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NaNoWriMo: Chapter 20 (NaNoWriMo Complete!)
Just finished level 19/Chapter 20 of my Portal novelization! And with that, I've hit over 50,000 words and have finished NaNoWriMo! :D This will be the last chapter labeled as NaNoWriMo and keeping up with word count, I still have 2-ish left to write - all of the behind the scenes and the final battle. Not sure when I'll get around to it, just sometime before Portal 2 comes out. XD
Thanks for reading and putting up with this nonsense as I've worked on this project. I won't be as much of a pest about it now that NaNo is over. XD
I think I may just cry in relief that it's over and I made it and I'm not a failure. XD I've still gotta finish the rest of the story though. XD
I'd love any crit, advice, or comments about this chapter!
Chapter notes:
19
-Lassst normal chapter! After this is the "behind the scenes" and the final battle!
-:| I forgot exactly how short this level was, hopefully I can get enough words out of it to not have to start the next bit. XD
-Not sure if the description of the glitch is wonky or what.
-I hope I didn't have Chell figure out how to get the Pellet in too quickly.
-I've never played it before with a mouse. My mouse keeps getting hung up on the couch and it's hard to move. I kept having to reopen the door because I couldn't move Chell fast enough. XD
-Outside Resources:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/934386-portal/faqs - Ayelis' Game Script
The elevator stopped and the doors opened. The hallway in front of Chell was fairly short. There was an unlit information board on the wall across from where she was standing, then the hallway turned off to the right.
Chell exited the elevator and walked towards the board to see what would be in store for her for the final test. Since it was the last one, likely it was going to have all the hazards and be worse than the last couple of chambers.
As she neared the board, the voice spoke to her, "Welcome to the final test! When you are done, you will drop the Device in the equipment recovery annex... Enrichment Center regulations require both hands to be empty before any cake..." There was a glitch on the word cake, there was a distorted noise that sounded like something being rewound, then the voice said, "cake" several times rapidly.
This new revelation could cause her some problems. Upon reading the writings from the person before her, Chell had decided to keep the portal gun in case something went wrong and she needed to get out. If she had to give it up before a way out was provided, then she could be trapped here. She'd give up the cake if need be, in order to exit. She hoped there'd actually be a person she could talk to, instead of a disembodied voice that tended to have problems at the most inconvenient times.
She'd figure out what to do after the test was complete. Chell turned her attention to the board.
Strangely enough, only five of the ten squares were lit. The last three on the top row were highlighted; they were the two about the Pellets and the one showing a stick figure in the deadly liquid. The two on the bottom were the one warning against drinking the water and, most important of all, the cake square was finally lit.
This was it, the last barrier between her and something to eat and her freedom. She better get to work.
Even though there weren't as many hazards in this test, it was probably going to be tricky in its own right.
Chell rounded the corner and was greeted by the sound of a Pellet bouncing around.
Across the room, on the ground, were two slanted floor sections. Above the section on the left was the Pellet dispenser and above the one on the right was the collector.
A blue power line extended from the collector and across the ceiling. Chell followed it with her eyes and found that it connected to an Unstationary Scaffold near where she had entered.
The Scaffold, when activated, would follow a path around this room above a pool of the toxic liquid. It went straight back towards the wall on the right.
However, in the middle of the path she could see was a large, horizontal silver pillar holding up a section of wall. It would be in her way once she got on to ride the scaffold.
Looking closer, Chell saw that at the end of this part of the hallway was a small platform in the corner. She'd be able to place a portal there and avoid the pillar entirely.
She could see that the Scaffold's pathway continued somewhere to her right. There was a window of the room she was in that might show her where it went.
Chell made her way over to the window and looked out. Sure enough, she could see the dim glow of the unactivated Scaffold path. Directly in front of her, in a cubby in the wall, was a button on a stick.
She briefly wondered what the button activated, until she looked to her right. There was a door blocking the pathway. She'd have to use the button to open the door.
Chell looked back to the room she was in. Behind the tilted pieces of floor was a window that presumably showed the continued path the Scaffold would follow. Bouncing against the window was a Pellet; she'd have to redirect it somewhere out of her way so it wouldn't kill her.
So far, the things to come in the test didn't look so bad. She had gotten as much of a preview as she could get, so she watched the Pellet, trying to figure out how to get it in the collector.
The Pellet would bounce off the tilted floor piece, then hit the metal wall, and back to the section of the floor, and then finally hit the dispenser. It would bounce multiple times before exploding.
