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.]

Action - Around Mayfield - Inside and Outside Stores

[After her discussion with Henry, Chell started making plans. The first thing she needed to do was to get some general supplies.

Her shopping list included a bag to carry the supplies, small food, a first-aid kid, and a gun and ammo.

The first three items were easy to find and obtain with little trouble, but the last one was proving to be a struggle.

The drone selling guns refused to help her at all. She in turn, refused to leave until he threatened to call the police on her.

Now, she's standing in front of the gun store with her arms crossed and glaring at it. If she's going to go on a mission, she wants a gun of some sort. The portal gun had yet to appear, so she'd have to make do with a normal one. If she could obtain it.]


[OOC: Feel free to come across her at any point during her shopping trip!]

[Action - The Bakery]

[a. Outside Mayfield Hospital-back dated to January 31st]

[Poland's standing outside Mayfield hospital with a cardboard box over his head while clutching to a prescription pad and a pen. He swiped the prescription pad off a counter and found the box in a hospital supply closet. No matter what, he's not taking that box off his head. He doesn't want anyone to see what that terrible doctor did to him, even if it means he has to walk home blind. There wasn't anything he could get his hands on that was sharp enough to cut through the box, so it lacks eye holes for him to see out of.

Hopefully he'll manage to find his way back to his house, stumbling around stubbornly along the sidewalk.]

[b. 1332 Benny Road]

[Only after getting inside his house, closing and locking the door and pulling all the drapes closed on the windows does he hesitantly take the box off.

In place of his head, rests a pony head sewn to his neck with infected sutures.

Poland knows that cleaning the stitches is important, the incision wound is still oozing slightly of blood and yellow pus and it's been causing him a lot of pain and nausea, making him feel disorientated. He digs around the house for something to sanitize them with, pulling apart the cabinet under the kitchen sink for peroxide or betadine... when he feels something brush up against his back, gently.

Poland nickers something softly, to say "not right now," since he can't verbalize the words thanks to his new appendage, but it brushes up against him again. Turning he expects to see his pet pony trying to comfort him.

Instead he turns suddenly realizing where Dr. Johnson had gotten the decapitated equine head now sewn onto his shoulders. He was face to face with his own human head sewn on to Mr. Pony's body.

Even with everything in his house shut, locked, and hidden away; Poland's horrified scream echos through the neighborhood.]

[c. Phone]
...
[Oh, right. Poland can only make pony noises. The phone is utterly useless to him.]

[Click.]

[Action - Outside hospital, inside the front of the hospital, and all around town - Backdated to January 29th]

[After spending the 28th trapped in the factory no matter how much she tried to escape, Chell was finally set free and found herself unexplainably in front of the hospital upon leaving the Factory on the 29th.

Her time in the Factory was marked by a drastic change, she didn't know how it happened, but Chell had woken up in a vastly different body. Instead of being a human, she was now a somewhat sturdier robot. Her new form is plain white and the only distinguishable features are the eyes. If someone had met Chell before, the only way they could tell that this robot was her would be her body language and the way she walks.

Even though the robot body has no mouth, there's a voicebox that will allow her to speak if she chooses. However, the robotic voice will not sound anything like her original one.

She doesn't seem too upset about her situation and she'd be frustrated about that, if she could fully feel emotions.

Even so, Chell knows this isn't normal and is going to resume her quest to figure out what exactly happened to her and how she can reverse it.

Her first act back in town is going to be to turn around and look back in the hospital. Once she sees that this isn't the Factory, she's going to exit and start wandering the town, looking for the mysterious building where her transformation took place.]