Ready Player One. (RPG)
The OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) is a MMOSG (massively multiplayer online simulation game) created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Simulation Systems. While starting as an online gaming platform, the OASIS gradually evolved into a globally networked virtual reality world that most of humanity now uses on a daily basis.
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History
It co-evolutionized the entirety of gaming and made up for all of GSS' 10-or-so years of lost revenue they spent creating it. The unprecedented success of the OASIS made Halliday one of the wealthiest people in the world.
After Halliday's death the OASIS continued to evolve and grow in popularity, protected from takeover attempts and legal challenges by the ironclad terms of Halliday's will and the army of lawyers he had tasked with administering his estate.
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Gameplay:
While obtaining and booting up the game costs only 25 cents (one quarter) to use and operate (an homage to the video games of the 1980s which only required one quarter to run per game), in-game vending, travel between worlds and zones, and almost everything else costs additional in-game fares.
Worlds and Zones:
The universe of the OASIS is split into 27 sectors each 10 light hours across, arranged like a Rubik's cube. The sectors have zones that can be any shape and size, and each has different rules/flags. Zones could allow or prevent magic, technology, PvP (Player vs. Player), teleporting, communications, and more. For instance, Ludus, the schooling planet, is a no-PvP zone. The worlds within OASIS can also have different settings. It is described that Ludus is always day, Neonoir is always night, and Archaide's sky never changes with a volcano always on the horizon. Planets can be player built, owned, and colonized, or created by the developers.
Experience and leveling:
Within OASIS, there are NPCs (non-player characters) which a player can interact with. Some will drop experience and items when killed. There are also quests, which a player (or group of players) can take on to get a prize, usually experience, credits and sometimes items. On rare occasions, players can receive unique and powerful artifacts from killing the final boss of a quest.
Navigation:
The universe of the OASIS is split into 27 sectors each 10 light hours across, arranged like a Rubik's cube. The sectors have zones/worlds that can be any shape and size, and each has different rules/flags. Zones could allow or prevent magic, technology, PvP (Player vs. Player), teleporting, communications, and more. For instance, Ludus, the schooling planet, is a no-PvP zone. The worlds within OASIS can also have different settings. It is described that Ludus is always day, Neonoir is always night, and Archaide's sky never changes with a volcano always on the horizon. Planets can be player built, owned, and colonized, or created by the developers.
Sector 1 was set aside for shopping districts. GSS made a lot of money selling fake real estate, known as surreal estate.
Worlds and Zones:
Zones and Universes:
Whedonverse: Firefly Universe - The Whedonverse is a sector within the Oasis, it contains all things created by Joss Whedon a American television and movie writer and director. These most likely included shows and films Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Cabin in the Woods and Firefly.
Star Wars Universe
Star Trek Universe
Worlds:
IOI-I is the planet owned by Innovative Online Industries. There the Sixers have every artifact, weapon, vehicle, spell, and more.
Archaide is a planet in the Oasis with a barren surface comprised of vector graphics (an old style of video game graphics used in the 80's to give a three dimensional effect to a game). The planet is in perpetual darkness and some of the only surface features are a large volcano (which stays to the north no matter where you are) and multiple entrances to the inner parts of the planet. The inside of the planet is mostly comprised of vintage arcade cabinets. Some Oasis users have come to the planet and have coded their childhood arcade gaming spots within Archaide. To navigate the inner parts of the planet a user has to go through different levels seemingly arranged by the age of the systems. Starting closest to the surface are the newest Cabinets and then the farther you go the older the games are. At the center are the games Tennis for Two and Space War!. This is also the planet where Parzival finds the Pizza Place/Arcade of Halliday's youth. This is the very arcade where Wade plays a perfect game of Pac-Man and wins a quarter with magical properties that give him one extra life. This magic item (also known as an artifact) is only able to be used once.
Arrakis
Axrenox is a cyberpunk world that featured a copy of the Tyrell Building. Parzival infiltrated this Tyrell Building to access the second gate.
