Lauren sat at her desk, in front of her (on top of the fresh deer corpse) lay the latest reports from the autonomous brain scans conducted by the yellow strex copters. The results were very disappointing, belief in a smiling god was still only at 12.76% but even more disappointing was that productivity at the company picnic had dropped 8%.
Lauren pondered this should she decrease sleep time again? or maybe encourage them with a "friendly" strex-pet. These were all possible solutions but Lauren knew that none of these would really work, unless she knew Nightvale's weakness and she knew exactly who to call for that.
The next "Morning" (2 hours late after accidentally going to old town Nightvale) vans started arriving a mysterious rotationally symmetric logo on the side. Robotic cranes that ran on some sort of pre programmed powerful motion tracking software started unloading mysterious boxes labelled "TESTING EQUIPMENT". It was a strange sight in Nightvale a newcomer and yet no one there to shout the customary greeting of "INTERLOPER!" or even throw a rock. The cranes worked well after the glowing ball of gas that sustains life by mere presence that some people call the sun descended with a loud crash like a cheap piano being dropped 10.6 metres onto a wooden floor and as the "morning" dawned with a sharp crisp bang, lightning and small localized showers of red confetti (signalling that it was Monday) as was normal in the strange town.
The autonomous robotic cranes had finished unloading the strange boxes and the "secret" bunker was now surrounded by small oblong shaped turrets with a low powered 40 milliwatt red laser connected to a simple motion tracker. Next to one of the turrets was a small white sign advertising testing procedures and at the bottom was the strange rotationally symmetric logo and "Aperture Laboratories" in impact bold next to it.
Lauren had just finished writing the hourly strex-powered powered news letter, she smiled as she pressed submit.
Dear Strexcorp Employees,
we are proud to announce that we have hired the renowned Aperture Laboratories, to help you achieve your greatest potential.
Testing has already begun and is mandatory.
we have been told that cake* is provided.
Remember to obey all laws of physics as stated in the latest Strexcorp Employee Handbook.
Testing will occur in the underground bunker down the road from the ralphs,
if you are at the Strexcorp employee picnic please ask for a pass from one of the senior office workers
*Cake may contain imaginary corn, if you are allergic please ask for an alternative