How To Find The Egg In Ernest Cline's Metamorphosis?

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Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One details the intense hunt for a tech-billionaire’s fortune. The story is told from the perspective of teenage Wade Watts in the year 2044, when a virtual reality called the OASIS is more popular than real life. When a founder of the OASIS, James Halliday, dies, he launches a contest to find a hidden Easter egg which contains his entire fortune and the rights to the OASIS. There are three keys to find and three gates to pass in order to find the egg. OASIS members in search of the egg, called gunters, all try to figure out where the cleverly hidden egg is in the huge OASIS. A rival group, IOI, or the Sixers, are also in search of Halliday’s egg, so they can take over the OASIS and start charging a fee to use the virtual world. However, years after Halliday’s death, neither gunters nor Sixers have any luck finding the first key. That is, until one day Wade, or Parzival, as he is known in the OASIS, discovers a secret message in Anorak’s Almanac, a collection of Halliday’s favorite things, which leads him to the copper key. After Parzival obtains the copper key, he meets Art3mis, an OASIS blogger whom he closely follows and has developed a crush on. Parzival heads …show more content…

The Sixers are quick to contact the five gunters to get information from them. Parzival agrees to meet with Nolan Sorrento, the chief of operations at IOI. After Parzival declines Sorrento’s offers of monetary rewards in exchange for directions on how to obtain the copper key and clear the First Gate, Sorrento threatens to blow up Wade’s trailer if he does not cooperate. Parzival calls Sorrento’s bluff and refuses to share any information. From far away in his hideout, Parzival realizes Sorrento was not bluffing as his trailer explodes. He is shocked to find out how far the Sixers will go to claim the egg, including murdering Daito later

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