Overgrowth

The NightPromo, The Night

Have you ever heard of the Kudzu plant? It’s a parasitic vine that grows about a foot a day, reaching about a hundred feet when fully mature.

It was originally an ornamental plant that was used to provide shade to the shacks in the Groves, but it became much more insidious. They’d latch onto their support beams before becoming matted, tearing the domiciles apart under their vice like grip.

The vines nearly wrecked every home in that level, with some of them looking like bombed out buildings left half standing. It was called “The Vine that Almost Ate the Groves” for that reason.

It’s almost as if the Kudzu seeks out the most powerful and stable parts of a shack to latch itself onto, coiling around it until the weight becomes too much to bear, destroying the foundation right there.

Much like that weed, Narcissa latched herself around the legs of the strongest structure in Arcadia currently with Zeus. Before then, however, she infested the Uprising in an attempt to undermine his power.

During that reign of terror, she brought about multiple deaths that didn’t need to occur. First in the Red Light District, where she had a hand in setting off the bomb that completely leveled it.

Her movement hadn’t fully matured yet, but her vines were still able to coil around the bomb and set it off. Many monsters might’ve met their maker then, but so did several innocent people just looking to earn enough credits to survive. One of them being my mother.

Then, when she invaded OSW and her followers began to fail her, she caved their heads in with a bat. Despite being nothing but loyal to her and her cause, she was still a weed that was wrapped around their foundations and pulling them apart by the support beams.

Any movement with her as a prominent member is doomed to fail, as the first Uprising demonstrated. If she isn’t killing everyone that could make a good ally for the cause, she’s being a nepotism wife that uses Zeus’s power for her own benefit. Fitting for a Kudzu plant, isn’t it?

You’ve done a lot of damage to Arcadia, Narcissa. So much, in fact, that you’ve been called “The Woman that Almost Ate Arcadia” by some of the Seekers. Your insatiable appetite for power has seen you nearly cause society to fall apart before this war even broke out.

It’s only a matter of time before you tear apart everything your husband’s built too. From the Corporation to the Pantheon, your involvement spells the end for the Preservationists.

All because you can’t help but destroy what you grow attached to, like the Kudzu you are.

You’re doomed, Narcy. Either Zeus realizes what a weed you are and gets one of his more loyal soldiers to kill you, or the Seekers act as the herbicide that takes you down. Either way, only darkness awaits you at the end of this.

Darkness comes before the dawn… and I am the Night.