원문
Dearest Player,
I hope this letter finds you well. I can hear your complaint already, "Gordon Freeman, we have not heard from you in ages!" Well, if you care to hear excuses, I have plenty, the greatest of them being I've been in other dimensions and whatnot, unable to reach you by the usual means. This was the case until eighteen months ago, when I experienced a critical change in my circumstances, and was redeposited on these shores. In the time since, I have been able to think occasionally about how best to describe the intervening years, my years of silence. I do first apologize for the wait, and that done, hasten to finally explain (albeit briefly, quickly, and in very little detail) events following those described in my previous letter (referred to herewith as Episode 2).
To begin with, as you may recall from the closing paragraphs of my previous missive, the death of Eli Vance shook us all. The Research & Rebellion team was traumatized, unable to be sure how much of our plan might be compromised, and whether it made any sense to go on at all as we had intended. And yet, once Eli had been buried, we found the strength and courage to regroup. It was the strong belief of his brave daughter, the feisty Alyx Vance, that we should continue on as her father had wished. We had the Arctic coordinates, transmitted by Eli's long-time assistant, Dr. Judith Mossman, which we believed to mark the location of the lost research vessel Borealis. Eli had felt strongly that the Borealis should be destroyed rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the Combine. Others on our team disagreed, believing that the Borealis might hold the secret to the revolution's success. Either way, the arguments were moot until we found the vessel. Therefore, immediately after the service for Dr. Vance, Alyx and I boarded a helicopter and set off for the Arctic; a much larger support team, mainly militia, was to follow by separate transport.
It is still unclear to me exactly what brought down our little aircraft. The following hours spent traversing the frigid waste in a blizzard are also a jumbled blur, ill-remembered and poorly defined. The next thing I clearly recall is our final approach to the coordinates Dr. Mossman has provided, and where we expected to find the Borealis. What we found instead was a complex fortified installation, showing all the hallmarks of sinister Combine technology. It surrounded a large open field of ice. Of the Hypnos itself there was no sign…or not at first. But as we stealthily infiltrated the Combine installation, we noticed a recurent, strangely coherent auroral effect?as of a vast hologram fading in and out of view. This bizarre phenomenon initially seemed an effect caused by an immense Combine lensing system, Alyx and I soon realized that what we were actually seeing was the research vessel Borealis itself, phasing in and out of existence at the focus of the Combine devices. The aliens had erected their compound to study and seize the ship whenever it materialized. What Dr. Mossman had provided were not coordinates for where the sub was located, but instead for where it was predicted to arrive. The vessel was oscillating in and out of our reality, its pulses were gradually steadying, but there was no guarantee it would settle into place for long?or at all. We determined that we must put ourselves into position to board it at the instant it became completely physical.
At this point we were briefly detained?not captured by the Combine, as we feared at first, but by minions of our former nemesis, the conniving and duplicitous Wallace Breen. Dr. Breen was not as we had last seen him?which is to say, he was not dead. At some point, the Combine had saved out an earlier version of his consciousness, and upon his physical demise, they had imprinted the back-up personality into a biological blank resembling an enormous slug. The BreenGrub, despite occupying a position of relative power in the Combine hierarchy, seemed nervous and frightened of me in particular. Wallace did not know how his previous incarnation, the original Dr. Breen, had died. He knew only that I was responsible. Therefore the slug treated us with great caution. Still, he soon confessed (never able to keep quiet for long) that he was himself a prisoner of the Combine. He took no pleasure from his current grotesque existence, and pleaded with us to end his life. Alyx believed that a quick death was more than Wallace Breen deserved, but for my part, I felt a modicum of pity and compassion. Out of Alyx's sight, I might have done something to hasten the slug's demise before we proceeded.
Not far from where we had been detained by Dr. Breen, we found Judith Mossman being held in a Combine interrogation cell. Things were tense between Judith and Alyx, as might be imagined. Alyx blamed Judith for her father's death…news of which, Judith was devastated to hear for the first time. Judith tried to convince Alyx that she had been a double agent serving the resistance all along, doing only what Eli had asked of her, even though she knew it meant she risked being seen by her peers?by all of us?as a traitor. I was convinced; Alyx less so. But from a pragmatic point of view, we depended on Dr. Mossman; for along with the Borealis coordinates, she possessed resonance keys which would be necessary to bring the vessel fully into our plane of existence.
