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So my gaming group will be starting our first Curse of the Crimson Throne game in about 3 weeks. I'm going to be playing a Shelynite Bard, and he's built with a high Perform: Oratory. I wanted to take advantage of that, and so I went about finding a song or two I could use over the course of the game.
I know very little about the story of CotCT, so please stay spoiler-free.
Here is a little more about my character if anyone is curious. Zach, stay out! Yes you, the yeti. Anyone else who ISN'T in our group, please read on. It will make my motivations a little more clear.
I'm not going to be a Shelynite bard at all. I will be playing a Hidden Priest of Milani, though the bit about the high Perform: Oratory is true. He is a Herald Caller/Hidden Priest, yes, with GM permission, and even the party thinks I am playing a bard. I am running with a Dervish Dancer, so they know I won't be able to use bardic music. Obviously it will come out eventually that I am actually a cleric, but it will be a fun ride along the way. Any suggestions on how to keep up the act are appreciated. I'll be taking a trait to make Bluff a class skill, and keeping it maxed, as well as using every roleplay opportunity to come off as a Shelynite.
Here is the song. I've already made a few changes to it, though obviously I will need to change the names of the Americans to my adventuring party when I know what their characters are named. The names Jesus and Moses could be subbed out for Golarion-specific prophets, for example. Most of the song fits already.
Please help me figure out a few appropriate changes to the song, namely anything that doesn't fit. I really want this to fit well, so when I spring it on my fellow players it works as seamlessly as possible. I bolded the changes I made.
My Shot Lyrics [HAMILTON)
I am not throwing away my shot!
I am not throwing away my shot!
Hey yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot!
I’m ‘a get a scholarship to the Acadamae
I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word, I drop knowledge!
I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
Tryin’ to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable
Only nineteen but my mind is older
These Korvosan streets get colder, I shoulder
Ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage
I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish
I walk these streets famished
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell out the name
I am the—
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
A-L-E-X-A-N-D
E-R—we are—meant to be…
[HAMILTON]
A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile, the Chels keep s+$$tin’ on us endlessly
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Then King Stirge turns around, runs a spending spree
He ain’t ever gonna set his descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century
Enter me!
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
(He says in parentheses)
[HAMILTON]
Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually, you’ll see my ascendancy
[HAMILTON]
And I am not throwing away
My shot
I am not throwing away
My shot
Hey yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot
[LAURENS]
My shot!
My shot!
And I’m not throwing away my shot.
[HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot
It’s time to take a shot!
[LAFAYETTE]
I dream of life without a monarchy
The unrest in Jeggare will lead to ‘onarchy?
‘Onarchy? How you say, how you say, ‘anarchy?’
When I fight, I make the other side panicky
With my—
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[MULLIGAN]
Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice
And I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis
I’m joining the rebellion cuz I know it’s my chance
To socially advance, instead of sewin’ some pants!
I’m gonna take a—
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[LAURENS]
But we’ll never be truly free
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
You and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in
On a stallion with the first Shoanti battalion
Have another—
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[BURR]
Geniuses, lower your voices
You keep out of trouble and you double your choices
I’m with you, but the situation is fraught
You’ve got to be carefully taught:
If you talk, you’re gonna get shot!
[HAMILTON]
Burr, check what we got
Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot
Laurens, I like you a lot
Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ the pot...
What are the odds the Gods would put us all in one spot
Poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!
Oh, am I talkin’ too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I’ll make y’all proud
[LAURENS]
Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE]
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot
[LAURENS]
Ev’rybody sing:
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Hey!
Whoa!
Wooh!!
Whoa!
Ay, let ‘em hear ya!
Let’s go!
I said shout it to the rooftops!
Said, to the rooftops!
Come on!
Come on, let’s go!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
MULLIGAN]
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Yea!
[COMPANY]
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Yea!
[LAURENS]
Rise up!
When you’re living on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that he’s gotta rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
[LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE]
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
Rise up!
[COMPANY]
Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Rise up!
[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When’s it gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it comin’, do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I never thought I’d live past twenty
Where I come from some get half as many
Ask anybody why we livin’ fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last, that’s plenty
Scratch that
This is not a moment, it’s the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers with
Something to prove went?
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
We roll like Moses, claimin’ our promised land
And? If we win our independence?
Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin’
But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’
I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’
We need to handle our financial situation
Are we a nation of states? What’s the state of our nation?
I’m past patiently waitin’. I’m passionately
Smashin’ every expectation
Every action’s an act of creation!
I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow
[HAMILTON AND COMPANY]
And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/
LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
We’re gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!
We’re gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!
We’re gonna
[HAMILTON]
Time to take a shot!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
Time to take a shot!
Time to take a shot!
Take a shot!
Shot!
Shot!
A-yo it’s
Time to take a shot!
Time to take a shot!
And I am—
[ENSEMBLE]
Not throwing away my shot
Not throwing away my shot
We’re gonna
Rise up!
Rise up!
Rise up!
Rise up!
Rise up!
Rise up!
Ri— ri— ri—
Time to take a shot!
Time to take a shot!
And I am—
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
Not throwin’ away my—
[COMPANY]
Not throwin’ away my shot!
Feel free to critique away; I'm curious what you think about this idea.
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Let me see what I can do, as spoiler free as possible.
First off - I'm a huge fan of Hamilton, and I've made it a personal challenge to try to quote every line of it somewhere in my Hell's Rebels game. It's natural there, and while I think it'll work here too, the rebellion theme is more muted in Crimson Throne.
OK, that said, we need to dig into your character. My Shot's the I Want song for Alex, and so it sets up who he is and what he wants. It also serves as an I Want song for Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan, so I figure it's probably a good way to introduce the motivations of the rest of your party, and why they want to take down Lamm! Of course, we don't know that, but we can at least get your reason down. What's his story? Why is he out to kill Gaedren Lamm?