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Personal Improvement Through Science: Aperture Laboratories Presents Physical Education (Wed/Per.2)

The locker room corridor was largely the same today, with one exception: where the portal-generating panel had been for the first couple of classes there was a regular (for this room, anyway) door. The sign beside the door was different, too, if you were observant enough to have remembered any of the details from last week's.

If you hadn't . . . too bad. You'd have to figure it out on your own once you stepped through the doors into the test chamber.

"You came back again," GLaDOS said, in an almost bored voice, once everyone was assembled on the platform just inside the doors. "It's almost reliable of you . . . or maybe Pavlovian. Personally, I'd be more gratified if it's a successful conditioned response. What are the odds that you actually remembered anything from the last test, though? Don't answer that."

A few bars of 8-bit music that might be familiar to anyone who'd watched the American Olympics coverage a few weeks ago began to play, echoing off the walls of the chamber, until she cut the sound abruptly.

"While we continue focusing on cardiovascular fitness, I've decided to go ahead and graduate all of you to the dual portal device this week. This week's test will focus on the principle of conservation of momentum through portals, and how to apply that to the high jump. If words like 'conservation' and 'momentum' are too challenging for you, let me spell it out for you in crayon: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing goes out." Wait, high jump? Like, over those glowing strips of light on the other side of the chasm? Apparently. "Then, just to test your sprinting abilities, a simple long jump exercise. Good luck."

She didn't add you're going to need it, but it was implied. It was never sincere, but always implied.

[OOC: ~~Please hold for the OCD, or there isn't going to be a party for you.K/s> OCD is up. But I lied about the party, and one of us is going to feel awful about that. It just won't be me.]~~

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Looking way up. Or down.

Suit up, be weirded out by the talking toilets, etc.

Since you don't actually have to wait in the corridor this week. It's a long way down (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/gladigotburned/37922480/4046/4046_original.jpg) to the portal-conducting floor.

You'll notice that the fizzler (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/gladigotburned/37922480/6921/6921_original.jpg) that stretches across the entire opening to the far platform looks a lot like the Material Emancipation Grill at the classroom door. If you dare to peer over the edge of the platform, you'll see a set of angled panels (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/gladigotburned/37922480/3701/3701_original.jpg). Interesting. Once you figure out how to use portals to get to the far platform (strategize with classmates if you have to!), you'll also notice that your portals disappear after you pass through the fizzler -- which means whoever goes next can't cheat and use your portals.

There also happens to be a small box of tennis balls in one corner of the platform -- should you throw one across the room, it would bounce off the two hard light bridges, but disintegrate going through the fizzler.

(http://gladigotburned.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/584/6874)

Edited 2012-09-12 06:47 (UTC)

Well, here you have a nice long hallway (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/gladigotburned/37922480/5615/5615_original.jpg) with a button near the wall, an exit door on the far ledge . . . and a long pit of really gross-looking water between you and that ledge. So how do you cross that?

"The next part of this test utilizes the Aperture Science Aerial Faith Plate (http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Aerial_Faith_Plate)," GLaDOS spoke up, "which was originally used to investigate test subjects' problem-solving capacity -- namely, how it was affected when they were catapulted through space. In case you're wondering, the results were consistent. They could not."

She didn't mention anything about the button, though the lighted line leading from it to the door should spell it out for you, right? Hit the button and run for the Aerial Faith Plate: you've got five seconds to make it across, up, and through the door before it automatically shuts again, so you'd better hit the button, run, and keep running for the exit as soon as you land.

(http://gladigotburned.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/584/6600)

Once you've let an electronic plate catapult you screaming through the air and gotten through the door, you'll find yourself back in the locker room corridor. How convenient. Wasn't that fun?

There is nothing unreasonable about talking to an otherwise empty room, okay?

FYI, for the high jump, yes, the solution is that you put one portal into the angled panels, jump off the platform, and shoot the second portal into the floor so you go flying through the first portal at high speed. Because portal-flinging is FUN. (I would so do that in real life if I could.) Again, white surfaces will hold portals; grey ones will not. Here, have a screenshot gallery (http://gladigotburned.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/584) of this week's test chamber! (The fizzler was a late addition, so some of the screenshots don't show it.) The problem with actually building the chambers for class is that I have to play-test them first, of course. Thoroughly.

