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A Puff of Pink Mold

from Under the Sycamore

October 30th, 2024
9 tracks
22:33
Under the Sycamore
Under the Sycamore
A Puff of Pink Mold
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A Puff of Pink Mold
Waldonian Sounds
nhale of the spores. Exhale all doubt. No greater is the clarity of mind than one can obtain from the pink woodland mold that grows on the husks of fallen Arkwood trees on the mountain slopes of northern Casterbreeland. Goodie Grizzlecap doesn’t walk quite so far or fast as she used to, so scrapings of this silken fuzz most often arrive in baskets brought by caravaneers in her employ. Today her stock is running low, but it should be enough to put the latest batch of apprentices through their paces…
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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.