What Even Is This?
ANinnyMouse42
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Tags, strange news updates, random ideas, serious and crack headcanons, this book has it all!
... In other words, it's my book of random crap.Still talking about Black Mesa-Blast Pit
Aaaand welcome back to "There's still no one listening, but Mouse just keeps on talking about it!" Today, we're going to be looking into the chapter
Blast Pit
"Blast Pit" is a chapter that, for some reason, has always stuck out in my mind. I'm not sure why; it doesn't have any stunning character development moments, nor any incredible plot moments. I guess the tentacle is kind of like a boss battle of sorts, and this is a boss chapter, but other than that...
Anyway. This chapter is the first place we come across radioactive sludge! And then shortly after, we find an entire rocket silo flooded with the stuff!
So I'm actually gonna take a moment here to talk about radioactive stuff in Black Mesa. First I love that you get a Geiger counter click when you get close to it. It's such a neat little touch. And then the visual affects, too? I don't know if being near radioactive stuff in real life messes with your vision, but I love that the closer you get to it, the more staticky looking the screen gets.
One thing that I think is kinda weird, though, is the fact that the HEV battery power doesn't do anything to protect from radiation. If you fall in the stuff, it just instantly starts chewing away at your health. But isn't the point of a charged battery to help protect you? Why does it not help against radiation?
Granted, I... don't know a whole lot about how radiation works, so maybe it actually makes sense that it doesn't do anything.
But anyway. When you enter the silo, you come across this wounded, dying scientist...