This week’s guest is psychedelic indie-rock musician Levi Nunez of Loot the Body. We talk about his music, The Barrier Peaks Song Book (a concept album based on Expedition to the Barrier Peaks), his musical #Dungeon23 project where he’s writing one song a month based on other creator’s #Dungeon23 projects, including “Ricksanthemum Garden” based on Mad Dungeon episode 206 w/ Brendan LaSalle (Goodman Games, DCC), his collaboration with artist Michael Hsiung on Skate Wizards RPG (based on Ben Milton’s Maze Rats), and his latest EP called +5EP contains the songs “Black Pudding,” “The Goblin Way,” “The King of Elfland’s Daughter,” “Roll Another One” and “The Necromancer.”
Follow Levi: at Bandcamp – YouTube – IG – Twitter – Mastodon
Changarro: This sacred temple is a simple, hole-in-the-wall restaurant has picnic tables, a table of condiments (salsas, peppers, crema, etc…), is covered by a tent with strings of lights and has an opening in the ceiling to fly out of. Dungeon denizen skateboarders sit at tables eating hunks that they cut off of the God Burrito. They know not to order a burrito.
An Aztec-style mural is actually the secret recipe codex. The sacred 7-layers are cleverly embedded within the image of a person riding an uber god burrito wurm over sand dunes. In front of the mural is a small shrine to the God Burrito with santeria candles, food offerings and some coins. A modron mariachi band plays ranchera, giving you musical clues if you’re on the right track or not.
The God Burrito: In the center is the proprietor, a 30-foot godhead burrito wurm with short arms, making burritos with his little hands, drooling salsa, and wearing a bloody crown of thorns. He’s taking orders on a raised dais, behind a circular counter with dozens of ingredients on it so it’s easy for him to reach.
The great burrito swap: Build the sacred 7-layer burrito and it becomes your sentient burrito steed and all curses are lifted. Choose a size before you order to determine the size of your sentient burrito steed familiar. Sizes: small (skateboard), medium (horse), large (sandworm). When a correct ingredient is used, its image illuminates on the mural. Build a burrito with the wrong ingredients and you become the cursed God Burrito. It opens up its outer tortilla, pulls you in, and spits out the previous proprietor, Trejo. Trejo will immediately order the sacred burrito and fly out of room on his new steed.
The sacred 7-layer ingredients: myconids (mushroom folk), vegepygmies (mold folk), shredded behir beef, salsa verde made with radioactive tomatillos, black pudding, beholder eyes, chalky cilantro stems.
Other ingredients: french fries, white rice, spanish rice, black beans, pinto beans, refried beans, grilled chicken, ground beef, carnitas, carne asada, lengua, pollo asado, chorizo, barbacoa, al pastor, sautéed onions and peppers, guacamole, cheese, lettuce, shredded cabbage, lime, pico de gallo.
Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Levi Nunez
Appendix N: Aladdin, Skate Wizards, Dune, Taco Bell, Beast Master, Krull, Breath of the Wild, Trejo’s Tacos.
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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Mystic Punks: Crypt written by Anthony Maloro. Cover Illustration by Sally Cantrino. Layout and Illustrations by Jay Domingo. Editing by Jarrett Crader. Dear Don Qui by Nathan Tersteeg.
Using the Mystic Punks Quick Start Rules, you’ll be grave-robbing at Snowvale Cemetery, looking for The Majick Book of Licar hidden in the Hemlocke Family Crypt. Will you stop a small, but deadly, group of Licar worshiping fanatics from ushering in a demonic age of darkness and pain?
Available July 26th for Exalted Funeral’s Endless Summoner Sale.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We’ll be sharing a table with Brain Colon’s Creature Curation.
Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral, with art from our guest Brian Colon of Vast Grimm. This is the true story – of you visiting a planet that’s also a living god – trapped in a time loop – working together to stop a violent demagogue from committing deicide – to find out what happens when people stop being polite – and start getting healed: The Heal World. BUY IT HERE.
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Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!
We chatted about doing this on our Old-School Essentials episode, and so, we’re really doing it! The contest will be open for submissions through August 17th 2023. You may submit a Dwarf you’ve already drawn, or draw a new one. You must be the author and owner of the Dwarf Drawing, and be okay with us sharing it along with your name on our social media. You can submit any kind of Dwarf you like. Warhammer mohawk Dwarves, Gimli’s, Silly named Snow White Dwarves, Heck! Even Dark Sun Mul (Dwarf Human Hybrid) will be acceptable!
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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.
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Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.
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