Vortigaunt

Previously known as alien slaves, Vortigaunts, or vorts, have assimilated themselves into the suppressed society existant in City 17.

Vort Quotes

• This is the Freeman. The Combine's reckoning has come.
• We never dreamed to meet you in corporeal form.
• The Eli Vance almost perceives the All-in-One.
• The Eli Vance was our first collaborator.
• The Eli Vance is indispensable to the liberation.
• Our finest poet describes it thus: Gallum galla gilla ma.
• We are mindful of the words of our greatest philosopher: companum gannennen vorgenot!
• The Combine will pay in kind for their depravity.
• We will put aside Black Mesa... for now.
• Is there reason for delay?
• You must remember us from Black Mesa.
• 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.

Vortigese

• Ah ghurrrr...
• Taaar...
• Riiit...
• Lung gah...
• Gong...
• Galanga...
• Ga la lung...
• Churr galing chur alla gung...
• Chur lung gong chella gurr...
• Hurrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Churrrrrrrrrrr---Koff! Hack! Wheeze!

Citizen Prejudices

Citizens do not naturally take to vortigaunts.

• Enough of your mumbo jumbo.
• Damn vorts.
• Speak English.
• That's why we put up with you.
• Something must be wrong with me, I almost understood that.
• None of your vort philosophy.
• Stop, you're killing me!
• What did I do to deserve this?
• Stop looking at me like that.
• Some things I just never get used to.
• I don't know how you things have survived as long as you have.
• Sometimes I wonder how I ended up with you.
• If anyone would have told me I'd be pals with a vortigaunt...