Casino Zone is a planet in the ready player one franchise, the planet was introduced in the beginning of the movie when wade watts was introducing the OASIS, the planet looks like a russian roulette type of thing, the planet shows different kinds of gambling games where you can gamble anytime.
There are two parts the top and the bottom, with the word "casino" on the very top of the planet, it also shows some dystopian buildings in the middle of the planet. The shown buildings in the casino zone was a motel.
Chthonia is a planet in the OASIS coded by James Halliday himself. Situated in Sector 10, Chthonia is a re-creation of the fantasy world James Halliday created originally for his high-school Dungeons and Dragons campaigns before moving on to also use the world in many of his early video games.
History:
In the first few years of the Hunt, Gunters had swarmed like hungry insects to any OASIS location that seemed like a possible hiding place for the three keys, specifically planets originally coded by Halliday himself. Chief among these was the planet Chthonia, a painstaking re-creation of the fantasy world Halliday had created for his high-school Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and also the setting of many of his early videogames. Chthonia had become the gunters' Mecca. Like everyone else, Wade Watts felt obligated to make a pilgrimage to the planet and visit Castle Anorak. But the castle was impregnable and always had been. No avatar but Anorak himself had ever been able to pass through its entrance until the location of the Crystal Key was revealed and Nolan Sorrento was able to enter the castle while in possession of the key.
While initially keeping the location of the final gate within the castle a secret, IOI encamped Castle Anorak shortly after Parzival was announced to have found the Crystal Key.
Disc-world
Falco is a player-owned Player Stronghold located within the OASIS.
Designed and owned by Parzival shortly after moving to Columbus, Falco was the cheapest planetoid he could find and purchased the asteroid to serve as his base of operations during the Hunt.From the command center, which was located under an armored dome embedded in the rocky surface of the asteroid, the player had a sweeping 360-degree view of the surrounding cratered landscape, stretching to the horizon in all directions although it only a few square kilometers of surface area. The rest of the stronghold was below ground, in a vast subterranean complex that stretched all the way to the asteroid's core.
In the command center, the command console had a bank of security monitors on the left that were linked to virtual cameras placed throughout the interior and exterior of the stronghold. To the right was another bank of monitors displaying all of Wade's favorite news and entertainment video feeds. Among these included his own channel "Parzival-TV--Broadcasting obscure eclectic crap, 24-7-365". Another monitor was tuned to Art3mis' channel; "Art3mivision".
Linked by a star trek turbo lift. The stronghold's armory was four levels below the command center, while the hangar is located lower down at the bottom level of the base.
History:
Locales and ResidentsCommand Centre
Armory
Vault
Hangar
Multiple living spaces
Sitting Room (a recreation of the living room set from Family Ties)
The planet of Frobozz in "Ready Player One" is a large virtual planet that contains hundreds of individual 3D versions of the game "Zork". Wade had to complete a game of "Zork" to continue his quest for Halliday's egg, requiring a trip to Frobozz. During a battle against the Sixers on the planet, Daito was murdered.
Incipio is a planet in the OASIS created by Gregarious Simulation Systems to serve as the primary location of the OASIS where newly created avatars spawn at the time of their creation.
Situated at the center of the OASIS' Sector 1, as a "player hub" there wasn't much to do on Incipio except chat with other players, utilize a teleportation portal or shop in one of the giant virtual malls that covered the planet.
Also located on the planet was the Halliday Journals where Gunters came to find clues to Halliday's egg hunt.
