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fandomhigh2012-11-13 11:20 pm
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Personal Improvement Through Science: Aperture Laboratories Presents Physical Education (Wed/Per 2)
Once you got past the sign in the entry corridor, the classroom setup today might be vaguely recognizable as a tennis court -- Aperture style, which meant that instead of a net there was a grating about four feet high, and the only lines on the "court" were the tiles made of non-portal-holding material that bordered the space. Past that, on the other side of a floor-to-ceiling glass wall, was a slightly elevated surface that might've been a racquetball court.
Sort of.
Not that there were rackets anywhere. Just, on each court, a glowing tennis-ball-sized energy sphere that bounced steadily back and forth between the floor and the ceiling (both portal-able surfaces, interestingly enough).
"It's easy enough to plan your movements and time your reactions when you have a steady pattern to plan around," GLaDOS informed the class in the detached and vaguely disdainful voice of someone who was not at all holding a bit of a grudge over the potato battery thing from the other day, not at all, she was FINE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. "Let's see how you handle a slightly less predictable situation. It's still entirely scientific, of course. It is possible to calculate the possible outcomes of a given moment and weigh the odds of each possible outcome, but have fun with that if you can't handle data as fast as I can. Ha. Since that's astronomically unlikely, you'll just have to resort to primitive guesswork."
She paused and let several bars of the Jeopardy! theme music play.
"Oh, and in order to add a sense of urgency to the test conditions and encourage more realistic results, there will be consequences for making incorrect contact with your Vital Testing Apparatus. Try not to be too . . . shocked. Good luck."
Sort of.
Not that there were rackets anywhere. Just, on each court, a glowing tennis-ball-sized energy sphere that bounced steadily back and forth between the floor and the ceiling (both portal-able surfaces, interestingly enough).
"It's easy enough to plan your movements and time your reactions when you have a steady pattern to plan around," GLaDOS informed the class in the detached and vaguely disdainful voice of someone who was not at all holding a bit of a grudge over the potato battery thing from the other day, not at all, she was FINE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. "Let's see how you handle a slightly less predictable situation. It's still entirely scientific, of course. It is possible to calculate the possible outcomes of a given moment and weigh the odds of each possible outcome, but have fun with that if you can't handle data as fast as I can. Ha. Since that's astronomically unlikely, you'll just have to resort to primitive guesswork."
She paused and let several bars of the Jeopardy! theme music play.
"Oh, and in order to add a sense of urgency to the test conditions and encourage more realistic results, there will be consequences for making incorrect contact with your Vital Testing Apparatus. Try not to be too . . . shocked. Good luck."
Activity: Aperture Tennis [PITS, 11/14]
The energy pellet will zap you if you come into contact with it. Nothing serious, though, just a mild static shock and that patch of skin going a tiny bit numb for about ten minutes.
Re: Activity: Aperture Tennis [PITS, 11/14]
Which didn't stop Richie from getting zapped on the arm repeatedly when he failed to move out of the way of a ball fast enough. But at least he understood the basic concept right off.