OOM:

At the White Forest base of the Resistance, a very long day is coming to its end.

Barney Calhoun has some things he needs to discuss with his friend.
Alyx needs to make sure both Barney and Chell are okay, and in the process hears about something... very strange.
And then, well, a certain HECU Marine finally meets up with the Vances...

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OOM:

Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation

Here we stand and here we fight
All your fallen heroes

[tinytags: Adrian Shephard (Half-Life: Opposing Force), Barney Calhoun (Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2), Chell ( Read more... )

[OOM: The soldiers of the Combine do not know fear.]

[Tinytag: Adrian Shephard (Half-Life: Opposing Force), Chell Johnson (Portal), Barney Calhoun (Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2)]

[Out of Milliways:

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I started out for God knows where
But I guess I'll know when I get there

I'm learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down

Or: The Black Mesa survivor meets the HECU Marine properly for the first time.]

[tinytag: Adrian Shephard ( Read more... )

OOM:

Hello helicopter, are you here to stay?
Bodies rust in motion, fighting night and day
Well it's kill or be killed
And one day we'll get the best of them
Hello helicopter, will you be my friend?
Will you take me away?

[tinytag: Adrian Shephard (Half-Life: Opposing Force), Chell Johnson (Portal), Barney Calhoun (Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half- ( Read more... )

[OOM:

So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold.- John Edward Masefield, The Creed ( Read more... )

[ so I will plod through brimstone and I'll feel some pain
after I've gone beyond on that bullet train. ]

warnings for violence, allusion to torture, and language. possibly spoilers for HL2: Ep2 as well.
[Tiny Tag: Barney Calhoun]

[OOM: Outside of City 17, Barney gets stuck between a rock and a hard place, and ends up somewhere far worse.]

Vague spoilers for HL2:Ep2. Yay making up Millicanon!
[Tiny Tag: Barney Calhoun]

[OOM: And there’s a world that’s out there waiting
And I know that it’s the chance I’m takin']

[Tiny Tag: Barney Calhoun]

The rain broke today. It was all the excuse Gordon needed; he ran to get Alyx and Barney and D0G. Anything that gets them outdoors and mountaineering instead of being stuck indoors with a door that won't open is a good thing ( Read more... )