Fake Playwright is an event-exclusive NPC who appeared in Secret Summer Paradise.
Location[]
- During Secret Summer Paradise
Fake Playwright's location
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Profile[]
(To be added.)
Appearance[]
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Quests and Events[]
Events
Dialogue[]
- Fake Playwright: Hi, esteemed audience members! I'm Fake Playwright, one of the staff working on Three-Day Reverie. Can I help you with anything?
Why are you known as "Fake Playwright"?
- Fake Playwright: That's a good question! It seems I have some explaining to do.
- Fake Playwright: Long story short, if I can't write anything appropriate soon, I'll be fired!
- Paimon: Whoa! Is it that bad? You make it sound like... Water Droplets have strict rules too!
- Appropriate? What do you mean?
- Are you referring to impactful dialogue?
- Fake Playwright: No, not at all. Dialogue is the easiest part!
- Fake Playwright: Writing beautiful lines, fooling the audience into thinking the lines are something profound...
- Fake Playwright: That's something any Hydro Eidolon with just a few months of intensive training... No, even a Specter could do that!
- Fake Playwright: But to transform a splendid section of the play into the scene before your eyes, now that cannot be done without a careful division of labor and cooperation. That is the essence of being "appropriate"!
Clear as mud.- How abstract.
- Paimon: Could you explain it in a way that Paimon can understand?
- Fake Playwright: No surprise there. It takes a certain amount of creative experience to resonate with this topic.
- Fake Playwright: Then I'll slow down enough to give you time to catch up. A good playwright must understand the troupe's limits and resources, and write the script with those in mind.
- Fake Playwright: Even if it's the simplest of scenes, you must carefully determine the actors and props required.
- Fake Playwright: But as you can see, we plain don't have enough actors and our prop selection is relatively limited as well.
- Fake Playwright: So, you certainly can't go overboard when writing the script because once it's in the show, the audience may feel a deep disconnect between what is described and what is shown.
- Fake Playwright: My failure to take that into consideration resulted in me writing a few unrealistic and entirely unusable scripts, and it even ended up delaying the schedule of the entire troupe...
- Ouch...
- That's terrible...
- Paimon: If worse comes to worst, then... Paimon will just draw figures on wooden boards and use them as actors! Paimon can draw some props on wood too... y'know, signal the audience!
- Paimon: Hmm, we can install a few wheels on the bottom and move them around to display character movement or interact with props.
- Paimon: If we slam them together and throw in some exaggerated sound effects, we can even recreate fight scenes!
- Paimon: It'll be just like when the sea monster's minions showed up in the Black Nacre play!
- Economical showmanship!
- Even Paimon can do it!
- Fake Playwright: No! Absolutely not! According to Mr. Zosimos's book, that's on the level of "terribly unforgivable" and should be used for insignificant supporting characters... at best!
- Fake Playwright: Instead of leaving a few stand-ins for actors which just stand there chatting loudly all day, it's better to just leave them out completely!
- Fake Playwright: Doing that... it only interferes with the audience's imagination, yet fails to fully convey the scene...
- Fake Playwright: It's safer to avoid limiting the audience's imagination, and use words alone to lead them through it!
- Fake Playwright: ...
- Fake Playwright: (Fake Playwright seems to be seriously gesturing and acting out something, but the speaker remains silent.)
- Fake Playwright: Ugh! I just don't have the words yet, so many lines haven't been recorded, I can't say them...
- Paimon: Fake Playwright seems to be very principled... As soon as we brought up this subject, it just can't stop talking.
- High standards for oneself are a good thing.
- It's better than not seeking to improve.
- Paimon: Anyway, let's stop for now. Otherwise, this might go on forever...
- Fake Playwright: But perhaps it may not be that difficult for the two of you.
- Paimon: That's true! If you think about it, you shouldn't be afraid of creating something just because someone might be harsh on it.
- Paimon: Hehe! Looks like (TravelerTraveler) and Paimon are talented at this too... Or Paimon should say that we're made of the right stuff, though we haven't really started!
- Paimon: Anyway, you talking about this made Paimon curious about something. Did Zosimos actually read that book?
- O Cultured Playwright, can we have a word?
- Fake Playwright: I told you, I'm just one of the staff. It's like you're mocking me when you address me like that...
- Paimon: Hey! Aren't you being a little too sensitive? That's not what (TravelerTraveler) meant! (HeHe/
SheShe) is always sincere! - Fake Playwright: Forgive me, being sensitive is something that comes naturally to us artistically gifted playwrights...
