1. Ready Player One Ch. 30
Mrs. Bly Eng 4

2. Ch. 30 SQs 1. What are perk points?
2. What item did Wade acquire from the L33t Hax0rz Warehaus auction?
3. Briefly explain Wade’s plan.
4. What will happen if Wade’s passwords don’t work?
5. What information does Wade learn about Art3mis?
6. Why would Wade record what happened to Daito? (infer)
7. What is the sixers plan for Art3mis and Shoto?

3. Perk Points
“If I obtained a sufficient number of ‘perk points’ by getting high productivity and customer approval ratings, I could ‘spend’ some of them to purchase the privilege of decorating my cube, perhaps with a potted plant or an inspirational poster of a kitten hanging from a clothesline” (283).

4. What item did Wade acquire from the L33t Hax0rz Warehaus auction?
“IOI Intranet Access Passwords, Back Doors, and System Exploits” (287)
He purchased these codes for “a few thousand credits” (287).
Wade plans to attack IOI from the INSIDE.

5. Wade’s Plan
See page 288:
“I would alter the financial records of my bogus Bryce Lynch identity and allow myself to become indentured by IOI. Once I infiltrated the building and got behind the company firewall, I would use the intranet passwords to hack into the Sixers’ private database, then figure a way to bring down the shield they’d erected over Anorak’s castle. I didn’t think anyone would anticipate this move, because it was so clearly insane” (288).

6. IF Passwords don’t work….
“I didn’t test the IOI passwords until the second night of my indenturement. I was understandably anxious, because if it turned out I’d been sold bogus data and none of the passwords worked, I would have sold myself into lifelong slavery” (288).

7. The Real Art3mis
Port Wine Birthmark example
She looks the same as her avatar…..except the left half of her face was covered with a reddish birthmark.
“Art3mis had led me to believe that in reality she was somehow hideous, but now I saw that nothing could have been further from the truth…the face Is saw in the photo seemed even more beautiful to me than that of her avatar, because I knew this one was real” (292).
Her real name: Samantha Evelyn Cook,
20 yr old Canadian citizen, 5’7’’, 165 lbs.

8. Daito’s death live feed
PROOF that the Sixers murdered him!

9. The Sixers’ Plan for Shoto & Art3mis
“In it, Sorrento proposed sending agents to abduct Art3mis and Shoto from their homes to force them to help IOI open the Third Gate. Once the Sixers had obtained the egg and won the contest, Art3mis and Shoto would be ‘disposed of’” (293).