Portal Chapter 22

Just finished the last official chapter of my Portal novelization!  :D  There'll be one or two last updates for it posted to this journal, but that's it, it's done and over!  :D

It still needs editing and fixing up, but I'm going to wait until after Portal 2 to make it nice.  ^_^


-The final battle is even shorter than I thought.  XD  I knew the neurotoxin counter was 6
minutes, but I thought GLaDOS talked a little bit more before than she did.  XD
-My previous research on deadly neurotoxins causes me to think that chlorine gas is the 
closest deadly neurotoxin to the one in the game, and as such I'll be using its symptoms.
-Symptoms of breathing chlorine gas:
Stinging in throat and chest
Coughing and vomiting
Eye irritation
Damage to eyes, nose, throat and lungs
Death by asphyxiation
Dizziness

-Other notes on chlorine gas:
Strong odor
-Maybe need to go back and add more coughing and stuff.



Outside resources:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highly_toxic_gases
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_gas_in_World_War_I
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_chlorine_bombings_in_Iraq
- http://www.uky.edu/~holler/neurotox.html
- http://www.ihealthtube.com/aspx/article.aspx?id=2366
- http://ezinearticles.com/?Chlorine---Kills-All-Bacteria&id=643716
- http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/GLaDOS
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_System_Icing_Inhibitor
- 
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080723121311/http://www.laddarboretum.org/resources_sal
t.htm
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NSX/is_9_49/ai_n6200041/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphyxia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphyxiant_gas
-The sound files somebody uploaded

- http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Portal


( Chapter 22 is Flooded by Deadly Neurotoxin )

Word Count for This Chapter:  3,399

Still Alive (Portal Chapter 23)

It didn't feel right to have a Portal novelization without "Still Alive" finishing it up, so here it is, with one added sentence before it starts for flavor.  ^_^

"Still Alive" was written by Jonathan Coulton and sung by Ellen McLain.  This song belongs to them and Valve, I'm just transcribing it.  ^_^

( I'm Still Alive )

This Was a Triumph

Today was pretty great!  ^_^

My Tron book came from Canada today!  :D  And the great thing is, it's in NEARLY PERFECT CONDITION.  There's a few creases and stuff on the cover, but nothing really that bad.  THE SPINE ISN'T EVEN BROKEN IT'S LIKE NEW.  This book is older than me, I'm astounded that it still looks as good as it does, I wonder if anyone's even read it.  <3

We went to Krystal to eat, yum!  :D

I've been listening to this cover of Still Alive a good portion of the day.  :D  So awesome.

Played the Portal mode in Audiosurf, it is so cool.  :D  Chell gets a surfboard and there's companion cubes and it makes you play a song I love the first time you do anything when you load the game up.  XD

Pre-ordered Portal 2 and pre-loading it now.  There's strong rumors it might get released for play early.  :D

Since it might get out early, I decided to finish my Portal novelization.  :D

Chapter 22
Still Alive (Chapter 23)

Ahh, it's nice to finally have it done, though it needs a LOT of help, but that is going to wait until after Portal 2.  The main thing that's going to be added is awesoming up some of the portal transitions.  :D