[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

[bye_to_yer_head]

Strewth .... Over a year I'd think. There were cannibals maybe around this time last year though. That's kind of th' same thing.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell looks shocked and concerned at this revelation. Two years in a row, there had been things trying to eat people. After a moment, she recovers and slowly taps her pen against the notepad in thought.

She stops tapping to write down her conclusion, "So there's a good chance that something's going to attack soon."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

I'd say so. But I don't wanna in case th' town hears us.

But this is about when it usually happens.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods, there was no sense in giving the town any ideas.

She quickly writes down, "I'll keep a close eye on things and let you know if I see anything suspicious." If they worked together, they could get through the possible coming mess better.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Sounds good mate. An' I'll know the minute anythin' happens since my neighbor has taken it on himself t' protect th' city or somesuch. Thinks he's a superhero.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell raises an eyebrow and writes in response, "He thinks he's a superhero?"]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Steve somethin'. Thinks he's some super soldier that defends th' world. I dunno. Didn't make much sense so I stopped listening.

Always has parties with plenty of booze so I'm not complaining.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell hasn't run across anyone named Steve here yet. She's not sure if she should keep an eye out for him or avoid him because he's crazy. She's seen a lot of things here in Mayfield, it's possible the guy actually is a superhero. There was no way to tell without actually meeting.

She thinks for a moment, then writes down, "Where do you live?" If something did come up, she wanted to know where to find him.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

I'm over on Topper Street. 625.

I'd tell ya what it looks like, but they all pretty much look alike. Though at one point it was rainbow colored and said "Caboose doesn't live here" really big on th' side with blue paint.

Guess that got fixed when I was droned.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and writes down, "I'm at 850 Goldberg." She pauses and then writes underneath, "How did it get rainbow colored?"]

[bye_to_yer_head]

I didn't.

An' yer not gonna believe me if I tell ya.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shrugs and writes in the notebook, "I've probably heard stranger."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

A flying turquoise pony painted it with rainbow paint.

*He could not be more deadpan if he tried.*

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell stands back and takes this in, nodding slightly. She then writes for Sniper to read, "Must have been one of Pinkie Pie's friends."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Th' what now?

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell scrawls out a response, "Pinkie Pie's a pink pony. She's VERY enthusiastic."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

I'm assumin' she's pink then. Ain't met that one. Jus' the blue one that flies.

Didn't realize there was a whole herd of them.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and writes down, "She's mentioned her friends, but I don't know how many of them are here. I haven't seen the blue one."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Was blue with wings and some rainbow colored mane and tail. Had this paint that turned everything rainbow colors and dumped it on my house when I was on th' roof.

Took me a month t' get my hat to stop being yellow.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell blinks at this, that sounds annoying. She writes for Sniper, "How'd you finally get it out?"]

[bye_to_yer_head]

I'm not sure. Th' drone wife in my house did somethin' to it. Took a while, but it worked eventually.

The house was a rainbow fer even longer. I don't know what happened with that. Guess the town jus' fixed it one night. I sure didn't paint it.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell looks slightly surprised before she writes, "Didn't know the drones were good for anything."

All the ones she had encountered so far seemed fairly useless, especially because of the way they treated her since she was a girl.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Pretty sure she only fixed it because she thinks she's married t' me. Dunno why she helped considerin' I kept her locked in th' basement fer a good while.

The drones creep me out.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell can't help but smirk a little at his way of handling his drone wife. She hadn't had drone husbands for long and had instead opted to spend as little time as possible at home.

She writes down for him, "I like your style. I'm not fond of them myself."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

She didn't seem t' mind. On the bright side they're downright stupid and easy to get t' do what you want. The downside is they're even here at all.