Speed of growth isn't the only thing that's odd about the Dragon Valley vines. They're, for lack of a better word, hungry. They'll burrow into the ground, for hundreds of yards, if necessary, and emerge in a new spot. If they find another vine — say by snaking underground across the property and into another vineyard — Dragon Valley vines will strangle and replace those vines. If they find water, they'll drain it dry. And visitors have noticed that there don't seem to be too many insects, or even small animals, at the Dragon Valley compound...
—Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Subsidiaries: A Guide to Pentex
After the duplicates took over, these weird, fungus-like growths started popping up in the cities, covering everything. It's bad enough they replace us, but now they have to go and remake the landscape?
—"Visages — Post-Apocalypse," The End of the World: Alien Invasion
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The end of the Earth began in the autumn of 1933. It was first observed in the jungles of the Philippines, but quickly spread to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and India. By the end of that year, it was in Australia and Africa. By the autumn of the next, it was everywhere. No one of that era had the tools or the knowledge to understand what was happening. It was described as a virus, a plague, a kind of strange new mutation, or a punishment from God.
