The Oracle Turret is a friendly Sentry Turret that is encountered twice in Portal 2. Although the Oracle Turret is never named in-game, the name was revealed in an interview with Valve writers.[1]
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Encounters
Chapter 1
The player first encounters the Oracle Turret in Chapter 1 of Portal 2, where the Oracle Turret is stuck in a pneumatic transport tube. The Oracle Turret asks the player to help it, and to take it with her; however the Oracle Turret is inaccessible and Wheatley instructs the player to move past and ignore it.
Chapter 5
The second encounter with the Oracle Turret is on the Turret Redemption Line. The player can pick the turret up from the Turret Redemption Line, at which point is says "Thank you" and an achievement is unlocked for saving it. After being saved, the Oracle Turret will say several cryptic messages, one of them hinting that "her name is Caroline".The Turret also mentions an event from Greek mythology when Prometheus was punished by the gods and was thrown into the bowels of the Earth to be pecked at by birds. This is likely a reference to the later level in which GLaDOS/PotatOS and Chell fall down a deep shaft and GLaDOS is pecked by a bird. If the player ignores it, the Oracle Turret will complete its journey along the Redemption Line and disappear, and will presumably be incinerated and destroyed.
Related achievements
Portal 2
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No Hard Feelings Save a turret from redemption |
See also
References
- ↑ Valve On Portal 2: Spoiler Interview Part One, John Walker, rockpapershotgun.com, April 27, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2011.