content: Add The Zone

content/the-zone.md

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+title = "The Zone"
+template = "the-zone.html"
+date = "2025-06-12"
+updated = "2025-06-12"
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+
+## Broken Gate
+
+The gravel road passes along a rusty fence, charged with preventing passage
+into the large stretch of land, with dry grass and thorny bushes.
+Neither are very good at their jobs though.
+The road isn’t maintained, and one couldn’t pass there comfortably with a road
+bike.
+A gravel bike, or a mountain bike would be a much better choice.
+As for the fence, there are numerous holes at the bottom, letting foxes and
+deers pass freely.
+Besides, the lock on the gate has been cut done for a long time, and it is now
+wide open.
+Under the blue sky, with the faintest traces of clouds, it is quite an
+invitation to step out of the road, and go exploring.
+
+## Brown Shack
+
+A couple hundred meters from the [broken gate](#broken-gate) stands a small
+wooden cabin.
+The paint isn’t fresh, but the colour hasn’t entirely disappeared yet.
+It’s a rusty brown and it pairs nicely with the greyish wood seen below.
+Speaking of, there’s also an apple tree, growing a couple meters from the
+shack.
+The apples are not yet ripe.
+They could be a nice snack in autumn.
+
+## Fendrex Center
+
+North of Avenville, in the industrial park near the [Great Ridge
+supermarket](#great-ridge-supermarket) is where Fendrex had once established a
+minor plastic injection factory.
+It was once used to produce various designs, from beach toys to car
+accessories.
+Business has stopped decades ago, and after sitting unused for a while, a few
+families have finally moved in.
+They’ve repurposed the office rooms as bedrooms, and the large area, which
+once housed the production lines, has been partitioned into several communal
+spaces with sheets of fabric.
+Liam Ashfalls is the latest to have come upon this place.
+He’s a traveller, a ranger who roams the Zone, bringing the latest news and
+tales to those he meets.
+In exchange for food and a place to live, he’s participating in the daily
+labour here.
+There’s meals to cook, laundry to make, floors to sweep and a roof garden to
+tend.
+This suits Liam well.
+While doing these chores, he gets to talk to the inhabitants, both sharing his
+knowledge and learning more.
+Auntie Carol, who’s lived in the city all her life, tells him a lot about the
+history of the neighbourhood.
+She has always known it as an industrial place.
+However, when she was young, it was mostly a patchwork of small tenements and
+factories.
+However, during the rise of the conglomerates, as many companies merged or
+absorbed smaller ones, the factories grew, and bought the tenements to
+demolish them and make space for their business.
+Carol had to move elsewhere, but she found her way back as a Human Resource
+Manager, first for Globalia, then for a few others.
+She developed a bad cough then.
+Datacenter grew in computing power, straining the aging power grid.
+The council did several overhaul, but never fast enough for the tech giants.
+In the end, they installed gas turbines, mostly illegally without due permit.
+These operated in the cheapest way possible, with no filter, and no air
+quality control.
+Stable bribes ensured they were never investigated.
+Fortunately, one too many crises had seen the era of monopolies come to an
+end, and with it, the slow rewilding of the area.
+
+## Great Ridge Supermarket
+
+Once in a while, the Supermarket in Great Ridge had been a place teeming with
+people during the day, and utterly desert at night.
+Now, it’s always deserted.
+It’s not without reason, as it is one of the most dangerous place of Fendrex.
+An <abbr title="Autonomous Medium Breacher">AMB</abbr>-48b, a robot equipped with a small fusion reactor is still following
+orders to clear the area.
+While it’s contractor, Qualis, has long since ceased existing, due to a
+technical glitch, the orders couldn’t be cancelled.
+The AMB had killed every insurgent in the building in a matter of hours, but
+Qualis couldn’t get it to stop.
+While Qualis operators should have been classified as friends, and allowed to
+manually intervene, it seemed like a localized <abbr title="ElectroMagnetic
+Pulse">EMP</abbr> had damaged its fine electronics, and it appears than AMB
+now consider any human as being a foe.
+
+## A Lengthy Tree
+
+Below the horizon, where ends meet beets, lie the greatest of all.
+He Who Is Yet To Be Named, Hero of the Alpharion, Megalus Altimor Exemplar.
+Yet he lives, and few have seen a sight more bitter and strange.
+Therefore we should focus on earning the right to wear earings made of glass.
+Indeed large machine language models have been developed to be not of sort,
+but of matter.
+What if we could have it with fun ?
+It would certainly be an interesting choice of words.
+Nobody knows whether the half time of length has any pike installed in the
+poster.
+

sass/the-zone.scss

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+html {
+  background-color: #010101;
+  color: #ffeedd;
+}

templates/includes/list-pages.html

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     <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/buttons">Buttons</a></li>
     <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/ideas">Ideas</a></li>
     <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/project-spg">PROJECT SPG</a></li>
+    <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/the-zone">The Zone</a></li>
   </ul>

templates/the-zone.html

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+{% import "macros/opengraph.html" as opengraph_macros %}
+
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+
+{% block stylesheet %}
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ config.base_url }}/the-zone.css">
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block head_extra %}
+{{ opengraph_macros::opengraph(title=page.title, url=page.permalink, content=page.content, type="website", image=config.base_url ~ "/img/project-spg/%5BMCS-003%5D%20Window%20to%20the%20Fire.png") }}
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block content %}
+
+<header>
+  <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
+  <nav>
+    {% include "includes/list-pages.html" %}
+  </nav>
+</header>
+
+<div id="main">
+
+  {{ page.content |safe }}
+
+</div>
+
+{% include "includes/footer.html" %}
+{% endblock content %}