Congratulations!
You are the first player to complete the Half-Life: Alyx Gnome Challenge.
We were hoping people would be a little more enthusiastic about it.
But it seems no one else has been brave enough to rise to the challenge.
On behalf of all of us at valve software, we hope you're ready to accept the consequences of your actions.
This commentary node was triggered via completion of The Gnome challenge.
You are the first player to access this node.
You are the only player that will hear these lines of commentary and I advise you to heed their words well.
Dear player, Half-Life- Half-Life is not what it seems.
These games should never be played by mankind but we here at valve we knew how well they would sell.
We knew the success that would come and we knew what chaos could be wrought, what dark dreams could waken.
And we distributed Half-Life anyway.
This is my greatest regret.
We had some challenges trying to wrap up development on this bad boy.
There was, uh... it's a seal, really old thing, etched out on obsidian.
I won't get into the details on how we broke it but it was worth the wait and the consequences.
We'd used the seal before, many times actually, it allowed Half-Life to achieve the legacy it has today.
The games, each of them... were, amazing. As I'm sure you experienced, having done this challenge.
Uh...
It wasn't until we started development on episode 2 when the dread started to overtake me.
I had these... nightmares.
Every single night, I-
I couldn't even tell you what they were, in truth.
But what I saw in those dreams... what, transpired... was beyond my understanding,
but what was within the grasp of my cognition was the fear.
One day, the nightmares, just...
...uh, stopped.
And when they did, I-... I went into work that morning.
And that was the day... he... appeared.
All of these commentary lines are encrypted.
And will delete themselves from steam's update repository, once a player has listened to them, removing them from all copies of Half-Life: Alyx.
These messages... are a confession, of sorts.
And this knowledge, dear player, is now yours to do with as you wish.
It's in your hands.
After completion of The Gnome challenge, The Gnome should no longer appear in the game.
If you are seeing or hearing the gnome during the Vault sequence,
DO NOT go to the end of the game, do not proceed any farther.
We here, at valve, are not responsible for what happens if you ignore this message
Please.
You have to listen to me.
Do NOT leave this room.
DO NOT complete the game.
Take off the headset, put it on the dirty floor and turn the game off.
Uninstall it! Rid yourself of all of this.
Transcribed by Erland, The owner of Erland.fi