Miscellaneous Projectile Weapons

• Use #1: One portal is placed on the ceiling and the other is then fired underneath an enemy, causing the enemy to fall out of the ceiling and receive damage from a Long Fall. This does not work on flying enemies and cannot be used at all if there is no ceiling in the battlefield, although any surface large enough to support a portal and high enough off the ground can count as a "ceiling" in this case—it could be a vertical wall, but obviously the technique will not work if both portals face upward. Once this is used, the portals remain there until placed elsewhere, but serve no further purpose, as enemies are not likely to fall through again on their own.
• Use #2: A variation of Use #1, the upper portal is placed above a second enemy, causing the first enemy to fall onto the second one. In this case, each target takes damage equal to the falling target's Weight stat, and Long Fall damage is not involved. The falling character can fall onto and damage a flying character, but again a flying character cannot fall. If either target is Electrified, Reciprocal, Spiky, etc., these conditions will damage the other target.
• Use #3: Both portals are placed near one character specified as the "portal-jumper-inner," and following this, all attacks targeting the portal-jumper-inner will miss (explained as the character jumping through the portals just before being stricken) except for fieldwide multitarget attacks and psychic attacks. Unlike Uses 1 and 2, once Use #3 is set up, the character will continue to dodge all attacks indefinitely, but since only two portals can exist at once, if another use of the Portal Gun is executed, the dodging effect will then end until reestablished.
• Use #4: In this case, the user of the ASHPD uses their turn to specify that they will be using portals to redirect the next attack targeting them, but does not technically place the portals until under attack. (If they are not attacked during that turn, then nothing happens, and they can act normally during the next turn, but will not redirect any later attacks unless they specify this option again on future turns.) If attacked, the character will automatically use portals to redirect the incoming attack and will take no damage from it. The character can choose to redirect the attack toward an enemy (or choose not to), but obviously, melee attacks cannot be redirected toward the actual attacker—instead, the attacker can be made to take Long Fall damage as per Use #1; if redirected toward another enemy, the other enemy will take the attack's damage, but the attacker will not take any damage. If the attack is projectile, the very attacker can be targeted. If the attack is multitarget, only the Portal Gunner is protected, not their teammates. Psychic attacks cannot be redirected with portals, and like Uses 1 and 2, the portals must be repositioned each new turn for the effect to work again.
• Notes: While it would seem an attractive prospect to trap an enemy in an infinite fall using floor and ceiling portals, officially this is not allowed, and explained as the enemy managing to move sideways out of the portal tunnel, just as Chell can (as such, if attempted, this would result in Use #1 rather than enemy paralysis). Also, the Maestro may specify some surfaces as unable to support portals, and some characters, such as GLaDOS, may have the ability to deactivate existing portals, which could for example end the dodging effect of Use #3. Lastly, if a player comes up with a creative use of portals not covered by the options listed here, it might be able to be executed without the need for writing up a special attack and spending VP just like these techniques, but it is possible to design armed special attacks for the Portal Gun just like for any other weapon.