Gregory

Gregory is the second member of the Mod Squad, and is the deuteragonist in Half-Life: Blue Shift. He worked as a security guard at the Black Mesa Research Facility and was one of the few to survive the Resonance Cascade. He would later become very integral in the Resistance against the Combine.

## Biography

Gregory is employed as a mid-level security officer at the Black Mesa Research Facility, with Level 3 security clearance and is accommodated in Area 8 Topside dormitories. He is friends with Kracky the Scientist and allegedly Gordon Freeman, who are also employees of Black Mesa.

One day when he invited his boyfriend Felix to his job, Kracky and his prostitute Astolfo took part in a test which caused a Resonance Cascade, which caused aliens from an alternate dimension to enter their world. At the time, both Gregory and Felix were in an elevator which was badly damaged, sending them plummeting into the depths of the facility.

Gregory regains consciousness at the bottom of the shaft and begins to fight his way to the surface to escape. Emerging near Black Mesa's classification yards, Gregory learns that Dr. Rosenberg and his colleagues plan to escape the facility using teleportation technology. After freeing Rosenberg from the captivity of the US Marines detachment sent to silence the facility, Gregory escorts him to a decommissioned prototype teleportation laboratory, where several Black Mesa employees have already gathered. Rosenberg then teleports Gregory to the Xen border world to calibrate research equipment needed to pinpoint a teleport destination outside of Black Mesa. Upon his return, Rosenberg informs Gregory that the teleporter's battery power has been exhausted, and contact has been lost with a team sent to acquire a new power cell.

Gregory travels to the power generators on a lower level to find a fresh power cell while firefights rage between the Marines and the forces of Xen. After returning with a new power cell, Gregory assists Rosenberg in evacuating the few surviving personnel through the teleporter. Gregory is the last to enter the portal and as he does so, Marines breach the laboratory and fire on him, causing the teleporter to explode. As a result of the teleporter's destruction, Gregory enters a "harmonic reflux", causing him to be rapidly teleported to a variety of locations in Xen and Black Mesa. At one location, he witnesses Freeman's capture by Marines midway through *Half-Life*, before eventually stabilizing at the intended teleport location with Rosenberg at the outskirts of Black Mesa, where they then escape the facility in a company SUV.

## Personality

Gregory is shown to be slower, to the point where his speech is kind of slurred. Despite this, Gregory has shown to be competent at many things, mainly at combat, earning the title of being a killing machine. Despite this, Gregory is incredibly optimistic and caring of those he trusts, especially his boyfriend Felix.

Gregory isn't shy about his sexuality, being incredibly open about Felix being his boyfriend, usually to the embarrassment of Felix himself.

## Trivia

* Gregory's story takes place in an alternate timeline where Gordon Freeman wasn't the one who caused the Resonance Cascade. It is not yet known if he will appear in the playthrough of Half-Life 2.
	+ Despite Kracky being responsible for the Resonance Cascade, Gordon Freeman still does exist in this timeline, as Gregory has stated that he is a good man.
* Gregory used to have a plot line where it was revealed that the slow version of himself was actually a character, made up by him. However this plot line wasn't continued, mainly cause it got to convoluted and wasn't funny.
	+ It was also revealed that Felix wasn't his boyfriend and was actually meant to be with him to make sure he never learned the truth.