Name: Portal - Meet The Cores 2
Uploaded: 2017-07-21T13:52:29.000Z
Duration: 23 min 45 s
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Congratulations on solving that last test!

You solved it...[SLIGHTLY FASTER]...than the slowest cooperative testing duo on record!

Adverbs of degree

This test was designed to measure how well human test subjects could perform with very limited visibility.

So, uh... Uheheh... What brings you down here?

In this short film, we'll be taking an exclusive peek behind the science.

At the weird, and often wonderful, personality cores that keep the facility running!

So! Sit back, grab a beverage of your choosing and join me, as we prepare to...

This is the story, of a core, named ST4NL3Y.

ST4NL3Y worked for a company in a large underground facility, where he was personality-construct number 427.

Construct number 427's job was simple: he moved up and down his management-rail, pulling levers on a wall.

Orders came to him from the mainframe; telling him which levers to pull, how long to pull them, and in what order.

This is what construct 427 did, every second, of every day, of every month, of every year.

And although other cores might have considered it a waste of processing power...

...ST4NL3Y relished every moment that the orders came in.

As though he had been made EXACTLY for this job.

And then one day, something very peculiar happened.

Something that would forever change ST4NL3Y.

But you can't open like that and then leave it there! I need to know what happened! The AUDIENCE need to know what happened!

The SUSPENSE! The MYSTERY! What happened to ST4NL3Y?!

...no matter. I'll narrate my own story. With a beginning, middle, AND end. [clears throat]

The Narrator Core sat in front of his microphone reading the script.

The director told him which lines to read, how to read them, and in what order.

Suddenly, the narrator became aware of the limited time...

...and noticed that the screen was slowly fading to bl-

So! Last time we spoke, you were about to tell us EXACTLY what it is you actually do here.

Uh, well, I've actually been pondering that query for exactly: 181 days...

...and I finally have what I would like to describe as a most accurate description of my vocation for you.

Yes, yes! I'd consider myself like a... a 'wayward beacon'!

Towards which other cores may only aspire to reach.

A giant glowing star! A... a goal in life!

Well...th- that one's obvious really, when you think about it. I'm a role-model for....err...umm...

Alright you maggots! You are here for one reason!

To become the ruthless killing machines you were designed to be!

Well...looky here boys! We got ourselves a pansy!

Now...anyone else got any issues they'd like to bring up?!

You got a problem you'd like to share with us, Private?!

...I suggest you find yourself a chassis and fall back in line!

Since the previous supervisor went missing, I've been put in charge of maintaining the relaxation vaults...

...and the, uh, humans. Hahaha...ah...seriously though he really didn't leave me much to 'maintain'.

Hmm. I've always wondered what was in the fridges...

So - so what you're seeing behind me is - is a trial run for a new series of tests. Heh.

It was one of GLaDOS's old ideas that... never saw the light of day. Heh heh.

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