Call
Call verb - To speak so as to be heard at a distance.
Task
Task verb - To give a task, duty, or responsibility to.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- The task of divining the true identity of these items is the purpose of another item, a special skill, or an NPC specializing in identification/appraisal/whatever-you-call-it.
Source: Unknown Item Identification - Aizawa then gets a call from Near, who (while in so much pain he can barely speak) warns him that Kira has killed everyone in the SPK and is forcing him to call and tell the task force that he is coming for them next, before dying while still on the line.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Fanfiction -
Similar to the Operation Highjump conspiracy theory (see below), in Call of Duty: Black Ops a Russian special task force is assembled to take out the last vestiges of the Nazi regime in a secret polar base developing Nova 6 about a month after WW2 officially ended.
Source: Mysterious Antarctica
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