Obtaining Portal Stories: Mel achievements

Easy

Testing the Waters

Testing the Waters Super Drowning Skills Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Jump into the body of water in front of the extended relaxation building.

Electrocution

Electrocution Get electrocuted Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Jump into electrified water, for example at the end of Portal Stories: Mel Junk Yard.

Ignorant

Ignorant Ignore good advice Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: An elevator will appear in Test Chamber 4. To unlock the achievement, ignore Virgil's advice, enter, and wait for the elevator to close.

Forever Alone

Forever Alone Try to bring the cube with you Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Look for a companion cube lying around in some wreckage between 2 chambers at TB Over Goo and pick it up. It is easy to see.

Determined

Determined Solve the broken test Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Solve the "broken" test chamber at the start of Factory.

Burned in Goo

Burned in Goo Get burned whilst in the goo Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Get burned (by a laser) while standing in water. This is possible in Factory (the one where the exit leads to a dead end, right before leaving the test tracks).

Crushed

Crushed Get crushed in the door Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Get crushed in the door in the Weighted Storage Cube quality testing area in Factory.

Into Darkness

Into Darkness Mind your Step Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Fall into the hole in the floor that Virgil warns you against in Factory.

Shot

Shot Get shot on the turret range Difficulty: Easy How to obtain: Get shot on the live fire range near AEGIS' lair, or the live fire range in Past Power .

Medium

Persistent

Persistent Check that all doors have been locked for the night Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: Check every locked door in the train station and the Aperture Innovators building.

Curious

Curious Find all the Vitrified door messages Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: Check every one of the windowed doors in one of the earliest levels.

2056

2056 MAKE IT STOP Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: Enter the room boarded-up with sheets of wood and corrugated material.

Under The Stairs

Under the Stairs Find the radio under the stairs Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: In Portal Stories: Mel Test Chamber 1 in the first test room, obtain access to the area behind the stairs. It will open automatically when both cubes are brought behind the emancipation grill. Shoot a portal under the tallest panel (there is a grating).

Beyond Your Range of Hearing

Beyond your Range of Hearing Refuse to Listen Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: After finding Virgil, repeatedly press the use key while Virgil is talking.

You Shouldn't Be Here

You Shouldn't be Here Experience a Deeply Unimpactful Moment Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: In the final area of Past Power where you see the Exit sign, shoot a portal to the tipped over panel at the bottom of a tower and make your way up the catwalk.

Single Rainbow

Single Rainbow Not even all the way! Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: In the starting area of Two of a Kind, after you make your way up to the button to get the second cube, shoot a portal through the small crack formed by a panel slightly off the wall.

In The Vents

In the Vents Get into the vents Difficulty: Medium How to obtain: In the office area of Factory shoot a portal on the portal-able surface on the ceiling of one of the rooms.

Story-related

Welcome to Aperture

Welcome to Aperture Enter the main lobby of Aperture Science Innovators Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after exiting the tram.

Long Term Relaxation

Long-Term Relaxation Oversleep Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after waking up from extended relaxation.

Voices from Above

Voices from Above Who is that? Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after AEGIS activates in Ramp

Firefighting 101

Firefighting 101 Discover a new way to turn down the heat Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after putting out the fire in the maintenance areas.

Back on Track

Back on Track Enter Virgil's testing track Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after entering Virgil's testing track.

Deja Vu

Deja-Vu Solve the same test three times! Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after completing the work-in-progress test three times.

Organic Complications

Organic Complications Hide from AEGIS Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: Occurs in the chamber Overgrown. You may either press the button or wait for Virgil's dialogue to finish.

Back Off Track

Back off Track Get off the track again Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement will unlock after either completing or escaping the broken testing track at the start of Factory.

Welcome to my Domai

Welcome to my Domain Reach AEGIS's Domain Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after entering AEGIS' chamber.

Story Shutdown

Story Shutdown Shutdown AEGIS in Story Mode Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after defeating AEGIS in Story Mode.

System Shutdown

System Shutdown Shut down AEGIS Difficulty: Story-related How to obtain: The achievement unlocks after defeating AEGIS in Advanced Mode.