Locales and ResidentsParzival
Art3mis
The Curator
Attikus, El Dragon, Miko, Ambra, Pendles, Benedict, Orendi, and Shayne and Aurox from battleborn
Tracer from overwatch
Zitz and Rash from Battletoads
John Bender from The Breakfast Club
The Flash, Blue Beetle, Aquaman, Supergirl and Atrocitus from Injustice
Batgirl, Nightwing and Arkham Knight from Batman: Arkham Series
Leonardo and Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A Protoss Zealot from Starcraft
Beetlejuice from Beetlejuice
Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes
The Cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Catwoman from Batman Returns
Orcs from Warcraft
The Wolf Man from The Wolf Man
Frankenstein's Monster from Frankenstein
Robocop from Robocop
Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
Raiden, Cassie Cage and Sektor from Mortal Kombat
Dizzy Wallin from Gears of War
Conan the Barbarian from the movie of the same name
Commander John Shepard from Mass Effect
Hello Kitty, Badtz-Maru and Keroppi from Hello Kitty
Deadites from Evil Dead
Unidentified Avatars
Places of Interest:
Goondocks: The Goonies Themed. Art3mis and Parzival completed the entire quest in one day with Arty playing as Martha Plimpton's character (Stef) and Wade playing Sean Astin's character (Mikey).
Greyhawke: Where Wade had I-r0k take him so that he could level up by killing low level kobolds.
Gygax: Dungeons and Dragons Themed
Liberty Island
Ludus is a planet in OASIS created by Gregarious Simulation Systems to serve as the primary establishment for public education within the simulation. There were hundreds of school campuses on Ludus, spread out evenly across the planet's surface, the schools were all identical, because the same construction code was simply copied and pasted into a different location whenever a new school was needed. Separated by green fields, landscaped parks, rivers, meadows, and sprawling template-generated forests, since the buildings were just pieces of software, their design was not limited by monetary constraints, or the laws of physics, every school had polished marble hallways, cathedral-like classrooms, zero-g gymnasiums, and virtual libraries containing every (school board-approved) book ever written.
Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seem to genuinely enjoy their job, probably because they didn't have to spend half their time acting as babysitters, and disciplinarians. The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring the students remained quiet and in their seats. All the teachers had to do was teach. Additionally, the software allowed simulations to aid in the teaching experience, enabling teachers to take their class to witness the discovery of King Tut's tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922 immediately after showing them Tutankhamen's empire in its glory the day previous.
During the Halliday's Easter Egg Hunt it was discovered that the planet was the location of the Tomb of Horrors where the Copper Key could be found, resulting in vast swarms of Gunters and Sixers amassing on the planet. Due to this and the resulting Battle of Ludus, the planet was abandoned as an educational facility and the schools were relocated to Ludus II, an identical copy except that it did not have the Tomb of Horrors on its surface.
HistoryOASIS creator James Halliday had donated billions of dollars to fund the creation of the OASIS public school system on Ludus as a way to demonstrate the potential of the OASIS as an educational tool. Prior to his death, Halliday had also set up a foundation (Halliday Learning Foundation) to ensure that the OASIS public school system would always have the money it needed to operate. The Halliday Learning Foundation also provided impoverished children around the globe with free OASIS hardware and Internet access so that they could attend school inside the OASIS.
As anyone with a passing grade-point average could transfer to the OASIS public school system, the real government-run public school system, which had been underfunded and overcrowded for decades, soon became outmodded and replaced as the main school system in many countries.
Upon the public reveal that Gunters Art3mis, Parzival, and Aech had found the Copper Key, in a fit of jealousy fellow gunter I-r0k posted on the internet forums that both Parzival and Aech were students on Ludus. Deducing that the key must be on the planet, Gunters such as Shoto and Daito converged on the planet to find the key shortly before the entire army of the Innovative Online Industries' Oology Division locates the Tomb of Horrors and surrounds it with two force fields to prevent other players from accessing the tomb.
The biggest Gunter clans catch wind of this and amass on planet to destroy the force fields; shooting bullets, grenades, rocket launchers, nukes, and harsh language at the force fields to no avail until the clans purchase two very expensive anti-matter bombs and blow up both fields. With the fields down, the Gunter clan forces, unaffected by the blasts due to the planet's no-pvp zone laws, charge through the IOI forces and into the Tomb. This event became known as the Battle of Ludus.Locales and Residents:
OASIS Public School #1873:Mr. Avenovich (World History)
Mr. Ciders (Advanced OASIS Studies)
Ms. Rank (Latin)
OASIS Public School #1172:
Tomb of Horrors:Magrathea
Mid-world
Middle Earth is the world created by J.R.R Tolkien in 1937 with the release of The Hobbit. Middle Earth is both featured in Ready Player One, and Ready Player Two.
