Open The Box, Mr. Freeman...

HLVRAI AU Askblog ~ Run by @cyber-kingdom and @free-freeman ~ Header and profile pic by @izzy-draws19 ~ Mr Gordon Freeman Found A Box On His Doorstep One Day, After Things Had Begun Settling Back Down From The Events At Black Mesa. What Could It Contain...?

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There's a humming buzz in the air.

The sound of someone rolling over, growling in pain.

Where... am I....?

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//Mod Cyber here!! I know y'all haven't heard from this blog in a while, and I'm sorry. However, I have here for you, the first of two blogs that I will be starting up on my own, that play off concepts from this blog. I hope that I can provide you all with an entertaining and full story, with a well-deserved and proper ending.//

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I know this is like... way late considering the fact the last ask was practically half a year ago but will the fic's link be posted here when it's done {assuming it isn't already}? I love this story so far so I want to know how it ends!

unfortunately, we have lost interest in this blog. i'm half tempted to tell you guys how it ends in a shorter post to explain everything, but i'm not sure how the others would react. what we have of the fic will likely be included in that post, and then the ideas we had will come after it.

i very much apologize for the radio silence, i know waiting for something must've been stressful, but i promise we'll find some way to finish this off!

-edex

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thanks for making the blog! even if it won't be in the originally intended form, i look forward to the ending, and i still love the au :D -moon anon

//~*It was a fun project, and I was (and still am) proud of the ideas that we got to put in- and even the ones that didn’t make it in! I’m actually working on a mini-project to sketch out some ideas that we had to cut, and get proper references of the intended “Error Forms,” Such as Cowboy, Punch-Out, and even some who didn’t make it in, like Blaze and Toxic!

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Hey— it’s 0kay! Y0u aren’t exactly being f0rced t0 d0 this— plus, y0u’re even giving us a chance t0 see h0w things turn 0ut! Plus— I wanna thank y0u. This was 0ne 0f the first Hlvrai ask bl0gs I f0ll0wed, and I feel it had a huge impact 0n me.

Essentially— thanks f0r running this bl0g in the first place! -Zer0

//i’m glad this blog had the impact it did, even if it seems very small at first glance. for real, thank you so much for sticking with us, we’re very lucky you guys have the patience to deal with our “2-3 day breaks”

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a note from the mods (written by freeman)

due to a lack of time and energy on both mine and starzy’s part, instead of playing out the finale with asks, we will be writing a one shot fic depicting the events.

we are both immensely sorry that it had to end up like this, but school is taking up a lot of our time and i think i can speak for the both of us when i say our minds are elsewhere.

however, we have not forgotten about this blog. it’s still a project we care deeply about, and we aim to see it through to the end by any means possible. that being said, i’m sure our long absences haven’t gone unnoticed.

answering asks on a frequent basis is more stressful than we anticipated, especially with school and general life problems in the mix. so i hope this compromise will suffice.

it’s been a surprisingly long and surprisingly stressful, yet altogether very fun, journey. we hope to be able to portray our final vision in the way we wanted initially, just without the user interaction.

thank you for all the asks and fanart and cosplay. thank you for sticking with us even when we were gone. i promise the end is in sight and i will do my best to get it out in a timely manner. it’s been real fun, you guys have made this experience something really special, better than i could have ever imagined.

all the love in the world, freeman and starzy

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Well, that's very interesting, but I think we need to actually *find* it {as well as Tommy} at the moment.

Right, so you two plan to go off on your own to find this thing, leaving Coomer and I here with Joshua.

We’ll send Gordon over too if we find him.

Be careful you two...

You better come back safe. With Tommy. Blank too, if you can help it...

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so.. super secret 115% speedrun??

I dunno make. It’s... not feeling like a game anymore. I... It wasn’t supposed ta stick around, but... It did. and I feel bad that It had to be a placeholder for me. Hopefully... hopefully, Tommy can figure out how to help it...

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Benny epic gamer moments? Almost 100% on the memory run?

... More like... 115%. I... I remember stuff that I don’t think I was supposed ta know about. Like... Like who Blank is. 

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Remember, it's scared, not {intentionally} dangerous.

Yeah bro. like a, like a deer in headlights while running from a hunter, as Tommy would say.

. . . Alright, fine...

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Just take the small man. Who knows, maybe something will come back instinctively. He was pretty powerful in the past after all.

I... I think I remember almost everything now. 

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Please, just... talk t0 it... -/R0 anon

Yeah. Can’t be too bad. Just gotta find ‘em. Gotta, y’know, just noclip through the wall. Easy peasy.

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Well, apparently Gordon "Got sent back to the map" but passed that we don't know what's going on.

Gordon got sent back to-

That means Tommy is alone with it-

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dont leave anyone behind please? take everyone back here? -bluescreen

We aren’t going to. We’re talking Coomer and Joshua to Bubby, in the garage. Then Darnold and I-

No. Just me.

You’re not gonna do this alone.

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Nowo. We have no cwue where dey went （´･△･｀） ~Furry Anon

Damn... ok. I’ll have to go looking... but I should get the others to the garage with Bubby. Coomer hasn’t felt well since it let go of him, and Joshua is too small to protect himself from-

Don’t hurt it! It’s my friend! 

. . . Yeah. Listen to the kid. He... He seems to be the only one of us who managed to actually talk to it so far.

Plus, Coomer is fine besides the headache. Not to mention, as far as we know, Bubby is fine, which. The last we heard from him was that Punch-Out left him alone.

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Player shot some strange missing texture lightning at Tommy and the both of them just kinda... poofed.

I see... that sounds like they both got transported somewhere... Perhaps out of bounds...

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TOMMY AND PLAYER. JUST. DISSAPPEARED.???.????-🐀

. . . Well. That’s not good. Do you know where they were?

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THEYRE GONE????? THEYRE GONE -🐀

WHO is gone. What happened.