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[yakalskovich]

Oddly enough, writing middle-high-falutin' dialogue for Poins in Milliways is much less taxing than expected.-

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[ceitfianna]

Well, you actually have lots of characters that already speak that kind of way. Teja does, Urquhart, Margolotta, Lady Loki, Lorenzo even Tamara all speak rather stylized speak, so I'm not surprised that he's not that hard. He seems to fit right within your style of playing.

[yakalskovich]

I thought I'd go crazy trying to make even the prose scan at least a little bit, the way Shakespearean dialogue works. Or would be unable to write 'forsooth' in earnest even once. But it gave me no trouble.-

[saphyria]

Good to hear! Your Poins is so very entertaining! :D

[yakalskovich]

Yes, he is fun, and easygoing, and easier to play than I thought, and he doesn't need a Falstaff or Hal at all to work. It's a tavern, he fits right in. Poins does taverns.

Heeeeee, that would explain where he vanished to so noiselessly at the end of Henry IV. pt. 2 -- when he realised that he couldn't keep Falstaff from making a nuisance of himself at court upon which he knew the new reformed ex-Hal would come down on them all like a ton of bricks, he just slipped into Milliways and never went back.