Let’s get started, shall we? Path of Borealis Either way, I’ll go ahead and break down all the revelations of this post, including my personal interpretation of certain things. You can read the original post here, but keep in mind that all characters are gender-swapped and renamed, probably for legal reasons. Valve might very well one day release a new game that overwrites all of this… but this being unlikely, for now, this is the best we’ll get. Now, bear in mind that this is Marc Laidlaw’s “fanfic” for his original plot outline for the third episode, and is in no way official anymore. No idea why all of a sudden this got posted, although it all sounds like an attempt at closure for both the author and fans, nearly ten years after the release of Episode Two.
Yes, this blog post is a thinly-veiled retelling of Marc Laidlaw’s intended plot for Half-Life 2: Episode Three. The post, written as a letter, recounts the mysterious recent events of one Gertrude Fremont, Ph.D., following the death of Elly Vaunt, as Gertie and Alex Vaunt head towards the lost liner Hyperborea and… wait, doesn’t this all sound eerily familiar? Marc Laidlaw, the author behind the Half-Life storyline who left Valve in 2016, released a curious little post on his personal blog earlier today called “Epistle 3”.