betterplace | Log 1

[GLaDOS walks through Mayfield, examining houses and buildings as she goes. She's quiet, watching the people run around her.

She may be keeping an eye out for a certain test ruining monster, but aside from that she's just wandering.]

[Eventually she'll pick a house and walk in. Looking at the bare walls.]

Well, it certainly needs work.

[However she somehow has the power to fix some of that. And the best part?

She knows how it works. Not totally, but since technical>magic, that makes this just a little bit better.]

[ SUP THERE IS A FAMILIAR DATA-ENTITY BEHIND YOU ]

Need__what_kind of_work?

What do you thi-

[Wait....That's a voice she didn't expect to hear again. She turns around.]

Kuyou?

Yes.

Hello...Mama-Lady.

It has been...17...months.

[ which is probably her own way of saying "hi, long time no see." ]

Yes...it has been.

Has anyone explained what's going on here to you yet?

I have been...able to...record enough information from the surrounding...area...

And what do you think about it?

Adaptable environment. Responds to...preternatural provocation.

[ She doesn't really have an opinion, so she'll just say what she learned about it instead. That totally counts, right?]

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[Totally.]

Yes.

[Avoids a sigh.]

Well then, I suppose you can stay here if you want.

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[GLaDOS will see Chell walking around the streets in town. It's a restless habit she picked up from near-constantly roaming Mayfield in search of a way out.]

[Found you....only now she's not really sure what to do. After all, they had a truce but that was only until they got out. And now they were effectively trapped here forever. After a small moment of thought, GLaDOS falls into step with her former test subject.]

Let me guess. You're looking for a way out.

[Chell is just about as lost as GLaDOS is, she glances over at the AI, well, they both were AI now, weren't they, and walks along with her.

She gives a half-hearted shrug, logically she knows she can't leave, but old habits die hard. The memories from the real Chell and the memories she made in Mayfield all were centered around trying to escape. She doesn't need to any more, but with all the horrors she had been through, it's difficult to adjust her way of thinking so soon.]

You might want to find a place to live then. Unless you plan to wander around until it snows.

[Just walking. She's still trying to get a grip on the whole, never returning to Aperture thing.]

[Chell nods, she knows that she needs a house, but after everything that's gone on, it's a little overwhelming to have the choice of where to live, to even build what kind of house that she wanted.

All she knew is that she did not want to live with Cliff again.]

[GLaDOS glances off to the other houses being built.]

Well if you can't find a place soon, I'm already renovating a house if you want to help. If your ability to build things is anything like your ability to destroy things, I'm sure it will go quite quickly.

It would be a place to live anyway.

[Look, it's not because she's lonely and homesick. Okay. She's just being ni....screw it, it's the first two.]

[Chell's motionless for a moment, then gives a single, firm, and resolute nod. In Mayfield, they had been through a lot together and so far, nobody else had offered her a house.

Who knows, maybe things could end up better between them than the real ones.]

[GLaDOS had turned back to watch her. Well aware that any answer she received wouldn't be vocal.

And for a moment she looks rather startled at the nod. She'd been almost entirely certain Chell would have just glared at her or refused some other way.]

...alright then.

[And for a moment there's an actual smile. Not a, oh good I have you now, but a real smile. It's soon replaced with her normal blanker expression. But it was there for a moment.]

Here, I'll show you where it is.

It seems like it.

At least it's possible to create better things now.

Need laboratory.

[It was never an option in the old Mayfield, but dammit, now there would be proper science.]

Oh yes. A real one.

[She is going to make herself a science lab with all the things.]

Proper facilities. Proper science.

[He has a simulation to understand]

Proper science...finally.

[Best news ever. She sighs.]

I've missed that.

Technology was [sniff] frustrating. COuld understand setting now.

You'll have to tell me when you get your lab set up. I'd love to see it.