Prompt: You enter a cavern lined with glowing fungi. Each one you touch emits a different pitch. If you play them in a certain order, a stone rolls away from the wall, revealing the way forward. How do you figure out the puzzle? What music will you make?

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Alkestis knew that there was something more behind the round stone in front of her. While it looked like something she should be able to just roll, it didn’t move. It was unusually flat on the front and back as well. It sat in a groove on the ground and she could see some sort of mechanism just barely visible. Turns out it was being held in place by a wedge that came up out of the ground in the groove, preventing it from rolling. If she could get it to go away she could get the stone to move.

Looking at the stone, she realized something was carved into the front, faded but visible.

“Play the song of the lady in green sleeves…” she read, “What in the world?”

Looking around she realized there were odd mushrooms all lined up. Approaching them she sat down and tapped on one with her hoove. A gentle ringing sang out from the mushrooms.

“Oh, I have to play a song? Lady in the green sleeves… Greensleeves?” she debated.

The courser knew of a song called Greensleeves but didn’t understand the lady part of it. She has never known it to have any lyrics, but maybe she just never heard anyone sing the lyrics if it had them.

Fiddling around, she figured out the tone for each mushroom. Then she began to play. She played slowly, and a little choppily, trying to remember which mushroom was which tone in hopes of not messing up. Eventually she came to the end of the chorus and heard a clunk. Looking over, the stone rolled by itself to reveal the tunnel beyond.

“Thank goodness! If I was wrong then I had no other ideas.”

With that, the liver chestnut courser was on her way one more, deeper into the Overgrown Caverns.