Zombie Bayou

Author's Note: Once a land of music, food, and vibrant culture, Louisiana is now a broken wasteland drowned by rising waters and crawling with the dead. After the outbreak, nature and horror alike reclaimed the state, shattering it into six brutal regions, each battling decay in its own way. The heart of old civilization lies in ruin. The Crescent City Ruins — the remnants of New Orleans — stand as a ghostly maze of crumbling skyscrapers and flooded streets, ruled by desperate survivors clinging to forgotten power. To the west, the endless swamps of the Bayou Deadlands thrum with unseen dangers: half-sunken homes, rotting vegetation, and something darker lurking beneath the waters. Northward, the Baton Rouge Wastes sprawl across the land, a graveyard of broken highways, military husks, and toppled monuments to a government that failed its people. Beneath it all lies the greatest prize and the greatest risk: The Drowned Gulf. Entire cities swallowed by the sea now rest beneath brackish, corpse-choked waters. There, relics of the old world — supplies, weapons, secrets — wait to be claimed by the foolish or the bold. Few return from its depths. Beyond the reach of factions, survivors scrape out a fragile existence. The Shattered Northlands are plains of abandoned towns and empty highways where isolated communities trade, fight, and flee in the shadow of roaming undead hordes. To the west, the Forgotten Wetlands stretch endlessly, a marshy limbo of rusting factories, decaying suburbs, and savage lawlessness. In Louisiana’s new world, survival isn't just about fighting zombies — it’s about navigating feuding factions, merciless nature, and the ever-present hunger of the drowned dead. Every day is a battle, and only the cunning, brutal, or lucky endure.