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

it through those times so...

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.

And since everyone is here...

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.

Figured Hache would be there.

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...

that anyone could win it

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...

Since people spend most of

their time in the OASIS...

Losing your shit means...

losing your shit.

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...

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