para-medic: Snake, have you ever heard of "El Dorado?"
Snake: Nope. What's that?
Para-medic: It's a city of gold that's rumored to exist somewhere deep in the Andes. They say the people there cover themselves in gold, the streets are filled with gold and silver treasures--there's even a lake full of gold.
Snake: A lake full of gold? Is this place real?
Para-medic: No. For almost 300 years starting in the 16th century, explorers searched for El Dorado, but in the end they never found anything.
Snake: Huh. Just a legend.
Para-medic: Well, it's not entirely made up, either. This place really was rich with gold...at one time. A lot of treasures have been dug up from the ancient ruins, and they say some of the natives in the remote areas of Colombia still use golden combs and knives to this day.
Snake: Golden knives, huh...
Para-medic: Intriguing, isn't it?
Snake: Yeah, I could use it to distract the enemy while I nail them with CQC.
Para-medic: That's NOT what I meant...
--
Para-medic: What's up, Snake?
Snake: Para-medic, there's something I've been wanting to tell you since the last time we met.
Para-medic: Ooh. What's that?
Snake: Congrats on launching the paramedic corps. Looks like all your hard work finally paid off.
Para-medic: ...Thank you, Snake. But we've still got a long way to go. Just establishing a unit isn't enough. We have to get out there and start saving lives.
Snake: Yeah...Good point.
Para-medic: Speaking of which, what about you, Snake?
Snake: Eh?
Para-medic: What have you been doing since that mission? I heard you quit the FOX unit...What'd you do after that?
Snake: Nothing.
Para-medic: Nothing?
Snake: That's right. I though maybe I'd make a peaceful living as an instructor or a hunting guide, but somehow I ended up getting dragged back onto the battlefield. Nothing's changed since the last time I saw you.
Para-medic: So it seems...But you know, some things are better off not changing.
Snake: Better off not changing?
Para-medic: Well, for instance...your skills and conditioning. It must have been pretty tough to keep yourself at that level for all those years, huh?
Snake: Not really. I just had to keep up my normal training regimen.
Para-medic: Seriously?
Snake: Yeah. But now that you mention it, you're starting...
Para-medic: Starting to what?
Snake: Nothing...Never mind.
Para-medic: Liar. You were about to say something. Let me guess...I'm starting to look a little old. Is that what you were gonna say?
Snake: N-no...That's not what I was thinking at all.
Para-medic: Yeah. And you'd better not start. Got it?
Snake: ......
--
Para-medic: Hey, have you ever heard of "Planet of the Apes?"
Para-medic: It's a movie. You've never seen it?
Para-medic: These astronauts crash land on an unknown planet where humans are ruled by talking apes.
Para-medic: The apes put collars on humans and treat them like cattle. So the main characters make friends with a smart chimpanzee and escape, but at the end, they come face to face with an unbelievable reality.
Para-medic: I can still remember the shock of seeing that last scene.
Para-medic: The author of the original novel, Pierre Boulle, was taken prisoner by the Japanese Army during World War II. Some say he based his book on that experience.
Para-medic: If we humans keep waging war with one another, one day our civilization really might collapse, and we'll become lower than apes.
Para-medic: I hear there are monkeys living in Colombia. Watch out or they might take you prisoner.
--
Para-medic: This is Para-medic. Do you need something?
Para-medic: Oh, you want to know how to cook?
Para-medic: Mm hmm. So you need some recipes to spicen up the food you're getting there, huh?
Para-medic: No problem. I actually came prepared for such an occasion. After all, the first rule of survival is to make the most of the food you have.
Para-medic: OK, so what kind of food are we talking about here?
Para-medic: Frog? Scorpion? Squirrel? Bat? Or is it...snake?
Para-medic: What? Not that kind of food?
Para-medic: You want to know how to cook South American yams and corn?
Para-medic: But I never looked up how to cook regular food...
Para-medic: No, it's not like that. I just thought that since you were with Snake and all, you were going to eat wild animals and stuff. It's not like I'm a master of gruesome cuisine or anything.
Para-medic: Come on, say something!
Para-medic: It was just a big misunderstanding! Really!
Para-medic: What's that? I'm just as weird as Snake said?
Para-medic: Now just a minute! What's that supposed to mean?
Para-medic: I said it was all a misunderstanding... (grumble grumble)
--
Para-medic: Hey, have you ever heard of "Fantastic Voyage?"
