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* Eli powers up the slide projector. A white image flashes of his room, where he has hung up a white sheet.
TIMELAPSE OPENING [Proposed 6/2/00]
 
  
The basic idea is to convey the passage of time between HL1 and HL2 visually, using our new terrain ans shader effects and the teleport tricks we used in the original Test Chamber Disaster sequence. It should be a direct continuation of the end of HL: You are still in the G-Man's custody and control, still basically suspended outside normal spacetime, which makes it fairly easy to say that 10 years have passed in what for you is the blink of an eye.
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'''ELI:''' Let's see mow...where does this start?
  
FADE IN:
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The following images appear as he speaks:
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* Areal view of Black Mesa
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* Inbound train
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* Test Chamber'
  
EXT. WIDE GREEN MEADOWS
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'''ELI:''' Black Mesa. Lets not dwell on that. Nobody's blaming you. We all have to accept some responsibility...what matters is what we do next. I'll get to that. After the disaster, well...lets just say, the ripples kept spreading.
  
You fade in standing on a slight rise in the midst of beautiful rolling hills. The grass is green; at your feet is a small flowing brook; the hills are crowned with occasional willow. The sky is blue and fresh; birds are singing in the trees. In the distance, on the horizon, is a modern city. It's an idyllic scene.  You can almost smell the fresh air. We show our terrain in all its splendor.
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The next few scenes have the feel of Norman Rockwell in hell:
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* Headcrabs leaping onto shoppers from supermarket shelves.
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* Bullsquids chasing a family from a suburban house; pack of houndeyes roaming down Elm Street
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* Gargantua overturning a tractor as a farmer flees across a Nebraska field
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* Ichthyosaur materializing in a public pool, right under a nose-pinching kid who just jumped off the high-dive
  
The G-MAN appears just behind you-or perhaps he has been standing there all along. You are still contained in his sphere of influence, meaning that you can turn and move in any direction, but only for a very short distance.  You cannot leave the crown of the hill.
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'''ELI:''' The countryside, the suburbs all those hard-to-patrol places, got pretty much uninhabitable. People started crowding into cities for protection.
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* People clustered at a cyclone fence topped with razor wire, city skyline rising behind; cops stand tensely on guard towers, blasting away at headcrab zombies outside the perimeter.
  
                                                G-MAN
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'''ELI:''' There was an illusion of safety, for a time. And then the Citadels appeared. It happened in a split second, all over the world. A chunk would disappear from the center of a city., to be replaced an instant later by one of these headquarters for the Combine. Invasion Central.
                          Hello again, Mr. Freeman. Sorry to keep you waiting. Not
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* City-center completely cored, buildings sheared off, an enormous pit appearing out of nowhere, and people falling into it.
                          that the passage of time has had any meaning for you, but
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* The same view, with a Citadel now towering at the center of all
                          elsewhere it's a different story. I've been wondering how
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MISSING PAGE(S?)
                          to explain what the world has become in your absence. I
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'''ELI:''' Say hello to your new masters.
                          decided simply to show you.
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* Creamators, striders, Combine machines pouring out of the Citadel into the city. Combine dropships tearing through the air.
 
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'''ELI:''' Oh, we resisted.
There is an odd quickening, a sense of metamorphosis in the environment. The sky begins to darken ominously. The vivid green color begins to leach from the grass and leaves. The bird song is fading. The sound of wind begins to sweep up. The running water in the creek sinks into its bed.
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* Tanks, soldiers, human army advancing on the Citadel
                                                G-MAN
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* The same troops reuced to ashes, completely obliterated.
                          Don't blink or you will miss it. Sometimes everything can
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'''ELI:''' Earth put up a fight that lasted all of seven hours.
                          change overnight.
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* A smoldering Pentagon-shaped pile of ashes
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'''ELI:''' And then, one man who had seized about all the power a man can seize in a crisis, used that power to arrange our surrender.
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* The Consul, at the foot of the Radio Tower, wearing a headset, hands raised high to the dropships as he proclaims Earth's surrender
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'''ELI:''' The call him the Consul now. It worked out fine for him., He speaks for the Combine; he shares in their power. As for the rest of us....
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* Views of City 17, citizens slouching
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* Air Exchange belching black fumes
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* Drained seabed with beached ships, whale bones
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'''ELI:''' Well you've seen the state of things. They're replacing the air with something we can hardly breathe. They're draining the ocean. We don't know if they're preparing the planet for new residents, or just stripping it of every possible resource. All we do know is that we have to stop them. And that's where you come in Mr.Freeman. It's up to you to....
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* The projector goes dark.

Revision as of 02:59, 14 October 2020

  • Eli powers up the slide projector. A white image flashes of his room, where he has hung up a white sheet.

ELI: Let's see mow...where does this start?

The following images appear as he speaks:

  • Areal view of Black Mesa
  • Inbound train
  • Test Chamber'

ELI: Black Mesa. Lets not dwell on that. Nobody's blaming you. We all have to accept some responsibility...what matters is what we do next. I'll get to that. After the disaster, well...lets just say, the ripples kept spreading.

The next few scenes have the feel of Norman Rockwell in hell:

  • Headcrabs leaping onto shoppers from supermarket shelves.
  • Bullsquids chasing a family from a suburban house; pack of houndeyes roaming down Elm Street
  • Gargantua overturning a tractor as a farmer flees across a Nebraska field
  • Ichthyosaur materializing in a public pool, right under a nose-pinching kid who just jumped off the high-dive

ELI: The countryside, the suburbs all those hard-to-patrol places, got pretty much uninhabitable. People started crowding into cities for protection.

  • People clustered at a cyclone fence topped with razor wire, city skyline rising behind; cops stand tensely on guard towers, blasting away at headcrab zombies outside the perimeter.

ELI: There was an illusion of safety, for a time. And then the Citadels appeared. It happened in a split second, all over the world. A chunk would disappear from the center of a city., to be replaced an instant later by one of these headquarters for the Combine. Invasion Central.

  • City-center completely cored, buildings sheared off, an enormous pit appearing out of nowhere, and people falling into it.
  • The same view, with a Citadel now towering at the center of all

MISSING PAGE(S?) ELI: Say hello to your new masters.

  • Creamators, striders, Combine machines pouring out of the Citadel into the city. Combine dropships tearing through the air.

ELI: Oh, we resisted.

  • Tanks, soldiers, human army advancing on the Citadel
  • The same troops reuced to ashes, completely obliterated.

ELI: Earth put up a fight that lasted all of seven hours.

  • A smoldering Pentagon-shaped pile of ashes

ELI: And then, one man who had seized about all the power a man can seize in a crisis, used that power to arrange our surrender.

  • The Consul, at the foot of the Radio Tower, wearing a headset, hands raised high to the dropships as he proclaims Earth's surrender

ELI: The call him the Consul now. It worked out fine for him., He speaks for the Combine; he shares in their power. As for the rest of us....

  • Views of City 17, citizens slouching
  • Air Exchange belching black fumes
  • Drained seabed with beached ships, whale bones

ELI: Well you've seen the state of things. They're replacing the air with something we can hardly breathe. They're draining the ocean. We don't know if they're preparing the planet for new residents, or just stripping it of every possible resource. All we do know is that we have to stop them. And that's where you come in Mr.Freeman. It's up to you to....

  • The projector goes dark.