Call for
Call for verb - Require as useful, just, or proper.
Usage example: This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
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If you try to leave the brothel the way you came, the brothel madam will call for help and the Triads open fire, so you need an alternate route.
Source: Video Game / Hitman: Contracts -
But you are given a special Moogle's Flute item to call for them, if you need your game saved in the Overworld.
Source: Video Game / Final Fantasy IX - Super Dimension Fortress Macross: "We may need to call for reinforcements" - Britai, said after the first use of the Daedalus Attack.
Source: Dramatic Deadpan
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