Ready Player One Page #5

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.

Mr. Halliday,

Anorak...

- It's such an honor.

- The honor is all mine.

Get yourself a clue.

BOARD 1-PARZIVAL 100,000 POINTS

Who is this Parzival and how

the hell is he winning?

Oh here is a better question, who cares?

Halliday's contest is

vitally important...

I mean it's nothing

less than a war...

for control of the future.

This Parzival is not even clanned up.

He is alone.

- We have an army.

- And yet, he's got the 1st key.

Yeah, he has a key.

But you have to get 3 of them to

win the contest.

Our stock dove 6% yesterday.

The loyalty division is reporting

profits of 28%, FiNale?

We are opening 5 new loyalty

centers this month.

That service is dwarves hardware...

And you really wanna talk

to me about stock prices?

The shareholders won't be happy.

Not our job to make them happy...

it's our job to make them money.

But once we launch this little

baby they're gonna flip.

We call this...

"Pure O2". This is the first

of our planned...

upgrades once we can roll back

some of Halliday's ad

restrictions. We estimate

we can sell up to 80%...

of a individual's visual field

before inducing seizures.

So picture this.

All of this implies we win the contest.

Indeed it does.

Dude, you won the key

and a 100,000 coins?

As soon as I took the key all the

coins just appeared in my account.

I'll tell you what, I'm soiling

my haptics right now.

What the hell is

a " Cataclist "?

A bomb. Kills every

avatars on the planet...

even the owner.

- Who want that?

- IOI. They buy everything.

20 thou for the

Holy hand grenade?

That's a steal!

A Zemeckis cube!

- I need one of these.

- Don't spend all your money.

X1 Haptic boot suit?

REAL WORLD PICKUP

Oh yeah!

Password:

Bo55man69

I-ROk, old friend, how are you?

To be honest, I have a kind of a neck

thing, it's like a carpal tunnel.

Deal able with your neck, that's

even a thing, so if you could just

stand to your right.

My right, your left.

Yeah. Since it's a repetitive stress.

Here he is.

The steam-punk pirate king.

I knew him well, Sorrento.

There is only 3 things

in this world that I hate:

Steam-punk, pirates and Tabule.

I mean, why do they even have it?

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