Ready Player One Page #6

You know I hate scary movies!

- We got the key.

- Swift, to room 237!

We ain't got no business going to room 237.

We should stay out!

Cause there was this crazy naked

zombi lady in there...

There are no zombies

in The Shining!

Well maybe it's not

supposed to be like the movie.

Kira is the key, you are

the one who said it.

Hey y'all. I saw a picture of Kira.

Where?

It's Kira.

"Escape your past."

"The leap not taken".

Halliday's greatest fear

wasn't The Shining...

nor any book or movie.

His biggest fear was

kissing a girl.

That's the leap he couldn't take.

The ball room.

Hache! Come on.

Zombies! Told you.

That's her.

It's Kira.

None of this is from the Shining.

Look, that's the zombies circle level

in Mayhem Mansion...

one of Halliday's first games.

The whole Shining tribute

it's just a diversion.

One minute left

- How do we get to her?

- Take the leap.

Wait!

OK, Mr Dead guy, cool if I lead?

Care to dance?

Do you know how long I've

been waiting for you to ask?

Well, well, well...

So you found my Jade key.

Imagine that.

Thank you.

- Kira was a very beautiful...

- Go on.

One of our experts saw them...

enter the media library.

She cracked the clue...

Now we just have to win

the Shining challenge.

Take it off!

Take it off!

Mr. Sorrento...

I really think you need to see this.

Now Parzival has got the jade key.

POSITIVE ID:

WADE WATTS:

He's alive.

I know.

I will get back to you.

I got what you were looking for.

Freeze. This guy.

The tattoo.

Enlarge.

Run in though our database,

every IOI drone in Columbus.

Find him.

POSITIVE ID.

- Groceries are here.

- Alright.

"If you know the answer ultimate,

divide it by the number magic..."

and what you need,

want and desire...

"will be found in the fortress tragic."

Tragic, that's gotta be

Halliday referring to himself.

- Why?

- Because he was lonely.

He had no one to spend his

life with towards the end.

Yeah, it's true.

The contest is, gotta be somehow

about connecting with someone,

Anyone, he was the person who cared for

the OASIS to be connected with the world.

That's what I think he's trying to tell us.

Wade.

You understand Halliday.

You know him better than anyone.

That's exactly why I think you'll win.

Really?

You really think I'm gonna win?

Identify!

Freeze! Don't move!

This leads right to the alley.

- You first.

- I'm right behind you. Go now!

Come on!

Wade, the OASIS needs you.

- I'm going to delay them.

- Wait, no, no! Wait!

You will forgive me for this, I promise.

Don't move!

Samantha Evelyn Cook.

IOI has purchased and consolidated

all of your outstanding debt...

currently in excess of

23,000 credits.

You will be remanded to

the nearest IOI Loyalty Center

until your debt is paid in full.

Including any interest, processing,

or late fees you incur hence worth.

- First to the key?

- First the egg. What?

Never trust someone

you meet in the OASIS.

She might be a 300 pound

dude named Chuck.

Living in his momma's

basement in suburb of Detroit.

Hache?!

Helen! My dad called me

Hache, kind of still. Let's go!

That thing is IDing my van.

Come on! They spotted us.

Daito?

My real name is Toshiro.

Samantha got us a message.

She told us to meet you here.

- Samantha, they took her to the...

- To a Loyalty Center, I know.

Look, another awesome news,

the Sixers found the third challenge.

- What?

- Just Come on! Get in!

Let's go, hurry up! Go. Go. Go!

How did IOI found the

3rd challenge so fast?

IOI cracked the first

3 lines of the clue...

So they knew it was Sector 14...

but they couldn't figure

out the fortress tragic.

So they sent every guy

they had into that sector...

until they found the right fortress.

Sho?

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

I'm 11, so what?

His real name is Xo.

But everyone else calls me Sho.

No big deal.

No, it is a big deal.

Sho, you're the world's most

bad-ass 11 year old ever.

- He knows.

- Shut up. Let him tell me.

Hache.

We have to go save Samantha.

We can't just go through the doors of IOI.

Look, I was thinking about it.

I got a better plan.

- You saw Sorrento's rig, right?

- Yeah.

Let's go after the man himself

and make him give Artemis back to us.

As far as I could know exactly

how much about Serrento's

rig do you remember?

Kind of everything.

Security:
Please report to

Section 97 for escort.

Hey, noobie!

Get to work.

Get to work!

Work violation

Lay those charges every 6 feet.

Keep it moving.

Hey you!

Those are explosives!

IOI will not reimburse any lost coin

if you zero up.

Keep it moving!

So what is this challenge?

Some sort of video game?

An Atari 2600, sir.

Every game ever made for.

Thousands of possibilities.

Come on!

Halliday. This is how you plan to

resolve the fate of the world

to most important economic resource?

- Call me when you are close.

- Yes sir.

No no no!

One minute into Centipede

The ice broke.

It hast to be Joust.

Halliday still holds the

world record of this 2600...

Pitfall! One of the only 2600 games

that's still has ending.

They were created for

a contest Atari...

I-ROk, how you doing?

To be honest I think I need physical

therapy because it is not...

- Is the Orb ready?

- As you wish.

The Orb of Osuvox.

How does it work? Do you got like a

remote or a button or something?

Nolan, it's a level 99

magic artifact...

Not one of your drones.

So it is activated by a magic spell.

You care to do the honors?

Anil nathrach, ortha bhis is beatha,

do chal danaimh

Anil nathrach, ortha bhis is beatha,

do chal danaimh

Anil nathrach, ortha bhis is beatha,

do chal danaimh

- Where is she?

- How did you get in here?

- Art3mis!

- Who?

Samantha Cook!

Where is she?

If you want to talk, we can talk, but

you gotta put that gun down.

You killed my mom's sister.

You think I won't kill you?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, just slow down OK.

That was a corporate

decision, nothing personal.

Where is she?!

She's downstairs in the loyalty center.

I know she's in the

goddamn loyalty center.

You are gonna tell me

exactly which rig she's in

and the access code to contact her.

Yes, it seems appropriate.

Start with access code.

645-725.

Where is the rig?

I think he pissed himself.

Good job, Z.

We are in as.

So he really doesn't know

he's still in OASIS?

This is what

Sorrento should be seeing.

But this...

This is what we're making him see.

We grabbed him in transit just as he

was logging out of the OASIS.

So, he thinks he's back in the

office in the real world but...

actually he's here, in the identical

office that Hache built.

So, you basically just

remotely hacked his rig

The fixed rig of Sorrento's

is easy to locate hard to hack.

Unless he's stupid enough

to leave his password

- Loyalty center, I'm in.

- Alright, let's get to work.

- Arty?

- Z, Z, Z!

Arty, don't say anything.

I am tapped directly into your audio feed.

How did you find me?

We got his password.

Hacked Sorrento's rig.

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