- Fake Playwright: According to Mr. Zosimos, sometimes people in the industry have been misunderstood or even ruthlessly attacked because they were careless with their wording...
- Fake Playwright: While such a demanding audience may not appear in the Veluriyam Mirage...
- Fake Playwright: Mr. Zosimos also said that whenever we create something, we must be prepared to receive the attention of a larger audience and never leave it up to luck!
- Fake Playwright: Hmm, we may have gone off topic a bit. Though those are more my own personal expectations, you could also consider them suggestions.
- Paimon: Those expectations are way too strict! Are you going to quibble over every single little word?
- Paimon: So if we create a show based on our own experiences, like the story of the Anemo Archon and Dvalin...
- Paimon: Would people come forward just to fuss over things like... Hmm, something like "How disrespectful! How dare you make the Anemo Archon seem so carefree! That's far too presumptuous!"
- Just laugh it off.
- Creative art should be fun, not overly cautious.
- Fake Playwright: What? You've ascended to the plane of "transcendence" before you've written a single script!?
- Paimon: ?
- ?
- Fake Playwright: One of Mr. Zosimos's books mentioned such a concept—
- Fake Playwright: "Even if we exercise the utmost care while writing a script, we are bound to encounter many who we would consider are criticizing our work excessively."
- Fake Playwright: "If you fear such criticism and dare not fully exercise your creative freedom, then you are putting the cart before the horse..."
- Fake Playwright: In short, listen to what is right and ignore the harsh criticism.
- Fake Playwright: Such transcendence is of great benefit to writing scripts. It's a realm that all playwrights dream of... It is easy to say such things, but actually doing so is a completely different story.
- Fake Playwright: But perhaps it may not be that difficult for the two of you.
- Paimon: That's true! If you think about it, you shouldn't be afraid of creating something just because someone might be harsh on it.
- Paimon: Hehe! Looks like (TravelerTraveler) and Paimon are talented at this too... Or Paimon should say that we're made of the right stuff, though we haven't really started!
- Paimon: Anyway, you talking about this made Paimon curious about something. Did Zosimos actually read that book?
- We're here to provide material for you...
- Paimon: Daiya's voice said that we should talk to you and tell interesting stories that will help with your script writing!
- Fake Playwright: Oh... So Chief Director heard about your adventures from Idyia. Yes, your assistance is necessary...
- Fake Playwright: But as you can see, the process of writing a script is very long. I'm worried that your stories will be so rich and detailed that I will fail to remember them after a time.
- Fake Playwright: Please use the device in front of me to make a recording. That way I can review it whenever I want!
- Paimon: We're experts at that! (TravelerTraveler), Paimon will allow you to decide what kind of material we should provide to Daiya's Three-Day Reverie!
- After a short discussion with Paimon, you select some of the most outlandish things you've encountered in your journey and the stories from several novels before recording them in a concise and easy-to-understand tone for Fake Playwright...
- Fake Playwright: Wow! That's such a long recording! This is more material than I ever expected!
- Fake Playwright: I shall specially write a line to extol the great deed you have performed here today in sharing your stories!
- Paimon: Hehe, Paimon wonders what kind of show this super professional Water Droplet will turn our stories into!
- Paimon: Paimon can't wait!
- Don't mention it. We won't take more of your time.
- Paimon: Right! We're only here to observe! We'll leave you to it then!
- Fake Playwright: You're so polite and careful with your words! I hope you have a pleasant visit!
Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Fake Playwright |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 「假编剧」 "Jiǎ Biānjù" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「假編劇」 "Jiǎ Biānjù" |
| Japanese | 「偽脚本家」 "Nise Kyakuhon-ka" |
| Korean | 「임시 각본가」 "Imsi Gakbon'ga" |
| Spanish | Falso dramaturgo |
| French | « Faux scénariste » |
| Russian | «Псевдодраматург» "Psevdodramaturg" |
| Thai | "นักเขียนบทตัวปลอม" |
| Vietnamese | "Biên Kịch Giả" |
| German | „Falscher Drehbuchautor“ |
| Indonesian | "Penulis Naskah Gadungan" |
| Portuguese | Falsa Roteirista |
| Turkish | Numaracı Oyun Yazarı |
| Italian | Falso autore |
Change History[]
Released in Version 3.8