Testing Is the Future, and the Future Starts With You!

[iam_not_amoron]

WHO: Wheatley, OPEN to all willing victims potential test subjects
WHAT: The little personality core's gotten himself in a bit of a fix.
WHERE: The new and improved Aperture Science Testing and Application Center in Zone 4
WHEN: Roughly mid-week. The center will be open for as long as it is functional, however.
WARNINGS/NOTES: STARTED IN PROSE.

Comments

Main Entrance - Organics Side

[iam_not_amoron]

     The doors readily admit you once you approach them. Strange, considering Wheatley had mentioned something about being stuck. Regardless, there's no trouble passing through the rather plain, pristine white lobby and into a long corridor. Eventually you come to a large room, furnished with only a chair and a small coffee table. Oh, there's also a small drawer set in the wall, just beside the entryway.

The moment the doorway is cleared, the hatch slides shut behind you. Not to fret though, there's another door directly in front of you. But before you take a step further, there's a click from the overhead speaker, and an automated voice speaks up.

"Welcome to the Aperture Science Testing and Application Center! On behalf of our non-existant staff, we here at Aperture Science would like to thank you for taking the time to offer yourself as a willing subject for further study and development of science. As we are underhanded in assistants, we will waive legal procedures such as liability forms and the listing of

SO EXCITE

[shepard_cmdr]

The original network communication... made no sense. Who is 'her'? What is this Aperture Science Testing and Application Center? None of her omni-tool research told her anything and she misses the Citadel codex which had an entry on everything that she usually needs information on

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[iam_not_amoron]

     There's no response to the woman's demanding inquiry. The recordings were never meant to be interactive, nor were they ever all that helpful.

Hopefully the elevator is to Shepard's approval, shuttling down immediately after she's stepped inside, a smooth ride that lasts all of thirty seconds. It comes to a stop, door sliding open into a circular room with but one exit- that leading to a slightly darkened corridor with a short flight of steps that leads to a sealed hatch. This hatch slides open once approached, and not several feet past the doorway lies the first Emancipation Grill before entering the testing chamber.

Shepard will probably feel a brief jolt should she choose to pass through. Hopefully nothing explodes on her.

The chamber itself, once entered, is rather empty and plain. There's another doorway across the room, except it's on a pretty tall ledge, and there don't appear to be any stairs. There is, however, a bright red beam that shoots out from one side of the room to the other. There

[shepard_cmdr]

She steps out of the elevator--which surprisingly hadn't been bad--feeling naked without her weapons and instinctively her hand strays to where her pistol should be. Shepard curses and slowly heads up the steps to eye the first of the Emancipation Grills

[iam_not_amoron]

     The reaction is almost instantaneous; once the beam hits the receptor, lighting up a small row of lights that go along the wall and trail to the floor. Slowly the floor just before the platform begins to rise in a convenient set of steps. They don't seem to be going anywhere any time soon, so long as the laser remains focused.

[shepard_cmdr]

She jumps in surprise at the rumbling, half crouching into an defensive position and narrows her eyes at the raised platform. Shepard eyes the cube and the laser again, then decides she doesn't really want to tempt fate.

That hadn't been particularly hard but she suspects there is a learning curve, as with any test and starts up the stairs for the door.

[iam_not_amoron]

     Once she gets up the stairs, the door slides open, leading to another dark corridor with yet another Grill. Beyond, another lift.

The automated voice chimes encouragingly. "Good work! Because of your rapid ability to solve this last test, we will immediately direct you to our more advanced testing chambers."

The elevator awaits! And on to the next chamber it will carry Shepard.

[shepard_cmdr]

Joy. Just what she wanted. She scowls again towards the ceiling and she steps again through the Emancipation Grill--that jolt can't possibly be healthy--down towards the elevator. Before she gets on it, she inspects the walls, not surprised when she doesn't see any obvious emergency exits or doors leading to the inner workings.

"Elevator it is," she mutters and steps inside.

[iam_not_amoron]

     And down, down the elevator takes her. When it opens up again, the platform looks completely identical to the one she'd initially been in. Up the steps and to the next chamber, which is considerably larger than the first.

Most of it also seems to be filled with water. It looks like water, anyway. Not the cleanest water, and it certainly doesn't smell very pleasant. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to take a swim in there. Besides, there doesn't seem to be any way to get out of the water, and the platforms are all raised some six or seven feet from the questionable liquid