interrupted-transmission

Quik-Gro can make your desert a rainforest in a matter of hours.
Plant your seeds, scatter Quik-Gro on the burning sands, water, sit back and wait.

The land outside the city perimeters is contaminated. The consequence of an industrial accident. There are a number of anomalies related to the contaminated land.
Life continues there as normal. Rabbits, feral cats, foxes, packs of stray dogs, rats, mice, frogs and toads have all been seen beyond the fences, alongside every variety of native bird, crows and gulls being the most common. Insect life is inferred by the presence of insectivores and plants pollinated by insects. Butterflies have also been reported.
The area around the fences is under heavy surveillance and is patrolled by armed policemen. No successful attempt to penetrate the fence has ever been recorded.
A network of well-maintained roads criss-crosses the zone.
While the zone was incontestably a site of heavy industry (the ruins of power stations and factories still haunt the landscape of mud and lakes in craters) it remain unclear how one accident could have resulted in the fatal contamination of the whole zone, an area remember, which virtually encircles the entire city, a belt many miles wide and of prodigious circumference. The authorities refuse to release any information pertaining to the accident.



Children rush to the place where the Quik-Gro was scattered. They grab a branch of a still growing tree and squeal with excitement as it carries them higher and higher into the canopy, growing thicker, longer and stronger the whole time. When the tree is at its height the children attempt to clamber down through the branches, jumping to the ground from the lowest one.