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Under the Sycamore
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Culinary Side Effects (How Green is Your Herb Garden?)

from Under the Sycamore

October 30th, 2024
9 tracks
22:33
Under the Sycamore
Under the Sycamore
Culinary Side Effects (How Green is Your Herb Garden?)
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Culinary Side Effects (How Green is Your Herb Garden?)
Waldonian Sounds
With rapt gaze and wide-casting hands, Goodie strews the broth with herbs as a pair of apprentices frantically rip and chop to keep up with her relaxed yet blistering pace. The broth rolls and seething steam bears vapors laden with sage and spring savory. Strains of fennel, hyssop, and rosemarine sing to the senses under lavender notes and spearmint. Another apprentice bustles through the door bearing bushels of thyme and kingsweed. Dill fronds adorn his visage as he peers over the piles of freshly-picked herbs. “Is this enough, miss? We've been through the garden three times now,” He asks, mildly exasperated. “Almost,” Goodie replies. “One more trip should do. We just need one more herb now, and I know just the one…”
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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.

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