BWL Development

FG Story Archives

This page is dedicated to the early years of this site when it was simply “Friendly Garg’s Stories”. As we move away from the old days and turn the site into my own vision of a site dedicated to creativity, we don’t want to remove all of the old fan-favorite stories, GargArena, or other fond memories.

The original HL Stories and the very first HL 2 Stories can be found further down the page. And GargArena is located at the bottom.

Internet Archive Flashback

Here’s a quick trip down memory lane as we look back on the early days of Friendly Garg’s Stories thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Friendly Garg’s Website 2001
Friendly Garg June 2002
The Gargaholics June 2003
The Garg-o-holics June 2004
Garg-O-Holics Portal March 2005
- Largely broken CSS code and graphics
Bored With Life July 2006
- The end of Friendly Garg’s Stories. BWL Development is born.

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The Wildcat’s History Review

My own history posts regarding Friendly Garg’s Stories

The History of BWL
Forum Archeological Discovery

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Archived Stories

Half-Life

Team Made Stories:

– Barney Time by Friendly Garg

– Barney Time 2: A Second Chance by Friendly Garg

– Barney Time 3: Flashbacks by Friendly Garg

– Barney Time 4: The Real Story by Friendly Garg

– Barney Time 5: Mission Accomplished by Friendly Garg

– Scientists Go Online by Friendly Garg

– Natural Xen Killers by Bizarre Freak

– Fear of Future by Devil1

– Mission: Radiation by Devil1

– Walter’s World by Blah

– BMRF Holiday by Blah

– Barney’s Unlucky Day: Part 1 by Blah

– Barney’s Unlucky Day: Part 2 by Blah

– Doomsday by Praetorian

Fan Made Stories:

– A Day in the Life of Barney Calhoun by The_Unknown_One

– A Classic Short by Chum Toad

– Where is Walter? by Jebus

– Mr T Vs Half-Life by Colin

– Fizzed Soda by Runawayscientist

– Light Shadow vs Dark Shadow by Dark Shadow

– Dark Ops by I Love Big Guns

– Illusions by Fr0stBlade

– Fluffy the Alligator Pet by Dark Shadow

– Invasion by R. Tarrman

– On the Run: Part 1 by Solidus Snake

– On the Run: Part 2 by Solidus Snake

Specials Stories:

– Einstein At Work by The Garg-o-holics
A story by the forum regulars in a complete the comic game.

– Xen Creatures by The Garg-o-holics

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Half-Life 2

Team Made Stories:

– Lost in the Desert by Friendly Garg

Barney Time Source:

– The Intro by Friendly Garg

– Yet Another Chance by Friendly Garg

Fan Made Stories:

Kiss of the GMan:

– Compromised by SerenadeGX4

– The Ballad of the Fallen Angels by SerenadeGX4

– The Virtue by SerenadeGX4

– The Provisioner by SerenadeGX4

– The Beginning of the End by SerenadeGX4

– Good Bye Ed by SerenadeGX4

Please note, Chapter 5 of this saga was never completed and the story itself is incomplete.

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Video

gArgh Movies!

The Garg-o-holics movement!

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Images

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Barney Time 5 A by Praetorian

Barney Time 5 B by Praetorian

Barney Time 5 C by Praetorian

Barney Time 5 D by Praetorian

Walter Dance by The Wildcat

Cookies Trouble by The Wildcat

Shorts by Praetorian

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Fan Fiction

Barney Calhoun’s Birthday Party

by Ghost Calhoun

Everyone is preparing a suprise party for Barney Calhoun, Security Gaurd of the month. This takes place after the whole big incident with the world of Xen, and it has signed a treaty with Earth.

Walter: Ok! Ok! Places everyone! I hear him coming!

*Door creeks open*

Barney: God, why is it so damn dark in this room?

*Turns on light*

Barney: Hello? Walter? Luther? Steve?
EVERYONE: SUPRISE!!!
Barney: Ahhhh!

*Barney shoots a votigrunt*

Walter: OH DEAR! Um…suprise Mr. Calhoun.
Barney: Oops! Sorry about that! So, how is everyone?
Steve: Well, since we all knew you were turning 30, we decided to-….OH MY GOD!!!

*Looks at corner of room to find 3 headcrabs gettin’ tha frekay on*

Luther: Hey! Reminds me of last night with my wife
Barney: …I’LL PRETEND I DIDN’T HEAR THAT!
Alien Grunt: Barney… open… present

*Alien Grunt gives Barney a gift, Barney opens it*

Barney: Wow! A new…uh…a new…er…what the F*$# IS THIS!?
Alien Grunt: Poopy…paper
Barney: POOPY PAPER?! MAN, WHAT-THE-F*^$ IS WRONG WITH YOU!?
Walter: Let’s calm down
Barney: Calm down?! This…thing, travels 13 billion light-years to Earth just to give me Toilet..or as Mr. Bowel expert likes to call it…”Poopy paper!!?”
Luther: HAHAHA! Thats rich!

*Alien grunt runs off crying*

Shepard: GO! RECON!

