#portal reloaded

[rachell-redacted]

Little pay-what-you-want art of the test subject 4509 for @lea-sbian. Thank you!

[nuttersincorporated]

Portal Timeline Including Fan Content (accurate to the best of my ability)

1944 Cave Johnson buy a salt mine and starts Aperture Science Innovators

1950’s Aperture’s heyday! Astronauts, war heroes and Olympians come to Aperture to help advance science

1952 Testing on Repulsion Gel begins

Portal Stories: Mel; Mel arrives at Aperture and goes into long term relaxation

1953 The first quantum tunnelling portal technology is created

1968 Aperture is investigated by the US Senate over missing astronauts.

1971 Testing begins on Propulsion Gel

Aperture now promises to give $60 to anyone desperate enough to volunteer for testing

1981 Cave Johnson buys moonrock, finds it makes a good portal surface and turns it into Conversion Gel. He also finds that he’s allergic to moon rock and develops cancer (Fun fact! Moon dust does give people allergic like reactions. We don’t know how toxic it is)

1982 Cave starts looking for a way to live forever through technology. He says that if he dies before it’s finished, his assistant Caroline is to be put in charge of Aperture whether she wants to or not. If they need to, he tells them to put her in his machine – once it’s finished – and make her immortal.

Aperture starts to have AI staff.

The human staff are now forced to be test subjects.

Portal: Revolution; One of the scientists working on brain mapping technology is Emilia Conly.

1986 Aperture finds out Black Mesa is working on portal technology. In response, Aperture starts properly working on developing GLaDOS

1987 Cave dies

Late 1980’s or early 1990’s Aperture Desk Job; A personality core called Grady and a human Aperture employee test toilets. They make toilet turrets and meet a version of Cave who survived death by becoming a giant robot head.

Robot-head-Cave begs for death but can’t be killed. He falls into the bowels of Aperture where he will live forever. Grady and the human Aperture employee go into witness protection.

1990’s Caroline is forced into having her mind uploaded into GLaDOS

GLaDOS tries to kill everyone

The scientists attach personality cores on her, to try and control her

Extrusion tunnels are invented

2000’s GLaDOS kills almost all the scientists and begins perpetual testing

Portal Reloaded; An AI learns that GLaDOS will be defeated at some point in the future. They wake test subject 4509 and gets her to test with the triple portal gun, in the hope that she’ll be able to change the future

GLaDOS makes the Lazer Redirection Cubes

Lab Rat; Doug Rattmann puts Chell at the top of the testing list

Portal 1; you know how it goes

Between Portal and Portal 2

With no humans or central core to tell them what to do, some of the AIs start to do their own thing

Aperture starts to fall apart

Portal Reloaded; Test subject 4509 and the time aware AI appear, solve tests and go back in time.

Test subject 4509 escapes and probably dies almost immediately

Betty Help; Betty wants to help everyone

Portal: Revolution; Aperture continues to decay. A cleaning core called Stirling decided to reactive GLaDOS by getting a test subject to use the Spire. The Spire doesn’t work as intended, things get teleported about and the test subject ends up deep underground.

Emilia Conly has a copy of her memory and personality uploaded into a core. Emilia and the test subject stop Stirling and they end up on the moon.

The Underground; Due to the shenanigans in Portal Revolution, another one of Cave’s try-to-cheat-death machines is activated. A version of Cave finds himself in the Mainframe.

The Mainframe instructs some Aperture AIs to set up a sifting system for cores. Cores the Mainframe likes get added to the Mainframe. Cores he doesn’t like get turned into Party Escort Robots.

Portal Stories: Mel; Virgil falls into old Aperture. He wakes up Mel and gets her to help him get back up. The two inadvertently triggering AEGIS. AEGIS sees them as a threat and try to kill them.

AEGIS shakes Aperture while trying to kill Virgil and Mel. This scares Wheatley who starts waking test subjects and spending them to find the portal gun. He wakes six test subjects (Doug Rattmann is possibly one of them) and assumes they die when he can no longer see them.

Mel beats AEGIS and Virgil helps her escapes to freedom. As AEGIS shuts down, it wakes Chell.

Wheatley knocks on Chell’s door

Portal 2! If you’ve read this far, you know the plot of Portal 2 and you don’t need me to summaries it

Portal 2 Co-op

Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative; Nigel – a personality core designed by GLaDOS – gets a test subject to test with a Paint Gun. The Paint Gun shoots repulsion and propulsion gel. The test subject tests and does maintenance by deactivating the Aperture Laboratories Stability Stable Energy Reactor (ALSSER).

