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Anonymous 2015-08-15 22:06:34 No.1755

Hey /lit/!
First time poster here. I thought you might be able to help me/advice me a bit on my story.
It's about the son of a ceo of a huge megacorp but when it starts to crumple they send him into a virtual reality sleep where he spends a hundred years or so (in the VR it seems only like a few months)
Now what I have a problem with is making the Virtual Reality really seem virtual.

TLDR: What can I do to hint the fakeness now and then (the reader doesn't know that the mc is in a vr at first)
Thanks in advance!

Anonymous 2015-08-15 22:52:00 No.1762

have him accept various things as natural that would be impossible in daily life. Like day to day things that don't make sense, or could be explained by some state the MC is in like being tired, but the MC isn't surprised by them.

Anonymous 2015-08-15 23:02:15 No.1764

>>1762
Yeah, small inconsistencies like a conversation not flowing as he thinks it should. Or something being a faux pas that wouldn't normally be.

Anonymous 2015-08-15 23:14:03 No.1766

>>1764
I think explicitly mentioning a cognitive dissonance would be too obvious. The goal would be to make readers uncomfortable at first, not to alert them right away that something's wrong.

Anonymous 2015-08-15 23:47:55 No.1768

>>1762
thats a very good idea.

>>1766
Yep thats what I think but the exact opposite would work well, when he feels like he has already heard certain conversations and certain patterns repeat themselves.

Anonymous 2015-08-16 01:23:14 No.1770

Use the wake up creepy pasta. Have him repeatedly come by it. In news papers and internet forums in the VR.

Anonymous 2015-08-16 02:50:41 No.1771

You could have the world itself try to make him do/not do things. Like the city's edge in that "13th floor" movie.
You could have weird weather or day/night cicles like in the GTA games.

>(in the VR it seems only like a few months)
So, is he dreaming? Drugged?
In any way, you could read about the medical aspects of being on any of the two for months.

>>1762
I think he shouldn't accept them, that would make me think that he's in a dream.

Anonymous 2015-08-16 18:49:33 No.1777

>>1770
I think I'm gonna put in something similiar but the creepypasta itself not. but nice idea.

>1771
>weird weather or day/night cicles
great idea. I'm gonna make him used to that and describe it as if its normal.

Yes he is dreaming that he is in a distant country studying economics etc to be succesful businessman when he inherits the corp of his family.