Aech 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.
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Aech located. Sector 12. Planet Doom. WADE: Planet Doom, the most dangerous place in the OASIS, and a pretty great place to pick up coin. Figures Aech would be there.
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All your money. (SHOUTS IN OTHER LANGUAGE) Your clothes. (SCREAMS) Your weapons. Since people spend most of their time in the OASIS... (SHOUTING IN JAPANESE) ...losing your shit means... Well, losing your shit. (1980s POP MUSIC PLAYING) Aech, 10 minutes until the race starts. AECOkay, Mom, I heard you. WADE: You see, the OASIS was the brainchild of James Halliday. He and his partner, Ogden Morrow, released the first OASIS build in 2025. It was an instant success, and it made them both very rich. But Morrow was out of the picture after a few years. And Halliday? He wasn't just the owner of the world's biggest company. He was like a god. People loved him. They worshiped him as much as his creation. Maybe we should stop talking about it and start, uh, showing it. If you all wanna reach under your seats, you'll find that there's nothing there. (CHUCKLES) -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -But we're gonna... we're each gonna bring you one now. WADE: And then, on January 7, 2040... (MUSIC DISTORTS)
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She's not gonna make it.
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Bail! Bail out! Bail!
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(TIRES SCREECHING)
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(ROARING)
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(GRUNTS)
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(GROWLS)
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He died.
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(BEEPING)
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(YELPS)
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(HORN BLARES)
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(TIRES SCREECHES) Yeah, I see it. That's Kaneda's bike from Akira. It's a licensed skin over a standard frame. WADE: No, not the bike. Forget the bike. The girl, I think it's Art3mis. The Art3mis? The Sixer Fixer? I've seen all her walk-throughs, her Twitch streams. It's her. It's definitely her.
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Aech, are you seeing this?
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(SOBBING) You idiot. No, but I only lost 'cause of the bad gloves. Our house! Our goddamn house! WADE: My boys were in that challenge. You couldn't have beat them in a bootsuit, you noob. Stop! No! No! Alice, call the police! No, we are not calling the cops. Go to your room, Rick. Aw, come on, Alice. Why do you put up with this guy? He's a shitshow. I ought to kick the both of you out. I swear to G-O-D, Wade Watts, if I catch you touching my stuff again, not joking... Out.
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WADE: "Wade Watts." My dad picked that name because it sounded like a superhero's alter ego, like Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. But he died when I was a kid. My mom, too, and I ended up here, living with Aunt Alice and her endless string of hard-loving losers.
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Maybe it's 'cause Art3mis said it, and she's hot. Maybe it's because she called me out, sitting here in my tiny corner of nowhere, protecting my small slice of nothing. Or maybe... Maybe it's because that line means something and I missed it. (POP MUSIC PLAYING)