Retired and Happy

Me and ol' Cobalt have done all we should have to. So we're taking a vacation.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

Hey, everyone. We know that you've all loved ol' Dale (that's me), but, NAMA is gone, and that's the whole reason I was brought back after my original life, and I might cause problems for him, being two of us alive.
So me and Cobalt are going away from all this chaos forever.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

We lost. NAMA has fallen. They are no more.
They are taking the Stormwald, and all of our assets.

We don't know what's going to happen to us from here.

Curiously, Cr0w, Cap, and Cobalt were let free without any malice.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

We'll forever miss you

[Combine United ™ @Combine_United]

PreWrittenMessage04:

It seems that the little life that was in my billions of circuits has finally perished before the cold of this rusting metal.

I write because I probably won't come back, I am so replaceable, so artificial, so close, but so far away.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

Ooh retirement is so nice

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

// In hindsight I should've named this account Valuable Antagonist Containment (VAC) because NAMA was always meant to be an embodiment of Valve's anti-cheat

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@Tiky_hahalol @TreyCr0w @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @sbencoop @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @cobaltagent68 @RosenbergCoop @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK <Alfred> You'll still let us have some time to explore this reality beforehand, right?

*Alfred and Trey follow them*

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@MEXICAN_PYRO33 @sbencoop @Tiky_hahalol @TreyCr0w @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @cobaltagent68 @RosenbergCoop @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK I'm just gonna take that as a "Yes, take me back in time". Pyro, L&MB, step onto the train.

Anyone else?

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@Tiky_hahalol @TreyCr0w @FrankDeadRising @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @HoraceTheMage @cobaltagent68 @sbencoop @RosenbergCoop @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK <Alfred> Yeah, I'll join yeh.

<Dale> Alright, anyone who wants to RETURN to the past and make up for wasted time with loved ones or whatever, get on the Ghost Train.

*Dale walks towards a railroad track, where a train arrives from the void of a tunnel.*

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@TreyCr0w @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @HoraceTheMage @cobaltagent68 @FrankDeadRising @sbencoop @RosenbergCoop @Tiky_hahalol @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK If you want, I could send you all back to when we first used the device to reach him, to make up for lost time.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@TreyCr0w @FrankDeadRising @sbencoop @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @HoraceTheMage @cobaltagent68 @RosenbergCoop @Tiky_hahalol @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK <Alfred> I'm going ta research that "Scot" label everyone's given me, see what I can do ta make it official.

It's a nice soundin title for me.
"Alfred the Scot."

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@sbencoop @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @RosenbergCoop @cobaltagent68 @TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK I'm going to take a nice retirement.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@MEXICAN_PYRO33 @RosenbergCoop @cobaltagent68 @TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @sbencoop @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK Home sweet home.

*Dale looks around*

I coulda sworn this place was infested with R.O. soldiers.

Guess that's who we heard dying off earlier, to the Combine.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@MEXICAN_PYRO33 @RosenbergCoop @cobaltagent68 @TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @sbencoop @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK That works.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@RosenbergCoop @cobaltagent68 @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @sbencoop @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK *All that remains outside the portal are Dale and Cobalt, staring at each other*

Are we going to sit here and die with it, our missions fulfilled?

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@MEXICAN_PYRO33 @Tiky_hahalol @TreyCr0w @RosenbergCoop @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @sbencoop @cobaltagent68 @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK *Dale looks around, and fights his way through to a control room, where he opens all of the locked doors.*

<Dale> Prisoners of War, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES INTO THIS PORTAL!

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@TreyCr0w @RosenbergCoop @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @Tiky_hahalol @FrankDeadRising @HoraceTheMage @sbencoop @cobaltagent68 @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK I HAVE THE PRISONER COORDINATES!

CR0W! PORTAL! NOW!

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@Tiky_hahalol @sbencoop @RosenbergCoop @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @cobaltagent68 @HoraceTheMage @FrankDeadRising @TreyCr0w @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK <Operator> I'm missing whatever you are.

<Dale> Rosenberg is dead, and we need to save his prisoners.

I'll get the Operator here's coordinates, now.

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@sbencoop @RosenbergCoop @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @cobaltagent68 @HoraceTheMage @FrankDeadRising @TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK //Just so everyone's on the same page, the Operator has amnesia and doesn't know anything about NAMA or Rosenberg

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@sbencoop @RosenbergCoop @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @cobaltagent68 @HoraceTheMage @FrankDeadRising @TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK <

*Someone picks up*

<The Operator> What the hell is going on?

[Retired and Happy @neutralizerSRC]

@TreyCr0w @Tiky_hahalol @FrankDeadRising @MEXICAN_PYRO33 @HoraceTheMage @sbencoop @RosenbergCoop @cobaltagent68 @MANN_992 @chaopatrol98 @Comrade_Doge1 @TrueVessel_HK *What seems to be thousands of soldiers can be heard outside of the room. R.O. is here.*