Urby's HL2 text RPG Created 15 years ago2009-06-23 17:50:26 UTC by monster_urby

Hey guys.

So, I've got myself in the mood to write a multiple choice fan fiction again. However this time I have decided to make the readers more involved by posting shorter sections, more regularly with more choices available.

For those of you not familiar with the Multiple Choice fan fictions, I used to write entire chapters before giving the readers the chance to choose between a few options on how to continue the story. This was decided by the number of votes per option. I always started out by saying "Anything could happen including the death of the main character."

This was often untrue because the choices often involved simple directions and objectives as opposed to be actual action choices. So this time, its more of a role-playing story. First step, choose a character.

A)
Name: Allan McReary
Age: 23
Role: At the start of the story timeline (2 weeks prior to Freeman's arrival) Allan is a new arrival in City 17. He has no idea who Gordon, Kliener, Alyx or Barney are. He is currently accepting the combine rule over the planet and as yet is simply letting life pass him by while trying to keep his nose clean.

This character is essentially a blank canvas and can take any path, whether it to be a solitary existance, joining the resistance or even the Civil Protection.

B)
Name: Dave Glenn
Age: 27
Role: At the start of the story timeline (2 weeks prior to Freeman's arrival) Dave Glenn is a rebel leader, in charge of a pocket of resistance fighters, about to lead an assault on a combine barricade.

This character will remain true to a resistance role, fighting against the combine until he is killed or captured and surgically dehumanised.

C)
Name: Officer V Paramanov
Age: 32
Role: At the start of the story timeline (2 weeks prior to Freeman's arrival) Vass is a high ranking metrocop sniper who is tasked with eliminating key resistance targets throughout the canal district.

This character will remain true to a combine role, fighting against the resistance forces in City 17 and the surrounding areas. This will last until he is killed or turns against his superiors.

Simply vote A, B or C to choose a character. The character with the most votes by tomorrow night will be the main character throughout the story. The story will be told in the first person so decisions will be actions that the character can take given their situation. They WILL DIE by making bad decisions.

I guess A, although C could go into a complex storyline full of doubts about the combine... :/
I vote A, final answer though.

The story is first person. Death of the main means game over.

Choice A

C

C sounds interesting, we hear too much about the rebellion and the resistance fighters, lets hear it from the Combine POV.

Go A.

si

A is the best choice

C

A

I vote A.

I don't believe C can really work because combine soldiers aren't supposed to be able to think for themselves... According to Valve anyway. They aren't just guys who signed up for the job, after all.

According to Valve

Valve isn't writing this.

I think I'll vote A though.

EDIT:

They WILL DIE by making bad decisions.

Is that bad decisions or unlucky decisions?

Either.

Also...

Vass Paramanov (Option C) is a metrocop, not a combine soldier.

Civil Protection officers are ordinary human beings who have willingly joined the Combine, either for more privileges, such as additional food and better living conditions, an increase in authority and status over others, or out of genuine sympathy and identification with the Combine's aims. As such, they are not bio-mechanically modified in any way. Their willing collaboration with the Combine occupation as well as their cruelty and disregard for the lives and dignity of ordinary citizens has made them much hated amongst the human populace.

No matter, the masses have spoken.

A)8
B)0
C)4

Allan's Story
Day 1
Welcome to City 17

The wooden doors creak open and the eastern winds send dust and debris in your direction, the cold blast of air almost knocks you off your feet. The citadel sits dead ahead of you, towering over the entire city, ever watchful. It looks a lot bigger close up. You steady yourself on your feet and rub your black eye, an unwanted and undeserved gift from a CP having a bad morning. You gradually make your way down the steps and into the plaza. The monolithic structure in the middle has been transformed into a propaganda tower. Fortunatly, it appears to be offline at the moment. After being swatted in the face for no good reason the last thing you need right now is more of Breen's euphoria bullshit.

A metrocop is standing guard a few feet away. He glances over at a female citizen who passes infront of you. You keep your head down and make your way to one of the benches across the street. As you ease down onto it, your headache seems to get worse. You look back to the female citizen just in time to spot her exchange a few words with another citizen passing in the opposite direction. This seems to be the break the paranoid metrocop has been waiting for all morning. He almost joyfully whips out his stun stick and runs towards the citizens. The male jolts on the spot and pushes the woman past him.

"Run!" he shouts, and readys himself to take on the cop. He's no match. The woman vanishes into an alleyway down the street without looking back, just as the stunstick connects with the man's head with an audible crack. He crumples to the floor and the metrocop begins to kick him over and over.

