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Portal: Ratman Stories is a fan-made mod for Portal, featuring Aperture Science employee Doug Rattmann (known from the Portal 2 Comic) as protagonist. Featuring an original storyline, the player embodies Doug and lives through his fate, starting the day of GLaDOS' activation and ending after the storyline of Portal.

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Content and visual style of each chapter, as well as story.

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Warning: Everything is subject to change, this might differ from the final release!

Aperture Science Inbound

Basically, this will be the "Intro" of the mod. The player makes his way through the enrichment center, meets fellow scientists, gets an impression of the where, why, when (Enrichment Center, Doug's job, end of the pre-GLaDOS era). This chapter is supposed to give the player an idea how big this place is, and that it is full of other humans. The exact opposite of the abandoned Enrichment Center as seen in Portal.

Last Minute Preparations

In this chapter, the player will help to prepare everything for GLaDOS' activation. It will contain some puzzles, such as activating some switches. Maybe it will give the player some practice with the Portal Gun, too, and teach him some basics, such as picking up things and activating buttons with them.

The Awakening

This chapter exists merely for storytelling reasons, and will be very short. The player witnesses GLaDOS' activation and her little "experiment", that kills almost every living thing inside the facility.

Schrödinger's Cat

Show the player the repercussions of the disaster: Dead scientists, destroyed parts of the facility, neurotoxin everywhere. Doug must solve some puzzles, to shut down some neurotoxin emitters, to clean the facility from neurotoxin.

I'm different

Give the player some test chambers to solve, and show them how insane Doug actually is, without his medication. Demonstrate the duration of this period (30 years?) by let the player "sleep", wake up again, and see the facility a little more destroyed and abandoned. Make the companion cube speak, and make the player experience some Déjà-vus from Doug's past.

Face-to-Monitor

Doug makes his way to GLaDOS chamber, in a last effort to shut her down and escape, but never reaches her. The way is blocked by a huge room, filled with turrets (known from Portal), and since he lost his Portal Gun, he can't defeat them. Meanwhile, GLaDOS unemotional watches his failure from a monitor. Mostly storytelling here, too.

It can't be!

Doug wakes up after Chell defeated GLaDOS. Finally he can escape the facility. But he has to return, to make sure Chell survives. The Party Escort Bot dragged her back into the Enrichment Center, and Doug has to re-enable the emergency power supply, to provide her cryo-chamber with energy. In order to do so, he gets shot. After saving her life, he falls asleep, and the player doesn't know, if he will wake up again.

Credits

Outro

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Secret_Coming
Secret_Coming

you basically said what each chapter is about? You just ruined the experience of anyone who have readen this if you ever finish it

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luxiosepicsalsa
luxiosepicsalsa

You're right but remember it's still in early development and said it might differ from final release.

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HashtagMC Author
HashtagMC

Well, most of this is probably obsolete as of now, since I'm rewriting everything, so don't worry, I'll try not to kill your anticipation next time (or at least put a big spoiler warning on it.)

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Secret_Coming
Secret_Coming

Thanks!

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