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Ready player 31/12/2024 This allows him to teleport into Castle Anorak and threaten to push the Big Red Button that will destroy the OASIS-even if that means it will kill the half a billion people forcibly logged into the OASIS. Once all Seven Shards are collected, one need only combine them into one jewel in order to resurrect Leucosia.īut what Z hands over to Anorak is a counterfeit jewel, which he uses to surreptitiously trade the Robes of Anorak back into his inventory. Of course, Wade is the one with the personal experience on education-is-fun planet Halcydonia, and the trip to Arda I is a Tolkienesque date for Parzival and Art3mis.įinding the Seventh Shard is simply a matter of visiting the Shrine of Leucosia on the D&D planet Chthonia, site of the final battle in Ready Player One. Each puzzle draws from a different person’s own particular fandom or knowledge base: Z’s new ally L0hengrin figures out the first Shard years after it gets announced Shoto is the one to crack the riddle of Sega Ninja, while Art3mis walks them through the John Hughes tribute planet that is Shermer, and Aech coaches Z through doing musical battle with the Seven Princes on the Afterworld. With that power, he is able to hold Parzival and millions of other OASIS users hostage until Z can restore the Siren’s Soul.Įven though Parzival is the only person (aside from Ogden Morrow) able to physically collect the Shards, he relies heavily on members of the High Five and the L0w Five in order to complete the seven trials. Anorak, the digital copy of Halliday who grew unstable when his creator tried to remove the worst parts of his own personality from the copy and instead just gave his monstrous alter ego more control over the OASIS. While it was Halliday who created the Seven Shards quest, it was Anorak who wanted Leucosia as his prize. Further, witnessing Kira’s memories of Halliday at his most insecure and selfish moments made the man realize how wrong he had been to violate her trust. But he soon realized that because he had copied over every aspect of Kira’s personality and experience, that included her love for Ogden. Initially, Halliday had kept Leucosia in a private simulation, in the hopes that he could convince her to love him. It copied over her consciousness up until that moment, creating Leucosia. But while the flesh-and-blood Kira died before the ONI was officially created, the final memory toll is the last seven seconds of Kira’s memory, as Halliday tricked her into trying an ONI prototype while she was still alive. Wade comes to realize that the Siren in the OASIS quest is Leucosia herself-that is, a digital copy of Kira’s consciousness, an AI like Anorak. While racing after the Shards, the High Five learn that when Kira had to go back to England after her year abroad, she left behind a D&D module that she had written for the rest of their group to play in her absence: The Seven Shards of the Siren’s Soul, in which her character Leucosia was trapped in suspended animation, her soul split into seven pieces that her friends had to find. Like the three keys to three gates in Ready Player One, each Shard is tied to a moment in Halliday’s life, particularly a moment set in the 1980s, particularly 1988-89: the year that foreign exchange student Kira Underwood spent in Middletown, Ohio, and where she met Halliday and Morrow.
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