The White Forest Inn

"Gordon, come on! Get inside!"

- Alyx Vance

The White Forest Inn is an abandoned inn found in the White Forest. During Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance pass through the area on their way to the White Forest base.

Features
The White Forest Inn is more of a small area than a single building. It includes several houses, storage buildings, and a gas station. The main building which contains a bar was probably used for lodging services before the Portal Storms and the Seven Hour War. In the years following the invasion, all of the buildings, including the Inn, were presumably looted and almost all items and possessions in each building were taken. When Gordon and Alyx visited the area, the buildings of the Inn were almost completely devoid of furniture of any kind.

Due to the abundance of supply crates stored in and around the Inn, and the discovery of a few dead bodies in the area, it appears that Resistance members used the area as an outpost at some point in the past, but either abandoned it for unknown reasons, or have been ambushed and killed by the Combine.

Events
In Half-Life 2: Episode Two's fifth chapter, Under the Radar, Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance find the tunnel on the main road sealed off by a Combine roadblock and are forced to take a detour through the village, straight into an ambush set by the Combine. They take cover in the Inn, where they are besieged by several squads of Overwatch Soldiers supported by Hunters. They eventually fight their attackers off, disable the forcefield blocking the exit from the village and escape. The firefight leaves the inn in even worse shape. Now it's filled with bullet holes, with the doors broken down and most of the windows smashed.