The wall directly across from the second section of floor was also made of metal, so she'd have to redirect the Pellet somehow. Since it could survive multiple bounces, what if she put a portal on the second floor piece, then moved it. It would then bounce off the wall, then the floor section, and to the collector, if all went well.
That seemed like the best course of action, so, Chell started off by placing a portal on the first section of floor, where the Pellet bounced off of. Then, she placed a portal on the second floor piece.
The Pellet rapidly bounced into the portal and out of the other one, striking the wall and flying back through the portal across to the other wall.
Chell waited until it entered the portal again, as soon as the Pellet did so, she removed the portal from the second floor section. The Pellet, after it bounced off the wall, bounced against the tilted piece of floor and up to the collector.
There was a crackle of electricity as the collector caught the Pellet. Chell then heard a hum and a beep as the Unstationary Scaffold started on its path.
Chell walked back over and looked out across where the Scaffold would go. She placed a portal on the wall by the platform in the corner, then put a portal to the wall on her left and stepped through.
She landed on metalwork grill platform and the Scaffold sailed underneath it, turning the corner and starting to head down the next part of the hallway.
Chell turned as well to look down that way. She could see a piece of the wall of the cubby where the button was, so she placed a portal there and stepped back through the one she had arrived on the platform from.
The button was close to her, so she stepped over to it and pressed it. There was a click as the door opened, then seconds later a buzzer sounded. Did she only have a handful of seconds to work the door?
She turned around and saw the door was finishing closing. Chell got as far away from the button as she could and still press it, then quickly reached over to hit it with her hand. She then rapidly turned around and looked around the corner.
She could see another spot where the Scaffold would turn to go down the hallway to the right. Chell quickly fired a portal there, right as the door closed again.
Chell looked over at the portal she had walked through to get to this point. She could see the glowing light that indicated where the platform would glide down the hallway. She could wait here for the Scaffold to come gliding past.
The Scaffold she had originally started with was nowhere in sight, she'd have to wait for another one to come down the path.
Chell had to wait a couple of minutes before another one showed up. It slid past where she was standing and made its way under the door. Once it got to where she was looking out to, Chell hopped through the portal and landed safely onto the moving platform.
She quickly turned to face down the hallway; the Pellet bouncing against the window was coming up fast.
Chell rapidly fired a portal at the spot it was impacting against the wall. Once the Pellet blasted through it, she placed both portals at a point below where she was riding, just in case. The Pellet thankfully didn't reappear and she continued riding the platform.
It kept going down the hallway and turned again at a corner. This time, the obstacle in the path was a solid wall.
Chell could see that around to the right was an exit sign, she was almost there. She quickly placed a portal close to the sign. She had one idea and hoped it would work.
Next, she put a portal on the wall a little ahead of the Scaffold. Once it got to her selected section, she carefully stepped through, gripping the edge of the portal with her toes and reaching out her left hand to steady herself.
Chell stayed balanced between the two portals, standing on nothing more than the tiny piece of floor the bottom of the portal made. It wasn't comfortable, but she didn't have to stay there long, the platform was coming near.
Once it was directly in front of her, Chell jumped onto it and faced forward. On the metal wall straight ahead was a lit up square showing the cake from the information board. The air was starting to get a bit warmer.
The voice spoke, "Congratulations! The test is now over."
The Scaffold turned the corner and Chell looked ahead to see a blazing pit of fire.
The voice continued, "All Aperture technologies remain safely operation up to 4,000 degrees Kelvin. Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence.
Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity.
Goodbye."
While the voice had been informing her that she was going to be set on fire, the Scaffold had been slowly heading towards the unrelenting flames. It was getting uncomfortably hot, but Chell had no intention of being burned alive if she could help it.
As soon as the Scaffold entered the flaming chamber, she started looking for a way out.
There! Right across the way was a landing! Chell quickly placed a portal on the wall opposite of her.
Next, she placed a portal on the wall to her right and jumped through the flames to land safely on the other side.
Chell rapidly moved the portals above her to reduce the heat coming at her. It was bad enough from the front, it was even worse with the fire licking through the portal.
Take that! She wasn't going to let herself be killed.
The voice addressed her once more, "What are you doing? Stop it! I...I...I..." The voice stuck on the word "I" and repeated it faster and faster until the voice returned to normal.
"We are pleased that you made it through the final challenge where we pretended we were going to murder you. We are very, very happy for your success. We are throwing a party in honor of your tremendous success.
Place the device on the ground then lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party.
Make no further attempt to leave the testing area.
Assume the Party Escort Submission Position or you will miss the party."
Chell didn't plan on submitting to anybody, especially not after they tried to kill her. It sounded like there really was somebody there; the voice was a person after all. She wanted to have a word with the person behind the voice about trying to kill her, but her first priority was to get out of her as soon as possible.
