Dr. Gordon Freeman (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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exsilium2012-08-16 07:04 pm
trustycrowbar) wrote in exsilium2012-08-16 07:04 pm
An Orbital Pair
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[Gordon had taken to a pattern. Get up, work out (behind closed doors and hopefully away from any wry observations of Chloe's), head to the Hold, lose himself in the library. With the VR system still buggy they'd more or less halted training for new Transports, so he had a lot of time on his hands. It's easy to find him around the library, and in the anterooms of the Training facility, not to mention on the streets and at the marketplace, hoping against hope that he can find some actual decent COFFEE somewhere.]
[One thing was starting to bother him deeply, however. First of all, every squiggle on the lightboard, every attempt to bend the field equation to his will and figure out just how the Initiative could change the past with the future intact, had resulted in failure. He KNEW the solution had something to do with the fact that Transports were outside Exsilium's frame of reference; they were more than warm bodies, they were a rouge agent in causality, and the Initiative was using that to their advantage.]
[However, the only time his work came close to correct was when he broke symmetry and allowed no way back for the transports once they got there. And he was NOT about to accept the idea that there was no way back. Screw subjective bias! Not even the fucking confines of cosmology itself was going to keep him from finding her again...]
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Hey... A few questions for all of you. I've heard tell that the worlds we come from go into stasis relative to our frame of reference when we get here. Time stops for them, in other words. Can anyone actually verify this? Also I'm looking for someone. Woman about half a head shorter than I am, wears a bandanna, a little on the slender side, has a hacking tool that she uses for everything? She goes by the name of Alyx. Has... has anybody seen her here?
[Gordon had taken to a pattern. Get up, work out (behind closed doors and hopefully away from any wry observations of Chloe's), head to the Hold, lose himself in the library. With the VR system still buggy they'd more or less halted training for new Transports, so he had a lot of time on his hands. It's easy to find him around the library, and in the anterooms of the Training facility, not to mention on the streets and at the marketplace, hoping against hope that he can find some actual decent COFFEE somewhere.]
[One thing was starting to bother him deeply, however. First of all, every squiggle on the lightboard, every attempt to bend the field equation to his will and figure out just how the Initiative could change the past with the future intact, had resulted in failure. He KNEW the solution had something to do with the fact that Transports were outside Exsilium's frame of reference; they were more than warm bodies, they were a rouge agent in causality, and the Initiative was using that to their advantage.]
[However, the only time his work came close to correct was when he broke symmetry and allowed no way back for the transports once they got there. And he was NOT about to accept the idea that there was no way back. Screw subjective bias! Not even the fucking confines of cosmology itself was going to keep him from finding her again...]
[Video]
Hey... A few questions for all of you. I've heard tell that the worlds we come from go into stasis relative to our frame of reference when we get here. Time stops for them, in other words. Can anyone actually verify this? Also I'm looking for someone. Woman about half a head shorter than I am, wears a bandanna, a little on the slender side, has a hacking tool that she uses for everything? She goes by the name of Alyx. Has... has anybody seen her here?
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I, uh, I don't think putting on airs is going to impress anyone...
[That's not what you said for your thesis defense, dude.]
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...Wait. You're really serious about this, aren't you?
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[She's not elaborating on that. Nope. Chloe is too busy thinking of ways to get you the girl, Gordon.]
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...Like I said, this is really unnecessary...
[But?]
But I guess... hell, what do I have to lose?
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I mean, aside from a finger or two. Possibly.
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...I didn't think this would be that vicious of an education.
[Yup, talking about mutilation. He's back in his comfort zone again.]
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I, uh, I think I can take it.
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I'm sure you can, Gordon.