You've heard the riddle. Now play the musical!

It could have been anyone who suffocated Ms. Birch. But you do know that Mr. Spruce was all to happy to move in beside her moldering stump. That was, until his mysterious death in a fire. You can't help but notice how quickly Ms. Birch's daughter put a sapling through his charred remains...

SUSPENSE! ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION! MURDER! SOIL STABILIZATION! ARSON! ALTITUDINAL ZONATION! THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE AND DEATH IN GRAND OPERATIC TRADITION!

Now, you can take part in the HIGH DRAMA of the WILD WILD WOODS, without sitting around to watch some trees for 10,000 years—instead, the trees have come up to speed with the shortest attention spans of our busy internet age. Hold on to your seats, because these babies got rocket engines. And they sing.

An open-source cellular-automaton-powered experiment in Godot and C++.