The LaW Story - LaW 00 - Prologue : Science as a toolbox

The * Laser and Water * story (LaW) is part of a PORTALF-LIFE adventure ! Following Ratman's track you will be searching for the Main Gates in order to stop the water and get out of the flooded plant.

** The Ratman Solve Machine **

The RSM is a help system available in game. Mister Ratman himself will explain how it works in the Conference Room. He will provide you with usefull (or useless) advices (or sarcasms) all along the way. Difficulty level : 4/5 potatoes. This game has very few "speed challenges", it is more about exploring and observing. So take your time !

** More clues **

In addition to the RSM help messages, here is the sequence to complete this adventure:

1. Reach the door number 7 then access the Conference Room.
2. Switch on the lights and beamer and read the slides.
3. Access the RSM room and activate it for help messages, then go back in the Conference Room.
4. Climb inside the Maintenance duct to re-activate the cube generator, and enter the Operations Centre.
5. Generate a cube, go through the upper grate via the cabinets then access the ladder room.
6. Climb 2 ladders to enter the "face to face" room, then reach the top door.

A secret place, 5 bonus and a purple minicube are to be found to get the "Fame Board" code.

Really stuck? Here is the Walktrough for the Prologue

** Excerpt from the storyboard **

"* Robots don't sleep *" one could read upon the walls. "But sometimes they should!" Doug Ratman thought after the disaster struck.

He was the witness of what has really happened there. Entire parts of Aperture facilities deserted. Due to the massive flooding... He was there, in this forgotten messy lab when it all begun. When the "sleepless" robot lost control and panicked at the view of its self (due to shoddy alignment of portals). Like in a Stan Eggbott and Oliver Ballbot video, he saw the robot jumping into the blue portal then falling from the orange one... right on the big red button. Yes, the one that opens the gates...

Water flooded, invading every room, through doors left open, through portals, from portals to portals, as people tried to escape. You can guess the rest... And not only water came with the flood, but some creatures from infected Black Mesa also made their way inside the plant. Nowhere feels safe anymore.

"Today I'm sure to be the last survivor" Doug thought, "But some day someone will come... We could help each other and find our way out..." But for now, he had to go ahead, in this wet dangerous area, in search of the Main Gates, to stop the disaster. For he knows it is the only way to escape. Using what is still working, fixing the fixable. And maybe one day to see the sunlight again! Or a deer?

... to be continued...

Here is the Walktrough for the Prologue

** ! Winners on the Fame Board in the map ! **

• LuigiBowser
• Balonik
• ThatAlienBoi
• Winnie Wheatley
• Pyroomaaan
• hub
• TBSHEB
• Mr Fab
• Chapmike
• ... (1 places left)...