How was she going to escape?
Chapter Word Count: 1,952
Total Word Count: 50,507 (NaNoWriMo Complete!)
Thanks for reading and putting up with this nonsense as I've worked on this project. I won't be as much of a pest about it now that NaNo is over. XD
I think I may just cry in relief that it's over and I made it and I'm not a failure. XD I've still gotta finish the rest of the story though. XD
I'd love any crit, advice, or comments about this chapter!
Chapter notes:
19
-Lassst normal chapter! After this is the "behind the scenes" and the final battle!
-:| I forgot exactly how short this level was, hopefully I can get enough words out of it to not have to start the next bit. XD
-Not sure if the description of the glitch is wonky or what.
-I hope I didn't have Chell figure out how to get the Pellet in too quickly.
-I've never played it before with a mouse. My mouse keeps getting hung up on the couch and it's hard to move. I kept having to reopen the door because I couldn't move Chell fast enough. XD
-Outside Resources:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/934386-portal/faqs - Ayelis' Game Script
The elevator stopped and the doors opened. The hallway in front of Chell was fairly short. There was an unlit information board on the wall across from where she was standing, then the hallway turned off to the right.
Chell exited the elevator and walked towards the board to see what would be in store for her for the final test. Since it was the last one, likely it was going to have all the hazards and be worse than the last couple of chambers.
As she neared the board, the voice spoke to her, "Welcome to the final test! When you are done, you will drop the Device in the equipment recovery annex... Enrichment Center regulations require both hands to be empty before any cake..." There was a glitch on the word cake, there was a distorted noise that sounded like something being rewound, then the voice said, "cake" several times rapidly.
This new revelation could cause her some problems. Upon reading the writings from the person before her, Chell had decided to keep the portal gun in case something went wrong and she needed to get out. If she had to give it up before a way out was provided, then she could be trapped here. She'd give up the cake if need be, in order to exit. She hoped there'd actually be a person she could talk to, instead of a disembodied voice that tended to have problems at the most inconvenient times.
She'd figure out what to do after the test was complete. Chell turned her attention to the board.
Strangely enough, only five of the ten squares were lit. The last three on the top row were highlighted; they were the two about the Pellets and the one showing a stick figure in the deadly liquid. The two on the bottom were the one warning against drinking the water and, most important of all, the cake square was finally lit.
This was it, the last barrier between her and something to eat and her freedom. She better get to work.
Even though there weren't as many hazards in this test, it was probably going to be tricky in its own right.
Chell rounded the corner and was greeted by the sound of a Pellet bouncing around.
Across the room, on the ground, were two slanted floor sections. Above the section on the left was the Pellet dispenser and above the one on the right was the collector.
A blue power line extended from the collector and across the ceiling. Chell followed it with her eyes and found that it connected to an Unstationary Scaffold near where she had entered.
The Scaffold, when activated, would follow a path around this room above a pool of the toxic liquid. It went straight back towards the wall on the right.
However, in the middle of the path she could see was a large, horizontal silver pillar holding up a section of wall. It would be in her way once she got on to ride the scaffold.
Looking closer, Chell saw that at the end of this part of the hallway was a small platform in the corner. She'd be able to place a portal there and avoid the pillar entirely.
She could see that the Scaffold's pathway continued somewhere to her right. There was a window of the room she was in that might show her where it went.
Chell made her way over to the window and looked out. Sure enough, she could see the dim glow of the unactivated Scaffold path. Directly in front of her, in a cubby in the wall, was a button on a stick.
She briefly wondered what the button activated, until she looked to her right. There was a door blocking the pathway. She'd have to use the button to open the door.
Chell looked back to the room she was in. Behind the tilted pieces of floor was a window that presumably showed the continued path the Scaffold would follow. Bouncing against the window was a Pellet; she'd have to redirect it somewhere out of her way so it wouldn't kill her.
So far, the things to come in the test didn't look so bad. She had gotten as much of a preview as she could get, so she watched the Pellet, trying to figure out how to get it in the collector.
The Pellet would bounce off the tilted floor piece, then hit the metal wall, and back to the section of the floor, and then finally hit the dispenser. It would bounce multiple times before exploding.
The wall directly across from the second section of floor was also made of metal, so she'd have to redirect the Pellet somehow. Since it could survive multiple bounces, what if she put a portal on the second floor piece, then moved it. It would then bounce off the wall, then the floor section, and to the collector, if all went well.
That seemed like the best course of action, so, Chell started off by placing a portal on the first section of floor, where the Pellet bounced off of. Then, she placed a portal on the second floor piece.
