vortugant's speech

[Mr.Entropy]

Last night I was easter egg hunting and I think I may have found something....in the Black Mesa East level, start a new game, get "scanned in" or whatever by dr. Mossman, then when the elevator comes up, go into no clipping and go into the kitchen where the two vortugants are preparing food, press the use key on the one NOT chopping stuff up and he will say all kind of wierd stuff, if you keep pressing the use key he'll talk for about 3-5 minutes about how he can still "see you in the Nihilanth's chamber" and something about how your "bright face masks your darker nature" or somethign, i forget it was late, I tried searching and nothing came up, has anyone else seen this????

 

[Asknoone]

Yeah, it was found around the time it was released...2 years ago maybe?
Still, it's a nice little find - and he's an awesome Vortigaunt

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

This is from Wiki.

• "We remember the Freeman. We are coterminous."

May mean that all vortigaunts exist together, as if they are bound together in one mind. What one may experience, they all remember, and when one suffer, they all suffer. However, it seems more likely to mean that both Gordon and the Vortigaunts will meet the same end.

• "There is no distance between us. No false veil of time or space may intervene."
• "We see you still in Black Mesa. Clearly we see you in the Nihilanth's chamber."
• "We bear witness to the bright eternity of the Nihilanth's demise. You leap, you fall, we see you flash beyond the barriers."
• "For a brief time you joined with us. You are one. Between the worlds."
• "Communion of the vortessence. And that other: a deeper mystery. No deeper than the void itself."
• "We cannot forget those whose cords you cut. Forgiveness is not ours to bestow."

Clearly referring to all the vortigaunts Gordon killed in Half-Life.

• "Unity of purpose, the shattering of common shackles, a single road we tread."
• "Your song we sing and shall sing for eternity. No matter the consequences of this struggle."
• "You have brought us grief and jubilation beyond measure."

Another reference to how many Vortigaunts were killed by Freeman, while at the same time he freed the entire race from control.

• "We are there still, in observance of your final stroke."
• "While our own lay scattered at your feet, you severed the vortal cord that bound the Nihilanth to life, and to us."

Reference to the Vortigaunts who appeared in the Nihilanth's chamber to try to stop your destryoing him.

• "That sharp spur of hope has not dulled to this day. For once the lesser master lay defeated, we knew the greater must also fall in time."

"The lesser master" may be referring to the Nihilanth, and the greater the Combine that fought against him, or even some still unknown enemy.

• "With you beside us, a talisman of victory, the day of freedom draws nigh."
• "Your bright face obscures your darker mask."
• "We call you sib, although your mind and meaning are a mystery to us. "
• "Far distant eyes look out through yours."

Possibly breaking the fourth wall, meaning that the "far distant eyes" are the eyes of the person playing the game, or perhaps those of the G-Man.

• "Something secret steers us both. We shall not name it."

Perhaps again breaking of the fourth wall, or another reference to the G-Man.

• "We have endured these chafing bonds for eons, yet a single moment of further servitude seems intolerable!"
• "How often have we slipped our yoke, only to find it choking us again."
• "Let this war end in either total victory or our extinction. No further compromise shall we allow."
• "We take our stand beside you, here, upon this miserable rock."
• "The way ahead is dark for the moment."
• "What seems to you a sacrifice is merely, to us, an oscillation. We do not fear the interval of darkness."
• "We are a tapestry woven of vortessence. It is the same for you if only you would see it."
• "How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?"

Again, a possible reference to the players of the game.Or, more likely, a reference to the members of the resistance in-game.

• "Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share."

Yet another possible reference to the players of the game.

• "We are you, Freeman. And you are us."
• "We have lost all dear to us."
• "The Combine will pay in kind for their depravity."
• "Hope is in sight."
• "This marks a turning point."
• "Such pessimism will doom us all."
• "We have survived darker times."
• "Our finest poet describes it thus: Gallum galla gilla ma."
• "You humans, always in the validity."
• "We deem this company inviolable."
• "Your companionship is greatly belabored."
• "Freeman, we could be of use to you."
• "We shall share the vortessence."
• "Our life is worthless unless spent on freedom."
• "We never dreamed to meet you in corporeal form."
• "Where to, now? And to what end?"

 

[Sparda]

Never daw hom.

 

[Adabiviak]

I think it's the same batch of lines that the Vortigaunt in the drainpipe has. Odd that one you'd have to noclip to will respond to the player though.

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

You could get there without noclipping. You lose lots of health from the toxic water, though.

 

[Lightice]

I heard all that stuff from the vortigaunt, who fixes your airboat. There is no need to risk toxic water to hear those things.

 

[bbson john]

I heard all that stuff from the vortigaunt, who fixes your airboat. There is no need to risk toxic water to hear those things.

the one there in the pipe speaks extra words.
they are "coughing" and "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"