This week’s music selection from the VR game Escaping Wonderland is the second of three bouncy “mine exploration” themes. (Meaning a cave where precious minerals are found, not a Gollum-style grammar error.)

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This cue from the Escaping Wonderland soundtrack introduces a bouncy little theme for Molly’s exploration of Underland. I think there’s a law that says that sneaking about requires pizzicato strings in musical accompaniment, and I am not one to break that law.

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This week’s music selection from the soundtrack of Escaping Wonderland accompanies the gruff-but-kind supervisor of a mineshaft staffed by sentient light bulbs. (As happens frequently in the game, there’s a metaphor at work here.) The music conveys a benevolent kind of surliness in an environment rich with dark humor.

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This music from Escaping Wonderland accompanies the player firing a slingshot with fruit ammunition in a cave. For reasons known only to my subconscious, I composed for marimba and woodblock.

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