Ready Player One Page #2

Go Go Gol!

Get there! Come on!

FINISH LINE:

You Got it, you got it!

Balls!

She's not gonna make it.

Bail!

Bail out!

Damn! I loved that bike.

Oh, Hache...

He is my friend.

But he could fix it for you.

This is my workshop,

touch nohing.

Where did you find

an Iron Giant?

Find it?

I am building it, plus commission.

Oh yeah, Hache is top

rated on the mark port.

People all over the US

pay him serious coin.

Oh hey, check this out.

Hold it. Z... Yo.

- The Galactica, of course.

- They are my babies alright man.

- Sulaco from " Aliens ".

- Dude! Why are you showing off my sh*t?

Valley Forge from " Silent Running ".

Where is the transporter?

That thing is sick.

Fold space like a boss.

- You can get from Incipio to Archaide...

- Fingers!

You'll have to excuse him, he gets

little nervous around pretty girls.

I can fix it in 10 minutes.

Yep.

He is pretty great.

I assume you are in shoulder

blades or clanned up.

Oh Hache? Nah!

I mean, he is really good...

But I don't clan.

Oh, because you're Parzival...

as in the knight who found

the holy grail by himself.

What about you, Art3mis?

Goddess of the hunt.

Fans must be killing

to sign you up.

- Favorite shooter?

- Excuse me?

James Halliday's favourite

1st person shooter.

- What?

- Oh, the GoldenEye.

- Playing as...?

- Oddjob. Is this a test?

Favorite game variant?

Game variant " Slappers Only ".

No weapons.

I know what Slappers only means.

- Racer?

- Turbo.

And his favourite food was hot pockets.

His favorite restaurant

was Chuck E. Cheese's.

Song was " Video Killed the

Radio Star" by The Buggles.

Video is "Take on Me" by A-ha.

His favorite quote

was from Superman.

"Some people can read 'War and

Peace' come away thinking it the..."

a simple adventure story.

Others can read the ingredients on

back of a chewing gum wrapper...

"and enlighten the secrets

of the universe."

Lex Luthor.

Cool!

What would you do if you won?

The whole contest I mean.

I mean, I have got tons of

plans in the real world.

I would move into a huge mansion.

Buy a bunch of cool sh*t.

Not be poor.

Now I know why you stopped short.

I stopped because of Kong.

No one ever makes it past Kong,

that's like a rule.

Well, then you know

it can't be true...

Because Halliday hated making rules.

- I can not afford to zero out.

- You're afraid of lose your sh*t.

No I'm not.

What happens when IOI offers you

guaranteed coins for

the keys to the kingdom?

Nolan Sorrento takes

over the world.

A real gunter would risk

everything to save the OASIS from IOI.

- Who said that?

- Me.

There you go, good as new.

Thanks for the fix-up, my man.

That's better.

I will see you from

the finish line...

McFly.

- That went well.

- Thanks to you, captain big mouth.

Wade?

Wade!

- Where the hell are my gloves?

- Sh*t. I got to go.

X1. When I am off to going on Planet

Doom, I need every edge I can get.

Every push, punch, gunshot.

You feel it all.

Get ready to feel the feel of real. X1

The X1 is like bearing a second skin.

I zeroed out because of

you broke ass gloves.

- Who told you to use them?

- You took hers!

So you lost a death match,

why don't you just re spawn and

level up like everyone else.

You don't get,

I bought all these powers for

this challenge and I lost it all.

That artifact was gonna

pay for the house.

Wait! How much of our house money

did you spent of upgrades?

Well, all of it.

But I was going to win.

That was our ticket out of here.

- You're an idiot.

- I only lost because of the bad gloves.

- Our house!

- My boys were in that challenge...

You couldn't have beat

them in a boot suit.

Stop!

No!

- No!

- Alice, call the police!

No, we're not calling the cops.

Go to your room, Rick.

Good God, Alice!

Why do you put up with this guy?

He is a sh*t show.

I love to kick the

both of you out.

If I catch you touching my stuff again...

Not joking, out!

Wade Watts.

My dad picked that name because it

sounded like a superhero's altered ego.

Like Peter Parker

or Bruce Banner.

But he died when I was

a kid, my mom too.

And I ended up here.

Living with aunt Alice and

her endless string of hard loving losers.

Halliday hated making rules.

Why is that line sticking in my head?

Maybe because Art3mis said

it, and she's hot.

Maybe it's because

she called me out.

Sitting in here my tiny

corner of nowhere...

protecting my small slice of nothing.

Or maybe...

Maybe it's because that

line means something.

And I missed it.

HALLIDAY JOURNALS

The day the contest

was announced...

"The Halliday Journals" appeared.

He told us to look in his brain.

This was the next big thing.

At first, it was jammed with

gunters looking for answers.

Now the once crowded halls of Halliday's

memories...

are left to people like me.

Parzival, oh joy.

And how will you eat up my

valuable such time today?

Gregarious Games, 2029

Office party.

Yes, you've only seen

it a thousand times...

Why not go back?

Each entry into Halliday's

Journals was meticulously assembled...

from personal photographs, home video

recordings, surveillance and nanny cams.

All rendered into a three

dimensional virtual experience.

Also Halliday archived every film,

game, book and TV program he ever saw.

Located on the mesony...

No weapons or mature themed avatars are

permitted within the journals.

Please enjoy your time

with us and happy gunting.

OK, Jim, I'm... I'm going.

Everything changes, Jim.

Everything evolves.

Some things are perfect just

where they are. " Asteroids ".

People don't live inside

an "Asteroids" arcade cabinet.

I know that.

Yup. People are living

inside the arcade we build.

I built.

I guess you can say

whatever you want.

I don't want to talk about this.

No, of course you don't

want to talk about it.

You are forcing me out.

Closer on Halliday.

Inventions come with responsibilities.

You didn't ask for them.

Alright? If you make something

people want or need...

then it's up to you to set the limits,

you have to make some rules.

- I won't make any more rules.

- I don't wanna make any more rules.

- A dreamer.

- I'm a dreamer.

- I build worlds.

- I build worlds.

We created something beautiful, Jim.

But it's changed.

- It's really not a game anymore.

- Are we finished?

I liked how things were

when they were.

When it was a game.

And we are back to

where we started.

But that's the point,

as in it things move forward.

Whether you like it or not.

Yeah, we're finished.

Oh. Fine.

Why can't we go backwards...

for once?

Backwards.

Really fast, fast as we can.

Really put that pedal

to the medal, you know?

Go back, 10 seconds!

Why can't we go backwards?

For once?

Backwards.

Really fast, fast as we can.

Really put that pedal

to the medal, you know?

Bill and Ted did it.

Back again so soon?

Careful not to loose you sh*t.

You figured something out.

Parzival, tell me!

Nice racing, padawan.

You are the first to finish.

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