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

The locker rooms and the entry corridor should be familiar enough by now, right? Even if the sign beside the door to the ~~classroom~~ test chamber had a new combination of symbols and numbers on it?

The room setup was fairly straightforward this week: sure, the far wall was terraced like a set of scale-challenged bleachers, but the dimensions ought to be familiar to anyone who'd set foot on a basketball court. Slight problem: there weren't any baskets to be seen. A large button on each side of the floor, with a dotted line of lights that led up to a square panel at basketball headboard height, sure, but no actual visible baskets. Also notable: a button at about midcourt bext to a bench-height ledge by the near wall, its line of lights leading to a Vital Apparatus Vent in the center of the ceiling. On either side of that Vital Apparatus Vent was an angled ceiling panel facing one of the headboard-height panels.

. . . hmm.

"I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever show up," GLaDOS told the class. (She hadn't been.) "This next test will combine problem-solving skills with a cooperative exercise in hand-eye coordination. For those of you unfamiliar with the rules of basketball, let me give you a quick summary."

And cue five seconds of high-pitched, super-high-speed gibberish. GLaDOS was helpful like that.

"You have until the end of the period. Good luck." Good luck? With figuring out where the basketball was, for starters. "Oh, and since this test involves use of the 1500-Megawatt Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button, don't hang around too long after class. We're not actually testing for results of prolonged exposure to the button this week."

Oh, good.

[OOC: ~~Wait for the OCD, or you don't get a Companion Cube of your very own.~~ OCD is up, but you'd only have to incinerate your Companion Cube at the end of the test anyway, so you don't really want one.]

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Yes, the button by the sideline will dispense a basketball from the Vital Apparatus Vent. The Super-Colliding Super Buttons? Stand on one and the corresponding panel will flip around to reveal the basketball headboard. Step off the button and the panel flips back around, so you're going to have to figure that out.

If you really want to play dirty, it's not like GLaDOS is going to call a foul on you for pushing someone off the button to keep their team from taking a shot. Or shooting a portal under someone's feet to drop them across the room somewhere.

And if you want to get fancy, go ahead and try portaling down from the ceiling for a trick dunk.

(http://gladigotburned.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/961/18806)

Edited 2012-09-19 04:34 (UTC)

"Aww, it's sports this time?" Topher whined loudly once it was clear to everyone how this was working. "Can I just sit on the button and shoot people on the other team through portals?"

And in fact, that was his plan. His aim could use work, but, uh. Sorry if he happened to catch you in a portal, anyone on team one. Or team two for that matter. Because he really couldn't aim.

[[feel free to mod being caught by a Topher portal if you like!]]

"Drop the orange guys," Richie said oh-so-helpfully. "Not the blue!"

This week was good. This week the class pretty much made sense. So far.

This was just about the most awesome basketball court Evan had ever stepped onto! And it was way less likely to try to kill him than the one at his last school!

Now all that was really left for Evan to do was to decide whether or not it would be cheating to make himself just a little bit taller for the rest of the game...

Victor was more interested in testing the portal gun technology than he was in actually playing basketball, but he'd still do a half-decent job of running defense on the orange team's side of the court in between attempts to angle the gun exactly right for a trick shot.

Shooting portals at the floor and jumping through them counted as playing, right? Even if Ace very seldom managed to time that with actually catching a ball or throwing it at a hoop?

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