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Where are they coming from?
[There's no quips, no insults, no airy, condescending lead up. The second the video turns on, GLaDOS is practically in the camera's face, and sounding panicked.]
Wherever it is, I need to go ( Read more... )
[There's no quips, no insults, no airy, condescending lead up. The second the video turns on, GLaDOS is practically in the camera's face, and sounding panicked.]
Wherever it is, I need to go ( Read more... )
Make up your mind, you infernal machine.
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Well?
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... [Does she even have to say anything? She doesn't want to speak, out of fear she IS imagining this, or if not, that she'll chase it away...]
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[Her attitude is coming back to her, the more desperate she gets.]
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[Casting one last look at the crown moulding, Equius moves towards the stairs.]
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... as they rightfully do. Coming further into the house seems to satisfy something of it's needs. Audible to Equius as well, the woman - finally speaking between each terrified sob.]
I didn't want to...! I didn't want to, they made me...!
[It wafts down the hall, tempting the pair further into the house, in one of the other rooms.]
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What did you do to her, GLaDOS?
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[The woman gives a hysterical noise, distressed.]
How would you! You've shoved me away in here! They said I would live... this isn't living! I didn't want this!
[It's still only her voice, but the furniture in passing rattles in the hall, that behind them more violently, almost a spur forward.]
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[There isn't much physical that scares Equius; he's STRONG enough to bash his way through most conflicts. But this is something supernatural, and he doesn't like it. His steps are slower now, more hesitant.]
Do you want me to take you out of my sylladex? Maybe you'll see something that reminds you?
[ooc: I'm not at all familiar with GLaDOS' canon... is it her soul or something they're hearing?]
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[The woman's voice lowers, but does not soften - only seeming to give in more to her grief.]
You want to see me now... locked away in here... after everything you made us do!
WILL YOU BE QUIET! Take me out NOW!
[ooc: well, it's a bit spoilery if you're playing Portal 2...
what they're hearing is a tiny part of GLaDOS 'original programming' - Caroline. She was a woman working at the labs who was forced to put her consciousness into a computer - then becoming GLaDOS. It's a part of her that she's tucked away and forgotten with all the other personality cores they put in to control her.]
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[Regardless, Equius pulls her out of the sylladex. She's big enough that he finds the easiest way to carry her is on his back.]
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[The woman hitches a sob.] Why are you looking for me? Why won't you leave me alone?! Why do you only want to see me now?! You don't even remember me...!
I will if I can see you! I will if you tell me your name!
[The rattling is becoming more violent - one of the drawers from behind them launches, smashing into the opposite wall. GLaDOS jerks to face that way, startled... but continues to stare.]
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[But when she faces back forward, it comes as if on a breeze, quieting her. The woman, before them, pretty, just barely aged, elegant, yet broken over by her sobs, shaking. GLaDOS hesitate, putting forward the words lingering there.]
... Caroline...
[More things are thrown about, nearly hitting Equius and GLaDOS, though at the moment GLaDOS seems to preoccupied to notice.]
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