Middletown is a small planet located in Sector 7 named after the hometown of James Halliday in Ohio. The planet was the site of 256 meticulous re-creations of Halliday's hometown as it existed in the late 1980s.
Coded by Halliday himself, he spent years coding and refining it, with each re-creation built 25 miles away from each other. The towns reminded Wade Watts of the town in Footloose; small, rural and sparsely populated. The houses all seemed incredibly big and were placed ridiculously far apart.
Halliday's house was on Cleveland Avenue; a modest two-story colonial with red vinyl siding. Two late-70s sedans were parked in the driveway; one of them up on cinder blocks. The one not on blocks was a 1982 Ford Thunderbird. In the real world every house on Cleveland Avenue was later demolished in the late 90s and replaced with a strip mall.
Locales and Residents:
Minecraft World is a world within the OASIS themed after the multimedia franchise Minecraft. Visually the world is a blocky sky-island, and is inhabited by a small army of Steves and Alexes.
Neonoir is a Cyberpunk-themed world in Sector 16 created by Ogden Morrow in the early days of the OASIS.
While there were hundreds of cyberpunk-themed worlds spread throughout the OASIS, Neonoir was one of the largest and oldest. Seen from orbit, the planet was a shiny onyx marble covered in overlapping spiderwebs of pulsating light. It was always night on Neonoir, the world over, and its surface was an uninterrupted grid of interconnected cities packed with impassibly large skyscrapers. Its skies were filled with a continuous stream of flying vehicles whirring through the vertical cityscapes and the streets below teemed with leather-clad NPCs and mirror-shaded avatars, all sporting high-tech weaponry and subcutaneous implants as they spouted city-speak straight out of Neuromancer.
Locales and Residents:
Pern
Planet Doom is one of the planets of the Drule Empire. In the Voltron: Defender of the Universe series, the planet was ruled by King Zarkon.
Appearance:In the movie, it's the location of the Crystal Key and of the third and final gate.
List of Cameo seen in the battle:
Weaponized Scorpions from UltraBots
The Knights on Ostriches from Joust
Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Duke Nukem from Duke Nukem
Man-Bat (Arkham Variant), Deathstroke, and Deadshot from DC Comics
E. Honda, Ryu and Chun-Li from Street Fighter
Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th
Jim Raynor from Heroes Of The Storm and Starcraft II
A Hydralisk and a Zergling from Starcraft
A Berserker from Gears Of War
Wolf-Man from The Wolf-Man
Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
Spawn from Spawn
Tracer from Overwatch
Rash, Zitz, and Pimple from Battletoads
SPARTANS from Halo
Gremlins from Gremlin
He-Man from He-Man & The Masters of the Universe
Racetrack OASIS appears as one of the challenges needs to be complete in a search for three keys that will unlock the Easter Egg gates. The prize if you win this Race is the Copper Key, while the challenge in the book was completing Joust arcade, but in the film, the challenge replaced by a race.
Film:In the movie, according to Parzival, some long-forgotten gunter deciphered the clue to the first challenge which is a race through New York City to Central Park. However, the racetrack comes with many perils which include traps crossing the bridge to New York, ramps which lead backwards or leading to crashing, a semi-truck who gets caught in the middle of the race track, wrecking balls hitting drivers, a T-rex and King Kong.
Even if a player manages to get past everything else, no one has ever managed to beat King Kong and he appears to be unbeatable as a rule.
In the first attempt, Parzival, Aech and Art3mis almost make it, but ended up like the rest. Most of the cars where ones by IOI, but many pop culture cars did not make it in the process, such as the Batmobile being pushed into the broken bridge gap by Aech.
Parzival crashes after King Kong demolishes the road in front of him leading to the finishing line. Parzival soon rescues Art3mis from being crushed by the hands of King Kong, before taking her to Aech's shop to work on her now destroyed bike.
