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Ergot Your Tongue?

from Under the Sycamore

October 30th, 2024
9 tracks
22:33
Under the Sycamore
Under the Sycamore
Ergot Your Tongue?
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Ergot Your Tongue?
Waldonian Sounds
The Argot Ergot is indeed a potent stuff. Harvested from malted grain, the spores of this fungus are known to bestow extraordinary communicative powers. Indeed, as the circle of apprentice brewers and mages begin their ritual dance, sounds of tongues from near and far can be heard. Today’s strain, it seems, may be one of the most powerful yet. The potions it produces may fetch a small fortune among dignitaries and diplomats as far away as Rixton in the Vale and Pernost to the far south. When Goodie finishes brewing this batch, she will have to immediately dispatch her speediest of messenger moles to deliver word to her whole network of couriers and vendors. Such a rare potion cannot be produced just any day…
4:10

For this year's October dungeon shamble, I have composed nine tracks harvested from the gnarliest logs and filtered from the swampiest bogs. Fuzzy overdrive pervades and reverb soaks through these spore-filled grooves and basidiomycelial beats. Come for the dungeon fuzz, stay for the fungal funk, and watch you don't catch the dancing plague...

Prompt Constraints:
Total tracks: 8-11
Total runtime: 15-23 minutes
Style: Halloween/spooky/pumpkin synth
Special: Add at least a little bit of distortion/fuzz/overdrive to each instrument
Theme: A witch needs subjects to test and document the effects of different fungi as alchemical ingredients.

Side Infest
1. In her Hut Beneath the Old Sycamore, Goodie Grizzlecap Grinds her Grain (Can You Believe this Smut?!)
2. Ergot Your Tongue?
3. A Puff of Pink Mold
4. Made From the Finest of Nodules (In the Gall of it All)
5. Bloop!

Side Ingest
6.Culinary Side Effects (How Green is Your Herb Garden?)
7. Morel Miracle
8. Waiting for Estragon
9. Sing a Song for Cider Vinegar

Credits

All music collected from the County Casterbreeland, in the vicinity of Goodie Grizzlecap's hut past the edge of town.

Cover art by the Bard of Fenmoss with help from several gracious Pixabay contributors.
Many thanks to the fine folks of /r/dungeon synth for organizing and participating in the Shamble.