Ready Player One
COLUMBUS, OHIO 2045
"THE STACKS"
Get ready to feel
the feel of reality. X1
No pain, no gain.
Pizza guys!
- Hello, Wade.
- Hello, Mrs. Gilmore.
What's the matter?
Life getting you down?
I was born in 2027.
After corn syrup droughts,
after the bandit riots...
after people stopped
trying to fix problems...
and just trying to outlive them.
My parents, they didn't make
I live here in Columbus, Ohio
with my aunt Alice.
In 2045...
Columbus is the fastest
growing city on earth.
It's where Halliday and Morrow
started Gregarious Games.
These days, reality is a bummer.
Everyone is looking
for a way to escape.
That's why Halliday,
that's why he was such a hero to us.
He showed us that we could go somewhere
without going anywhere.
You don't need a destination
when you're running on a...
omnidirectional treadmill with
quadrophonic pressure sensitive underlay.
James Halliday saw the future.
And then he built it.
He gave us a place to go.
A place called...
THE OASIS.
WORLD MINECRAF This is the OASIS.
It's a place where the limits of
reality are your imagination.
You can do anything.
Go anywhere.
Like the vacation planet.
Surf a 50 foot monster
wave in Hawaii...
You can ski down the pyramids...
You can climb Mount Everest...
with Batman.
Check out this place.
It's a casino the
size of a planet.
You can lose your money there,
you can get married,
you can get divorced.
You can...
you can go in there.
PLANET LUDUS:
People come to the OASIS for
all the things they can do.
But they stay because of all
the things they can be.
Tall, beautiful, scary,
and different sex...
a different species, live action,
cartoon. It's all your call.
Yeah, that's me,
well, that's my avatar.
At least until I feel like to change it .
Except for eating, sleeping and
bathroom breaks...
whatever people want
to do, they do it in the OASIS.
This is where we meet each other.
It's where we make friends.
Locate Hache.
Locating Hache.
Hache located.
Sector 12, Planet Doom.
The Planet Doom. The most
dangerous place in the OASIS.
And pretty great
place to pick up coins.
Hache is my best
friend in the OASIS.
He's my best friend, period.
Even though I've never actually
met him in the real world.
- What's up, Hache?
- Hey what up, Z!
The next race is in 20
minutes and I can't delay one.
What the hell are you up to?
Man, you're in my kill zone, bro.
- Is that Daito?
- Daito and Sho.
- Arigato.
- Xie Xie.
- This an artifact hunt?
- Yep, Gregarious 120.
Turn into any giant robot
for two minutes. Great!
Artifacts...
Those were key.
Halliday made sure the OASIS was littered
with enough randomly powerful stuff...
if they had the skills.
Death matches and artifact hunts
are good way to coin snatch...
but depending on your level of armor,
they are risky.
You see, everyone starts the same but
the more coin you make...
- The more you level up.
- Mom! Mom!
If you get killed, your
avatar can come back to live...
- but you lose all your stuff.
- Go get your dad!
Everything you have
ever worked for.
All your money...
Your clothes...
Your weapons...
their time in the OASIS...
Losing your sh*t means...
losing your sh*t.
Hache, ten minutes
to the race tracks.
OK mom, I heard you.
You see, the OASIS was the
brain child of James Halliday.
He and his partner,
Odgen Morrow...
released the first
OASIS built in the 2025.
It was an instant success...
and it made them both very rich.
But Morrow was out of the picture
after a few years.
Then Halliday, he wasn't just the
owner of the world's biggest company.
He was like a god.
People loved him.
They worshiped him as
much as his creation.
Maybe we should
If you all to reach
under your seats
you will find that there
is nothing there.
But we are gonna
bring you on now.
And then on January 7th, 2040...
He died.
They what he left behind...
Changed everything.
Hello.
I'm James Halliday.
If you are watching
this, I am dead.
Before I died, I created...
what we in the bis
called an "Easter egg ".
who ever discovers it.
The first person to find the egg...
I've hidden somewhere
inside the OASIS...
will inherit my stock
and Gregarious Games...
currently valued an excessive
half a million dollars...
Half a trillion dollars worth.
And total control of the OASIS itself.
In the form of my avatar:
Anorak, the all knowing...
I created 3 keys.
Three hidden challenges test
the worthy traits...
revealing 3 hidden keys
to 3 magic gates.
survive these traits...
will reach the end
where the prize awaits.
Off you go, keys.
The keys aren't just laying
around under a rock somewhere.
I suppose you could say they are
invisible.
Hidden in a dark room, it's
at the center of a maze..
It's located somewhere up here.
Let the hunt for Halliday's
Easter egg begin!
READY PLAYER ONE
The challenge is to find 3 keys.
But in 5 years no
one has even gotten one key.
And the big score board is still empty.
Some long forgotten
gunter cracked the
1st clue and found
the 1st challenge.
Then this portal appeared.
But the challenge to win the first key
was a race designed by Halliday...
it was so hard no
one had ever finished it
The only ones still trying
were the 'gunters'...
as in 'egg hunters'.
Like me and Sho and Daito
and my best friend Hache.
Oh! And of course,
the Sixers.
Innovative Online Industries.
They are the second largest
company in the world...
with desires of becoming the first.
This why they are putting
everything they got
into winning Halliday's contest.
Buckle up!
Set in!
We call them Sixers because
that's the company rule...
no name, just numbers.
They have a support team
made up of Halliday's scholars.
Like me, they spend all their
time studying pop culture...
that Halliday was obsessed with.
Trying to find clues
to solve the contest.
They were just following the orders
of the head of the IOI...
this dick we named Nolan Sorrento.
How did you get here before me?
Well, I didn't make a piss
stop at the hair saloon.
- What up, Z!
- What's up, Hache?
- Saved you a spot.
- Thanks bruh.
- I gotta go to the back.
- Yeah, so you could scheme coins for cars?
- That's just sad man!
- Fuel's low.
Oh but you still have enough
to pay for that Mary Hairdo.
First to the key?
First to the egg!
Hache, are you seeing this?
Yeah I see it, that is Kaneda's
bike from " Akira ".
It's a license scan
over standard frame.
No, not the bike,
forget the bike.
The girl!
I think it's Art3mis!
"The" Art3mis?
The Sixers fixer?
I've seen all her walkthorughs,
her Twitch streams.
It's her, it's definitely her.
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