Is there still any need for some male dialogues? If you are interested, send me a pm with some lines and I will return a few samples. Maybe you would like it 
I think we might be covered, but I guess it couldn’t hurt to have contingency actors.
It wouldn’t hurt to give each character a unique voice, if we end up with enough applicants.
I guess its ok. The scientist in the elevator in UC sounded differently from other scientists.
I was going to make that point, but that was only one scene out of every other scene with scientists that had the nerd voices. It’s one of those weird situations that, since every other scientist in Black Mesa has the one voice actor, it’d actually be kind of jarring going between this and that and hearing the different voices, despite the fact that the scientists all supposed to be completely different people.
But I’m all for whatever they decide to do, really. I’m pretty good at getting over minor gripes like that. Hell, I even like Eli’s voice in BM now and originally I thought it was the bane of all existance.
The thing with most of the other scientists is that even after speaking their relevant dialogue, you could speak with them again or would have them around for minutes at at a time, during which time they would revert to stock reactions (“Wait! Maybe we can reason with it!”).
However, you didn’t actually see this start to happen until after the elevator scene in UC. During AM, there were dozens of scientists you encountered that were certainly unique (the ones in the test chamber control room and the chamber entrance come to mind).
So unless you have the same people following you from room to room, you encounter each scientist here once and only once. Furthermore, all of their dialogue will come from controlled sequences. So you have much more room to have varied voices~
All scientists are going to be found either in the beginning lobby or the subsequent observation rooms (isolated from the active test areas). They won’t be following you around or anything, and you can’t interact with them once you start the course proper.
Eli’s voice bothered me too, until I remembered Half-Life 1/Black Mesa: Source, Half-Life: Blue Shift/Black Mesa: Insecurity, Half-Life: Decay/Black Mesa: Decay, & Half-Life: Opposing Force/Operation Black Mesa take place 20 years before Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, & Half-Life 2: Episode 3, so naturally his voice would sound different.
Dear God.
We nao haz a writer.
Go wild.
Well, I guess we should include a thing so that, if the player starts from the Hazard Course, it’ll lead directly into Black Mesa Inbound with a “1 year later” thing, followed by the actual Black Mesa Inbound chapter starting.
Well, we aren’t specifying a time between the course and the RC. We know that there was considerable time between the two, but that’s all. Best not to toy with canon.
When will Gina say “Congratulations on completing the Black Mesa: Hazard Course, You are now fully certified for the use of the HEV Mark IV Protective System.”? (I know VT hasn’t given the lines yet)
Is it going to be while you are in the tunnel (like in HL1) or at the outro that you made?
Welcome to the team, writer whose name I haven’t caught yet!
Just a note, my dropbox folder has a basic, very rough script for a sequence in the tram station. Look forward to seeing what you can do with it, and what you do for everything else!
This is my timeline for everything from Gordon being hired to the incident. I imagine Gordon was hired 1 year & 11 days before the events of Half-Life 1, as this gives time to take into account everything mentioned in the Half-Life 2 saga regarding Gordon’s time at Black Mesa (like Gordon & Barney being good friends, as well as Gordon & Barney racing to get into Isaac’s office when Isaac locked himself out of his own office), while giving Gordon a realistic amount of time to have fully gained his theoretical physics PhD beforehand. I used the Combine OverWiki’s timeline as a template & set years based on what years are most likely.
2008[/SIZE]
May 5[/SIZE]
Gordon Freeman receives a letter from the Black Mesa Office of the Administrator’s LM confirming he is hired.
May 10[/SIZE]
Gordon Freeman receives job training for the position of Level 3 research associate.
May 11[/SIZE]
Gordon Freeman starts his time as an Employee Proper of the Black Mesa Research Facility.
May 16[/SIZE]
7: 30 A.M.[/SIZE]
Gordon Freeman is being instructed by Gina Cross’ hologram counterpart on his 1st day of Hazardous Environment Suit Training in Sector A’s Training Facility. This is Half-Life 1’s Hazard Course.
2009[/SIZE]
May 3[/SIZE]
From Shephard’s diary entries: “Another typically hellish day at base camp… I’ll be glad when this is over and I can get assigned a mission. There has been this really weird civie spotted at the base. Rumor is he’s from some government branch looking to recruit; others say he’s with some secret research group. I would jump at the chance to join. It would be cool just for the change and the adventure.”
May 7[/SIZE]
- From Shephard’s diary entries: “I finally saw the government guy today. I am not sure he is a g-man, but he was wearing a really uptight suit and carrying a briefcase. He looked more like a lawyer or insurance agent to me. I did notice him checking me out. Several times throughout the day I spotted him just watching me during training. I wonder what he’s up to…”
May 9[/SIZE]
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From Shephard’s diary entries: "For weeks our drills have been the same crap day after day. Today we assemble for the morning run and our drill instructor tells us we
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have one week to become experts at indoor strategic combat. We will be spending every day this week at the combat simulation facility. As far as I know this a specialized training not taught in boot camp. What I want to know is if this is to test our ability to adapt or if we are being readied for a specific mission? Time will tell…"
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Barney Calhoun receives a letter from L.M. about his May 15 reassignment to Blue Shift.