Meet the Cores; various Aperture cores are doing their own thing around the facility. Aperture seem to be falling apart again

Edit: Since the multiverse is a thing in Portal canon, anything that doesn’t fit properly can be treated as if it happens in another universe. VALVe has said that Aperture Desk Job can be treated like an AU but might also become fully canon at some point.

There’s a good chance that The Underground is set after Portal 2 rather than between the main games. This means that GLaDOS and the Mainframe could conceivably have a showdown at some point which would be fun to see (I might write a fanfic about this at some point).

[lea-sbian]

i am concocting something in my brain... don't know if that counts as cooking...

[foxgirl87]

It’s finally finished……….

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

Portal Drawtober 2023: Day 8

Favorite Mod

I love Portal Stories Mel a lot, so I wanted to have a nod to that with the mix of decayed and new, but that gave a good excuse to take some focus onto another mod I really enjoyed, Portal Reloaded!

[whirligig-girl]

in Portal: Reloaded, the triple-portal device (two linked space portals and one time portal) is just a retextured dual portal device with green stripes. But what if it had a custom model?

[shyce-overgod]

Alright, so. I went and played Portal Reloaded again, and until I figure out some more things from Mel, the timeline is looking like.

Rexaura -> Portal Reloaded (stable/past side) -> Portal -> Portal Reloaded (unstable/future side) -> Portal: Revolution -> Portal Stories: Mel -> Portal 2 -> Portal 2 (Co-op main campaign) -> Aperture Tag -> Portal 2 (Co-op additional campaign)

Slowly checking out the co-op of Portal Reloaded to see if that adds something

[deme-real-life]

In the depths of Aperture Science, they tell stories. Short tales are told, murmured softly in warm metallic tones. Stories are thrown around, embellished and exaggerated to the point of near-unrecognizability. GLaDOS was nearly destroyed by a human! The human was about to flood her servers, and then some moron fucked the whole operation up, getting them both killed. Her ghost probably still walks around here like the rat man. Whispers when the camera’s light doesn't blink. Some days, it makes Fact Core angry. He was there, he says to anyone he hears parroting the false narrative. It's worse than those facts he hears about Babe Ruth supposedly dying of “cancer" instead of all those hot dogs, since he was there–it’s not just true, it's additionally real. Something he was there for. But even still, he doesn't have all the details. He was only there for the end, when the human got the most interesting idea he'd ever seen, when he was the sole surviving core, when he saw GLaDOS try as hard as she could with all her effort to save that human—

Some days, Fact Core wishes he could meet the human. Set the record straight.

Then again, she's probably dead.

In the sunny fields of the surface, they tell stories. Warm voices whistling among amber grain. There's so many people with such similar backgrounds, all telling their own stories. Mel, with such a similar name, regained her voice, talking about a core named Virgil and how she knows about GLaDOS, how she was an Olympic runner before all of this, back in the ‘50s. 4509, usually silent, talks about time travel and GLaDOS too, about fighting off headcrab zombies with nothing but an inactive portal gun. Tag, who doesn't even remember their name, talks about an annoying little jerk named Nigel and having to climb out of Aperture, no thanks to the core. On some days, Chell wants to tell her own story, put those sign language skills to work. She knows that 4509 knows sign language, so it's not as though no one would understand her, but—they wouldn't get it. There's nothing that quite compares to the experience of GLaDOS speaking to you directly, with such fervent animosity. It can't be put into words, let alone gestures.

Some days, Chell wishes she could go back there. Feel it one more time.

Then again, she'd probably die.

[bbs-backlog-challenge]

Fin or Bin: Portal Reloaded

Nngh oh god, oh god my brain-

I’m sure everyone reading this has already played the two Portal games. You may even have played some of the many fan-made mods for the series; I have a few recommendations if not. Portal Stories: Mel, Portal Flash Map Pack, and TAG The Power Of Paint are three great experiences that either give you more of what you like or give you something new and different to play with, and as they are all free I heartily recommend you check them out.

New to the pantheon is Portal Reloaded, which despite the title is not a remake. Reloaded adds a new type of portal that lets you travel twenty years into the future, where everything is just as you left it (though even Aperture is not immune to the inexorable decay of time). In practice this means you essentially have two versions of the test chamber to solve at once. Objects from the future can be brought back to the present but not vice versa, and actions in the present alter the fate of the future; boxes will despawn and portals will dissipate if their location in the present is altered.

The result is utterly mind-bending as you not only need to contend with spatial awareness but also causality. Taking a box from the future into the present to solve one problem will then pose a brand new problem as you are now unable to move its present version without altering its fate and deleting it from the future which despawns it in the present. Argh!

