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Summary: Daito is killed in reality while fighting against IOI, the players' enemy company. The company, IOI, secretly murdered Daito to win the last key of the hunt. Shaito grieves and meets Parzival, telling him what happened. Parzival uncovers the last key.

Quote: "...Daito's name disappeared from the scoreboard entirely. There was only one possible explanation: Daito has just been killed." (pg. 233)

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Summary: Wade escapes the compound with his hacked information after he finds out that IOI plans to kill Art3mis and Shoto. Ogden Morrow, the co-founder of OASIS offers to help Wade and his friends to unlock the prize by giving them a safe sanctuary so they can find the prize without the IOI trying to kill them.

Quote: "'I want to offer the four of you sanctuary at my home here in Oregon,' Og said. 'From here, you'll be able to execute your plan and complete your quest in safety, without having to worry about Sixer agents tracking you down and kicking in your door...'" (pg. 315)

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Summary: Once Wade is adapted into an "employee", he starts to hack into the system to find information and turn cameras off for him. Wade hacks into their database and finds that the IOI company has been keeping track of all the players.

Quote: "Then I hit the jackpot- a folder containing hundreds of hours of OASIS simcap recordings documenting..." (pg. 290)

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Summary: The dedicated gunter receives worldwide fame and takes it to his advantage by equipping himself with better gear and moving into an apartment. Wade (Parzival) is given a chance to work with a clan of gunters called IOI. Wade refuses and IOI unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate him.

Quote: "I tapped my Log-out icon, and my avatar began to dematerialize in front of him. He didn't seem surprised. He just looked at me sadly and shook his head. 'Stupid move, kid.'... I was pulling my gloves back on when I heard the explosion." (pg. 145)

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Summary: Parzival (Wade), Art3mis, Shoto, and Aech battle against the Sixers (IOI) once the shield is down with gunters from all over OASIS. Once the gamers step into the third gate, all of them are killed in their game from a detonated bomb. Wade's player in the game is still alive because he had an extra life from a token he earned during a game of Pac-Man. Wade opens the third gate and gets the treasure with the help of his friends. After accepting his prize, he logs off of OASIS and meets Art3mis in real life.

Quote: "As the three of us stepped forward, preparing to enter the the gate, I heard an earsplitting boom. It sounded like the entire universe was cracking in half. And then we all died." (pg. 342)

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Summary: This is where the main character, Wade (Parzival) and the setting are introduced.
Quote: “Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only thing that make life bearable.” (pg. 15)

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Summary: Wade finds the first clue to the copper key and discovers that he wasn't the only one who uncovered the first clue. He meets Art3mis, a fellow dedicated gunter he's been crushing on for years. Wade beats a game in Joust to uncover the first key- the Copper Key.

Quote: "Suddenly, I understood. I wasn't the first gunter to decipher the Limerick and find the Tomb of Horrors. Art3mis and beaten me to it... So she clearly didn't have the key." (pg. 88)

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Summary:
IOI finds the last key but is unable to decipher the code to get into the gate of the prize. They block the entrance to uncover the prize so other players won't be able to go into the building. No one can pass the barricade besides IOI members.

Quote: "The Sixers had installed some type of magical shield over Castle Anorak, a semitransparent dome that completely covered the castle and the area around it." (pg. 266)

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Summary: Parzival makes a wild plan to hack into the IOI system and take the barricade down from the entrance to the prize. Wade purposely arrests himself to let "police" take him in for custody and work as an employee. As an employee for the IOI company, he plans to hack into their system and pull the shield down from Castle Anorak.

Quote: "I began to formulate a plan. A bold, outrageous plan that would require epic amounts of luck to pull off... I was going to reach the Third Gate, or die trying." (pg. 266)