'The List' (critical role fan song) DEMO

(spoilers for Critical Role ep 24-26) Locking himself away after the feast with the Briarwoods, Percival Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III revisits his choices.

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Follow me and my fellow bards of the Cantata Pansophical as we embark on our Hamilton homage album VOX MACHINA: AN EXANDRIAN MUSICAL.

[bleachbleachBLEACHER]

Keyleth: "Raishan's at the top of my list."

Percy: "I don't recommend lists."

[julianwilliams]

Does anyone else think that Percy could've very easily become one of the hardest villains if the rest of Vox Machina hadn't defeated Orthax?

[Min-kezc]

I really love the methodical, easy feeling of the piano with this, it really complements the concept of 'the list', distilling a series of murders and vengeance into a simple checklist. Easy to follow, easy to cross off, easy, easy, easy, right up until it's not.

[PattPlays]

When his WHOLE family was named, that shook me.

[gmacwizard]

it takes a brave man to walk into darkness... it takes braver man to walk out

[iankelley]

the composition is amazing and the lyrical structure evocative, but what's really impressive and I think any Critter worth their salt can agree is the emotion behind the vocals. The piano sets the stage for the emotional piece but it's the delivery of the lyrics that really sell it and when the names of the traitors are read off and one can hear the barely held venom in the vocalists delivery, well it's hard not to imagine Percival slowly loading Pepper box as he spits Ripley's name.

[magiv]

*later in the series*
Keyleth: But she's highest on my list.
Percy:...I don't recommend lists.

He has grown so much<3
Taliesin was fully prepared from the beginning to make him become a villain if that's where the story went and if Percy had let his vengeance overtake him, but in the end, he managed to break free and put it behind him. That's some juicy character development right there. Percy may not be the morally best character of the lot - he is cocky, arrogant and often makes poor choices - but he's the one who has grown the most and is the most aware of how his actions impact the people around him. That's why he's my favorite and I just want to give him a big hug.

[ryanjones_rheios]

This so damned evocative. The part where you speak of the hallways filling with screams was chilling because for a brief moment I felt like Percy, being pulled from the room by servants and hearing the screams of the dying, familiar, family and friends. The sounds of his childhood being murdered ringing in white and red stone walls. Percy was always my favorite character and I never saw his flaws as being half the sins that Taliesin does but if I ever wondered for a moment of his motivations, that image that I knew but never considered was all it would have taken.

[peytonmarkel]

"Keep the Fury burning raw.
Reign on them destruction,
Unending shock and awe..."

[Tybarnick]

"I cast Hex on myself."
-Percy

[tlaragihai]

I`ve found it just now and from the 1st lines it broke my heart to a million pieces.
The moment he says the names not of his enemies, but of his family, who also all had become... a simple list of names. Oooof. Chills, Chills. So much hidden and revealed pain in these words. I want to hug both Percy and Cass and comfort them till the end of the world.
And these tears in _your_ voice at 4:00, when saying " My family`s voices rising up, steadying my hand". This is an acting, real acting in the song.
Thank you very, very much.

[jaceatkinson]

Percy is my all time favorite. His condratictory personality. His dark desires and demands. Percy had a plan to kill every vox machina member if they ever turned on him. He studied them enough to know how to take them all out without a problem.
His ending had me in tears. When he felt all was gone, vax had been taken and his contract wasn't working. He slumped against the wall and cried saying he missed his family. It was in this moment percy realized he had thought everything that had happened was the machinations of a dying man in jail. And realizing it actually was real broke him.

[jocosesonata]

1:28 - "Our once great name, their faces fade, reduced to a list."
4:30 - "What little good that I could do, I can finish a list."

These are the best lines in my opinion.

Their once great name _reduced_ to a list. Just, damn... That's raw. How many great people were reduced to a list? Not the famous ones, but great people you personally know, that just one day were reduced to a list, in a death ledger in some office.

"What little good that I could do, I can finish a list." And that... Check the box, this task is done, move on to the next one. You wrote it in such a way to make revenge so mundane. Just a list. A simple list. Anyone can finish a list. Making a list makes tasks seem trivial, and that is what you made revenge out to be. A trivial task, a simple task to be done, a task so feasibly accomplished.

Amazing writing, simple yet with complex undertones. It delivers directly, it doesn't get cluttered or tangential with flowery prose, it's just someone wanting to finish a simple list. No need for it to be all that complicated. It's just a list.

Great work. I really believe this should be somewhere in the official show. A bard. Maybe even a sidetrack. A bonus at the end of some episode, or released separately on their official channel. Anywhere, as long as they make it official.

[guilhermemonocores]

If this is to become a musical I could really see a later echo on the briarwoods arc of the part where Percy lists the names after a certain betrayal in his eyes and then listing his foes and family mixed up (maybe even Vox Machina members as well), as he grasps the morality of having one of his own standing between him and his vengeance.

[nana]

7 Years later and this still hits hard

[davidjoslyn]

This has an eerie feel of Steven Sondheim; both "The Gun Song" from Assassins and aspects of "A Barber & His Wife" and "Joanna" from Sweeney Todd. I think Taliesin would approve!

[hotscottrulz]

I’m running a D&D game set in Tal’dorei. One of the taverns the party will be heading to soon is near Whitestone, and I’m totally having a bard there singing this...

[dragonarrow]

While watching episode 6 of the Legend of Vox Machina this song resurfaced in my memory. I’m glad I remembered this and came back, it’s just as amazing as I remembered.

[teacupkoala]

Imagine this playing over the credits at the end of some of the animated series briarwood episodes

[mariacorreia]

this is an amazing song. i especially like the bit of percy listing out his family members, and the line 'suffer silently and smile'.