Portal 2: Desolation
TheHellastorian for Corporate Narrator - BRACE Advertisement Assistant
This role is for a supporting character in Desolation called the Advertisement Assistant. Their function in the story is to introduce the player to the BRACE Cybernetic System, a previously unseen Aperture invention from the 1980s which is a vital part of the main character and the wider narrative. The BRACE is a technology which augments and upgrades the human body with cybernetic parts, including a metal skeleton and artificial organs.
The Advertisement Assistant demonstrates the BRACE first via a narrated commercial, and then through lines of explanatory dialogue presented to the player in-game. In-universe, Aperture authored these lines to win over investors and persuade potential customers: it’s classic advertising spiel, full of exaggerations and sinister undertones.
The part can be played however you like. The ideal performer will speak with clarity and confidence, and excel at delivering both serious and comedic lines. Feel free to put your own stamp on the delivery, but please avoid improvisation or deviation from the script. It is up to you whether to portray them as a traditional human salesperson, or as something more robotic/artificial.
- english
- product
- female adult
- male adult
- commercial
- corporate narration
Introducing BRACE: our brand new all-in-one Biological Restoration and Automated Corporal Extension. Winner of the 1981 Consumer Technology Innovation Awards, proudly sponsored by Aperture Laboratories. With this adaptable integrated cybernetic system, you’ll be a better human both at work and at home.
Ever find yourself injured, old, or with too many internal organs? The BRACE will fix you up good as new! You’re the problem, we’re the solution. No more broken bones! No more ailing muscles! No more fragile spinal column! With the BRACE, pain is a thing of the past.
You will now use your BRACE Cybernetic System to solve a series of Aperture-brand test chambers. Your primary module is the Antebrachial Relativity Manipulator, or ARM for short. And it really is for short: we had to surgically remove your forearm to attach it! With the ARM, all the functionalities of the Handheld Portal Device are now a part of your body, interfacing directly with the BRACE to provide superlative control and utility. If you thought your hand was handy, think again!
