# Caves Vaulted (The Patient Dark) — take C2, warm piano + encounter (v3)

`caves-vaulted-v3c2` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Re-spin of the winner caves-vaulted-v3c — same identity (A dorian, the VAULT motif, the slow swaying-vault LILT the owner chose). PIANO: the lead is now struckPiano with tone WARM (a real struck-hammer upright, patient/spacious-dark — the brief's lean), replacing the old plucked feltPiano; caveCelesta stays demoted to the answering glint so take C's lead/echo timbre swap is kept. The bed is unchanged: hollow-fifth pads over a darkDrone foundation with a long GONG bloom at pattern boundaries and the dorian sixth (F#) as the once-per-phrase open door; the VAULT core is stated on a stretched 5-rows/beat grid so its reaches breathe with long rests. ACTIVITY now layers cleanly with the real piano: L1 = the warm-piano VAULT statement + ONE near celesta glint; L2 ADDS the second wider/later celesta echo trail AND a soft MOVING counter-voice (warm pad) that walks a third/sixth below each reach — new material, not the lead turned up. DANGER is re-built as abstract ENCOUNTER music (corrections 2 & 3): the old literal flood/rockfall foley (drips 'quickening,' a 'water gong swell') is gone. danger1 = real unease — a slow insistent low war-pulse (deepBoom on a steady grid) over a brooding low drone that moves A→G→E to darken the bed; something is here. danger2 = a true intensity JUMP — a driving stoneTom + snareDrum backbeat groove under an URGENT, compressed VAULT ostinato on the celesta (the long look turned anxious), denser and faster, with the D1 wrap packed tighter so the loop lands hot. It is combat/chase energy, not danger1 louder, and depicts no literal threat. Fully diatonic A dorian throughout — no chromaticism; dread by proximity, intensity, and drive.