After an argument with Art3mis, Wade visits a scene in Halliday's Journals where James Halliday argues with Ogden Morrow over the OASIS and Halliday's hatred for making rules. The scene contains the clue to beating the race: Halliday states that he wishes they could go backwards for once really fast, "real pedal to the medal."
After finding the clue, Parzival races his DeLorean backwards during the next race. An underground tunnel opens near the rear wall and Parzival is able to safely race through it backwards under all of the obstacles to emerge beyond King Kong near the finish line in Central Park. In doing so, Parzival gets Copper Key and wins the first challenge.
Subsequently, Art3mis, who witnessed Parzival take off backwards, also completes the race. She is followed by Aech who is tipped off by Parzival, Daito who is tipped off by Aech and Sho who is tipped off by Daito.
References:
The following are references of the various vehicles seen in the race.DeLorean from Back to the Future (piloted by Parzival)
Bigfoot monster truck (piloted by Aech)
Kaneda's bike from Akira (piloted by Art3mis)
Batmobile (1966 Version) from Batman
Ford Interceptor (Pursuit Special) from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Plymouth Fury (Christine) from Christine
GMC Vandura from The A-Team
Mach 5 from Speed Racer
Formula One Cars from Pole Position
Unidentified Cars
Amongst them are the drivers or characters that appear at the racetrack.
Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
Batman from DC comics (drives the 1966 version of the Batmobile)
Dizzy Wallin from Gears of War (drives Christine)
Ryu from Street Fighter
Elite from Halo (drives the A-Team Van)
Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat
Ringworld
Riverworld
Sports Planet inside the OASIS was shaped like a tennis ball and was home to all sports events in the OASIS. Hang gliding, soccer, football, volleyball, unicorn polo, sailing races, basketball, and tennis are a few of the sports that are playable on the planet.
Syrinx is a desolate world with rocky terrain and no NPC inhabitants located in Sector 21.
The planet is featured in the Rush song 2112 Suite. On the surface were 1,024 copies of Megadon; the domed city described in the song's liner notes. Megadon was anchored atop a rocky plateau, on the edge of an immense cliff. The city appeared to be in ruins. Its massive transparent dome was riddles with cracks and looked as though it might collapse at any moment. In the absolute center of the city was an obelisk-shaped temple with wind-blasted gray walls. A giant red star of the Solar Federation was emblazoned above the entrance.
Locales and Residents:
Megadon
Planet Tokusatsu is a world located in Sector 22 themed after Japan's Tokusatsu franchises.
Wade, Daito and Shoto ran a secret high-level Japanese-language-only quest called "Shodai Urutoraman". Created by GSS's Hokkaido division, the quest was a recreation of all thirty-nine episodes of the original Ultraman tv series. The three gunters alternated between three characters; Hayata, Hoshino and Arashi, as they progressed episode by episode. It took an entire week, often playing over sixteen hours a day, before they completed all the episodes and completed the quest. Earning the Hayata's Beta Capsule item.
More Info: https://readyplayerone.fandom.com/wiki/TokusatsuVacation World is a what the title says, it was created by Gregarious Games. And was coded by James Halliday. The Vacation planet has five different areas. Like the Hawaii based area with 50 foot waves. A theme park or amusement park area with a red and white roller coaster, the Pyramids of Giza area where you can skate over the blocky terrain. And a autumn forest area, where you can just relax and walk around. And the last area is Mountain Everest, where players can climb up top the world famous mountain with Batman.
Vulcan
Landmarks and Locations:
Avatar Outfitters is a shopping district on the planet Incipio. After winning the first key, Parzival and Aech visit the district to buy items, clothes, weapons, and the X1 Bootsuit from IOI.
Castle Anorak is the castle of James Halliday. Castle Anorak is the location of the Third Gate/Crystal Gate and The End. The castle's entrance led into a foyer whose walls, floor and ceiling were all made of gold. At the north end of the chamber a large crystal door was set into the wall. It had a small keyhole at its very center.
Distracted Globe (Novel) is a famous zero-gravity dance club on the planet Neonoir in Sector Sixteen of the OASIS.
