[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 puts the gun back down at her side and retrieves the notebook.

She then writes, "It only works on flat concrete surfaces. It'd also leave two portals somewhere around town. The turret follows me no matter what."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Ah. Hn.

Guess that's somethin' that's more useful back home. Like my camper. Nice t' have, but don't really need it when I've got my own house.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods, then scribbles down, "There isn't many places in town that it works on, but you never know when it might come in handy."]

Spam ate this. It wants mayfield to end AND I WON'T LET IT.

[bye_to_yer_head]

Maybe you can find a use fer this contraption followin' you around. Make it carry stuff for ya.

Nooo, bad spam! We need Mayfield to continue!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks this over, then nods, writing down, "I could stick a bag or two on it and stuff things in them."

That was a pretty good idea, really, it'd make the stupid thing actually useful.]

We're single handedly keeping the dream alive.

[bye_to_yer_head]

It jus' needs a backpack. Could carry extra ammo, snacks, whatever you think you need. Plus it's pretty sturdy, you could have it carry things that are too hot or too cold, or maybe really heavy things.

Because of us, it's still alive!

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell taps her foot slightly as she mulls over this before writing, "The weight would have to be distributed evenly, so it wouldn't tip over."

Since it teleported, if the turret did fall over, it wouldn't be too much of a problem, but it could jostle the contents of the bag and possibly cause them to spill out.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Roight, cos they don't work if they fall over.

Think you could get it workin' again? Make it shoot things? Might be handy t' have around should we be invaded again.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell shrugs and quickly writes, "I could give it a look, but if anyone knows how to fix it, it'd be GLaDOS." She did like the idea of having a turret that could shoot enemies, but then, there was also the chance of it shooting her.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

From all yer sayin' she sounds like she might make it do somethin' t' spy on you. Put a camera in it, or make it shoot ya.

Too bad Truckie ain't here anymore, he'd probably be able to fix it in a jif.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods, then scrawls, "It's from her lab, so it probably already has a camera in it. Though, that doesn't explain why it isn't shooting me."

This was a strange puzzle, but Chell'd get to the bottom of it, one way or another. She just had to find all the pieces and put them together in the proper order.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Maybe it's busted.

You know, maybe takin' it back to her ain't such a good idea.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods, pausing for a moment before writing down, "I wanted her to make it stop following me. She'd know why it's doing that."

He did have a good point. Her and GLaDOS had something of a truce going on right now, but essentially handing the AI a weapon wouldn't exactly be the smartest thing to do.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Yeah? And she might also know why it's not shootin' ya and fix that instead.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks for a long time on this, tapping her foot as she tried to figure out why she was willing to trust GLaDOS with this. Finally, she slowly writes down, "We have a truce. If she wanted me dead, she could have killed me long ago. She has turrets of her own here, she doesn't need this one if she's going to shoot me."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Guess that makes sense. 'Specially if she's the only one what knows how t' fix this contraption. Jus' don't get yerself killed in th' process.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and writes down precisely, "I don't plan on it."

She then adds underneath, "I've got my portal gun and I can survive several bullets."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Survivin' several bullets don't mean it's fun t' have them in ya.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell writes back casually, "I have to agree with you there. I seem to be a quick healer, though."]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Hn. Would be nice if they had dispensers like where I come from. Heals ya right up, instantly. But Truckie don't seem t' be around any more, and he's the one what makes 'em.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell looks interested in this information and quickly scrawls down, "Dispensers? Did he make any here before leaving?"

If there was a way to speed-heal, that'd greatly come in handy.]

[bye_to_yer_head]

A couple. Had 'em in his garage. But I dunno if they'd still be there.

*Little does BLU know that Engineer's roommate was GLaDOS.]

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell thinks this over, before rapidly writing, "Do you know where his garage is?"]

[bye_to_yer_head]

Sure. It's actually th' same way we're goin'. We an hit it up on th' way.

[jumpsuited_rat]

[Chell nods and scribbles down, "Sounds good to me." She was curious about the dispensers he had mentioned, if they were lucky, they'd still be in the garage.]