*A group of military grunts storm the room*

Barney: Oh great, what now?
Shepard: SIR! WE ARE GOING TO SING A SONG! SIR!

*clears throat*

Shepard and Military group at once: Calhoun! He is a great maaaan! He shoots you in the heaaaaaad!
Barney: STOP! STOP! STOP! THATS AWFUL! GET OUT NOW!

*They leave….Gordon Freeman walks in late*

Gordon:…
Barney: Yes?
Gordon:…
Barney: DON’T YOU EVER TALK!?!?!
Gordon:…
Walter: Gordon, did you bring a gift?
Gordon:…
Walter: Ah! Good!
Barney: What the hell!? Walter…he isn’t saying anything!
Walter: Yes he is, he just told me he bought you a HUGE gift.
Barney: Is that true Freeman?
Gordon: …
Barney: I think this guy is on acid or some crazy shit.

*Barney shoots Gordon in the head and Gordon dies*

LOADING…

*Gordon is back standing there again*

Barney: What the f$@$ just happend?
Luther: Some sort of time lapse or something?
Walter: No…it’s…THE PLAYER.
Steve: Speaking of players, me and the Garg went downtown and got some fine ass lookin’ hoes and-…..maybe I should shut up.
Luther: Now Barney, you will LOVE this next suprise we have for you! Bring her out Steve!

*Steve brings out a women in tight black leather*

Barney: This is what im talkin’ ’bout!

*Stipper dose a dance in front of Steve and shoots him in the head with her silenced 9mm*

Walter: WWWWOOOOOOWWWWW

*Stipper walks up to Barney*

Barney: Yeah baby! Shake it! Whoooo!

*The stipper’s infa-red goggles lock onto Otis and then she runs away horrified*

Walter: Hmmm…she left her goggles behind…DEAR GOD!

*Walter looks at Otis and Otis is actually a woman!*

Walter: These arn’t infa-red! These are X-RAY!

CONSOLE
Sv_Cheats 1

Barney: WTF IS THAT!? It’s right above our heads! A black thing with yellow text?
Luther: Thats….THE PLAYER.
Barney: Who gives a $h!t who it is?

Impulse 101

Barney: WHOA!!! I HAVE ALL THESE KICK A$$ WEAPONS NOW! COOL!
G-Man: Interesssssssting…
Barney: Oh god, it’s G-String…er…G-Man.
G-Man: I have a presssssent of you…it’sssssss a portal to a tropical island that isssssss filled with ladiessssss galore.
Barney: Hell yeah!

*Barney steps into portal and gets zapped to Xen*

Barney: Hmmmm….what is that?!
Big Momma: MUHAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!
Barney: Jesus Christ!….Hey…you are kind’a cute.
Big Momma: MMUAAAAAAAHHHHH!
Barney: Lets go into that cave over there hot stuff.

Barney and Big Momma had 4000 headcrab babies, Barney is now living on Xen and gambles on Snark races.

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GargArena

Black Mesa is no more. Welcome to GargArena. The arena is our last chance to halt the invasion.

Mankind is facing a continued wave of portal storms that dump xenian life forms onto our planet. These creatures are growing in intelligence. They have started to make strategic assaults on humanity.

The smaller beasts are insignificant, but a new xenian threat has been dispatched. Dozens of the gargantuan monsters have been gathered into one unstoppable task force. As a unit, they take any outpost they desire.

The leader and manufacturers of this sudden xenian invasion are unknown. The gargs are storming our bases and claiming our supplies and technology.

Humanity has but one hope. Our scientists have developed a mechanical equivalent of the gargantuans. These robo-gargs are our last hope.

ModDB Archive

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Weapons:

FLAMETHROWER This is the main weapon of the game. It works best at short/medium range. NB: Using the flamethrower causes the player to heat up. Once the heat bar is full damage is taken.

STOMP ATTACK This attack creates a shockwave, that will do damage at close range. It produces no heat and is a powerful attack that can hurt many players at once. NB: No heat is produced by this attack.

LASER VISION This is the long range weapon of the game. The primary attack is a quick firing laser, which does minimal splash damage. The secondary attack is slow to charge and can cause devastating damage. It is a larger laser pulse that is enough to almost destroy a garg. But it blinds you temporarily. NB: Using the primary attack does not cause the player to heat up. The secondary attack fills half the heat bar.

STICKY FOG GRENADE Not so much a grenade, but it’s difficult to describe. It fires an organic missile which sticks to any wall it hits. Then it releases a gas fog, which does slow damage and also blinds the player. It also works as a handy way to provide cover. NB: There is no heat produced by this weapon.

REGENERATION This allows the player to slowly regenerate health or coolant. The lower the value, the faster it will rise. NB: There is no heat produced by function.

Gameplay:

As decided by the map you play, you can either play a simple Team Deathmatch. The team with the most kills at the end of the map wins.

Or the map will be mission based in which you need to achieve an objective. This can be either reaching the end of a maze, or completing tasks. Both versions of mission based maps have time limits.