The Portal series is known for its sense of humour which many have tried to mimic to greatly mixed success. There are no quirky cores in Reloaded- the humour is kept contained to brief voice overs at the start and end of each puzzle, and the effort is overall pretty sound. Nothing laugh-out-loud as yet but some decent chuckles.

Fin or Bin:

I’ve been taking it in bitesized sessions to avoid cooking my brain. The mechanics are slightly janky but it’s been entirely workable so far, and the puzzle design is out of this world. I’m always in awe of expertly-made puzzle games as I could never create something even passable. Reloaded is free to anyone who owns Portal 2, which is almost certainly you (sales are coming up if not), and comes recommended. At the current rate it’s going to take me twenty years to Finish it, at which point I’ll give my present-day self a hearty thumbs-up.

(Steam)

[magebunkshelf]

Thinking in 4 Dimensions

Join @capitalmaudios and I for Portal Reloaded, a co-op mod which gives us a Time Portal!

[teacup-captor]

Okay so I have Portal reloaded and I just loaded it up for the first time and I am playing and I'm trying SO hard not to just outright scream

[eepy-jazz-musicians]

One of the "good" things about being a system is being able to kinda go through our old special interests and the like for the first time. Like I was only around for the tail end of our Portal 2 hyperfixation, and I can feel it tugging at my mind with all the mods I've been meaning to play in earnest. However, I don't really remember our first playthroughs of any of the Portal 2 stuff we did, so now I feel like I could get effectively a 1st playthrough of it with my perspective as opposed to Loki / the old host that she split from's perspectives.

[quirkedupratgirl]

Im live on twitch playing Portal Reloaded

[lea-sbian]

Currently no context but I have a vision and I must create

[portalnewage]

Portal New Age of Testing [RP Server]

𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀! 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴...! 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲!

Portal 3: New Age of Testing is a NEW literate and passionate group of Portal fans exploring and collaboratively writing out the aftermath of Portal 2's cooperative mode! Join us and bring YOUR very own unique dampening sphere, test subject, or other original character into a new era for the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, or explore past eras of Aperture and claim your favorite canonically established characters from the Portal games and mods themselves!

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This server focuses on an expansion in Aperture's scope of testing beyond simple portal testing. With the success of the cooperative testing initiative, GLaDOS has begun to explore the possibilities for additional testing initiatives, as well as the return of the original singular portal testing tracks she began with.

With hundreds of newly discovered trapped subjects and a plethora of dampening spheres, turrets, and other sentient Aperture Science technologies under GLaDOS, Aperture has entered a glorious new age. One where subjects are tested under a more benevolent and human A.I, but also a simultaneously more powerful and ambitious one as well...

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- A beautiful server layout and roadmap to help you navigate and join the roleplay in no time!

 - Flashback era categories for those more interested in Aperture's past than its present!

- Testing initiative categories and chambers, allowing human and android test subjects alike to think with MORE than portals!

- A supportive and loving community of talented writers that will help you fit your own characters and writing into the server's roleplay!

- Lots and lots of cake!

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https://discord.gg/q2XwDxgJAZ

Hello! You may know me from my main blog @chaoticcutiewhirl but this blog can be basically seen as a sort of ad. Before you Scroll, let me explain. Portal New Age of Testing is an RP server, me and my friend Fludd worked hard on, there are so many plans such as adding game elements to the RP and trying to create a world set after Portal 2 that will eventually touch upon Half-life. I will be planning to post a couple of RP snippets through my time here, as possible ideas of what you are getting into, and yes, I will mark it when it is other Writers other than me on the RP which will be almost always.  If you see this and think RP is childish, well you are kind of right, only thing is, that RP is also played as a game as well as a possibility to get better at writing. Do you want to better thrink of how to write internal dialogue, boom you have testing and having your character try to figure out what to do. Do you want to test a character idea for something you’re writing? Well as long as it fits within canon, test them in RP. Do you just want to find possible online writing friends? Well this server can also have your back. We are already on Disboard but I am trying to reach out here as well because Tumblr is mainly an artist alley, which includes writers and writing side of Tumblr, if you played Portal (and its tumblr, of course you have, its ome of the most lgbtq+ kinda games from a big company), come over and join, we will be happy to have you. We also have a fairly strong artist side of the server with members like Fludd for example creating the gif and video from above, all on his own may I add. 

Simply put, if you have an itch to write portal and you don’t want to write a fan fic, come over and join us, everyone is welcomed!

[olyrik]