Ok so, I was rewatching MasterGir's Blue Shift stream because I remembered something from the beginning of that game that i found... jarring? Anyways that game starts with some tests that Black Mesa gives to new security guards and all (regular stuff like idk jumping and shooting) but then one of the tests is just.... jumping across a pit of toxic radioactive sludge??
And Its just, so funny and fucked up that Black Mesa just straight up exposes new security guards to radiation the moment they enter the facility like...what happens if they fall in it. In the radioactive sludge. in their first day at the job.
ANYWAYS, this is related to hlvrai in the way that I think it would be really funny if Benrey used to be just a normal guy that fell into that pit of sludge and came out.... like that...with his weird powers and all... He is the only one that has survived falling into that and Black Mesa hired him mostly because the scientists want to know wtf is up with him, why is he now immortal. Why does he have the black mesa sweet voice. Why can he clip through walls. Why did radiation do that to him.
Benrey: hey man is this a side effect of the radiation *turns into whatever the hell he turned into in Xen* The scientists that fished him out of the sludge: .....i don't know.... that's scary....... Alternatively- it would also be really funny if black mesa does NOT have a pit of radiation that new security guards have to jump across, its a prop sludge that they put in for the tests. But either way Benrey fell into it and thinks that's why he is like that now, like in that text post about the joker chemicals.
Gordon: the other security guards seem normal, is Benrey an experiment?? Why is he like that... Benrey: the radioactive sludge pit in the security guard initiation tests turned me into this. Bubby: that pit is filled with regular green slime. Benrey: heehee hoo ha ho hee hoo



















