Ravenholm
Ravenholm is a suburb of City 17 in the video game Half-Life 2. Unlike other parts of the city that the player sees, this area has been infested by headcrabs and their zombie-like mutations. Gordon Freeman, the main character, is forced to go through Ravenholm when the Combine attack Black Mesa East. Not much information is given about exactly what happened in this part of the city, other than the ominous phrase "We don't go there anymore," said by Alyx Vance, one of the characters the player meets in the game. There are scattered clues as to what most likely happened, however. Throughout Ravenholm, there are spent artillery shells in various areas. One can surmise that the area underwent a huge shelling, flooding it with headcrabs, and turning most of the populace into mindless headcrab zombies. Considering the large Resistance presence in the area, with their main base, Black Mesa East, almost directly under the town, it is not difficult to see why the Combine would shell it. While fighting off hordes of zombies, Gordon Freeman runs into the lone human occupant of Ravenholm, the local church's priest-turned-zombie hunter, Father Grigori, who occasionally provides assistance. Ravenholm is littered with large sawblades, gas cans, and booby traps that have been contrived by Father Grigori to hack and burn the zombies.
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