# Fungal Haven v3a — Velvet Glow (warm soft house, the coziest bed)

`fungal-haven-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A is the FAITHFUL realization of the row: WARM SOFT HOUSE, E♭ major, 72 BPM — the coziest bed in the catalog. Round warm-pad chords (a gentle I–vi–IV–V world: Ebmaj9 · Cm9 · Abmaj7 · Bb, with an Fm7 in the cadence) with a slow two-note inner rock so standing still already cradles, a gentle sub on the roots, and a soft struckPiano (tone WARMEST — the cosiest extreme, intimate and dark) doubling the chord root low: the hearth ember struck under the pads. The MELODIC lead is the kalimba (the row's named lullaby voice, the patch that ties this sanctuary back to the meadow home), stating the HEARTH round — a gentle rock 3-5-6-5-3 then a 2-1 settle onto the tonic (the only motif family that fully cadences, because rest is its meaning); per §7.2 the fungal instance AUGMENTS the tail ×2 so the settle stretches long — the hearth found, improbably, underground, in no hurry to resolve. Activity L1 (ch4-5) is that kalimba lullaby + its own soft-pluck echo. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS new material, not volume: a sustained warm-pad counter-voice a third/sixth below AND a gentle rocking kalimba arpeggio underneath — the lullaby harmonized and the cradle filled out. Danger is the SPORE BLOOM, benign urgency that says 'leave soon,' never 'run screaming.' Danger L1 (ch8-9) is the lullaby gone apprehensive: a soft `thip` (puffball release) on a slow pulse over a darkening warm PEDAL of the tonic E♭ (the design note's retired 'spore-haze' rendered as a pitched held tone, not a noise bed) with a sparse low kalimba fragment of the round, hushed. Danger L2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump that stays warm: the thips MULTIPLY into a dense quickening cluster, a soft warm-pad pulse doubles beneath with a gentle kick heartbeat, all at a slightly faster danger-section tempo (84 BPM) — density and a quickening pulse, NOT danger1 with the fader up. Dread is abstract and benign throughout: no chromatic darkening, no literal foley of spore-clouds/wind/air (noise appears only as the struck one-shot thips). Fully diatonic E♭ major.
