They're just following the orders of the head of IOI, this dickweed named Nolan Sorrento.
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Sit in! WADE: We call 'em "Sixers" 'cause that's the company rule. No name, just numbers. They have a support team made up of Halliday scholars. Like me, they spend all their time studying pop culture that Halliday was obsessed with, trying to find clues to solve the contest.
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Like the vacation planet. Surf a 50-foot monster wave in Hawaii. -You can ski down the pyramids. -(SKIERS WHOOPING) You can climb Mount Everest with Batman.
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(VEHICLES APPROACHING) (SIRENS WAILING)
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(1980s ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
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(GRUNTING)
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(CHORUS SINGING)
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(GRUNTING)
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These days, reality is a bummer. Everyone is looking for a way to escape, and 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 at all.
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-You can do anything... -(CROWD CHEERING)
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WADE: The challenge is to find three keys, but in five years, no one has even gotten one key. And the big scoreboard? Still empty. Some long-forgotten gunter cracked the first clue and found the first challenge. Then, this portal appeared. But the challenge to win the first key was a race designed by Halliday that was so hard, no one had ever finished it. The only ones still trying are the gunters, as in "egg hunters," like me and Sho and Daito, and my best friend, Aech. Oh, and of course, the Sixers. The Sixers work for IOI... COMMANDER: Sixers! WADE: ...Innovative Online Industries. They're the second-largest company in the world with designs on becoming the first. Which is why they're putting everything they got into winning Halliday's contest. Buckle up!
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Tall, beautiful, scary, a 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 changing it. Except for eating, sleeping, and bathroom breaks, whatever people wanna 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 Aech. -(BEEPING) -COMPUTER: Locating Aech.
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AECYou got it, you got it!
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The first person to find the egg I've hidden somewhere inside the OASIS will inherit my stock in Gregarious Games, currently valued in excess of half a million do... Uh, half a trillion dollars' worth, and total control of the OASIS itself. In the form of my avatar, Anorak the All-Knowing, I created three keys. Three hidden challenges test for worthy traits revealing three hidden keys to three magic gates. And those with the skill to survive these straits will reach the end, where the prize awaits. Off you go, keys.
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(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
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(MRS. GILMORE CHUCKLES)
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Hello. I am James Halliday. If you're watching this, I'm dead. Before I died, I created what we in the biz call an "Easter egg." A hidden object in a game that gives special powers to whoever discovers it.