[7th Portal] Cara Mia Addio Encore

[jumpsuited_rat]

Action - 850 Goldberg

[Chell opens the door to find 3 packages of varying sizes, one small and rather flat, one medium-large one, and one quite large one of a suspicious size.

She opens the small one first to find her clothes from Aperture. She doesn't plan on wearing them again, but they could come in handy later, you never know. The next one contains her portal gun. She hasn't seen many places that portals could be placed on, but if there were any, it'd be very useful.

Finally, Chell turns to the last one. It's about as tall as a turret, so that's what's got her worried. It's a bit wider, though, so she's not sure what to make of that. She circles the box, knocking on it to see if she can get any information that way.

She assumes that if it was a turret, the gun portion would be facing towards the door, so she tips the box over so that if there was a turret inside, it'd now be facing the ground instead.

Chell pries the box open and discovers that not only is it a turret, but it's the oversized turret that she had seen a few times. It had never attacked her or anyone else that she saw, it just somehow used the elevator and oversaw some of the other turrets when they were making music.

It's an odd choice of something to be returned to her, so she shrugs, just leaves it where it is, and goes back inside the house.

She sets her clothes on the Companion Cube, and when she turns around, the turret is standing in front of her. Chell dives beside the couch and peers around at the turret. The turret doesn't make any movements, it doesn't even have a red laser sight for targeting, it just stands there, staring blankly.

Chell waves her hand at the turret, and it still doesn't move. She shrugs to herself and stands up, walking past it and over to the curtains. She turns her back to the turret and pulls off a long strip of cloth and goes to work using it as a strap for the portal gun. She doesn't want to leave it in the house alone with Cliff and carrying it with her hands would get old, so this was a nice compromise.

When she turns around to head for the door, once more the turret stands staring at her. Chell frowns at it and decides that if anyone would know what's going on, it'd be GLaDOS.

She leaves the house and heads down the street.]

Action - Around Town - The streets on the way to 1450 Mitchell Road

[If you're walking down the street or peeking out a window, you may see Chell being followed by a large turret. You never see the turret move, however, if you take your eyes off of it for even a second, it'll suddenly be further down the street and closer to Chell.]

Action - 1450 Mitchell Road

[Chell finally arrives at GLaDOS' house and starts banging on the door, she's got a frustrated expression on her face as she does so.

The turret is waiting quietly behind her and may not be seen at first glance.]

Comments

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell gives him a short nod in return to his wave, she's not much in the mood for pleasantries at the moment.

When Gentarou catches up and asks about the turret, she glances back behind her to make sure it's still there, and she nods emphatically.

Chell has a personal rule about not speaking to and around robots, so she's going to stay silent. For all she knows, it could report back to GLaDOS what she was saying.]

[cosmicbond]

Man...that's kinda creepy.

[It'll move again while his head is turned.]

It's like a creepy game of look away.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell gives a small double nod and then shakes her head, shrugging slightly. She's baffled about the whole thing and it probably shows.]

[cosmicbond]

I-is it dangerous?

[He can't take his eyes off of it. Maybe that's for the best...]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shakes her head back and forth and shrugs. So far, it hasn't attacked her, but it is a turret after all, and shooting things is what they do best.]

[cosmicbond]

Well that's good I guess. Better creepy than creepy and tryin' ta hurt ya.

[His smile will come back.]

I ain't got your name. I'm Gentarou Kisaragi. Nice ta meet ya!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[She nods in agreement, then writes in her notebook and holds it up to show him.

Her handwriting is messy, but still legible, "I'm Chell. I don't talk around robots."]

[cosmicbond]

Oh. Gotcha. I can see why.

[If this was what ALL robots were like around her, he wouldn't talk either in her place.]

Just what kinda robot IS that anyway? It looks like a camera tripod.

[And reminds him of an egg-version of Burgermeal.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Unfortunately, this is actually the least of what robots have done to her.

She writes again and holds the notebook up, "It's a turret. They're designed to shoot things. This one's bigger than the others, but I've never seen it shoot anything."]

[cosmicbond]

Turret.

[He'll examine it a bit. He does wish he had the Camera Switch with him to get a better look at it.]

Oi! Turret! What do you want with her anyway?

[Yes Gen. TALKING to the big gun-on-legs that only moves when you're not looking is gonna work SO well.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[The oversized turret is just going to sit there unresponsively. It's probably made creepier by the fact that it cannot blink. It could nothing more than a giant paperweight if you didn't know better.

Chell scribbles down something else, "Usually they talk. This one is silent, except when it played music with the others once."]

[cosmicbond]

Music? That's somethin' you wouldn't expect outta a big gun, that's for sure.

[He tempted to go up and rap it on the head.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods thoughtfully and writes once more, "I heard a few of them practicing. Then all of them played music. Including one that was several stories tall.

I think it was a goodbye song."]

[cosmicbond]

Goodbye?

Hmmm....

[Now he's getting an opposite idea of what he was initially thinking.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell takes more time to write her response, thinking things over carefully and trying to decide the best way to word things so he'd understand, "I had been trapped in a laboratory for a long time. The computer that ran the facility finally let me leave. On the way out, the turrets played a song. And one of them sang. It might have been this one."]

Aggg....dang wrong account!

[cosmicbond]

Then...it misses you.

[His grin just got wider.]

I think you somehow became it's bud!

No worries!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks on this with an odd expression on her face for a few seconds, then shrugs awkwardly. She shakes her head as she writes down her response, "I didn't interact with it, though. There was one I saved from being destroyed, but this isn't it."]

Re: No worries!

[cosmicbond]

Well, maybe that one you saved was that ones bud. So it began to like you as a result! That's the power of friendship in a nutshell!

[He'll look back at the thing...which got closer again, just grinning at it.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks on this and writes again, "Maybe. It's the only thing that makes sense." She glances at the turret again and shakes her head, "This one is the only one that follows like that."]

[cosmicbond]

Well...there's not many of those things here, are there?

[Doesn't look like the Mayfield style of freaky-stuff.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks for a moment, tapping her pen against her cheek before writing again, "I know GLaDOS had two last I saw. I wouldn't be surprised if she had more by now, though."]

[cosmicbond]

Glados? Why does that name sound familiar?

[Gen...she's one of your school's teachers...]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell wrote a response, "She's the computer that oversaw the laboratory. She lives on Mitchell Road. I'm going to ask her about this turret."]

[cosmicbond]

Huh. I think I would remember a computer...

[Oh well.]

Probably a good idea, if she made 'em.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks for a moment, then writes her response, "She was turned into a human when she came here."

It was rather strange to see GLaDOS as a human, but she had almost gotten used to it.]