We skirmished with Combine soldiers protecting a Combine research post, then Dr. Mossman attuned the Borealis to precisely the frequencies needed to bring it into (brief) coherence. In the short time available to us, we scrambled aboard the ship, with an unknown number of Combine agents close behind. The ship cohered for only a short time, and then its oscillations resume. It was too late for our own military support, which arrived and joined the Combine forces in battle just as we rebounded between universes, once again unmoored.
What happened next is even harder to explain. Alyx Vance, Dr. Mossman and myself sought control of the ship?its power source, its control room, its navigation center. The ships's history proved nonlinear. Years before, during the Combine invasion, various members of an earlier science team, working in the hull of a dry-docked vessel situated at the Aperture Science Research Facility in Michigan, had assembled what they called the Bootstrap Device. If it worked as intended, it would emit a field large enough to surround the ship. This field would then itself travel instantaneously to any chosen destination without having. to cover the intervening space. There was no need for entry or exit portals, or any other devices; it was entirely self-contained. Unfortunately, the device had never been tested. As the Combine pushed Earth into the Seven Hour War, the aliens seized control of our most important research facilities. The staff of the Borealis, with no other wish than to keep the ship out of Combine hands, acted in desperation. The switched on the field and flung the Borealis toward the most distant destination they could target: Arctica. What they did not realize was that the Bootstrap Device travelled in time as well as space. Nor was it limited to one time or one location. The Borealis, and the moment of its activation, were stretched across space and time, between the nearly forgotten Lake Huron of the Seven Hour War and the present day Arctic; it was pulled taut as an elastic band, vibrating, except where at certain points along its length one could find still points, like the harmonic spots along a vibrating guitar string. One of these harmonics was where we boarded, but the string ran forward and back, in both time and space, and we were soon pulled in every direction ourselves.
Time grew confused. Looking from the bridge, we could see the drydocks of Aperture Science at the moment of teleportation, just as the Combine forces closed in from land, sea and air. At the same time, we could see the Arctic wastelands, where our friends were fighting to make their way to the protean Borealis; and in addition, glimpses of other worlds, somewhere in the future perhaps, or even in the past. Alyx grew convinced we were seeing one of the Combine's central staging areas for invading other worlds?such as our own. We meanwhile fought a running battle throughout the ship, pursued by Combine forces. We struggled to understand our stiuation, and to agree on our course of action. Could we alter the course of the Borealis? Should we run it aground in the Arctic, giving our peers the chance to study it? Should we destroy it with all hands aboard, our own included? It was impossible to hold a coherent thought, given the baffling and paradoxical timeloops, which passed through the ship like bubbles. I felt I was going mad, that we all were, confronting myriad versions of ourselves, in that ship that was half ghost-ship, half nightmare funhouse.
What it came down to, at last, was a choice. Judith Mossman argued, reasonably, that we should save the Borealis and deliver it to the resistance, that our intelligent peers might study and harness its power. But Alyx reminded me had sworn she would honor she father's demand that we destroy the ship. She hatched a plan to set the Borealis to self-destruct, while riding it into the heart of the Combine's invasion nexus. Judith and Alyx argued. Judith overpowered Alyx and brought the Borealis area, preparing to shut off the Bootstrap Device and settle the ship on the ice. Then I heard a shot, and Judith fell. Alyx had decided for all of us, or her weapon had. With Dr. Mossman dead, we were committed to the suicide plunge. Grimly, Alyx and I armed the Borealis, creating a time-travelling missile, and steered it for the heart of the Combine's command center.
At this point, as you will no doubt be unsurprised to hear, a Certain Sinister Figure appeared, in the form of that sneering trickster, G-Man. For once he appeared not to me, but to Alyx Vance. Alyx had not seen the cryptical schoolmarm since childhood, but she recognized hi, instantly. "Come along with me now, we've places to be and things to do," said G-Man, and Alyx acquiesced. She followed the strange grey man out of the Borealis, out of our reality. For me, there was no convenient door held open; only a snicker and a sideways glance. I was left alone, riding the weaponized research vessel into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The vastness of the Combine's power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart. And what remained of me would be even less than that.
Just then, as you have surely already foreseen, the Vortigaunts parted their own checkered curtains of reality, reached in as they have on prior occasions, plucked me out, and set me aside. I barely got to see the fireworks begin.
And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists. I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it. Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode.