Para-medic: It's a movie. You've never seen it?
Para-medic: So this big shot guy has a brain hemorrhage, and to save his life, they use a shrink ray to send a team of doctors in a submarine into his body.
Para-medic: I love the special effects they used to portray the inside of the body. They get caught up in the bloodstream, get lost in the veins and are attacked by white blood cells, stuff like that.
Para-medic: But it kind of left me with mixed feelings as a doctor.
Para-medic: Think of all the people we could save if technology like that really existed.
Para-medic: Still...Even if we did have shrink ray technology, it'd be pretty dangerous to go inside the human body.
Para-medic: I know! We could send in an agent like Snake. That'd solve the problem real quick.
--
Para-medic: ......
Para-medic: Oh, sorry. This is Para-medic.
Para-medic: I was pouring myself some coffee, so I couldn't respond right away.
Para-medic: It's important to keep yourself refreshed in battle. That's what they used coffee for when it was first discovered--as a drug to stay alert.
Para-medic: Caffeine gets rid of drowsiness and fatigue and improves concentration. It's also been found to act on the central nervous system to increase breathing and muscle performance.
Para-medic: It guards against arteriosclerosis by lowering blood cholesterol, and some believe that it even helps protect against cancer.
Para-medic: Colombian coffee is a mild, high-quality variety with a perfect balance of acidity, body, flavor, and aroma.
Para-medic: Some sports players drink coffee before a game to improve their concentration and endurance. I'll bet it can do the same for a solider, too.
Para-medic: Just don't ever mention coffee in front of Major Zero.
Para-medic: I can't count the number of times he's yelled at me and said "Don't drink that mud in front of me"...(sigh)...
--
Para-medic: This is Para-medic. Got a question for me?
Para-medic: You want to know about my relationship with Snake? Well...I guess you could call us old war buddies. I respect him as a brilliant agent.
Para-medic: And I'm sure he thinks of me as a beautiful, clever, dependable wonderful woman.
Para-medic: The first time I met him, he was in the hospital, badly wounded.
Para-medic: He was unconscious at the time, completely naked, all wrapped up in bandages with tubes sticking out.
Para-medic: During the mission, I supported him the entire time over the radio.
Para-medic: The terrible things he had to do in that mission...
Para-medic: Escaping from a prison cell naked, wandering around naked in the sewers, stripping a GRU major naked and stuffing him in a locker...
Para-medic: D...don't read too much into that, OK? Those were simply the first scenes that came to mind. Really, that's all.
Para-medic: Huh? Is "Naked" Snake always living up to his name?
Para-medic: Yeah, that must be it. That's why...
--
Para-medic: This is Para-medic. How are you feeling?
Para-medic: Not so good, huh?
Para-medic: You're experiencing headaches, dizziness, nausea and a lack of appetite? But you don't have a fever? Any other symptoms?
Para-medic: Mm hmm. I see...Sounds like a classic case of altitude sickness.
Para-medic: Any soldier, no matter how hard they train, can experience symptoms of hypoxia at high altitudes in mountainous areas.
Para-medic: In severe cases, these symptoms can even develop into pulmonary or cerebral edema.
Para-medic: If possible, it's best to move down to a lower altitude, but as long as you take it easy and watch out for fatigue, it should get better.
Para-medic: That's funny, though...I know there are cities in Colombia with elevations over 6000 feet, but you're not up that high, are you...?
Para-medic: Wait, don't tell me...You had too much to drink last night, didn't you?
Para-medic: Oh, for Pete's sake...It's just a hangover!
Para-medic: It's easier to get drunk at high altitudes, so try to go easy on the booze.
--
Para-medic: How's your Medical Level coming along?
Para-medic: I'm not jealous or anything like that, but I bet that if you get it over LV 80, one of her...
Para-medic: ...personalities, may join your side.
*This conversation is a hint about how to recruit Elisa/Ursula.
--
Para-medic: Hey, have you ever heard of "Orgy of the Dead?"
Para-medic: It's a movie. You've never seen it?
Para-medic: It's about how this horror writer goes to a graveyard for inspiration and ends up getting sucked into a banquet for dead spirits.
Para-medic: It's basically a series of dead naked women dancing one after another...
Para-medic: What's so scary about it...?
Para-medic: ......
Para-medic: I'd say the scariest thing is the fact that it was made in the first place.