Ready Player 2 by Ernest Cline (Audiobook Online). Playing old videogames never failed to clear my mind and set me at ease. which means you might wind up smitten with an old bald guy you thought was a hottie with a body. Shoto gives Wade tips and Wade performs well. An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact. Wade apologizes to her about the ONI, and she accepts his apology. Regardless, he seems quite confident that he has a finger on the pulse of the starving masses, gesturing to the plebes from his digital balcony like a 21st-century Marie Antoinette, blithely telling them to eat virtual cake. Morrow stayed on at GSS for five more years. Wade, as Kira, receives a necklace from Ogden. of fire. Send me updates about Slate special offers. Art3mis agrees and kisses Wade. Please try again. Anorak explains that the new firmware update gives him control over whether the users can log out. Much of the original cast is expected to return, but Spielberg might not be the director as the first movie was his third-hardest film to make. But years later, Morrow wrote in his autobiography that he'd left GSS because "we were no longer in the videogame business," and because he felt that the OASIS had evolved into something horrible. Wade grabs it and experiences another flashback. He is Kira Morrow, the first time that Ogden revealed the mansion that he built for her in Oregon, which resembles the recreation of Rivendell from Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings films. work together and agree to share the prize if one of them finds the egg. Wade Watts, a poor young adult from Oklahoma, turns into one of several "gunters" trying to find 3 secrets which will certainly result in the very best reward. Aech, Shoto and Wade find the Fifth Shard on Afterworld but they have to battle seven incarnations of the singer, Prince during which Shoto is killed off. L0hengrin also presents a note from Ogden Morrow about a sword named the Dorkslayer that was designed to kill Anorak if he ever became corrupted. Outside the castle, there is a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Wade completes the game and puts in the initials K.R.U. Wade is described as nerdy, shy, awkward, overweight, and average looking young male. Aech uses her singing powers and eventually defeats the remaining Princes, who converge to form the Fifth Shard. The inscription reads: GSS - 13th floor - Vault #42 - 8675309. He logs out of the OASIS and runs to the thirteenth floor of the GSS building, where the archives are located. . He led me over to the window and motioned out at the landscape stretching out beyond it." Shotos name disappears from the Scoreboard, confirming that his avatar is dead. Wade realizes that he broke Sorrento (who is seen with a captive Og) out of prison. but note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change. Wade and Aech arrive on Arda I near a tranquil lake. They have used 300 billion dollars to build a spaceship, the Vonnegut, which could someday transport them to, along with frozen embryos, to populate another planet. The group believes that Morrow is being held there. She is poor and lives in a trailer stack, much like Wade did. Everyone discusses the possibility that Ogden Morrow created the Dorkslayer in the OASIS before quitting GSS. Wade3 is the name given to Wade's avatar whenever he is at OPS #1873 on, In the early scenes in the movie, Wade wears a pair of glasses. Wade wakes up in his mansion he inherited from James Halliday in the contest. Before leaving, she kisses his forehead a sign that their relationship is healing. Art3mis abstains, the other three vote yes. Art3mis suggests that they increase the minimum age to use an ONI to eighteen, since human brains still develop until twenty-five. Various backup bands appear, including The Revolution, the New Power Generation, and 3RDEYEGIRL. L0hengrin tells Wade that she has found one of the shards and can show him, on the Middletown, OH planet, where the First Gate was located. Art3mis tells them that she is joining the security team that is about to try to free Ogden Morrow in the real world. The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered to your inbox three times a week. Inside, there is a metal egg that looks like Hallidays virtual one in the OASIS. Anorak is the first true AI. Anorak steals back his Robes. It also allows someone to record experiences outside the OASIS, so that others can relive the experience inside the OASIS. The NPCs and locations on Shermer loop the same events day after day: various scenes from John Hughess movies. Wade is an avid reader of 1980s pop culture and anything relating to James Halliday. "And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants. The second, the user can only use the device for twelve hours before it will deactivate for twelve hours, to prevent Synaptic Overload Syndrome. They cannot see if Samantha survived. Wade, Shoto and Aech have programmed a min-OASIS experience for the journey, called ARC@DIA. Anorak appears nearby and congratulates Wade. It is just after her senior year in England and Ogden Morrow has come to bring her back to the United States, liberating her from her abusive stepfather. You can read our spoiler-free review of the sequel here. After Andie has a conversation with Duckie (also from Pretty in Pink), Andie goes to class. There are other NPCs representing teenage boys in the game room, but they ignore Wade. He is one of the Gunslingers or Egg Hunters, a group of people who spend their days searching for keys. Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. "Ready Player One" is also one of his recent works. The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak. Something I didn't figure out for myself until it was already, too late." He lives in a futuristic world where everyone the young, old, poor . L0hengrin shows Wade a secret calendar in the basement and the date changes to April 1989. World-famous gunter and international celebrity. Three years pass. One of Hallidays greatest regrets was his unrequited love for Kira Underwood, who eventually married Ogden Morrow, creating a rift between the friends. Wade Watts, a teenager living in poverty, dedicates his life to finding Hallidays Easter egg. He makes his avatar invisible and teleports to her location. Ready Player One study guide contains a biography of Ernest Cline, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. He tells Wade, Aech, Shoto, and Art3mis that they must bring him all the shards, or they will be killed by their ONI units. Aechs avatar is killed and Wade collects her items. Once he had successfully done this, he zeroed his account (wiping out his debt) and disabled the locking mechanisms on his earcam and security anklet, allowing him to slip past IOI security guards. Several, actually. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. Art3mis comforts Wade, as it is obvious that returning is emotionally difficult for him. Prepare to go back to the nineties in this thrilling adventure, set between the events of Ready Player One and Ready Player Two. Nobody knew the fate of the world was literally in my hands. When you owned your own world, you could build whatever you wanted there. Related Characters: Wade Watts / Parzival (speaker) Related Themes: Page Number and Citation: 14 Cite this Quote Explanation and Analysis: Instead, like a true modern villain, he will simply gaslight you with performative feints at regret and solidarity that ultimately trail off into nothing as he doubles down. Anorak admits that all the users whose avatars have died are actually safe, including Shoto and Aech. Wade looks at Sorrentos OASIS logs, and they are empty. Wade sees that there are no updates from L0hengrin or Art3mis and teleports with Aech to Arda I, the world dedicated to the First Age of Middle-earth. Art3mis deactivates the force field, allowing Parzival to reach the console, but Sorrento activates the Cataclyst, a bomb that kills all the avatars on Planet Doom. Of course, Ernest Cline's narrator, Wade Watts, scorns . Wade reveals how Halliday was able to develop the ONI in secret. When Wade was around 11 years old, Loretta died due to her drug addiction and committed suicide. (one code per order). on 2-49 accounts, Save 30% "I need to tell you one last thing before I go. The group freaks out. He equips his avatar with a sword that he earned on Arda III and gives Aech a magical sword as well. I went to all the hippest clubs and never had to wait in line. How old is Wade Watts? Everyone looks upset. ProtagonistWade Watts is the 21-year-old CEO of GSS, the company that runs a virtual reality open world, the OASIS. They take a cassette tape, labeled Leucosias Mix, and head to the house where Kira stayed. Art3mis explains that in the film, Duckie was not a good match for Andie, and Kira Morrow had the same opinion. for a group? Ready Player One is a 2011 novel that lifts its setting, premise, and most of its story beats from 1992 . He loads the first and experiences, firsthand, someone surfing in the real world. Wade and Art3mis agree to go on without them. Anorak tells them that humans have already ruined the planet and that they are all dead already, quoting Terminator character Sarah Connor. It's known he loses weight later on in the novel by forcing himself to exercise in order to use the OASIS. With the ability to sell clips, users can become wealthy if their content is popular. A new clue references giving Andie a better ending. L0hengrin and Wade admit that they are each fans of the others work. He tells Samantha to log back in, and then he will use the Robes of Anorak to resurrect her avatar. Wade logs back into the OASIS. L0hengrin tells Wade, Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto that she and her friends (the L0w Five) searched the various instances of Middletown, OH. Aech and Wade journey to Arda I to find the Sixth Shard but Aech is killed and Wade takes damage from poison during a fight with Carcharoth, but Art3mis arrives and saves Wade and they obtain the Sixth Shard. Creating notes and highlights requires a free LitCharts account. Are We Finally Ready to See One of the 90s Most Acclaimed Bands for What It Really Was? For those who live in blissful ignorance, Ready Player One is a 2011 novel written by Ernest