ToxisResiduum mod for Half-Life 2

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oncept Story

 Written by: HitmanH

The City And Its Populous:

The world is a dying, or dead wasteland. No life exists barely in the main parts of the world.
Most people are heard into the last few remaining mega cities, huge technological nightmare constructs
that engulf the landscape, thick with smog, pollution and brightly coloured lights (very neon Tokyo look).
The world is run by a group of 5 people, the consorts, maintaining and overlooking every aspect of a
citizens life (big brother nation). The poor are left to rot on the ground, living in dark, grimey, wet
toxic filled streets, the higher up you go, the richer the people become, until the richest live at the
top, breaking through the smog to see the sky and sun.

The city is very brightly lit, lots of billboards plaster every building with all sorts of slogans (products,
slogans saying work up the ranks for a better way of life and so on). Most people are worked to death in
factories and office complexes, working day in day out to maintain the operation of the city. Children are taken
at the age of 5 and put into special schools where they are given certain tasks and objectives to find out
exactly what they can do for the society, most end up working in the factories. Those that don't rise up in society
as business men, computer operators engineers. Most jobs are automated, using robots ranging from cleaners, to
street sweepers and so on.

The military is divided up into 2 sections.
The police, very suppressive, arrogant hand fisted temperamental people.
There job is purely to keep the populous to shut up. The grunts. Trained in most forms of combat, they are used to
protect higher up buildings, certain skirmishes in the wasteland aswell as a form of S.W.A.T. The last are the
cybernetic implanted soldiers. Quick, clean and efficient, they are used at the highest points of the city, aswell
as in riots if the grunts fail. They have no mind, no emotion and are all linked by a central A.I.

Those in charge make life hell for those who live below them. The rich get everything while the poor suffer and must
work for the rich. It is impossible to rise up in society unless you do very underhanded things, such as drug trafficking,
body-part smuggling and just general mafia-like behaviour.

The Wasteland and its populous:
The wasteland is just that, a wasteland. Broken buildings litter the landscape, all the ocean has dried up and gone,
no vegetation remains save tree stumps and dead grass clumps. Rivers of slime and toxic waste litter the landscape, creating
more living beings than vegetation (very Xen like). Previous war vehicles remain scattered across the landscape, aswell as
broken down rotting subs, boats, battle ships and the like. Those who flee from the city end up living in underground
shanty towns, most in ocean ravines and old caves. Food is stuff like rats, mice and general vermin, where there are humans
there are vermin.

The Story:
The year is 2077. Earth's surface has been turned into a nuclear wasteland. The last remnants of earth live crowded in mega cities doted around the world. The city our story takes place in, is called Zarum, not only is this city the western worlds main source of energy, it has the biggest military build up. Amongst the military personnel are a group of marines, known as "The Five Minuters" (colourfully named dew to them often taking at least 5 minutes to screw the mission up", yet at the same time somehow manage to pull through). They cause more damage than they solve and often there missions will lead to the city spending large amounts of money fixing what they have destroyed.

The Characters:

Sgt. William "Bruto" Jenkins:

Leader of the squad. Sgt. Bruto Jenkins is best described as a mixture of Duke Nukem, L.T Razak (from the roughneck chronicles CGI series, not the film) and sarge from Red vs Blue. He despises everyone and everything and will often been seen torturing genosha or playing mind games with hart. Loud, obnoxious and extremely angry, Jenkins will often jump into a fight situation without thinking (or sometimes even looking at what he's fighting), preferring to either shoot whatever is infront of him with a shotgun or tearing into people with a knife, all the same to him.

Quotes: "I am by no means "RACIST" sir...I hate everyone equally..."
            "BAH! Kids...nothin' but future war cannon fodder.."
            "I hate you.........Well I say hate i mean despise...well I say despise I mean I want to punch my fist so far down your throat i can pull the name tag off your boxer shorts"

Cpl. Alex "Sharpshooter" Hart:
Hart is the squads sniper aswell as recon. He is best described as being a cross between Bill Hicks (the stand up comic) David Lister (from red dwarf) and kevin nash (the wrestler Diesel). Laid back, cocky and somewhat humorous, hart supplies sarge with alot of intel from sources around the city (mostly drug dealers). Hart has also imbibed many many drugs, because of this hart is prone to flash backs, moments of paranoia, however his sniping skills are next to none. Hart prefers to take a back-seat stance when it comes to missions, preferring just to sit back and listen to a Walkman.

Quotes: "If i could be arsed to run don't you think i'd be on speed by now?"
Hart:     "I have the universe inside my head and your asking me to open a damn door!?"
Sarge:    "....a vast space of nothingness with a few rocks? couldn't agree more..."
             "Wow....a headshot and he's still stan- oh no there he goes..."

Pvt. Bakuhatsu "Nagasaki" Genosha:

Genosha is the teams demolitions expert. Best described as a cross between Starscream from the old 80's transformers cartoon (minus the back stabby nature), the Joker and Pvt. Hudson from ALIENS. Genosha is a very paranoid, temperamental jumpy character. Having seen one to many bad combat situations, genosha is either blowing up everything he can see or rocking back and fourth in a corner muttering to himself. Hart tries his best to keep his mental state level, however if sarge is in a bad mood (or just wanting to wind someone up) he will do everything he can to make gen break down, unless inside a combat situation, in which case he's making him blow everything up instead.

Quotes: "EVER SEEN A FISH IMPLODE!!???"
            "Nuke? or napalm...nuke or naplam...napalm or nuke....oh who am I kidding, BOTH!!"
            "Bomb-ty Bomb-ty Bomb-ty BOOM!!!"

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