#may 16 testing

[In an identical, but different, chamber, Chell is rubbing her eyes as she wakes.]

...?

< Welcome, test subject. Please solve this first, simple test. >

[Despite barely having regained her faculties, Chell crosses her arms and glares up at the camera.]

< Your record states that you know American Sign Language. All Aperture Science Artificial Intelligence include this in our databanks. If you have questions, you may use it in view of the camera. >

....

!!!

...

< Fine. >

< Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity.>

[Bubnick backs to the edge of the platform as the heat becomes nearly unbearable, just out of reach of the flames. There is a maintenance area above the pit, but without a portal gun, there is no way to get out of this.]

< Goodbye. >

Wait, please! 

Caroli--

< ... > 

Yeah. 

[Joshua lays sprawled out on the floor, one arm wrapped around the Space core.]

< There are no breaks scheduled for today’s tests. Please continue testing, and afterwards there will be a party. >

Party?

< Yes, with cake. >

I don’t like cake. 

< ... >

[There are a few beeps and clicking noises.]

< There will be ‘cowboys’. >

Cowboys?!

[Joshua gets up and peers at the puzzle again, with renewed vigor. While he looks, the panels just out of his vision shift and change, making the puzzle ever so slightly easier. When he turns back, he gasps.]

Oh! Oh! Wait, I see it now!

I mean, all of the scientists who observe tests tend to be jerks. They tend to have running commentary with each other on how the test subject is doing.