For years hunters had speculated that Anorak still roamed the OASIS, now as an autonomous NPC. Halliday’s… — Ernest Cline

These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one:

At first, these individuals were known simply as "egg hunters," but this was quickly truncated to the nickname "gunters."

And that was when it hit me. Like an anvil falling out of the sky, directly on my skull.