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Guilt Guzzler

You can't have too much of a bad thing.

Guilt Guzzler is a three-cube laser puzzle with a splash of lightbridge. You may need to leave your empathy at the elevator.

Estimated Difficulty: Hard/Very Hard with experience (~7-8/10)
All moves should be deducible and reasonably easy to perform. However, the following should be observed:

Important notes:

• Single-cube climbing is expected. (But teetering atop a triple tower is not)
  
• Grabbing cubes through grating is expected. (That is, holding cubes on the other side of grating, not phasing them through it)
  
• There exists at least one timed move in the intended solution. The move(s) is/are bit tight, but should still be easy to perform due to being associated with simple player actions.
  
• There exists at least one diagonal-laser-through-portal in the intended solution. The execution of any such move has been made to be casual, and the angle non-absurd, but don't forget about it/them. This is insinuated in the intro room; feel free to check the above spoiler to confirm the validity of a move.

Other notes:

• This puzzle is long, and thus using F6/F7 is strongly recommended.
  
• The relay on the upper floor is connected to a not gate; this means that it will drop the cube, etc., when it is deactivated. In particular, this cube will drop after a 1-second delay.
  
• It is not intended for the Companion Cube to land nicely upon the unportal'd surface below its dropper such that a portal can be placed under it later (I had thought that the dropper was deterministic, but it appears that there is a very small chance of this happening)
  
• The Dot signage at the beginning exists to give the player a rough starting direction.
  
• The Life preserver signage (striped ring) is for anti-trapping. The paths it describes are never necessary to complete the puzzle from start to finish. (The single reset button will only respawn the companion cube.)
  
• The Yellow-ish fizzler is like a normal fizzler, but it won't clear portals when passed through.
  
• Laser collision is supposed to be off. If it gets turned on again, you may need to disable it via console.

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Huge thanks to Nobody No-One, who playtested and gave both solid advice & a second perspective.
Special thanks to lapicidas and 2021.4.30 who pointed out some alternate solutions so I could fix them.

This puzzle was made with BEE2 4.39, with UCPs:

• Lugia-S Signage, F-Guy/Lugia-S
  
• Custom Signage, Libbybapa
  
• Protruding Lightbridge, Konclan

The intended solution is linked above, but if you want to ask for hints without looking at it, or think you've found something unintended, let me know!