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Dan
It's been a while since Dan Shephard's been around this many people, but that's okay. He can deal with that. Reminds him of college, a little. The aliens're kind of a change of pace, but they seem like all right folks as far as he can tell, so hey, live and let live. Overall it's not too bad up here. It's not home, but it's not too bad ( Read more... ) -
The Hunt, pt. 2
Three days now Shephard's gone out, bow slung over his back, and three days now he hasn't taken so much as a single shot at a bullsquid ( Read more... ) -
Paradise Lost
Shephard took it upon himself to get some supplies before leaving Milliways last time. Not big-ticket items like food or anything; those would take a little too long to explain, and anyway, he didn't have the money for any meaningful amounts. He'd managed to earn enough from turning in demon rabbit pelts to pay off his tab and get a few extras, ( Read more... ) -
The Hunt
Adrian Shephard's not the kind of man to have nightmares, generally. After Black Mesa he was short on the ability to sleep more than a few hours at a time, but that wasn't nightmares so much as tension and stress. For him, nightmares- when they happen at all- are usually old, old dreams of an old, old disaster, and they almost all center around a ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Truth be told, Shephard hasn't really been in the field all that many times in his career as a Marine. Black Mesa was his first experience of combat. He survived the trip from the Fair Chance location in the western Pennsylvania wilds with Chell, and he got deployed at the Scab, and he and Chell did air support when the Combine attacked White ( Read more... ) -
GRIN And Bear It
They're burying Eli Vance somewhere else on the base just now. Shephard figured that was coming, and made a point of getting away from people. The man'd been pretty decent to him the one time they'd met, but... well, he doesn't belong at that funeral. Didn't know the man, for one thing, and for another there's enough Black Mesa survivors in that ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
When the Combine took over Earth, there were places they didn't really bother with. The Xen incursions of the prior four years left parts of the world depopulated, and frankly, without the resources the Universal Union was most interested in, those places just weren't worth the bother. It would be wrong to say human civilization flourished in those ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
The Bar patrons were right about one thing: pretty much the instant Shephard crossed the midpoint of the steps leading upstairs, he stopped being an eight foot tall blue-purple alien thing in armor and started being a human in fatigues again. Yeah, he wound up with his face in the stairs, but it was his face and he got to curse about it without ( Read more... ) -
Long Lines
The first thing Shephard notices for certain is that he doesn't seem to be sweating any more. It's a stupid little thing, but when you're struggling for every bit of free motion you can manage, even a small change in your conditions will get your attention ( Read more... )