Campaign 1, Episode 70, 42:11. I spent more time than I would like to say finding that. Hope it helps someone out. So you don't have to search: th-cam.com/video/YxWU4r-cLIY/w-d-xo.html
I feel like all he would have needed was some good distance and careful shot placement to make easy work of two or three of the party. It's not out of this world for that to have happened.
I think there is a extremely low chance that he could have taken any of them out Grogs got too much health Vax has too much quick damage Scanlan’s too smart Vex has too many tactical advantages and Keyleth has too much power he’s just one pc I doubt he could’ve taken the party unless Matt went all in and buffed the hell out Perthax
Easily. He could have dissapeared and Talison would have constantly been building a sub story for Percy in the back ground. He would have used every angle, every advantage. He would have gathered mind breakers to lock down Grog, counter mages to fight Scanlin and Kealith, red herrings for Vex to observe, illusions to trick Pike. He would have been the first to dispell Vax's haste. The first to focus on Pike with unrelenting force, which would trick Scanlin into making bad decisions. He would have isolated Kealith and let her desperation overwhelm her. He wouldn't be the first to capture Grog's mind but might have been the first to focus on simply putting Grog away to deal with at another time all together. He would've outright killed Trinket just to throw off Vexalia. He would have traveled to the demi-plane space that they keep referencing Kealith killed a kid by accident. The only wild card would be Talison's new character, likely Mollymauk or Clay. He would have been the end of Vox Machina.
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.
This song is the best description of the painful obsession that almost consumed him. I can picture his eyes, cold and fixed on the task, his mind repeating names.
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.
For awhile he was also the one that literally said if someone had to make a deal with a devil it would be him, because he didn't want any of his friends to and at the time felt his soul was already irredeemably lost so it didn't matter what fiendish entity took it.
@@jlokison Well he wasn't all that wrong, he basically went "The two of you can tear eachother into pieces fighting over my soul, have fun!" Honestly, he may have hoped that they tore it in two and destroyed it so neither devil nor demon would get the satisfaction of eternally tormenting him or any of his friends.
I feel it’s remarkably common to walk into darkness so many choose that path others have it chosen for them, it takes a truly strong person to walk out of it
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.
@@MNcit The big one that always got me is they all seemed to make *such* a big deal about "guns bad because danger" when the perfect counterpoint to that is when they're arming citizens of whitestone to fight a *dragon* . Where else can you provide the sheer power equivalence to the common people in a setting with dragons and wizards? They're not there quite widely available enough yet, of course, but Percy set the wheels in motion for a more egalitarian society . His motivation of Justice was corrupted by the demon dreams (and even then into, as I said before, a very relatable and fair Vengeance),but even in his darkest evil he accidentally founded a mitigating good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I reeeeeally, really hope that Taliesin has seen this or at least will see it at some point. It's such a genious and perfect tribute to the darker side of his character, and also to the arguably best arc in the whole first campaign. From the first time I heard it, I had vivid visuals going on in my head from different moments of the show. I would so adore for someone to make an animated tribute of this. Music, lyrics, vocals - everything fits together flawlessly, just like the pieces of Percy's gun.
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...
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.
this song puts a sickening feeling in my stomach and in a good way. as i listen to this, i started to feel the emotions that Percy was going through and now i feel like i must put those sick people down for what they did. This was truly amazing and i hope you keep doing this
I really love how Percy always said 'a dream'. His life was destroy, he has nightmares all nights. But the contract was a dream for him. When meeting a demon is a dream, meh, his life sucks a little XD
I love this song because at the end of the day I dont know if these are Percy's thoughts or just Orthax driving him. Maybe it doesn't matter and it's both, but I love wondering. Thank you for this. Its simple, haunting, and beautiful.
With the show out now this song hits all over again. The moment I saw his gun light up in the Amazon show I had to come back to this song. So perfect!!
I've had this stuck in my head since the recent video announcing the extended voice cast for the animated series. Had to come back and give it another listen, and it's still so good. Easily my favorite fan piece from the first campaign by far. (It's just so raw and satisfying to sing to.)