A)Do nothing and walk away?
B)Run over and break it up?
C)Shout abuse at the metrocop?
D)Shout abuse at the troublemaker?

I would personally pick A

But I would like to pick C

A

Vass Paramanov (Option C) is a metrocop, not a combine soldier.

They're different in this context?

(A)

They're different in this context?

Uhm...

MetrocopCombine SoldierYou're being very silly...

B. Just so there's some variety in these answers.

I would like to say I'd do B, but alas,

I choose A.

Ohh lets do B!

B. After all, he just has a stunstick.

D. It's what I would do.

A. After a black eye and watching this guy get the shit beat out of him, I'd like to keep it low-profile.

When this is done, you should post it on a HL2 Fanfiction site!

B. Don't lets be pussies just because the possibility of death does exist. Help that man!

B. Don't lets be pussies just because the possibility of death does exist. Help that man!

Stunsticks can't kill you with one hit.
Unless you're an npc_citizen in gmod...

D

Also, lolz, Strider.

For all that picked D
"You faggot!" I screamed at the citizen as he was brutally murdered by the metrocop.
"Trying to help a woman survive in a post-apolictic world! You deserve to die!"

Stunsticks can't kill you with one hit.

How do you know that the only reaction will be a stunstick hit? Cops are armed with manhacks and pistols, you know

Huntey, what would he do? Hold the manhack into the guy's face? shoot him and get blood flying onto his shiny helmet? If the CPs did'nt kill freeman for hitting them in the face with a phone reciver, why kill some random guy for protecting a woman? You'd have to be a cold bastard to do that.

You're being very silly...

Sorry, I just mean, I thought they were the same under all that armor... just mechanized blobs of what was once human.

I think civil protection only have stunsticks....
Other than that.. the others have the pistols and hacks.

No, in the sewer levels the CP's chase you with Pistols and 'hacks.
Combine soldiers don't PERSONALLY have hacks I believe, on the CP's, and you don't encounter the soldiers until I THINK the canals... I may be wrong though. It's been awhile.

Cops also use SMG1s in HL2, but presumably that is a special deployment and not part of their standard kit.

Regardless, our character should beat the crap outta that combine asshole!

...And one might be Barney.

Why wasn't Barney in Episode 2?

Because he's DEAD!
EDIT: So, when's the next chapter being released?

Winner is...B!

Working now.

Without a second thought you jump into action. You charge at the metrocop while his back is turned. Your vision begins to blur with rage as you feel yourself running faster and faster. Suddenly, as you are almost within reach of the cop, a humming stunstick whips out towards you from your left side. Your head goes numb as the burning metal baton cracks across the front of your throat and you collapse in a heap. Clutching your pummeled larynx, you agonizingly roll onto your back to let out a scream, but all that comes out is a quite gurgle and a lot of blood. The second cop leans down beside you, his mask a few feet from your face.

"What are you planning to do? Start an uprising in the middle of the city all by yourself?" he snorts, his voice alienated by the vocoder in his mask. Just then his radio kicks in, the overwatch announcers unfeeling tone all too familiar.

"SUSPECTS DOWN IN SECTOR 3:14 RESPONCE CODE GREEN. REPORT. EXECUTE PUNISHMENT PROCEDURE 1279."

"Hah. Looks like your going to the lockup big man." one of the CP's laughs as you are hauled to your feet.

"What about this one?" the other asked, pointing to the beaten citizen on the ground.

"Leave him."

You feel yourself being dragged forwards. You raise your head slightly, blood still dripping from your mouth. At the end of the street you make out a barricade with an APC parked nearby. You briefly check the two cops and see that they are both carrying stunsticks and pistols.

A)Grab a pistol and fight your way to freedom
B)Struggle free and make a run for it
C)Let them load you into the APC and see where they're taking you
D)Struggle free and fight them barehanded

A
You've already pushed yourself this far... why chill in prison?

All of these options sound like unwise ones to me.
The problem is that they are indeed his only options.

If there is a definate chance of actually being able to aquire the pistol,
A. Grab it from one, shoot the other, shoot the one you grabbed it from.

D

This guy is already screwed anyway, trying to be a hero. What an idiot!

Might as well go A. If it's short, it will have at least been sweet.
If he survives, he'll probably gain attention from the rebels.

C. It worked well enough when the grunts got Gordon.

i would actually think B is wiser as killing a Metrocop will alert Overwatch and you will have them crawling all over you in minutes...but its likely only those two will chase you if you do a runner

C