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“Epistle 3” was a blog post written by Marc Laidlaw, former employee of Valve Corporation and the writer of the Half-Life games, on the 25th of August, 2017. The blog post appears to detail ...
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Epistle Three is the name of a plot outline posted by Marc Laidlaw on his personal site. It represents a snapshot of what Episode Three could have been before his departure from Valve. Note that it is only one of many potential futures, and as history shows (with Half-Life and Half-Life: Alyx), the plot of the game can be revised even as little as ...
The original post on his website appears to have been deleted by Laidlaw some time around June 2022, as indicated by Wayback Machine captures. In a 2023 interview, Laidlaw stated he regretted publishing Epistle 3, something he felt caused problems for his former colleagues at Valve.
•Epistle 3 on Marc Laidlaw's homepage (defunct, archived version)
•Corrected version on GitHub (defunct)
1.Epistle 3 on Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive. Retrieved February 11, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/
2.Peel, Jeremy, March 1, 2023: “The narrative had to be baked into the corridors”: Marc Laidlaw on writing Half-Life from Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved February 11, 2024, from https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-narrative-had-to-be-baked-into-the-corridors-marc-laidlaw-on-writing-half-life
Epistle 3. This article is non-canon. The subject matter of this article does not take place in the "real" Half-Life and Portal universe and is considered non-canon. Concept art from Episode Three depicting a crashed helicopter in the Arctic. Epistle 3 is a short story set in the Half-Life universe written by series writer Marc Laidlaw .
Mar 2, 2023 · Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007) Image: Valve. Six years ago, former Valve and Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw posted a fictional letter on his website that sure read a lot like an outline for the ...
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Epistle 3 Main article: Epistle Three On August 25, 2017, Marc Laidlaw abruptly published a document entitled Epistle 3 , which he described as a "genderswapped snapshot of a dream I had many years ago."
Aug 25, 2017 · Laidlaw’s “Epistle 3” is a letter from a fictional character named “Gertie Fremont,” who recounts her team-up with feisty partner “Alex Vaunt” (Alyx Vance) to find the “Hyperborea ...
Oct 8, 2021 · On 8-25-2017, Marc Laidlaw released on his personal blog a name-changed version of his vision of Episode 3. So far, it is the first and last direct release of Episode 3 story-related text. So far, it is the first and last direct release of Episode 3 story-related text.
