Vortigaunt Hideout
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| Vortigaunt Hideout | |
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| Constructed |
After the Seven Hour War |
| Destroyed |
After the Uprising |
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- Alyx Vance: "So, what's a Vortigaunt doing here?"
- Gary: "Cooking!"
- Alyx Vance: "Right, but I mean in general."
- Gary: "I have a brain injury."
- ―Alyx Vance and Gary[src]
Gary's Vortigaunt Hideout is a Quarantine Zone location featured in the second chapter of Half-Life: Alyx, The Quarantine Zone.
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Overview[edit]
The abode was constructed by the Vortigaunt Gary after he managed to escape the Combine, having been held and tortured by them. It is situated beside a canal in the Quarantine Zone and is near the maintenance rooms of Metro Area station. Just outside the entrance to the hideout, there is an array of cardboard pieces levitated midair by green electricity, resembling an eye shape when observed from afar, hinting at the presence of a paranormal being. Behind the cardboard array is a hole in the wall leading to the canal, where multiple cryptic murals depicting the past and future can be found. The entrance is blocked by a makeshift door mechanism which is controlled by a panel with a matrix of buttons on it. The only way to know the correct button combination to unlock the door is by letting free another box of cardboard and letting them float in the air, covering parts of the murals which reveal the key. Behind the mechanical door is a maze of tunnels, in which more glowing murals and impaled Headcrabs can be found.
The hideout itself has another door in the center of a spiral of metal boards. Beside it is a fire bell that can be ringed to summon Gary. Inside his room are several cages containing captured Headcrabs and a simple kitchen where he cooks his prey. A shutter door at the back leads to a cavernous well, where Gary creates sculptures of the future from scrap. This well is connected with the underground Drainage Tunnels of City 17. Gary lives in this hideout in solitude, doing presumably nothing other than hunting Headcrabs, cooking, and creating his prophetic artworks.
Related Achievements[edit]
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Sustenance |
| Receive a tasty treat. | |
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Freshly Squeezed |
| Test your grip on a headcrab heart. | |
Gallery[edit]
Pre-release[edit]
Unused magazine cover art depicting Headcrabs impaled on a Crowbar.
Early version of the hideout.
Retail[edit]
Zombie in an office before the mural canal.
Floating cardboards forming an eye.
The cardboards stuck in a cage.
Gary's puzzle to unlock the gate leading to his hideout.
After releasing the cardboards from the cage, they form an eye to show the solution to the puzzle.
Canal near the mural, outside the hideout.
The mural covering the walls under a bridge.
Ditto, from the other end.
The entrance of the hideout.
The door of the hideout, with a familiar eye symbol on it.
Gary greets Alyx Vance.
Headcrabs kept by Gary.
Gary preparing a Headcrab for cooking.
Ditto.
Gary conjuring a "sculpture" in the back well.
Ditto.
Gary directs Alyx to the Northern Star.
Murals[edit]
View of the canal from the area of the murals.
Vortigaunts live alongside Antlions.
Combine Dropships deliver Combine forces.
Vortigaunts battle Striders.
The Nihilanth enslaves the Vortigaunts.
Xen.
The Gonarch, Plant Lights, and Spores.
Gordon in the test chamber.
The Nihilanth and its Controller servants are eliminated.
Vortigaunts regain their freedom.
Eli and Alyx at the Citadel.
Headcrabs.
A Headcrab and the G-Man looming overhead.
Vortigaunts.
Combined mural textures (Part 1 of 4).
Combined mural textures (Part 2 of 4).
Combined mural textures (Part 3 of 4).
Combined mural textures (Part 4 of 4).
List of appearances[edit]
| Preceded by Metro Area |
Half-Life: Alyx story arc journey | Succeeded by Drainage Tunnels |
