Ready Player One Notes

 -2045

- the oasis is an escape from reality

-people can look however they want to

-can make friends, track friends anywhere in the oasis

-James Haliday, invented this tech, he died (church of Star Trek)

-license plate in race is parzival

-meets Artemis in race and saves her

-they helped her to fix her bike

-his parents died so he lives with his aunt and uncle, lost money on the house in the oasis

-discovered in Hallidays memories that he has to drive backwards as fast as he can so that he can win the race

-wins race and gets his first key

-tells his friends and they also get a key

-they went to Hallidays memories and discovered that the girl he loved was only mentioned once in all his memories and that he removed all the other memories including her

-date w Artemis at the dance club

-tells her his real name and it is overheard

-IOI comes and attacks them but he uses his new cube to get out of the situation

-Arty drops him and says he lives in an illusion and reveals that her dad died

meeting with IOI and wade calls the business owner a piece of shit

-IOI blows up his home with his aunt and uncle inside

-Arty finds him in real world and they figure out that the clue is in the movie the shining that he saw on his date

-all of them get sucked out except for Arty who gets jade key

-parzival gets jade key and reveals he is still alive to IOI

-they hunt down him and Samantha, she sacrifices herself to protect wade

-wade saved by real life version of his friends and Samantha taken to loyalty center

-they help her to get out but she wants to shut down the orb from the inside

-z calls on everyone to join him in taking down IOI

-they battle and both Aeche and Daito die

-Wade figures out how to win the last challenge but he is interrupted by the leader of IOI

-he sets off bomb that kills everyone in oasis but wade has extra life 

-he wins the keys and the egg

-Halliday tests him with a contract but he picks up on it

-gets the key to the oasis and all the power

-IOI leader almost shoots him but sees how strongly he loves the oasis

-IOI leader is arrested

-Ogden Marrow comes to meet them

Wade decides to share the Oasis with the high five

-finds out ogden is the curator

-decides to close oasis two days a week because reality is important