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How can I get a storage cube onto the door-opening button?
1 of 15: Have you tried using the main floor's button pedestal again to get another cube? If that worked, you could just carry it up the ramp and drop it on the upper floor's big red button.
2 of 15: Unfortunately, pressing the button will get you another cube, but the one you got before will disappear. That's to prevent you from using this "easy" solution.
3 of 15: NOTE: You can get onto the upper floor and weight down the door-opening button using only one cube. This gets you no special reward, but it does provide an interesting alternative to this chamber's standard solution.
4 of 15: Go past the upper floor's big red button to find two more button pedestals.
5 of 15: The one on the left has a cube-dropping picture next to it, so press it to get another cube.
6 of 15: Unfortunately, the cube will drop from the other cube tube, and will bounce off a slanted surface and land in the toxic liquid below, where you can't get it.
7 of 15: Examine the slanted surface that the cube bounced off of to see that it looks portal-friendly.
8 of 15: Fire a blue portal onto that surface, then hit the cube-dropping button again.
9 of 15: This time, the cube falls through the blue portal and comes shooting out of the orange portal hard enough to end up in the toxic liquid again.
10 of 15: You're going to have to figure out a way to stop the cube from falling into the toxic liquid after it comes out of the orange portal.
11 of 15: You could drop down to the lower floor right after pressing the button, then quickly run over to where your body will block the cube's path after it exits the orange portal.
12 of 15: Or you can try pressing the button on the other button pedestal to see what it does.
13 of 15: Ah, ha! It raises up that broken-bridge-looking thing briefly.
14 of 15: Since it only raises the bridge up briefly, it makes sense to hit that pedestal's button right after hitting the button to drop a cube.
15 of 15: Once you get a cube to land on the main floor, take it up the ramp to the upper floor, then drop it on the door-opening button.
