Portal Stories: Mel Past Power

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Title: Past Power

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This chamber has the Repulsion Gel and the Cleansing Gel and advanced Portal jumping.

Hazards

Walkthrough

Story Mode

Chamber

Pump Stations

  • Drop to the ground.
  • Head to the left and enter the door that opens.
  • Walk to the rear-left pillar.
  • Place your first portal at the top of the pillar, on the spot marked with a red X.
  • Place your second portal on the floor at the base of the pillar.
  • Drop through the portal and land in the portal again as you're falling to fling yourself to the pump station.
  • Walk inside the pump station and flip the switch to turn on the Propulsion Gel.
  • Drop to the floor.
  • Move your first portal to the wall through the broken window below the pump station.
  • Move your second portal to the floor underneath the Propulsion Gel.
  • Wait a few seconds to let the Propulsion Gel dispense in the hallway.
  • Drop through the portal and run through the hall, grabbing or knocking over the turret at the end to stop it shooting you.
  • Pull the lever in the officer labelled "OVERRIDE".
  • Walk through the Material Emancipation Grill in the hallway.
  • Turn left and walk through the door.
  • After following Virgil's directions, turn around and walk back and enter the door on the right.
  • Flip the switch to turn on the Repulsion Gel.
  • Walk through the gate that opens and follow the catwalk to the right, going through the door at the end.
  • Walk through the hall to the next door.
  • Go through the door and Material Emancipation Grill, then go up the stairs to the left to the next door which opens to the next big area.
  • Place your first portal on the floor portal surface you see immediately out of the door.
  • From the ledge you can see another floor portal surface below and to the right. Place your second portal there.
  • Jump into your second portal to fling yourself upward from your first portal.
  • While in the air, move your second portal to the nearby wall portal surface (as high as possible) to fling yourself onto the top of the next test chamber.
  • Walk toward the large "EXIT" decal and drop down to the catwalk to access the elevator.

Advanced Mode

Chamber

Pump Stations

  • Drop to the ground.
  • Head to the left and enter the door that opens.
  • Place your first portal at the top of any pillar on the inside.
  • Place your second portal at the base of the pillar.
  • Go through the portal to get to the high-up platform.
  • Walk to the left side of the platform and move your first portal to the floor between the platform and the pump station.
  • Walk to the opening in the middle of the grate platform and move your second portal to the floor below.
  • Jump down into this portal to fling yourself into the air beside the grate platform.
  • While in the air, move your first portal to the top of the rear-left pillar, on the spot marked with a red X, to fling yourself to the pump station.
  • Walk inside the pump station and flip the switch to turn on the Propulsion Gel.
  • Drop to the floor.
  • Move your first portal to the wall through the broken window below the pump station.
  • Move your second portal to the floor underneath the Propulsion Gel.
  • Wait a few seconds to let the Propulsion Gel dispense in the hallway.
  • Drop through the portal and run through the hall, grabbing or knocking over the turret at the end to stop it shooting you.
  • Pull the lever in the officer labelled "OVERRIDE".
  • Walk through the Material Emancipation Grill in the hallway.
  • Turn left and walk through the door.
  • After following Virgil's directions, turn around and walk back and enter the door on the right.
  • Flip the switch to turn on the Repulsion Gel.
  • Walk through the gate that opens and follow the catwalk to the right, going through the door at the end.
  • Walk through the hall to the next door.
  • Go through the door and Material Emancipation Grill, then go up the stairs to the left to the next door which opens to the next big area.
  • Place your first portal on the floor portal surface you see immediately out of the door.
  • From the ledge you can see another floor portal surface below and to the right. Place your second portal there.
  • Jump into your second portal to fling yourself upward from your first portal.
  • While in the air, move your second portal to the nearby wall portal surface (as high as possible) to fling yourself onto the top of the next test chamber.
  • Walk toward the large "EXIT" decal and drop down to the catwalk to access the elevator.

Easter Egg walkthrough

  • Follow the regular walkthrough until you are on top of the test chamber at the end.
  • Look to the left from the "EXIT" decal to see a structure with a portal surface at the bottom. Move a portal there.
  • Jump down to a safe spot that isn't the catwalk to the elevator.
  • Find another portal surface and move your other portal there.
  • Hop through the portal to get to the structure.
  • Follow the catwalk to the vitrified door, ignoring Virgil.
  • Open the door.

Video walkthrough

Trivia

A Borealis graffiti
  • Borealis floats and graffiti can be found near a few of the Vitrified doors.
  • The music played during this chamber is known as Out of Order.

Achievements

Curious
Curious
Find all the Vitrified door messages
You Shouldn't be Here
You Shouldn't be Here
Experience a Deeply Unimpactful Moment