okay, we know that the advisors actually suck with those things (the dead guy and the barrel gets shriveled.
From that point there are multiple options:
-They feed on whatever it is they suck out.
-They aquire knowledge this way.
The Advisor in the barn was a bit groggy from being woken up like...
Maybe the death of all the AS people isn't related to the war or the toxin, but to the Borealis. There was an accident with the Borealis which portalled it to the arctic, maybe something similar happened to the people at AS?
I think the Borealis was a ship that was conducting Portal tests on a larger scale to compete with Black Mesa. Something went wrong while it was on drydock and the whole ship got portalled away, apparently to the arctics. From the video feed you can see that the whole ship remained how it was in...
IMO it had to happen around or after the portal storms: GLaDOS tells you that it isn't any better outside and that she is protecting you from that or something.
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Are you trying to escape? [chuckle] Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there...
I noticed the letters and tried to puzzle it for a minute or two, but at 3 AM I couldn't make any of it so I moved on.... nice that you found out what it meant :D
Could the main character from Portal be... Alyx's mother?
They look alike, and she has the same things on her leg that Eli uses as a leg ;)
No but seriously, it is said that she died during the black mesa incident, but DID SHE?
On the other hand, it could also be.. Alyx's sister...
Not trying to spoil your fun here guys, but the abbreviation is explained on http://www.aperturescience.com . type "login", then use "cjohnson" as a username and "tier3" as a password. then start notes.exe by typing "notes".
It wasn't that cool.. But I liked the one where they get blown through the window (when it's still intact) and the ones where you kill them by hitting them with a grenade before it exploded :p
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