Narbacular Science – A Portal Map Pack Idea

An idea for a Portal or Portal 2 map pack. On the surface, it is simply porting all the Narbacular Drop levels into portal, set in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center testing facility. Although it would definitely add an extra something to it to include a story of sorts. Basically the player will be a small child, a young girl, which ambiguously may or may not be a younger Chell. All that is ever made clear about her story is that she is a daughter of an employee, perhaps somehow caught up in the unknown events of the infamous Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. The (admittedly little) story of Narbacular Drop would have been invented by an employee as the premise for a test sequence involving a child. His theory being that children would be much more suited to thinking with portals due to their lack of knowledge about the laws of physics. They have not yet learned what is impossible, as it were. As you progress through the test, nooks, dens and secret areas not present in the original Narbacular Drop can contain papers and possibly security clips detailing the inception of the current test, codenamed “Narbacular” and its subsequent dismissal due to putting children in danger. I’m thinking the person in charge would have been passionately against it, stating words to the effect of “We will not be testing children while I’m still alive”. In this way, GLaDOS can deem it acceptable to test children because that person is no longer alive. Perhaps after the Narbacular Drop levels are over there can be an extension with more levels of an escape sequence (now typical of Portal) that could explore some currently unexplained aspect of the story, like the post-activation attachment of the morality core on GLaDOS. The final boss battle could involve attaching cores to GLaDOS in a similar manner to the final battle of Portal 2.