At a regular interval shells are loaded into the chamber and launched at the town. Inside the building, the Combine have constructed the shell launcher. The church itself is relatively undamaged except for the religious paintings on the walls, the faces of all but a few of the characters having been rubbed away. Upon reaching the top of the cliff, the player finds the church and its courtyard unguarded. As he proceeds up the cliff, a launcher based in the church at the top begins bombarding the nearby town with Headcrab Shells. The player soon encounters resistance in the form of Combine Soldiers, some of whom rappel from the cliffs above. The gate leads to a winding path along the side of the outcrop the church is located. He lets Freeman through a gate and tells him to 'take out that gun'. Olga.Ī fisherman standing on a dock recognizes the player as Gordon, although he cannot accurately remember his last name, and tells him that the Combine have made a base in the area.
The level begins with Gordon Freeman finding himself near a group of decaying piers, underneath a monastery set up on rocks and overlooking the small town of St.
