I’m playing a multiplayer arena shooting game on a snowy, nighttime map set on a sideways incline and dotted with low walls of server racks. there are yellow-green canisters of explosives lying around. the goal is to get to a diagonal labyrinth of transporters and move on to the next stage. i shoot a few npcs who look like HL2 combine and a player who is a kid, right after he visibly gloats having tagged an npc himself.