VaanTD I'm just happy that the critter community is enjoying it. It seems like the cast only really see stuff when enough people reblog them enough. maybe tag him and tweet it? :)
This is... overwhelmingly brilliant. There are so many wonderful parts, but the listing of his family, and his trying to keep that grief just another list is phenomenal
Are you thinking about asking the actor who played Percy in the Hamilton Cantata Pansophical to maybe perform this song? It would be amazing to hear his version of this! Love this song! You should be so happy with it
AAAAAAAH PLEASE MAKE THIS A THING!!! Seriously, Edgar Allen Joe is soooo good in the musical, in my opinion the best and most true to character performance of the entire cast. Sometimes, he really does sound like Taliesin. Hearing him sing this song would probably kill me, in the best way possible!
When Tal was talking about forgiving Riply, he said that it took to long and by that time Vox Machina managed to heal him. Something about that in the moment character discussion made me all feel all of the feels.
My family’s gone. I’ll not be free Till I can use my steel to be Their vengeance, be the monster That they need. Reminds me of my own character who slowly used a demon to gain more and more power to avenge his own family, and after the encounter he turned into a secondary boss fight.
Hello! Today is the release date of Vox Machina on Amazon Prime! We’ve just had episode 3 that adapts episodes 23-26ish with the Royal Dinner & VM’s first Briawood encounter! This song is immediately after and perfectly places into Percy’s mindset in both the D&D stream & tv show!
I want to see the musical this comes from! I can totally imagine a reprise of this after the Chroma Conclave, listing off the dragons he and Vox Machina to kill. There is always a List. This is truly an amazing work of art and it makes me love my fellow Critters even more.
4:16 Makes it sadder at the end as the names are listed off if you imagine Percy shooting each of them and then ending it off by placing the gun to his own head and firing.
Dude, this is amazing! I can't wait for an official announcement for the auditions! I have been working on singing for years, and would love to try out!
Man I thought Say was awesome but this is chilling. Your way with words and lyrics is amazing. And I love the repeating theme of lists and just, ah man it's good!
This definitely has the haunted planning tones that I associate with musicals and makes me so sad and concerned. Amazing take on the list and the words flow beautifully together.
When Percival Fredrickstein von Mussel Kowalski de Rolo III was young, Lord and Lady Briarwood came to his home as slaughtered his entire family. He managed to escape and wandered across the continent for a time before he had a dream. In this dream a demon/shadow asked him to make a deal. The shadow demon (Orthax) would receive the souls of the people Percy got vengeance on and Percy would receive inspiration to build his first gun ‘The List’. It was the first gun in existence and had 6 barrels, with 1 name on each barrel: Silas Briarwood, Delilah Briarwood, Professor Anders, Captain Stonefell, Dr. Anna Ripley, and a blank barrel (later to have the name of Cassandra de Rolo).
I have fallen hard and fast back down the Critical Role hole, particularly in terms of Percy's storyline and I just keep coming back to this video! Do you plan on making any more pieces like this? I'm of the opinion that just about anything can make a great musical if done the right way, and this is such a great start in that kind of direction!! Thanks for sharing this!
God I love this song! I always find myself coming back to it! I wonder what the other members of Vox Machina, Mighty Nein, and Bell's Hells themes would be with your style!
I'm just gonna say it: Scanlan Shorthalt saved Vox Machina at least twice: 1) Counterspelling Vecna 2) More importantly, throwing away Percy's original gun, that had "The List" on it, into a vat of acid. That second choice, had it not been made, would have eventually turned Percy against the party. As Taliesin said at the End of Campaign Talks episode, had Scanlon not done that, after the first five names, there would have been five more. And five more. And five more. In this way, by throwing away the gun, Scanlan threw away the reason for his vengeance -- and saved Vox Machina in the process.
So I have no idea where to post this but this seems as good a place as any i had this idea for song from scandlan about an alternative time line where he got to use his wish to save Vax from the Raven Queen using his wish and the song would be called "I Wish" And it would start when she showed up to take Vax and slowly building up to the Ceshendo constantly referring to two words that will save everything and make everything work out and at after he reaches the Ceshendo he says simply "I Wish" And the rest of the song is him encanting his wish spell in true bardic form or even better a song called "For the Greater good" And it's about how he's torn between saving Vax and stopping the teleport spell in the final battle I would love that kind of song either one or even to be apart of making it happen you guys seem super talented and would love to see what you'll would be able to pull off with this concept
this sounds so cool, I was just doing homework and saw you posted a song. My friend siting next to me was was just like what's the name I want to listen to it to lol.