Yours in infinite finality,
Gordon Freeman, Ph.D.
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진짜입니다.
농담하는 거 아닙니다. 링크 확인하세요. 당장.
원작가 마크 레이드로우가 올린 '공식' 에피소드 3 스토리였습니다.
끝!
P.S: 치명적인 오역 수정. 이 어쭙잖은 영알못을 용서해주세요!
(IP보기클릭)110.11.***.***
하프라이프가 이렇게 허무하게 끝나는 건 아무도 안 바랬다고..
(IP보기클릭)110.11.***.***
와 이게 진짜 사실이면 게이브 뉴웰 개1새끼야 내 동심 내 추억 다 내놔
(IP보기클릭)211.248.***.***
???
(IP보기클릭)125.129.***.***
걔들은 아직 블랙메사도 완성을 못 했는데 저것까지 만들면 2040년쯤에나 볼 수 있을듯
(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
아뇨. 수평구조상 그 누구도 이 IP의 최신작을 감당할 배짱이 없었기 때문입니다. 세명만 있으면 뭐든지 만든다고 공언한 주제에.
(IP보기클릭)175.197.***.***
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안나오기로 완전 결정했으니까요? | 17.08.25 15:30 | | |
(IP보기클릭)118.33.***.***
안그래도 저 글 올린 스토리 작가가 소송피하려고 일부러 고유명사같은거 다 이상한 단어로 바꿔버렸습니다 예) Episode 3 - Epistle 3 , Gordon - Gertrude | 17.08.25 22:18 | | |
(IP보기클릭)106.249.***.***
(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
블랙 메사 소스 만든 CC한테 부탁하고 싶다...제발...ㅠ | 17.08.25 15:25 | | |
(IP보기클릭)125.129.***.***
Zeroniz
걔들은 아직 블랙메사도 완성을 못 했는데 저것까지 만들면 2040년쯤에나 볼 수 있을듯 | 17.08.25 15:50 | | |
(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
뒈짓한 밸브 보단 낫잖아...히잉. | 17.08.25 15:54 | | |
(IP보기클릭)183.98.***.***
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안나올거니까 공개한거 아닐런지요 | 17.08.25 17:07 | | |
(IP보기클릭)59.8.***.***
하프라이프2에피소드3에서 하프라이프3로 변경되서 시나리오 다시 짠거라 에피소드3 공개한거라고 행복회로 돌려야하나
(IP보기클릭)110.11.***.***
와 이게 진짜 사실이면 게이브 뉴웰 개1새끼야 내 동심 내 추억 다 내놔
(IP보기클릭)110.11.***.***
엄살쟁이 오공
하프라이프가 이렇게 허무하게 끝나는 건 아무도 안 바랬다고.. | 17.08.25 15:26 | | |
삭제된 댓글입니다.
(IP보기클릭)119.207.***.***
타카모리 아이코
밸브 개색히들아~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 17.08.25 15:36 | | |
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(IP보기클릭)119.64.***.***
일단 저게 하프라이프2 에피소드2 나올 당시 구상해뒀던 스토리라는건가? | 17.08.25 15:31 | | |
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데미
사실 에피소드4도 있었... | 17.08.25 15:31 | | |
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(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ | 17.08.25 15:35 | | |
(IP보기클릭)183.103.***.***
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(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
우리 그냥 베데스다의 이드나 머신게임즈에게 팔자. 개쩔게 내줄 거다. | 17.08.25 15:45 | | |
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잠시만요 | 17.08.25 15:46 | | |
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(IP보기클릭)124.59.***.***
블루 쉬프트랑 어포징 포스는 밸브 공식이 아닌 기어박스 소프트웨어 에서 만든거라 "공식"인지 아닌지는 확인 안됨 | 17.08.25 16:06 | | |
(IP보기클릭)182.215.***.***
걔네는 유저들이 제작하는 모드로 만족해야할듯 | 17.08.25 17:25 | | |
(IP보기클릭)175.121.***.***
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(IP보기클릭)122.46.***.***