FOR SCIENCE.

Also shut up about the graphics quality on some of the screenshots. I need to replace my video card.

Edited 2012-09-12 06:51 (UTC)

Topher Brink

Topher took some time to just squint at this setup for a bit. He helped himself to a couple of tennis balls. He threw one toward one of the hard light bridges and wasn't surprised when it bounced off; then, the second ball (well, third -- he undershot the second one and had to try again) was chucked toward the fizzler to see if it was an annoyingly translucent wall or something else. If it was a wall, then clearly they had to find a way over or under it or something, but if it was something else... hmm.

When that ball disintegrated, Topher spent a less-than-intelligent moment wondering if that meant people would disintegrate upon trying to pass through it, then remembered the material emancipation grill from the locker room. "But we don't have anything now we didn't have before," he mumbled to himself, pacing across the platform and squinting toward the other side as he tried to figure it out. "So what does it..." His eyes fell upon the glowing pair of shiny portals he'd just made on the floor. "Oh."

He still had to figure out how to actually get to the other side, but that was just momentum. For right now, he was just proud of himself for figuring out what the obstacles did.

And he might even share, too, if you asked. You know. Smugly.

Edited 2012-09-12 07:39 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Topher was way too excited by the prospect of getting flung into space to bother testing out that button first. "Okay," he muttered to himself, steeling his shoulders while standing a respectable distance away from the faith plate; then he sprinted forward, bounced off the surface, promptly yelped a very loud obscenity, and found himself propelled onto the platform with the door on it.

Unfortunately, not having hit the buttom meant the door was closed. He followed the lighted line with his eyes before realizing what it had to mean, then sighed.

"Um," he yelled, beginning to regret his haste, "can someone hit that button for me? Please?"

Korra

Jackson Whittemore

Jackson suited up, then spent the rest of the time before the class actually started looking at his phone, browsing through a list of private doctor's offices in the area around Fandom.

He really needed to get his neck checked out. It was starting to get ridiculous.

Liara T'Soni

Liara peered down.

"Perhaps this would be a good time for me to learn biotic flight."

Days like this you cannot even grasp the envy I feel towards you owning a PC copy of this game instead of a console one.

Evan Sabahnur

Jack Carter

Stiles Stilinski

"So...I heard you were a basketball this weekend." Stiles, no. Don't taunt the jerkface. Even if he is a jerkface. "How was that? Fun?"

See Jackson glare. Glare, Jackson, glare!

No, seriously. He wasn't about to dignify that with a verbal response.

"That depends," Jack called back. "What do you have to offer?"

Hey, it wasn't often that Jack could actually *do* anything for Topher. At least not without having to barter time with his phone or SARAH.

Susan Sto Helit

Yes, that was a long-suffering sigh from Susan. She swore this class just kept getting stranger.

Maybe she should start being invisible during it, and could just sit in the locker room with a book till everyone was done.

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Personal Improvement Through Science: Aperture Laboratories Presents Physical Education (Wed/Per.2)

Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Locker Rooms: Before Class [PiTS, Week 3]

On the Platform: Listen to the Lecture, Etc. [PiTS, Week 3]

Activity 1: "High Jump" [PiTS, Week 3]

Activity 2: "Long Jump" [PiTS, Week 3]

Locker Rooms: After Class [PiTS, Week 3]

Talk to GLaDOS [PiTS, Week 3]

OOC [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Activity 1: "High Jump" [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Activity 2: "Long Jump" [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Locker Rooms: Before Class [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: On the Platform: Listen to the Lecture, Etc. [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: OOC [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Locker Rooms: Before Class [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Locker Rooms: Before Class [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Activity 2: "Long Jump" [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: Sign In [PiTS, Week 3]

Re: On the Platform: Listen to the Lecture, Etc. [PiTS, Week 3]