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Half Life 2 - Sandtraps

January 2nd, 2005

After defeating the airship, I made my way back across the bridge and back to the rundown buildings where I was ambushed by more Combine soldiers. I drove my car up a ramp to the bridge, which I found out was for trains. One train was blocking one side so I went ahead on the other. Halfway down I heard a train coming so I had to put it in reverse and haul butt. I made it back just in time to move over before the train could hit me. I went back and made it across, but there was another energy field blocking my way. I went down another ramp and up another makeshift ramp to a tunnel. I went through this dark tunnel and was stopped by a bunch of old cars blocking my way and was immediately attacked by numerous headcrab dudes. I took them all out and used my grav gun to move the cars out of my way to get through the rest of the tunnel. I got back on the open highway and made it to a Combine checkpoint where I took out a bunch of soldiers and a couple magnetic balls. Past that checkpoint, I made it to another checkpoint where I was stopped by a makeshift gate that had to be opened. I couple of dropships dropped off a bunch of soldiers, whom I took care of quickly, and I had to figure out how to open the gate. In one of the buildings there was a table with three electrical circuits with a place for a battery in each. One already had a battery, and I found one in the room to put in and, after much grav gun manipulation, I found the third under an overturned bathtub outside. With that one in place, the gate was lifted and I went through yet another tunnel.

I came to the next checkpoint with caution, but it turned out it was a resistance force checkpoint. They told me to hide my car in their garage (bye, bye, car!) and to get ready for more dropships. The soldiers came in large numbers and after they were taken out, I went into an old lighthouse to take care of an airship. Once that was done, a guy showed me how to leave on foot through a path on the cliffs.

Shortly after making my way along the cliffs, I came to a bunch of rocks and sand. There was a guy there with a hurt friend that told me not to get on the sand or the antlions would come out. His friend moved on the sand and they were quickly eaten, which left me for dessert. I took out the antlions and stayed on the rocks. There was a lot of jumping around at this point and a LOT of grav gun manipulation to move pallets and other things on the sand so I could jump on them.

I eventually came to a part in this maze where I HAD to jump into a canyon of nothing but sand and a large hole in the middle. Once on the sand, and as expected, several antlions came out and one large mother antlion pursued me. Luckily, there were resistance forces behind the canyon that gunned down the mother, but slowly. That mother knocked me around quite a bit, but I survived. One of the alien resistance force came out and worked a little magic on the mother and told me to take something off her. I then followed him into the caves where he showed me how to use this thing, called a pheripod. Apparently, I had an endless supply of them and I could throw them to summon antlions at whatever point they landed on. He demonstrated it on a dead Combine soldier’s body. Finally, he rasied a gate and told me that would be the way to Nova Prospect (where Eli was).

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