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Surprise, they managed to defeat the 7 Princes and gain the 5th shard. 6th and 7th are evidently in a crown of a terrible demon in what amounts to a hellscape. Oh, and they have only an hour or so of safe time left.

Lots of description of the purply Prince world, with some crazy and probably deadly challenge of 7 versions of Prince coming up.

Lots of Prince trivia in this last section, with some Twin Cities trivia thrown in. Some showdown coming with Prince characters.

They've made better time on the latest shards but have a lot left to do, and they have bad and worse news about NPCs going rogue and Anorak having avatar's possessions brought to him, possibly trying to find the Dorkslayer sword that might be the only thing that could kill him. The Lo5 group has been drafted to help. Hi5 will continue on to try to find the other shards. They have roughly 2 hours before they overload.

They've headed to Sherman HS, of John Hughes movie fame, and we've gotten a lot of info about stuff in those movies but not much else.

After Anorak stole the robes and sabotaged the OASIS, the high 5 gang has to get it together to find the other 6 shards withinb12 hours to avoid having 0.5 billion people die from being in the OASIS too long. Samantha manages to escape her transport plane but the rest seen to be trapped inside.

Z manages to defeat a vintage SEGA game and one extra level to win the 2nd shard, so they're ready to go for #3.

After finding the 1st shard his sleep is cut short because Og has gone missing. Though they wonder if it was a kidnapping, soon Og's name shows up on the shard scoreboard. And then again for a 2nd piece. So it seems some kind of race is on. Also Nolan has escaped prison, and GSS suddenly has a system stability problem in its hands.

Several things have happened, leading to Z getting the first shard and awarding $1b to L0hengrin for the assistance. And now he's had a weird-ass dream about pushing the off button, which destroyed his old home in the stacks, which collapsed on him and killed him in his dream. So 6 more shards to go to finish this quest...maybe?

At the owners meeting Samantha/Art3mis proposes to limit ONI use to people at least 18 years old. She is outvoted 3-1 in what is evidently a common thing, and only after tempers flare. Z is starting to seem alone and isolated, mostly spending his time in the OASIS. And Art3mis called him Locutus. :-)

It picks up just days after the earlier book ended, but now chapter 0 has seen a few years pass as we get set up for what will be the meat of the book. We've had some references to the gang from book 1, as co-owners of tue OASIS, but haven't had any details of any if the others. Just that Parzival is addicted, and he's implied his life is out of control. Again.