The shelves contain dozens of other cores, some of which begin to light up before a robotic arm descends and extinguishes the candle on the cake. The final scene, after a long and speedy zoom through the bowels of the facility, shows a mix of shelves surrounding a brown cake with one candle and the Weighted Companion Cube.
#Portal update
An update to the PC version of Portal shows Chell being dragged away from the scene by an unseen entity speaking in a robotic voice, thanking her for assuming the party escort submission position. Chell is then seen lying outside the facility's gates amid the wreckage. After she has destroyed the final core, a portal malfunction tears the room apart and pulls everything to the surface.
#Portal series
A six-minute countdown starts as Chell incinerates more cores, while GLaDOS attempts to discourage her both verbally, using a series of taunts and increasingly juvenile insults, and physically by firing rockets at Chell with the Rocket Sentry. GLaDOS reveals that Chell has just destroyed the morality core, which the Aperture Science employees allegedly installed after GLaDOS flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, and goes on to state that now there is nothing to prevent her from doing so once again.
GLaDOS berates Chell and prepares a "surprise", only for a personality core to fall off Chell drops it in an incinerator. Eventually, Chell reaches a large chamber where GLaDOS' hardware hangs overhead. GLaDOS attempts to dissuade Chell with threats of physical harm and misleading statements claiming that she is going the wrong way as Chell makes her way deeper into the maintenance areas. The graffiti includes statements such as "the cake is a lie," making it more obvious that GLaDOS has only malevolent intentions. Throughout this section, GLaDOS still sends messages to Chell to come back it becomes clear that she has been corrupted and may have killed everyone else in the center.Ĭhell makes her way through the maintenance areas and empty office spaces behind the chambers into the piping areas, sometimes following graffiti messages which point in the right direction. Chell, thinking that GLaDOS is trying to trick her into a vulnerable position, continues forward. GLaDOS then asks Chell to assume the "party escort submission position", lying face-first on the ground, so that a "party escort robot" can take her to her reward. GLaDOS becomes panicked and insists that she was only pretending to kill Chell, as part of testing and to come back to where she was. Chell begins heading into a pit of fire as GLaDOS assures her that "all Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4,000 degrees kelvin." However, Chell escapes with the use of the handheld portal device and makes her way through the maintenance areas within the Enrichment Center. However, GLaDOS then declares at the end of the test chamber that it "unfortunately must be euthanized" in an "emergency intelligence incinerator" before Chell can continue to the next test chamber.Īfter Chell completes the final test chamber, GLaDOS congratulates her. In another chamber, GLaDOS boasts about the Weighted Companion Cube, a waist-high crate with a single large pink heart on each face, for helping Chell to complete the chamber. GLaDOS also directs Chell through a live-fire course she claims is designed for military androids as a result of "mandatory scheduled maintenance" in the regular test chamber (though as noted before, GLaDOS may not necessarily be truthful in anything she says). The test chambers become increasingly dangerous and difficult throughout the game as Chell proceeds. GLaDOS' actions and speech suggest insincerity and callous disregard for the safety and well-being of the test subjects. Chell is promised cake and grief counseling as her reward if she completes all the test chambers.Ĭhell proceeds into the Enrichment Center, interacting only with GLaDOS over the course of the game. This part of the game involves distinct test chambers that the player has to complete to go on to the next test chamber. The game begins with protagonist Chell waking up from a stasis bed and getting instructions and warnings from GLaDOS about the upcoming test chamber experience. The plot of Portal is revealed to the player via audio messages from GLaDOS and side rooms found in the later levels.
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