그거 리턴 투 레이븐홈 인걸로 알고 있는데 17번 지구를 탈출 했는데 대체 왜 레이븐 홈 으로 다시 돌아가냐 면서 취소된지 오래된 작품입니다. | 17.08.26 10:47 | | |
(IP보기클릭)223.62.***.***
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(IP보기클릭)119.207.***.***
스펀지밥
저도 제 인생게임 남바완인데.. 시공간씬을 상상으로 메꿔야하다니.. | 17.08.25 16:03 | | |
(IP보기클릭)58.121.***.***
스펀지밥
시공간 전투씬 진짜 존1나게 쩔었을꺼 같은데 ㅠㅠㅠ 게이브 씨1발 | 17.08.25 17:25 | | |
(IP보기클릭)211.210.***.***
(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
아뇨. 수평구조상 그 누구도 이 IP의 최신작을 감당할 배짱이 없었기 때문입니다. 세명만 있으면 뭐든지 만든다고 공언한 주제에. | 17.08.25 16:10 | | |
(IP보기클릭)76.89.***.***
수평구조인 만큼 누군가 책임감을 짊어지고 만들기 그랬나보네여 | 17.08.25 17:43 | | |
(IP보기클릭)110.70.***.***
사내정치 보다는 수평적 기업 문화 덕에 개발자들이 프로젝트를 시작할 엄두도 못낸다고 보시는게 맞을겁니다. 다른 회사처럼 위에서 시켜서 만드는 것이 아니라, 개발자들 끼리 프로젝트를 제안하고 서로 참여하는 구조거든요. 사내고발? 비슷한 벨브 직원의 푸념에 따르면, 지난 10년간 하프라이프3 라고 이름붙여진 프로젝트는 십수개가 있었고, 하나같이 흐지부지 되었다고 합디다. 가장 큰 원인은 너무나도 유명한 게임이라 다들 하프라이프3에 대한 생각이 달랐다는 점이라고 하더군요. 누군가는 심지어 전략시뮬로 계획하기도 했었다고 합니다. 지금와선 누구도 감히 자기 커리어 망칠 가능성이 매우 높은 하프3에 도전하려 들질 않고, 도타나 카스 글옵 프로젝트에 참여하며 몸을 사린다고 합니다. | 17.08.26 07:05 | | |
(IP보기클릭)119.197.***.***
안드로메다같은 사태 날까 두렵긴하겠네요. | 17.08.27 11:19 | | |
(IP보기클릭)116.44.***.***
결국 커리어 망칠까봐 겁나서 손대지도 못한 멍청한 겁쟁이들의 책임회피질의 반복되는 연속때문에 병1신같은 결과로 남아버렸네요. | 18.03.01 23:42 | | |
(IP보기클릭)124.59.***.***
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중간에 허술한 부분 플롯 여러개 좀 끼워놓고 쭈---욱 늘리면 진짜 클라이막스가 됐을듯. | 17.08.25 16:10 | | |
(IP보기클릭)59.17.***.***
연출이 들어가면 또 괜찮아지는게 트리트먼트라... 원래 트리트먼트란게 이렇게 간단히 적혀 있기 때문에 그렇게 느껴지실 수 있습니당 | 17.08.25 18:01 | | |
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???
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Entic
그럼 에피3가 끝이 아니란 말인가.. | 17.08.25 17:35 | | |
(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
Entic
오역 수정했습니다. | 17.08.25 17:51 | | |
(IP보기클릭)49.142.***.***
Zeroniz
12번도 고쳐야할듯 | 17.08.25 18:00 | | |
(IP보기클릭)1.211.***.***
루리웹-2946677009
역시 수정했습니다. | 17.08.25 19:07 | | |
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메인 시나리오작가가 벨브사 관두면서 시나리오풀었습니다 | 17.08.26 00:00 | | |
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오역 수정했습니다. | 17.08.25 19:09 | | |
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(IP보기클릭)36.39.***.***
(IP보기클릭)36.39.***.***
게이브 이 밀어먹을 돼지놈... | 17.08.26 00:19 | | |
(IP보기클릭)58.227.***.***
자본주의의 돼지...잊지 않겠다...ㅆㅃ!!!!!!!! | 17.08.26 00:31 | | |
(IP보기클릭)121.164.***.***
(IP보기클릭)183.102.***.***
(IP보기클릭)223.62.***.***
(IP보기클릭)110.70.***.***
(IP보기클릭)110.10.***.***
(IP보기클릭)1.243.***.***
(IP보기클릭)1.243.***.***
And if you see Mr. G-A-B-E-N, tell him I said, FUCK YOU! | 17.08.26 13:26 | | |
(IP보기클릭)125.129.***.***
(IP보기클릭)218.233.***.***