[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

[party_hard]

But why would they need to do that when there are LOTS of talking animals out there already?

[Silly scientists wanting to waste time...]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell writes to Pinkie, "There aren't talking animals where I come from."]

[party_hard]

Wow, a lot of people say that but it's just so weird!

[She giggles.]

Then again, we don't have any humans where I come from, so I guess we're even!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks on this, "Good point."

It does make sense, in a weird sort of way. Were there never any humans, or had the humans all died out?

Or had there been an Animal King Takeover like Aperture claimed there would be?]

[party_hard]

That's one neat thing about this place! You get to find out where everypony came from and it's always really weird and different!

And sometimes, you see things that aren't even humans or ponies! I met a SALARIAN once! I think I'm the first pony EVER to do that!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and writes down, "What's a Salarian?"

She's met some interesting people here as well, sometimes under strange circumstances.]

[party_hard]

They come from a place called Sur'Keh! And they're this big, and they've got big, black eyes, and they're kind of pale!

[There is frantic gesturing accompanying all this like she's trying to use her hooves to talk.]

He knew really awesome songs, too!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell pays attention to Pinkie's colorful description, but doesn't really know any more than before.

Lacking anything else, she writes out, "Did you sing together?"]

[party_hard]

We didn't sing TOGETHER together because he was teaching me new things! And you can't sing new things right away because then you're in the middle of learning them!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks this over and nods before writing, "Makes sense. How many songs did he teach you?"]

[party_hard]

Just one, but was really awesome and it was written by someponies named Gilbert and Sullivan, and he said they wrote LOTS MORE awesome songs!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks for a moment, then writes down, "I don't think I've heard anything by them. I haven't heard much music, actually."]


[[Sorry about the slow reply, I was at a convention for the weekend!]]

[party_hard]

You haven't heard much music?! Did you hear that, Gummy? She hasn't heard much music!

[Gummy can only blink at the horror.]

You need to come with me right away, and I'll show you a whole bunch of great music! Ooh! I might need to find a kazoo somewhere...it's too bad I didn't stash any away in case of kazoo emergency!

[[It's cool! My inbox ate this notification so I think we're even. ^^;; ]]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell blinks as well and writes down in response, "It's not an emergency, there's no hurry."

She wasn't sure why not hearing much music was such a problem.]


[[Hee hee, bad inbox! Don't eat all the notifications!]]

[party_hard]

But music is IMPORTANT! We need to get you some right away so you can start in on knowing just how great it is!

[[I bump things when I check mail on my phone sometimes. I think that's what happened. DX]]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shrugs and writes out, "If it's that important to you, I'm not really doing anything right now."]

[[Ah, yeah, I do that too! It's so easy to accidentally poke things on the phone.]]

[party_hard]

YES! It's really, REALLY important! Come on, Gummy, let's take Chell and Carl over to the house to show them some music!

[It really was too bad she hadn't stashed any kazoos anywhere.

At any rate, Gummy docilely clamps back onto Pinkie's tail, and Pinkie will begin nudging Chell in the direction of Kramden.]

[[Easiest thing ever. DX]]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shrugs and lets Pinkie guide her towards the house. The turret will follow along by its usual teleporting when nobody's looking.]

[[Phones are just so touchy! D: ]]

[party_hard]

[Pinkie will happily lead Chell to her house, barging inside and cheerfully ignoring the drone kid (who at least politely greets Chell) before trotting into the basement.]

Come on! I have LOTS of great instruments down here!

[[But the important thing is that at least I found the tag again! 8D]]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell just nods to the kid in return and keeps following Pinkie. The house is pretty much identical to the one she's staying in, so she weirdly almost feels at home there.

She raises an eyebrow, how many instruments did Pinkie have?]

[[Yes indeed! :D]]

[party_hard]

[Upon entering the basement, Chell will see a HUGE pile of random instruments...including a piano. (Exactly how Pinkie got the piano down there is probably a story best left untold.) Gummy hops off to one side as Pinkie rushes the pile.]

Should I try this one first? Or this one? Or ooooh, maybe THIS one!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell wasn't expecting that many instruments in such a variety, so she's just standing and staring (with the turret right behind her) at the musical mess. She's pretty sure she's never even heard of some of the instruments present before.]

[party_hard]

[Pinkie has, at this point, literally dived into the pile of instruments, and she soon pops out holding a ukulele. (Best not to question how she's doing this with hooves.)]

How do you like this one?

[And she'll start enthusiastically playing that ukulele. With hooves. The music itself isn't bad, at least. She knows what she's doing!]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell doesn't have much of an opinion on which instrument Pinkie shows her first, she's just going to go with the flow.

She's very impressed and possibly a little baffled that a talking pony is able to play the ukulele and so well.]

[party_hard]

See? That's a ukulele, it makes way different sorts of music than some of this other stuff!

[There's a bit more rummaging, and Pinkie's got a setup involving some drums, a tuba, and a xylophone. She will now begin to play all three of them at once. It's "Flight of the Valkyries."]