Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline is a sci fi story about a teenager named Wade Watts also known by his avatar as Parzival who hates living in the real world and the only way he can escape it is by using the 3D OASIS gaming console Wade is an 18 year old who dislikes the real world and tries to avoid it as much as possible by spending most of his time being jacked into OASIS After Wade's parents die he ended up living with his with his aunt her boyfriend and a bunch of other people in what they refer to as the stacks The stacks are dozens of trailers stacked one on top of another held together by a network of metal girders and were the primary source of housing for disadvantaged families In 2045 most people that live in Oklahoma City live in stacks because most of the population is poor due to overpopulation unemployment and energy shortages Wade spends most of his time in his secret hideout using OASIS to attend school and to take care of other personal things such as school work and socializing When James Halliday the creator of OASIS dies he leaves a digital video in which he tells the whole world that he has hidden an Easter Egg inside OASIS and states that whoever finds it first will inherit his entire fortune In his video Halliday leaves clear instructions stating that in order to find the egg users must first find the three keys copper jade and crystal and unlock their corresponding gates Five years go by since Halliday s death and Wade aka Parzival finds the first key the Copper Key inside the Tomb of Horrors by reenacting the entire WarGames movie During his quest for the Copper Key Wade meets Art3mis a young blogger with a beautiful pleasing avatar that catches Wade s eye He falls for her almost instantly Wade and Art3mis start to become close and the friendship between