Cline, who looks exactly like what you think he looks like. Ready Player Two is Ernest Clines sequel to his novel Ready Player One, and its story picks up shortly after the story in the earlier novel ends. Anorak demands that the High Five give him the Siren's Soul or they will die of Synaptic Overload Syndrome (except Art3mis who is using ordinary OASIS equipment). Other problems he supposedly solves with a wave of his techno-magic wand: crime, disease, addiction, and of course all forms of prejudice. If you don't see it, please check your spam folder. Wade's old neighbor and friend. Wade uses his super-user access to look at each of the L0w Fives profiles. for a customized plan. The plane turns and crashes near where she landed, setting the region on fire. Samantha Cook She was a famous gunter and a member of the High Five. Then I made a silent vow not to go outside again until I had completed my quest. Wade, Shoto, and Aech have also used their wealth for humanitarian purposes, but they are less invested in saving Earth. Samantha leaves in anger. He is a gunter: someone who hunts for Halliday's Easter Egg. After all, what could be more attractive to Silicon Valley than believing human bias can be solved with an engineering fix, or that being an ally is as easy as downloading the DLC? With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. Shoto and his wife, Kiki have a baby boy and they name him Little Daito. She instructs Wade to find the NPCs Max and Ian from the film Weird Science, who will be at one of the parties. The paper book lists 2026 on page 222. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants. After simulating a few super-VR cutscenes from one womans life, Wade says he felt closer to [her] now, more aware of her as a human being. He also suddenly understands that his former tech hero Hallidayan abusive boss who stole her work, sexually harassed her, and violated her privacy and consent in existentially gruesome wayswas a bad guy after all. Anorakagrees, seeing that Wade is already suffering from Synaptic Overload Syndrome. L0hengrin volunteers the L0w Five to find the sword while Wade and his friends collect the remaining shards. The Kindle Edition and Apple Book both list 2024, on pages 141 and 290 respectively. Wade's friend. - I-R0k. While talking about 80s trivia, Wade realizes that he still loves Art3mis. Wade knows that Halliday was not present and wonders how he could have programmed the scene so realistically, including the way that Kira felt, which Wade feels through his ONI. Since that meeting, Wade only sees her avatar every three months during GSS board meetings, and they do not speak otherwise. I had a fan club. His father, who goes unnamed, was shot dead when Wade was only a few months of age, allegedly killed while looting a grocery store during a power outage. He sends them off to Proxima Centauri, onboard the Vonnegut. You could spend hours pacing in a pair of beaten-up size thirteen heels to gain a point or two [] and still know nothing about the experience of being a trans woman, about how to be an ally to them, she wrote. Instant PDF downloads. In other interviews, Cline said he was trying to write the book to work as a sequel to both the first book and the movie. We're sorry, SparkNotes Plus isn't available in your country. You live inside this illusion." Wade, Aech, Shoto, and the members of Morris Day and the Time enter the arena. In 2045, after winning the late virtual reality pioneer James Halliday's Easter egg hunt, Wade inherited his massive fortune and became CEO of Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS), the company that controls the virtual . The AI copies of Kira, Ogden and Samanthas grandmother are uploaded to ARC@DIA on the Vonnegut. Wade is quick-witted and passionate, his dedication to being a gunter by finding the egg fuels his desire to win. At the Gates of Angband, Wade and Aech fight Carcharoth, a giant black wolf. Wade thinks about how Sorrento could have organized the escape, since he was only allowed to talk to his lawyers. Wade smiles, revealing that he never said who Anorak would have to fight. ARC@DIA contains an ark of mankinds achievements and cultures, digital backups of every ONI user, and frozen embryos. He places the six shards that he has collected into the Shrine and it gives him the Seventh Shard. Wade announces that he has single-handedly solved police brutality and systematic bias by replacing human officers with security drones and remote-controlled telebots (because nothing would solve the problems of the police like transforming them into a force of private-funded robocops administered by a tech megacorporation). In Chapter One, Wade, an 18-year-old gunter sleeping in a sleeping bag in his aunt's laundry room, woke due to a . Nothing at all. If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. He has a conversation with Shoto and Aech about how he has not played the game much. Wade feels guilty that he didnt discover the shard for himself and compares himself to the Sixers. A moment later, Wades avatar is back in the room with L0hengrin. 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