People and Organizations
This organization poured billions of dollars into winning "The Contest" in order to attain the company Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS).
Who are/What is the IOI or Innovative Online Industries?
This artifact created a barrier around the Castle Anorak when held by an extremely powerful wizard, preventing anyone else from entering.
What is the Orb of Osuvox?
This man was one of the main antagonists in the story, and served a very high position in the IOI's Oology Division.
Who was Nolan Sorrento?
The main character in the story "Ready Player One" is this.
Who is Wade Watts/Parzival?
This was James Halliday's OASIS username.
Who is "Anaorak?"
This person was the main love interest in the story.
Who was Art3mis/Samantha?
This was Nolan Sorrento's mech during the fierce battle at Castle Anorak.
What is Mechagodzilla?
The IOI had files on these "gunters" who they considered to be threats.
Who are Parzival, Art3mis, Aech, Shoto, and Daito?
The main character did this to earn money after he found he was being hunted by the IOI.
What is take brand deals?
James Halliday was this "religion."
What is atheism.
The organization Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS) was originally called this.
What is Gregarious Games?
Wade Watts got the quarter that granted him an extra life by doing this.
What is playing a perfect game of Pac-Man.
The "Sixers" were called that name because of this fact about their serial numbers.
What is their serial number always beginning with the number six.
This was the main character's "hideout."
What is an abandoned van?
James Halliday was in love with this person. Because of this, his friendship with Ogden Morrow was destroyed when Og and this person got married.
Who was Kira Morrow, formerly Kira Underwood?
This person helped design The OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), but rarely makes an appearance inside of it.
Who is Ogden Morrow/The Great and Powerful Og?
The protagonist used his IOI Intranet access codes to download information onto a chip that could store up to this much data.
What is 10 Zettabytes?
The protagonist is arrested and indenture by the IOI and is assigned this job.
What is OASIS Technical Support Representative II?
The main character had to play a round of this 1981 arcade game against an enemy called Acererak in order to attain the Copper Key.
What is Joust?
Halliday's father had this addiction.
What is alcoholism.
This was the real name of a male character that was later found out to be a female character pretending to be male.
Who was Helen?
This item inside Castle Anorak has the power too, when pressed by the owner, delete the entire OASIS, including avatar data, source code, etc.
What is "The Big Red Button"?
The Indentured Servant section of the IOI corporate complex took up this number of floors.
What is three floors?
The protagonist received his first OASIS Console from this establishment.
What is "The public school system?"
James Halliday's mother had this mental health issue.
What is bipolar disorder?