Blue Sky Musical-- The Vision (Part I)
Instead of editing the original working outline, I think I’m just going to start from scratch here~. Like the last one though, this is basically going to be a word-vomit of all the ideas I have currently floating around in my head so that we’re all on the same page. A lot of the ideas are the same as before, although some are different, some are a bit more solid, and a few have been rearranged a bit. And I’m breaking it up into parts for easier manageability~.
We open with Wheatley stumbling across the Oracle Turret in her hidden corner (a flashback from Chapter 12 that I’ve moved here for the sake of flow later on). Her song [a parody of Misty Mountains from The Hobbit] describes her prophecy of the things to come, aka the events of Portal 2 along with hints of what will come after. Wheatley listens, thoroughly confused and freaked out and probably interjecting here and there with things like “what, what’s going on, what are you talking about” etc. Eventually though, he ends up becoming inspired to wake up one of the human test subjects and leaves to instigate the plot of the game, which occurs offscreen (offstage? xP).
At this point, we would need a segue of some sort. Something to indicate that the events of the game have all occurred and 4 years have passed since then. Originally I was thinking this could be accomplished via a montage of auditory clips giving sortof an echo-y highlights reel of the game (Starting with Chell’s “You have been in suspension for 9...9....9...9...” message, flowing into GLaDOS waking up, Wheatley taking over, and ending with “grabmegrabmegrabme” and/or “It’s been fun, don’t come back”).
If this doesn’t sound like a good idea, it’s okay, as it would also be possible to relay this information in pieces at various points in the dialogue and/or song lyrics of the next few scenes.
At any rate, the next thing we see is Wheatley in space being all lonely and regretful and stuff. His song [based on “Every Day a Little Death” from The Count of Monte Cristo] reflects this. Currently, I’m envisioning that after Wheatley has sung for a while, we would open up on Chell in Eaden. She’s settling into her new life rather nicely, but she still finds herself haunted by how she left things in Aperture and the note her and Wheatley’s friendship ended on. She proceeds to sing part of the same wistful song Wheatley has just been singing, culminating in the two of them singing together.
As the song ends, Wheatley has his encounter with the Meteor of Fate and accidentally sends off his distress signal. This pulls us back to Aperture where we meet GLaDOS and the testing bots. GLaDOS sings a song [yet to be decided] in which we learn that She’s bored and wants Chell back. Cue Her becoming aware of the signal and opening communications with Wheatley.