![Aiden Chan - "Sonata for Whitestone Castle (Percy's Theme)" - [Classical]](/img/n.gif)
Keyleth: "Raishan's at the top of my list."
Percy: "I don't recommend lists."
Campaign 1, Episode 70, 42:11. I spent more time than I would like to say finding that. Hope it helps someone out.
So you don't have to search: th-cam.com/video/YxWU4r-cLIY/w-d-xo.html
@@Jeremiah90526 You're a Hero
@@Jeremiah90526 THANK YOU
what episode?!
@@Polopony20. Just in the very slim chance that you never found it (and to help later viewers) - Episode 70, roughly 42 minutes and 30 seconds in.
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?
He was powerful in many ways
I feel like all he would have needed was some good distance and careful shot placement to make easy work of two or three of the party. It's not out of this world for that to have happened.
By all means Percy is built and set up to be a villain which is why hes such a cool character
I think there is a extremely low chance that he could have taken any of them out Grogs got too much health Vax has too much quick damage Scanlan’s too smart Vex has too many tactical advantages and Keyleth has too much power he’s just one pc I doubt he could’ve taken the party unless Matt went all in and buffed the hell out Perthax
Easily. He could have dissapeared and Talison would have constantly been building a sub story for Percy in the back ground. He would have used every angle, every advantage. He would have gathered mind breakers to lock down Grog, counter mages to fight Scanlin and Kealith, red herrings for Vex to observe, illusions to trick Pike.
He would have been the first to dispell Vax's haste. The first to focus on Pike with unrelenting force, which would trick Scanlin into making bad decisions. He would have isolated Kealith and let her desperation overwhelm her. He wouldn't be the first to capture Grog's mind but might have been the first to focus on simply putting Grog away to deal with at another time all together. He would've outright killed Trinket just to throw off Vexalia. He would have traveled to the demi-plane space that they keep referencing Kealith killed a kid by accident. The only wild card would be Talison's new character, likely Mollymauk or Clay.
He would have been the end of Vox Machina.
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.
get out of my brain :D That's what I was going for that!
:'D Well you depicted it perfectly, then!
This song is the best description of the painful obsession that almost consumed him. I can picture his eyes, cold and fixed on the task, his mind repeating names.
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.
*later in the series*
Keyleth: But she's highest on my list.
Percy:...I don't recommend lists.
He has grown so much
For awhile he was also the one that literally said if someone had to make a deal with a devil it would be him, because he didn't want any of his friends to and at the time felt his soul was already irredeemably lost so it didn't matter what fiendish entity took it.
@@jlokison Well he wasn't all that wrong, he basically went "The two of you can tear eachother into pieces fighting over my soul, have fun!" Honestly, he may have hoped that they tore it in two and destroyed it so neither devil nor demon would get the satisfaction of eternally tormenting him or any of his friends.
When his WHOLE family was named, that shook me.
That's the most Percy thing of this song IMHO, obsessive, repressed, full of power... This song deserved to be included in the animated series...
it takes a brave man to walk into darkness... it takes braver man to walk out
I feel it’s remarkably common to walk into darkness so many choose that path others have it chosen for them, it takes a truly strong person to walk out of it
I feel like that’s a Batman quote.
A man may leave the darkness whenever he wishes, all he must do is turn and walk away. Getting the darkness to leave him is another task altogether.
Percy didn't walk out. Scanlan turned on the light
and mad man go through and find the light again
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.
Yes! "I never saw his flaws as being half the sins that Taliesin does..." I agree with this so much. Thank you for putting that feeling into words.
@@MNcit The big one that always got me is they all seemed to make *such* a big deal about "guns bad because danger" when the perfect counterpoint to that is when they're arming citizens of whitestone to fight a *dragon* . Where else can you provide the sheer power equivalence to the common people in a setting with dragons and wizards? They're not there quite widely available enough yet, of course, but Percy set the wheels in motion for a more egalitarian society .
His motivation of Justice was corrupted by the demon dreams (and even then into, as I said before, a very relatable and fair Vengeance),but even in his darkest evil he accidentally founded a mitigating good.
