

During the verbal introduction, GLaDOS inexplicably blurts a bad Spanish phrase which roughly translates as "Please refrain from failing.The radio inside of Chell's chamber plays an latin-style instrumental version of " Still Alive.".Additional elements of the story's background are developed from the fictional Aperture Science website created by Valve for the game.Ĭhell wakes up in a so-called Relaxation Vault - with only a small table on which lays a mug, radio, and a clipboard listing test chamber hazards, as well as a toilet and a stasis bed of some kind - and is welcomed "again" by a Computerized Voice which states that "her specimen has been processed" and that "we are now ready to begin the test proper."Ĭhell then proceeds through the first area and is introduced to Buttons, Cubes, and the Vital Apparatus Vents, as well as the Material Emancipation Grills. Portal is set in the Half-Life universe, and is presented to the player through the game's audio messages and visual elements seen throughout the game. This article describes the Portal storyline, chapter by chapter.

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