Created and owned by Ogden Morrow, the "Globe" is located at the western-hemisphere intersection of two brightly lit streets that stretched completely around the planet along its equator and prime meridian (known respectively as "The Boulevard" and "The Avenue"). One of the reasons why the Globe was considered so hip and exclusive was because it was located within a PvP zone, one where both magic and technology functioned. So attendees ran the risk of being ganked and PvPed while they partied.
The club itself is a massive cobalt blue sphere, three kilometers in diameter, floating thirty meters off the ground. A floating crystal staircase led up from the street to the club's only entrance, a circular opening at the bottom of the sphere.
The interior of the sphere was completely hollow. The moment an individual passed through the entrance the laws of gravity changed so that, no matter where they walked, the individual's avatar always adhered to the sphere's curved interior "wall" which served as the club's bar and lounge area. The open space at the center of the sphere served as the club's zero-gravity "dance floor" which could only be reached if an individual jumped "up" From the bar and lounge area and fly/float to the center of the sphere.
In the exact middle of the sphere, at the center of the zero-gravity "dance floor" was a clear bubble suspended in open space. This was the club's DJ booth filled with turntables, mixers, decks and dials.History:
Known to be frequented by "twinked-out wannabe-gunter uberdorks", the dance club was famous for hosting Ogden Morrow's annual birthday party celebration; wherein Ogden Morrow himself would come out of hiding to host the party.
Og's birthday was an evening packed with celebrities- movie stars, musicians and celebrities.
In celebration of Ogden's 73rd birthday, High Five was invited but only Art3mis and Parzival showed due to the other three being otherwise preoccupied or unwilling to enter a PvP zone.Locales and Resident:
R2-D2 (Resident DJ)
The Great and Powerful Og
Distracted Globe (Film) is a planet in OASIS that seems to function as a singular massive dance club.History:
James Halliday built the Distracted Globe shortly after his first and only date with Karen Underwood who loved dancing. Halliday most likely built it to take Karen on a dancing date, but they never had a second date.
Parzival and Art3mis visited here because Art3mis believed the Distracted Globe to be the most likely location referenced by the clue for the second challenge, believing that since Halliday created it for Karen, he hated it when he wasn't able to have a date with her here and "the leap not taken" referred to the anti-gravity dance floor. Though this turned out to be a false lead, Parzival and Art3mis had fun dancing before being attacked by I-r0k and an army of Sixers. Using Parzival's Zemeckes Cube, they managed to escape. Before the attack, Parzival revealed his real name of Wade to Art3mis which was overheard by I-r0k, enabling him to identify Parzival for Nolan Sorrento. Parzival also revealed his love for Art3mis who rejected him as she felt he didn't see her for who she truly was and wouldn't love her if he did and her belief that he didn't live in reality.
The Halliday Journals is an archive in the OASIS located on the planet Incipio chronicling the life of James Halliday.
Description:
According to The Curator, every entry into the Halliday Journals is meticulously assembled from personal photographs, old video recordings, surveillance and nanny cams all rendered into a 3D virtual experience. These entries appear as rooms in a hallway visible behind glass windows with the Curator or the visiting gunter being able to manipulate the recording using a holographic console that appears before the scene.
On the Mezzanine is archived every film, game, book and television program Halliday ever saw. Halliday has them all archived to the point that the records show the year and week he saw them and how exactly how many times he did during his lifetime.
In the aftermath of the announcement of Halliday's Easter Egg Hunt, the Halliday Journals appeared within the OASIS. As Halliday told everyone to get inside of his brain, the Halliday Journals became the next best thing and was originally packed with people attempting to find a way to beat the challenges.
After five years of no one beating the first challenge, the Halliday Journals became abandoned by all but the most dedicated gunters like Parzival who visited often looking for clues and had a good knowledge of what was within. Following his argument with Art3mis about the race, Parzival returned to the Halliday Journals to ask The Curator to see a scene from 2029 at the Gregarious Games office party where Halliday and Ogden argued in the aftermath of dissolving their partnership about instituting rules into the OASIS. In this scene proves to be the clue to beating the first challenge when Halliday states that he'd like to "go backward for once really fast, real pedal to the medal." This clue enables Parzival to beat the first challenge by driving backwards through a secret underground tunnel.
