The texture's low resolution makes it difficult to make read any text, but the clipboard in the starting room provides some pictograms depicting the dangers - and cake - that lay ahead.
What do the pictograms show?
A cube dispenser
A cube hitting someone on the head
A person being vaporised by an energy pellet
An energy pellet dispenser
A person drowning in acid
A person jumping down through a portal
A person exiting a portal at great speed
A person being shot by a turret
A person drinking from a fountain with a large 'prohibited' symbol around them
A cake!
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