Fallin' Down Music Part 3

The Fallin' Down game has fallen down. According to Conscience, the players have hit a wall on level 5/6, with the Mind Flayers now controlling the entire floor, blocking access to the rest of the dungeon. 

Old, semi-related artwork by me

The most powerful characters died in a full-floor brawl with the squids, taking all their earned experience with them and leaving the survivors underleveled, with few opportunities to advance to the power level they need to get through (Conscience is using the 5E system, but with treasure as XP).

(One of the dead characters was basically the Robilar of the group, pulling in vast amounts of loot on solo adventures in timeslots where the rest of the group couldn't make it. It's cool to see a 5E game replicate the first D&D campaign ever run)

The remaining players are looking for a way forward that lets them skip the Illithids entirely, or somehow even the odds of success in combat.

I expected this to happen on Floor 2, with the hundreds of ghouls blocking the players and ripping them to shreds. Instead, the opposite happened. Floor 2 (and to a lesser extent Floor 3) has been a continued source of XP for the group, as they unlock hidden rooms filled with additional monsters and treasure.

Conscience suggested the following tracks

I introduced a new track for the illithid encounter, since Lakebed Temple didn't feel right - it has kind of become the ghost theme at this point (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6Jv53y1Dw)

You might also mention this as a track I've been using as theme for the sphinx: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzi7RAUnLBI)
It's funny though, I started out using this for her: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLfvt6CZCY)

zomner (author of the floor below the Illithid meatgrinder, which the players haven't reached yet) suggested the following

For the elf village (https://youtu.be/wjmkpUJljQI)
For the mill gnome (https://youtu.be/zq6KnILABy4) 

For trolls or other creepy magic (https://youtu.be/l8O9BNTl004)