Ready Player One Chapter 0008
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Mrs Bly
Welcome to the 1980s!
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Journal #4
 OPEN your book to page 62-- These pages need to be studied carefully
by ALL gunters because they list so many of Halliday’s interests!
 For your journal today, make a list of all of YOUR
interests:
 What is your favorite book?
 What would you consider your “Holy Trilogies” of movies?
 What is your “desert island” videogame of choice?
 What’s your binge-favorite on Netflix?
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…basically list your favorite things!
Review HW SQs –esp Ch. 7
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1. What is the Latin verb “to learn”? “to learn: DISCERN”
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2. What is the definition of Ludus ?
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“Ludus” in latiin= school (AND “sport” or “game”)
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3. How long would it take Wade to reach the Tomb of Horrors on foot?
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“My avatar could run at a maximum speed of 5 kilometers an hour, so it would
take me over 3 days to get there on foot” (72).
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4. How did he manage to get there?
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Used teleportation by traveling to OPS #0571 for a football game !
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5. What is a lich? “a lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful
wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own
reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality” (74).
Feat Wade3 Must Accomplish
 Google: tomb of horrors ready player one
 Wade3 vs. demi-lich Acererak
 Acererak: “Greeting, Parzival. What is it that you seek?” (79)
 Wade3: “I seek the Copper Key, Your Majesty.” (79)
 A Jousting Match!
Joust- the game
 “Joust was a classic ‘80s arcade game with a strange premise.
Each player controls a knight armed with lance. Player One is
mounted on an ostrich, while Player Two is mounted on a stork”
(81).
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmWXuwVcGMA
Human vs. A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
 Gifted human player= has ability to improvise
 A.I.= software can’t improvise; “can only react randomly or in a
limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite
number of preprogrammed conditions” (83).
Lon
Howard
Victory!!! And then……
 Star Wars theme song!
 Wade3 gets the copper key!
 +50,000 XP points!
 Moved up to level 10!
 Wade3 sees the key is engraved…..
The Copper Key is ENGRAVED
 “What you seek lies hidden in the trash on the deepest level
Daggorath” (84)
 “On the deepest level of Daggorath” (85).
 “dagorath”- from Elvish
language in The Lord of the Rings
Trash
 “Hidden in the trash” was a reference to
the ancient TRS-80 line of computers
made Tandy and Radio Shack in the ‘70s
and ‘80s” (84).
 The Riddle:
 “What you seek lies hidden in the trash on
the deepest level Daggorath” (84)
 “On the deepest level of Daggorath” (85).
Ch. 0008 SQs
 1. What feat must Wade accomplish in order to earn the Copper
Key?
 2. Describe Wade’s experience with Joust.
 3. In early video games, why could a human player always
triumph over a games AI?
 4. What happened in the chamber after Wade’s victory?
 5. Write the lines engraved in the copper key here:
 6. What is trash a reference to?