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Chell gets accepted as an Aperture Science Test Subject and resident.
May 10[/SIZE]
- The untested AI of Genetic Life-form and Disc Operating System is activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture’s first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. Upon being activated, she almost instantly becomes self-aware, takes control of the Enrichment Center, locks everyone inside, and floods the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, but is partially halted when she is quickly fitted with a Morality Core. She then begins a permanent cycle of testing, aimed at beating Black Mesa in the race to develop functioning portal technology.
May 11[/SIZE]
Colette Green receives a letter from the Black Mesa Office of the Administrator’s LM saying that sample GG-3883 will replace sample EP-0021.
Before May 12[/SIZE]
Barney Calhoun is performing a retinal scan and has his salary increased. His two-day Security Guard Training is scheduled.
May 12[/SIZE]
From Shephard’s diary entries: “The rumors have been flying since our indoor combat training began. Most of my peers are convinced that we are being primed for a mission. No one can agree on what the mission is. I have heard the name Black Mesa Facility thrown around a lot, but I have no information about the place. The rumors are that some top-secret research is going on there. Doesn’t sound too exciting to me…”
8:00 A.M.[/SIZE]
First day of Barney Calhoun’s Security Guard Training under Miller’s Holographic Instructor counterpart, in Sector A Training Facility. This is the Half-Life: Blue Shift Hazard Course.
May 13[/SIZE]
Second day of Barney Calhoun’s Security Guard Training.
10: 30 A.M.[/SIZE]
Walter Bennet is being instructed by Gina Cross for an Anti-Mass Spectrometer Overload Simulation.
May 14[/SIZE]
7:00 P.M.[/SIZE]
Colette Green was to be instructed by Isaac Kleiner for an Anomalous Materials Handling, but it was postponed to June.
May 15[/SIZE]
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Barney Calhoun is assigned to a 09:00 – 22:00 Blue Shift assignment until August 15 and reports at Area 3 Medium Security Facilities at 09:00. Other unknown security guards are assigned to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Indigo Shifts in specific areas of Sector A, B, and C. For that timespan, the Violet Shift is on standby.
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From Shephard’s diary entries: “The rumor has been confirmed. We are being trained for a mission at the Black Mesa Facility. All I know is that the place is being used by scientists who are doing some kind of new research. I can’t imagine what we would be needed for. We were told today to be ready in case it happens tomorrow. I don’t know what “it” is, but the whole thing is a little strange. I kind of hope it doesn’t happen; the mission doesn’t seem to have much excitement potential. I’d rather hold out for something with more likelihood of combat.”
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This day was originally Gordon Freeman’s first day of work at Black Mesa, but it was retconned in Half-Life 2 and its episodes, where it is implied that Gordon was already working for some time at Black Mesa before the incident: Barney tells Gordon he owes him a beer and reminds him who he is when first meeting in the City 17 Trainstation, and Alyx tells in the City 17 Underground that Gordon and Barney would compete in air ducts to get into Kleiner’s office whenever he got himself locked out, among others.
8: 30 P.M.[/SIZE]
Gina Cross is being instructed by Richard Keller for a Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit Prototype Testing.
May 16[/SIZE]
7: 30 A.M.[/SIZE]
Gordon Freeman starts his last session of Hazardous Environment Suit Training in Sector A’s Training Facility.
8:00 A.M.[/SIZE]
Chell comes in for her testing and is put in stasis instead.
8: 30 A.M.[/SIZE]
Several system crashes occur around Black Mesa (the security guard in the Sector C lobby states he has had a system crash “about 20 minutes ago”).
8:42 A.M.[/SIZE]
Barney Calhoun starts his tram ride from the Area 8 Topside Dormitories at Black Mesa, to start his second Blue Shift day at Area 3 Medium Security Facilities in Sector C. He arrives there some time before 9:00 A.M.
8:47 A.M.[/SIZE]
After his HEV Suit Training, Gordon Freeman starts his tram ride from Level 3 Dormitories at Black Mesa. He is 30 minutes late.
Remainder of the day[/SIZE]
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The Black Mesa Incident. Around 9:00 A.M., Freeman conducts an experiment on sample GG-3883 in Sector C’s Anti-Mass Spectrometer. The experiment goes wrong and triggers a Resonance Cascade, teleporting Xen creatures to Earth.
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Freeman, Calhoun, Green and Cross fight their way through the facility.
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Overnight, Freeman successfully launches the rocket.
That list serves no relevance, here. We only (kind of) wanted to know the time the Hazard Course takes place to be sure that we wouldn’t break canon and potentially open up new dialogue options. Everything else timeline related doesn’t serve much purpose for us.
Well there’s your problem. 
I think I still have an original half life manual some where it had the dates of some things in it.
edit: found the manual for once combine over wiki is right on the dates. except the day of the event… that ones got liek 3 conflicting numbers one being impossible by standard calander. (December 32)
Where in HL does it say it happened on 2008 and 2009? All we know that it happened between 2000-2009
It doesn’t, but it’s also my personal headcanon that HL1 takes place during 2009.