You're a human consciousness in an Aperture Science Experimentation Frame (robot).
Luckily, you have a human emotional range and the acute ability to feel pain whenever you're crushed by a panel of spikes!
GLaDOS is forcing you through ever more complicated test rooms.
You need:
Card deck
1D6
Test # tracker
Test rooms:
Test # + 3 cards drawn (reshuffle discard when draw pile empties)
Spades - juggle die from one hand to other
Clubs - flick die at small object (1 foot away)
Diamonds - recite alphabet backwards (5 letters)
Hearts - Bodyweight exercise (2 reps)
Each suit redraw gets harder (1st diamond 5 letters, 2nd diamond 7, etc)
Fail a challenge? roll D6 for Restart Result and Response Result.
Complete test room? GlaDOS arousal + d6. Roll d6 for Response Track.
GlaDOS Arousal = 0;
Restart Result:
1,2 - You died! Restart room, Arousal -3
3,4,5 - You failed. Restart card, Arousal -1
6 - You swerved. Restart card, Arousal +1
Response Result, regarding:
Your appearance
Your intelligence
Your past
Aperture processes/history
Science fact
Her past
Response Level (based on Arousal):
<10: insults
10 - 19: Harsh remarks
20 - 30: backhanded compliments
30+ subtle praise
By ~10 test rooms, you lose if GLaDOS hasn't subtly praised you.
Originally posted to Tumblr for the 200 word rpg jam.
So as a portal connoisseur, technically most of this game is the foreplay. You'd either have to keep playing to physical exhaustion or just read an Ao3 fic about this point.
Written because i played through Portal 2 with a friend last night and mentioned how if I was a human test subject at Aperture, I think I'd rather just ask to get put in a test bot rather than like immediately die from a failed acrobatics check. But uh that's textually like [imbalanced power dynamic] [pain play] [degradation] [CNC] [snuff] [whatever tag means having your physical form and brain is directly created/monitored/modified by your partner]. And I was certainly awake thinking about all that a normal amount late last night.
Let the record show I wrote this on my 2nd day of estrogen. A weak correlation but it's present.
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