Following Parzival's success the Halliday Journals becomes filled with gunters again who enthusiastically greet Parzival when he returns looking for clues to the second challenge. Accompanied by Art3mis, Parzival views a scene from December 2, 2025, just six days before the OASIS went online. In the scene, Halliday and Ogden discuss Halliday's one date with Karen Underwood who would eventually become Ogden's wife. Parzival recognizes the significance of the moment as it is the one and only time Karen is mentioned in the entire archive despite how important Karen was to both men and states a belief that this is because Halliday was so in love with her it was too painful to remember her. On a bet with Parzival, The Curator checks the archives and determines that he is right. For winning the bet, The Curator provides Parzival with a quarter.
After figuring out the clue to the second challenge, the High Five return to the Halliday Journals, having realized that the second challenge is located there. They have The Curator pull up every movie Halliday watched on the week of November 23-27, 2025, the week Halliday went on his movie date with Karen. Using the clue, Parzival is able to select The Shining and the High Five are dropped by The Curator on a platform into a Halliday-designed remake of The Shining containing the second challenge.
During the final battle, Parzival is saved from The Cataclyst by The Curator's quarter and discovers that in winning the bet, he had been granted an extra life. After Wade wins the Golden Egg, Ogden Morrow reveals himself to be The Curator of the Halliday Journals. Though Ogden took on the role for his former friend, he was unaware of the exact details of the hunt and thus he did not break any rules by giving Parzival the extra life when he won the bet.
First Gate: In the film, the First Gate does not exist despite Halliday mentioning three gates in his announcement. Instead, once the player gets the Copper Key, the clue to the second challenge rises from a nearby fire hydrant. Despite this, later in the film, Parzival is stated to have already gotten past the First Gate, suggesting that maybe the Gate was the finish line for the Racetrack.
Second Gate: In the film, the Second Gate appears in a nearby wall after Art3mis asks Karen Underwood to dance in the Halliday-designed remake of The Shining and wins the second challenge. A set of stepping stones form leading to the gate where Art3mis inserts the Jade Key, causing a hole to open where the keyhole is and the clue to the third challenge to emerge.
Third Gate is located within Castle Anorak on the planet Chthonia; a barrier around the castle prevents entry into its interior by anyone other than a wielder of the Crystal Key, or Anorak.
Film:
In the film, after Parzival retrieves the Easter egg in Adventure and gets the Crystal Key, the Third Gate rises out of the ground nearby. It is depicted as a giant block with three keyholes on the front for each of the collected keys. Once Parzival inserts and turns all of the keys, the front of the block where the keys were inserted shatters, revealing an opening to a massive room with a Golden Egg near the top and a desk with a contract on it.
Tomb of Horrors is an adventure module written by Gary Gygax for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. It was originally written for and used at the 1975 Origins 1 convention. Gygax designed the adventure both to challenge the skill of expert players in his own campaign, and to test players who boasted of having mighty player characters able to best any challenge. The module, coded S1, was the first in the S-series, or special series of modules. Several versions of the adventure have been published, the first in 1978.
The module's plot revolves around the tomb of Acererak the Demi-Lich. The player characters must battle their way past a variety of monsters and traps, with the ultimate goal of destroying Acererak. Tomb of Horrors is considered one of the greatest Dungeons & Dragons modules of all time, as well as one of the most difficult.
Ready Player One History:
In order to obtain the Copper Key, an avatar must complete a recreation of the Tomb of Horrors on Ludus, and approach Acererak. Instead of defeating him in combat, however, an avatar will face him in a best-of-three round of Joust. A victorious avatar will receive a copy of the Copper Key; a defeated avatar will be killed or badly injured.
