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No wonder I couldn't find it, the name was different than I remembered.
And I don't remember that restriction on previous employment being there...

Forensic
The first time I saw an extraterrestrial anomaly was when I was sitting in my living room, debating with a friend who had come over to visit (ironically, over the existence of UFOs--I was skeptical). A man knocked on the door, and I answered it. It seemed odd for a Jehovah's Witness or whatever to be showing up at this hour, but what was I to judge?
The rest of the evening gets increasingly fuzzy. I invited the stranger in, we had supper, and after some drinks got into a fight. My old friend was knocked out after one blow, but I managed to hit the stranger in the chest with something. Suddenly, my memory clears. I don't think I'm going to forget the next bit.
My friend's head was cracked open. He sure looked dead, and the coroner later agreed. The stranger didn't look human anymore; it seemed more like some kind of...buggy reverse anemone thingy. It was unconscious as well, I must have hit it pretty hard with what turned out to be a dirty frying pan. Naturally, I called 911. Surprisingly, these guys showed up...And you know the rest.

Sorry for the delay.

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Follow the nearest R/IR only path to the objective.

"Smarta! Fined 30c for vandalism of Friend Computer's property!"

"Do you have any proof!? If not, I'm afraid I'm going to have to fine YOU 50c for accusation without basis!"

"I just watched you do it. Furthermore, Phil was recording at the time. It is my duty as Loyalty Officer to observe and report or punish all traitorous activities, no matter how great or small. Additionally, you have no authority to issue fines in this matter, as it is not under your aegis as Equipment Officer."

"...I don't have a rebuttal for that!
Fine, you win. I'll wire you the credits after the mission. When you've probably forgotten..."

"Loyalty Officer, do I correctly hear that you are attempting to take money from this loyal citizen when fines rightfully go to The Computer? Shame! That is theft of Alpha Complex property, which is treason!"

Off-topic: Pardon me, but dear God GWG, can you please post your turn on This World of Ours? Please?

If I could find it...wait, there's a search function!
This forum REALLY needs a facepalming smiley.

"Thanks. I'm headed to the Divine Spire after I finish saving these Soultaken and such. I hope we can come in contact soon enough."

Isn't he made of rock?

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Future seems plausible looking at the wheat field and its probably the combine ruling the world since both games mention each other.

But do the Combine have the proper copyright laws to prevent me copyrighting sunglasses?

Do they even have copyright?

Of course they do, that's why Gordon Freeman couldn't just pick up any Combine's weapons. They have them copyrighted.

Copyright would prevent Freeman from copying the weapons, not using ones taken otherwise.

They have a clause in their copyright that prevents the distribution of their weapons upon death.

...I'm pretty sure copyright doesn't work like that, and if it did how could they enforce it?

Alien technology.
Have you ever wondered why corpses disappear? Alien science is responsible. Those corpses have postmortem nondistribution licenses.

That's silly. The corpses disappear for performance reasons.

By the way, there's also the theory that Chell actually DID die right before Cara Mia Addio. One of the more popular visualizations of entering heaven is a wheat field. So it could mean that the turrets killed her, and her spirit finally exited aperture, entering heaven, taking the form of the Wheat Field.
Or something like that.

Which means there's no way to tell if the whole world or just Aperture is devoid of human life. Which means that, given the lack of evidence for a catastrophe, humanity's probably OK.
What kind of heaven is that, though?

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By the way, there's also the theory that Chell actually DID die right before Cara Mia Addio. One of the more popular visualizations of entering heaven is a wheat field. So it could mean that the turrets killed her, and her spirit finally exited aperture, entering heaven, taking the form of the Wheat Field.

Or something like that.

It could be a pun.
Wheatley.

Wouldn't that make it more of a Hell?

Ooh, Mastermind!

But first: Check the footlocker.

Oh, I know, but I'm not going to survive to a trial considering I have:
Thaneos
Udil
Vanida
Overgod's gold Collossi
All trying to kill me at once.
I'm flatterned.

FTFY.
Seriously, though. You're not doomed at all. Hide in the world's core, it'll be too much trouble to get at you. You have Corvus and I, and presumably Shuwhat'sgman'scharacter'snameagain. Just contact the two Ascendants IC and give us a reason, and we'll see what we can do. Nelkathar shouldn't be hard to convince, he hates Udil. And, if we can do this, I might even inform you of my plan...

But before this alliance goes out of control, make it IC.