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.
Animated series, take it or leave it.
Yes!
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.
"I cast Hex on myself."
-Percy
Wait did he actually ever say that?
I mean even if he didn't it's something he'd say, let's be honest
I believe he did so to dispel the demon from himself, no?
Well Scanlan through his gun in acid which got rid of him. Unless he appears later? I'm not done with the first campaign though, so he might.
@@cyakcn627 Oh, my sweet summer child... You have no idea.
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.
7 Years later and this still hits hard
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.
"Keep the Fury burning raw.
Reign on them destruction,
Unending shock and awe..."
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!
Wow, those are KILLER songs to be compared to. Thank you! (PS: ugh, accidental pun, lol)
I'd agree completely with this!!
Yep
I reeeeeally, really hope that Taliesin has seen this or at least will see it at some point. It's such a genious and perfect tribute to the darker side of his character, and also to the arguably best arc in the whole first campaign. From the first time I heard it, I had vivid visuals going on in my head from different moments of the show. I would so adore for someone to make an animated tribute of this. Music, lyrics, vocals - everything fits together flawlessly, just like the pieces of Percy's gun.
Was definitely getting Sweeney vibes from this, glad I'm not the only one. Haunting, beautiful, methodical
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...
That is incredible!!!!!! Thank you for telling me! Let me know how that goes!
this is an amazing song. i especially like the bit of percy listing out his family members, and the line 'suffer silently and smile'.
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.
Imagine this playing over the credits at the end of some of the animated series briarwood episodes
this song puts a sickening feeling in my stomach and in a good way. as i listen to this, i started to feel the emotions that Percy was going through and now i feel like i must put those sick people down for what they did. This was truly amazing and i hope you keep doing this
I really love how Percy always said 'a dream'. His life was destroy, he has nightmares all nights. But the contract was a dream for him. When meeting a demon is a dream, meh, his life sucks a little XD
I love this song because at the end of the day I dont know if these are Percy's thoughts or just Orthax driving him. Maybe it doesn't matter and it's both, but I love wondering. Thank you for this. Its simple, haunting, and beautiful.
With the show out now this song hits all over again. The moment I saw his gun light up in the Amazon show I had to come back to this song. So perfect!!
I've had this stuck in my head since the recent video announcing the extended voice cast for the animated series. Had to come back and give it another listen, and it's still so good. Easily my favorite fan piece from the first campaign by far. (It's just so raw and satisfying to sing to.)
I imagine a Bard playing this on the piano at a quiet tavern, after learning of Percy's story.
i cant stop listening to this, so good xD
i really hope that Taliesin has heard of this
VaanTD I'm just happy that the critter community is enjoying it. It seems like the cast only really see stuff when enough people reblog them enough. maybe tag him and tweet it? :)
@@FantomTangents hey, so.... Spotify? Any thoughts on putting this sort to stuff on Spotify? I need this.
i still listen to this after all this time and it still gives me the feels
This is... overwhelmingly brilliant. There are so many wonderful parts, but the listing of his family, and his trying to keep that grief just another list is phenomenal
And the venom you project into the final "...Ripley" is extraordinary
Are you thinking about asking the actor who played Percy in the Hamilton Cantata Pansophical to maybe perform this song? It would be amazing to hear his version of this! Love this song! You should be so happy with it
Melissa Ratchford
I second this. That would be awesome!
AAAAAAAH PLEASE MAKE THIS A THING!!! Seriously, Edgar Allen Joe is soooo good in the musical, in my opinion the best and most true to character performance of the entire cast. Sometimes, he really does sound like Taliesin. Hearing him sing this song would probably kill me, in the best way possible!
Musical Role or the Voice Machine, a Broadway tale of the heroes of Exandria.
I'm a big fan of "Voice Machine" or "Voice in the Machine" for an EP title :D
Makes sense, as the groups name literally means 'Voice of the Machine.'
Or, if you use a different and more obscure meaning, Unexpected Voices
*when you haven’t even seen the episode yet but don’t care cause this song is that awesome*
So good. So much power. Such a deep understanding of Percy's struggle. Love it.
When Tal was talking about forgiving Riply, he said that it took to long and by that time Vox Machina managed to heal him. Something about that in the moment character discussion made me all feel all of the feels.
