
However, these lines could alternatively be referring to the dead bodies in the cryo-chambers. Everyone, dead! could refer to the people killed by GLaDOS during this incident, with But she lives! referring to GLaDOS herself. The first incident is the infamous Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. This could refer to two incidents, both described in Portal 2: Lab Rat. The ship is gone, they're moving it to Mesa Hill!Ĭonnections to the Borealis It's gone, sir, it's been stolen!īy "the ship," Rattman is referring to the Borealis.Ĭonnections to events in Lab Rat He's dead. They took me to Mesa (unintelligible) mutilation You can access this recording in Den #7 in Portal 2, located in test chamber 17. The ramblings draw parallels with the Borealis as well as multiple events in the 2011 comic Lab Rat. Ghost of Rattman is the 7th track on the Portal 2 soundtrack "Portal 2: Songs to Test By." It includes what is speculated to be Rattman speaking to himself, his Companion Cube, or even Cave Johnson. Cave (now former junior claims representative of Aperture) hijacks the intercoms to yell out and warn everyone that Rattman (the current CEO) is embezzling from the staffs' paychecks. There is a universe in which Rattman is CEO of the Aperture company. The cube is apparently attached to a Core Receptacle, indicating that it may in fact be as sentient as any other Cores in the series.Īt some point in the events of the Perpetual Testing Initiative, in which the player takes role of stick figure Bendy - is shifted into a variety of alternate universes at the Enrichment Center as a means of still having Cave Johnson as ongoing CEO. However, a Weighted Companion Cube can be spotted by Atlas and P-body in the last test of Course Four: Excursion Funnels. Rattman's graffiti work makes no appearances whatsoever during the game's Cooperative Testing Initiative. His fate is left unknown as the entire bed with him is nowhere to be found when Chell later revisits this Relaxation Vault at the beginning of the single-player campaign in Portal 2.Ī Rattman den during Portal 2's single-player.Īll that is left of him in Portal 2, like in the first game, are wall scribblings and various dioramas depicting either what he witnessed or simply what he feels like expressing. He then submits himself into Chell's cryogenic stasis bed found in the Relaxation Vault previously used in the events of Portal, and falls asleep in it.

He is injured in the process when he is shot by Turrets that are still left in nearby test chambers.
#PORTAL 2 OST OFFLINE#
Finding out that Chell's Relaxation Chamber is offline due to the downfall of GLaDOS, the overall facility operator, he proceeds to save Chell's life by unplugging all other available chambers from their cryogenic supply and into hers. Feeling guilt, as it was his actions that resulted in her being the first test subject, he once again enters the facility and finds Chell has been put in long-term cryogenic relaxation. His joy is short-lived as he witnesses an unconscious Chell being dragged back into the facility by the Party Escort Bot.

It is in one of these dens that the warning phrase "The cake is a lie" can be found scribbled on a wall as GLaDOS continually promises that there would be cake at the end of testing.įollowing Chell's conflict with GLaDOS after her escape from the testing tracks, the Lab Rat comic details Rattman's point of view after the events of Portal in which he follows the sound of the explosion and finds a route to the outside world after the destruction of GLaDOS.

Although he is never spotted in-game in any of the playable Portal series, his refuge areas (referred to as dens) can be found by Chell, containing crude bedding, empty cans of beans and scribblings and dioramas on the walls. Crude bed that can be found in most of Rattman's dens.ĭelusional, running low on medication and travelling with what he sees to be a talking Weighted Companion Cube, he watches from the shadows as Chell is put through GLaDOS' testing course.
