Azure Sheep

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## Chronological Information

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Point of View

***Azure Sheep*** is a single-player modification for *Half-Life* developed by the The Azure Sheep Team. Taking place during the resonance cascade, the player is put in the shoes of Just Barney as he journeys across the facility to rescue his colleague and love interest, Kate.

## Plot

### Going for a walk (optional)

Barney wakes up in his dorm and heads to the training facility. Being instructed by a holographic assistant wearing a blue HEV Suit, he eventually completes training and is greeted by Kate who welcomes him to Black Mesa. Shortly after, Xen Terrorists storm through the perimeter and attempt to wreak havoc. They are soon killed by Barney and the rest of the security force; Barney is then promoted.

### Work, work and work

At 8:40 AM, Barney wakes up in his dorm and prepares to go to this post outside. He grabs his equipment and travels to his place of work. Along the way he is greeted by Kate, who shortly walks off. Arriving at his workplace, he witnesses Gordon Freeman arrive to work in a red sports car and raises the barrier to let him inside.

After an unspecified amount of time, the resonance cascade occurs and a helicopter crashes into Barney's post. Barney fights off a few vortigaunts and goes back inside where he fights Xen aliens and zombified personnel. Barney treks through the facility in the search for Kate.

### Where are you, Kate?

Reaching a topside area, Barney encounters the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit and combats them as they try to kill him. Barney scales a cliff face, briefly uses a freight monorail and fights more soldiers whilst journeying through the facility.

### Black Mesa Entrance

After more wandering and fighting off hostiles, Barney falls through a damaged ceiling crosses paths with Freeman again, who he teams up with in order to battle black ops assassins who are in the area. The partnership is short-lived, however, when freeman is knocked unconscious by HECU soldiers after running inside of a trap room.

### Walking to Black Mesa Inbound

Barney eventually reaches the Level 3 Dormitories platform and encounters a scientist who is sceptical about the rumoured 'military clean-up'. Fighting more of the HECU and black ops, Barney then encounters an elite Special Forces unit and briefly fights them. He then reaches a Xenian biological containment area where he spots a captured Xonxt, and taunts him. Shortly after this, Barney is rendered unconscious with gas by The G-Man and is captured.

Waking up, Barney is rescued by Kate who kills the black ops assassins guarding the controls and releases him from a liquid tank. The two reunite and work together to try and get out of the facility. For a while barney is weapon-less and relies on Kate to right the aliens in their path. This changes when he finds and equips a HEV Suit alongside some weaponry. He also spots Freeman in the same area. Barney is then introduced to a new enemy, the Magenta slave, and fights more aliens and soldiers before reaching the nearby Lambda Reactor.

### Where am I?

Barney witnesses Adrian Shephard enter a portal and does the same with another nearby one. Arriving in Xen, before fights more aliens and special forces who have also made their way there. Going through a xen factory, he soon sees another portal and uses it to return back to Black Mesa.

### Liquids

Progressing through the facility, Kate and Barney make their way through an area containing toxic waste and battles more special forces. Here, Barney travels through the old area to active the controls for a monorail which goes across a body of water. Eventually completing this task, both he and Kate arrive at the other end of the tunnel and continue on.

### Old Black Mesa

The duo restores power to an old and decommissioned area of Black Mesa. When Barney travels down a pipe to progress, Kate is captured by The G-Man and his special forces. Reaching the surface, Barney briefly teams up with Adrian Shephard and a squad of HECU, who battle the special forces. After kicking down a door for Barney, Adrian is suddenly captured and teleported away by vortigaunts. After this, Barney enters an area where he must battle a panthereye, a fight orchestrated by The G-Man. Barney defeats the panthereye and emerges victorious, he then kills the black ops assassins and special forces guarding Kate; the two reunite again.

### Let's get out of here

Barney and Kate fight through the underground area, eventually taking on a special forces submarine and disabling it. Activating the drainage system for a flooded area, they progress and reach the topside.

### Last Step

The duo make one final push through the heavily damaged buildings of the surface, where they battle more special forces and finally escape using a truck. The two drive away from the facility. They drive through a special forces checkpoint and drive off into the sunset.

## Characters

* Just Barney
* Kate
* Gordon Freeman
* Adrian Shephard
* The G-Man
* Gus
* Black Mesa Scientists
* Black Mesa Security Guards

## Enemies

* **Animals**
	+ Rat
* **Xen Aliens**
	+ Alien Aircraft
	+ Alien Controller
	+ Alien Grunt
	+ Alien Slave
	+ Archer
	+ Barnacle
	+ Bullsquid
	+ Chumtoad
	+ Gargantua
	+ Gonarch
	+ Headcrab
	+ Houndeye
	+ Magenta Slave
	+ Panthereye
	+ Zombie
* **Hazardous Environment Combat Unit**
	+ HECU soldiers
	+ HECU vehicles
	+ Sentry guns
* **Black Ops**
	+ Female Black Ops
* **Special Forces**
	+ Special Forces soldiers
	+ Special Forces vehicles
	+ Sentry Guns

## Development

The first two members of The Azure Sheep Team were Toadman and DAV. Sven then asked to join and Demon was introduced to them by the HL Italia webmaster. Ditz was the last member to join. Azure Sheep was then created by the team in the span of around a year.

## References

1. ↑ PORTUGAL ARENA - Azure Sheep: Entrevista (archive.org)