Simply amazing! Thank you for sharing!! It's a beautiful work that seems to capture Percy perfectly.
This is so good! I can't listen to this enough. Percy has such a good backstory.
No matter how many times I listen to this masterpiece the awe never fades. Thank you, sincerely thank you.
I desperately need someone to make a fan video using this song and the animated series.
Loved the desperation you put into the vocals. Very Percy!
My family’s gone. I’ll not be free
Till I can use my steel to be
Their vengeance, be the monster
That they need.
Reminds me of my own character who slowly used a demon to gain more and more power to avenge his own family, and after the encounter he turned into a secondary boss fight.
Hello! Today is the release date of Vox Machina on Amazon Prime! We’ve just had episode 3 that adapts episodes 23-26ish with the Royal Dinner & VM’s first Briawood encounter! This song is immediately after and perfectly places into Percy’s mindset in both the D&D stream & tv show!
I want to see the musical this comes from! I can totally imagine a reprise of this after the Chroma Conclave, listing off the dragons he and Vox Machina to kill. There is always a List.
This is truly an amazing work of art and it makes me love my fellow Critters even more.
Had this song stuck in my head. Had to look it up again. This could most DEFINITELY be a part in a musical.
I know you didn't makes this for my birthday. But I think it's the best birthday gift ever.
Happy late birthday
Holy cow... this is amazing. I got chills from the lyrics and from the emotion behind the amazing performance.
This song has become one of my favorite critical role fan songs. Like as in my top five
Thank you! 😳
@@FantomTangents you're welcome! Percy is one of my favorite characters in the critical role campaigns!
4:16
Makes it sadder at the end as the names are listed off if you imagine Percy shooting each of them and then ending it off by placing the gun to his own head and firing.
This... This is a great mental picture, didn't occur to me
I found this by happenstance, and I love it. Thank you for this hauntingly beautiful piece.
Dude, this is amazing! I can't wait for an official announcement for the auditions! I have been working on singing for years, and would love to try out!
Now I want to do a Tal'dorei campaign with a Lawful Evil Percy as an antagonist.
That's not Percy . . . not anymore. . .
Great song! Would've been lovely to just hear 'Darling take off the mask' whispered at the end
Once again you've made something amazing!! Definitely looking forward to what you make in the future!
This feels exactly like something out of a critical role broadway show.
Man I thought Say was awesome but this is chilling. Your way with words and lyrics is amazing. And I love the repeating theme of lists and just, ah man it's good!
I like the way you say "shock & awe"
This definitely has the haunted planning tones that I associate with musicals and makes me so sad and concerned. Amazing take on the list and the words flow beautifully together.
We’ve gotten to the Briarwood arc in the animated series and I have returned to this song.
What a beautiful song. I love how you craft songs about Critical Role.
This is actually brilliant. I hope the cast gets to hear it.
The only way you could be this good is by sacrificing a small child to Orthax.
Just holy shit, fell in love with this and damn near teared up.
When you clicked when you say "critical role" but you've only watched Campaign 2 and have no idea what's going on...
No Mercy Percy is happening. Lord Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III of Whitestone is out for some diabolical revenge.
When Percival Fredrickstein von Mussel Kowalski de Rolo III was young, Lord and Lady Briarwood came to his home as slaughtered his entire family. He managed to escape and wandered across the continent for a time before he had a dream. In this dream a demon/shadow asked him to make a deal. The shadow demon (Orthax) would receive the souls of the people Percy got vengeance on and Percy would receive inspiration to build his first gun ‘The List’. It was the first gun in existence and had 6 barrels, with 1 name on each barrel: Silas Briarwood, Delilah Briarwood, Professor Anders, Captain Stonefell, Dr. Anna Ripley, and a blank barrel (later to have the name of Cassandra de Rolo).
I have fallen hard and fast back down the Critical Role hole, particularly in terms of Percy's storyline and I just keep coming back to this video! Do you plan on making any more pieces like this? I'm of the opinion that just about anything can make a great musical if done the right way, and this is such a great start in that kind of direction!! Thanks for sharing this!
2 years later still a fucking masterpiece, seriously.
This is so good holy heck! I wonder if Taliesin is aware of this masterpiece...