The Pellet rapidly bounced into the portal and out of the other one, striking the wall and flying back through the portal across to the other wall.
Chell waited until it entered the portal again, as soon as the Pellet did so, she removed the portal from the second floor section. The Pellet, after it bounced off the wall, bounced against the tilted piece of floor and up to the collector.
There was a crackle of electricity as the collector caught the Pellet. Chell then heard a hum and a beep as the Unstationary Scaffold started on its path.
Chell walked back over and looked out across where the Scaffold would go. She placed a portal on the wall by the platform in the corner, then put a portal to the wall on her left and stepped through.
She landed on metalwork grill platform and the Scaffold sailed underneath it, turning the corner and starting to head down the next part of the hallway.
Chell turned as well to look down that way. She could see a piece of the wall of the cubby where the button was, so she placed a portal there and stepped back through the one she had arrived on the platform from.
The button was close to her, so she stepped over to it and pressed it. There was a click as the door opened, then seconds later a buzzer sounded. Did she only have a handful of seconds to work the door?
She turned around and saw the door was finishing closing. Chell got as far away from the button as she could and still press it, then quickly reached over to hit it with her hand. She then rapidly turned around and looked around the corner.
She could see another spot where the Scaffold would turn to go down the hallway to the right. Chell quickly fired a portal there, right as the door closed again.
Chell looked over at the portal she had walked through to get to this point. She could see the glowing light that indicated where the platform would glide down the hallway. She could wait here for the Scaffold to come gliding past.
The Scaffold she had originally started with was nowhere in sight, she'd have to wait for another one to come down the path.
Chell had to wait a couple of minutes before another one showed up. It slid past where she was standing and made its way under the door. Once it got to where she was looking out to, Chell hopped through the portal and landed safely onto the moving platform.
She quickly turned to face down the hallway; the Pellet bouncing against the window was coming up fast.
Chell rapidly fired a portal at the spot it was impacting against the wall. Once the Pellet blasted through it, she placed both portals at a point below where she was riding, just in case. The Pellet thankfully didn't reappear and she continued riding the platform.
It kept going down the hallway and turned again at a corner. This time, the obstacle in the path was a solid wall.
Chell could see that around to the right was an exit sign, she was almost there. She quickly placed a portal close to the sign. She had one idea and hoped it would work.
Next, she put a portal on the wall a little ahead of the Scaffold. Once it got to her selected section, she carefully stepped through, gripping the edge of the portal with her toes and reaching out her left hand to steady herself.
Chell stayed balanced between the two portals, standing on nothing more than the tiny piece of floor the bottom of the portal made. It wasn't comfortable, but she didn't have to stay there long, the platform was coming near.
Once it was directly in front of her, Chell jumped onto it and faced forward. On the metal wall straight ahead was a lit up square showing the cake from the information board. The air was starting to get a bit warmer.
The voice spoke, "Congratulations! The test is now over."
The Scaffold turned the corner and Chell looked ahead to see a blazing pit of fire.
The voice continued, "All Aperture technologies remain safely operation up to 4,000 degrees Kelvin. Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence.
Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity.
Goodbye."
While the voice had been informing her that she was going to be set on fire, the Scaffold had been slowly heading towards the unrelenting flames. It was getting uncomfortably hot, but Chell had no intention of being burned alive if she could help it.
As soon as the Scaffold entered the flaming chamber, she started looking for a way out.
There! Right across the way was a landing! Chell quickly placed a portal on the wall opposite of her.
Next, she placed a portal on the wall to her right and jumped through the flames to land safely on the other side.
Chell rapidly moved the portals above her to reduce the heat coming at her. It was bad enough from the front, it was even worse with the fire licking through the portal.
Take that! She wasn't going to let herself be killed.
The voice addressed her once more, "What are you doing? Stop it! I...I...I..." The voice stuck on the word "I" and repeated it faster and faster until the voice returned to normal.
"We are pleased that you made it through the final challenge where we pretended we were going to murder you. We are very, very happy for your success. We are throwing a party in honor of your tremendous success.
Place the device on the ground then lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party.
Make no further attempt to leave the testing area.
Assume the Party Escort Submission Position or you will miss the party."
Chell didn't plan on submitting to anybody, especially not after they tried to kill her. It sounded like there really was somebody there; the voice was a person after all. She wanted to have a word with the person behind the voice about trying to kill her, but her first priority was to get out of her as soon as possible.
How was she going to escape?
Chapter Word Count: 1,952
Total Word Count: 50,507 (NaNoWriMo Complete!)