No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school grounds, anyway. — Ernest Cline

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

For years hunters had speculated that Anorak still roamed the OASIS, now as an autonomous NPC. Halliday’s ghost in the machine.

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