God I love this song! I always find myself coming back to it! I wonder what the other members of Vox Machina, Mighty Nein, and Bell's Hells themes would be with your style!
this song is FANTASTIC and you do a barely clinging to sanity Percy so well.
I'm just gonna say it:
Scanlan Shorthalt saved Vox Machina at least twice:
1) Counterspelling Vecna
2) More importantly, throwing away Percy's original gun, that had "The List" on it, into a vat of acid.
That second choice, had it not been made, would have eventually turned Percy against the party. As Taliesin said at the End of Campaign Talks episode, had Scanlon not done that, after the first five names, there would have been five more. And five more. And five more. In this way, by throwing away the gun, Scanlan threw away the reason for his vengeance -- and saved Vox Machina in the process.
I need that AU. Villain Percy is one of my absolute favorite What Ifs
it is 2019 and I still find myself coming back to this video
I don't know how many times I've listen to this. I get goose bumps every single damn time.
Is there a way to get the sheet music for this? Vocal or piano, or both? Please?
I'm back again from my next CR rewatch. still love this!
I'm not sure how I'm only just now finding this, and stumbling across it in a Google Image search, no less, but I am so glad I did. Great work!
welcome! and don't forget to check out the amazing artist for the piece: Elaine Ryan: twitter.com/elaineryanart/status/772213548789313541
All these years later and I still love this. I hope this becomes a youtube hit.
I'm currently going through the first campaign (~E75ish) when I came across this song and I'm absolutely obsessed. It's so good. Amazing job.
This is absolutely beautiful!! Keep up the amazing work!!
Man it's been a while since I've heard this one. Still hits so hard. Great job
This brought a tear to my eye for Percy. So well done!
Wow.....I'm utterly stunned. I can't believe how fucking amazing this is. Just wow. Wow.
I'm absolutely in love with this song, thank you
oMY GOD THIS IS??? AMAZING!!!! :O
dude i want this fucking series as a musical it would work sO WELL
... im at ep 18 and this gave me goosebumps .. ill come back after ep 24
god, this is so good!!! wanna try and memorize this song now i love dramatic stuff like this
ugh it's so gooood
So I have no idea where to post this but this seems as good a place as any i had this idea for song from scandlan about an alternative time line where he got to use his wish to save Vax from the Raven Queen using his wish and the song would be called "I Wish" And it would start when she showed up to take Vax and slowly building up to the Ceshendo constantly referring to two words that will save everything and make everything work out and at after he reaches the Ceshendo he says simply "I Wish" And the rest of the song is him encanting his wish spell in true bardic form or even better a song called "For the Greater good" And it's about how he's torn between saving Vax and stopping the teleport spell in the final battle I would love that kind of song either one or even to be apart of making it happen you guys seem super talented and would love to see what you'll would be able to pull off with this concept
Why do you have to twist my heartstrings like that
Yesss I'm so glad you're making more amazing fan music! Vox Musical will happen one day.
this sounds so cool, I was just doing homework and saw you posted a song. My friend siting next to me was was just like what's the name I want to listen to it to lol.
bloodyXsaw lol I'm the friend sitting next to her and I really like it you did a very good job! I actually just subscribe 😊 and I'm glade i did
bloodyXsaw I loves you twin and I'm happy to have you in my life thank you for showing me this 😊😊and being there for me
I got goosebumps, the song is great
This song makes me want a Critical Role Briarwood Arc musical
Well, we got an animated series.
I can’t wait to see season 3 trailer 🤩🤩🤩
Oh fuck, this is so good. You're amazing!!!
Now I want Critical Role the Musical... lololol
I'm too obsessed with this. How haven't I seen it earlier??
Gosh I am so glad I found this! It's amazing!!!
this would be such a good song for a musical
The animation adaptation had brought me back
This is honestly beautiful and amazing and I love it so much!!
This is fantastic absolutely fantastic. I feel it really captures the moment.
I'm quite late but I'm here because of the legend of vox machina and I gotta say you nailed it. I have nothing more to add to what's been said.
I know i'm real late to this, but the way you say, "Ripley," right at the end of the song gives me chills.
I love this song so much. I come back and listen to it any time I'm missing Percy (...which is often).
So damn beautiful I created a whole new playlist for it. Anyone know if Taliesin has heard this yet? Because he needs to.