Purple doesn’t know if her host had a name, or what it liked being called, so now she is Purple. She is Purple, she is crawling through the vents, and she is going to eat the wiring in Electrical. Purple is, in a word, hungry.

do computers dream of electric sheep? the thing that was turned into an antagonist dreams of a clay house near a beach, and looks through a webcam at an unpixellated world he cannot yet comprehend.

Black Mesa is a small town, and there’s never been much of a need for names, so the arcade’s actual name – if it ever had one – is entirely unknown to the kids. Including the Friday regulars, who always go straight to Mortal Kombat in the corner, one at a time, and bicker about if whoever got there first should let the other kid even touch the joysticks.