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How does the portal-flinging mechanism work?
1 of 12: After you drop down to the main floor from the starting platform, look directly ahead to see a small raised alcove.
2 of 12: On the floor of that alcove is an aerial faith plate mechanism. However, it looks useless since you can't jump onto it, and its target zone (marked with the concentric circles) is right above it on the alcove's ceiling.
3 of 12: That's where portals come in. Notice that the alcove's ceiling is portal-friendly.
4 of 12: Put a blue portal on the alcove's ceiling, then put an orange portal on a nearby portal-friendly floor section.
5 of 12: If you then drop into the orange portal, you'll land on the faith plate. It'll shoot you back out of the orange portal and way up into the air.
6 of 12: You'll then fall back through the orange portal, and the process will repeat.
7 of 12: Look around while you're way up in the air and think about a way to turn this into a useful portal-flinging gimmick.
8 of 12: Examine all of the chamber's walls (either while bouncing up and down or while standing still on the floor) to see that there are several portal-friendly surfaces in high-up places.
9 of 12: There are also several high-up ledges and alcoves, some of which have no portal-friendly surfaces anywhere on their walls or ceiling.
10 of 12: What if you were to relocate the blue portal to a high-up wall section right after being faith-plated up through the orange portal?
11 of 12: When you fell back through the orange portal, you'd be flung out of the new blue portal, and would end up landing on the ledge that's directly across the chamber from it (if there is a ledge there).
12 of 12: For example, the high-up ledge that's to the left of the laser beam's emitter has to be gotten to via portal-flinging. Set the orange and blue portals as described above, then drop through the orange portal. As soon as you're thrown back out of it, turn right and fire a blue portal onto the high-up portal-friendly wall section that's directly across from the ledge. (Note that there's a camera on the nearest side of that wall section that'll help you identify it.) Dropping back through the orange portal will fling you across to that ledge.