The Tomb of Horrors is the first place the main character Parzival meets Art3mis, his love interest. Aech finds it shortly after Art3mis and Parzival. Later, the Sixers surround it with a forcefield, which is broken by an antimatter bomb by the gunter clans.
The Tyrell Corporation was a fictional corporation from the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Based in Los Angeles in the year 2019, Tyrell was named after its founder Dr. Eldon Tyrell and is a high-tech biocorp primarily concerned with the production of lifelike androids (or replicants).
In Ready Player One, the building is common among cityscapes, as a building to fill out empty spaces.
The company's motto was "More human than human".
The Basement is a private chat room owned and programmed by Aech.
As Aech's reputation amongst the OASIS community grew, the Basement became a highly exclusive hangout for elite Gunters. As Aech granted access only to people he deemed worthy, being invited to the Basement was considered to be a big honor.The chat room is programmed to look like Ogden Morrow's old basement from his teenage years; a large suburban recreation room from the late 1980s. Old movie and comic book posters cover the room's wood-paneled walls. A vintage RCA television stands in the center of the room, hooked up to a Betamax VCR, a LaserDisc player, and several vintage videogame consoles (including an Intellivision). Three couches are arrayed in a U-shape in front of the TV.
Bookshelves line one far wall, filled with role-playing game supplements and back issues of Dragon magazine, while a row of old arcade games sit against another wall. An ancient stereo that plays music selected from a giant rack of vintage cassette tapes is also available in the room.Aech's garage: In her free time, Aech runs a garage, where she builds and fixes vehicles for other players. You can find a Space Pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey, USS Solaco from Aliens, Batmobile from Batman, Red Ferrari from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pee-Wee's bicycle from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, ED 209 from Robocop, Eagle 5 from Spaceballs, Thunderfighter from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Swordfish 2 from Cowboy Bebop, TARDIS from Dr. Who, PO-024 Field Repair E-frame from Exo Squad, Iron Giant from The Iron Giant, and Shotaro Kaneda's motorcycle from Akira inside her garage. She also has items from Galaga, Joust, Cocktail, a Lazer Tag game, and a Nerf Blaster.
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System Requirements
An OASIS System Kit has some basic items for the user to run off of. The first item is the VR Headset, which can be made directly from Gregarious Simulation Systems, or made from third party companies, such as Innovative Online Industries. The second item are a pair of haptic gloves so the player can feel objects they touch. The third item is the OASIS console, which looks to be a black book, but is actually a console that runs the OASIS. The fourth item is the facial scanner, which when scanned, automatically logs the player into their account, and shows emotions inside the OASIS. The fifth item that isn't in all packages is the omni-directional treadmill, so the player can move inside the OASIS freely. Some packages come with egg-like devices, some come with strings, and some even come with giant hamster balls.
The game had a standard immersion rig given to all new OASIS users, which consisted of a pair of virtual reality goggles and a pair of haptic gloves, but high-tech and hacker rigs were constantly being created and upgraded. The most state-of-the-art immersion rig, found in Ogden Morrow's personal home, included a full-body immersion suit inside a "hamster-ball" interior that the user could walk around in to simulate real walking/running, and a form-fitting haptic chair, gloves pair, and visor that gave the user every sensation that their character would feel. The immersion rig at Wade Watts's apartment also featured a "smell tower" which replicated to smells within the OASIS.
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Additional Items obtainable
Some additional items obtainable that we see in the movie are:
The Holy Hand Grenade
X1 Haptic Bootsuit
Zemeckis Cube
Cataclyst
Gregarious 120 (Gregarious Games item; obtainable only by artifact hunt on Planet Doom. (Sector 12)
Description for each item:
A grenade that when thrown, proceeds to blow up a massive area
A haptic suit that can be used as armour in fights, and can be used to feel touch and sensations inside the OASIS. (Real-world pickup required)
A Rubik's Cube like contraption that when activated, rolls time back 60 seconds.
A bomb that kills every single person in specified sector in the movie, but in the book it is only contained to a planet but also takes out all scenery until the server reset.
A robotic arm that when equipped, turns the player into a robot for 120 seconds.
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