Epistle 3 https://t.co/8BEG25AV7A — Marc Laidlaw (@marc_laidlaw) August 25, 2017 My website's down for now. I guess fanfic is popular, even a genderswapped snapshot of a dream I had many years ago. — Marc Laidlaw (@marc_laidlaw) August 25, 2017 With some light editing to change a few key names --"Gertrude Freemont, Ph.D" -- the post lays out a plotline for an Episode Three that never appeared. It's hard to say if it will give gamers any closure after all this time, but you can also check it out with the names corrected on Pastebin. Unsurprisingly, Alyx Vance and G-Man are right back in play but we won't spoil how things end here.

Valve CEO Gabe Newell has talked about the unreleased game many times over the last decade, although mentions have become rarer in the last few years. Even if this Epistle represents "fanfic" as Laidlaw calls it, it may be the closest thing to a resolution gamers ever get.