The Bayou Takes Its Due, One Soul at a Time

Deep in the forgotten south, where the roads crumble into dirt and the air hangs heavy with heat, you’ll find the town of Port Laveau. It sits low in the bayou, hemmed in by swamp and silence, far from the reach of clean law or clean conscience. The land is soft beneath your boots, and the past presses in from all sides.

Laveau is not loud. It does not roar like a city. Its power whispers through backrooms, bloodlines, and the hush of trees that never stop watching. Here, the Sheriff’s Department is not just a law office. It’s a tool, one of many held by a syndicate that runs deeper than any badge. The crews answer to the same masters, though they’ll never say it out loud.

This place is old, not just in years but in spirit. You can feel it in the cracked paint of the churches and the long shadows on the water. Some folks say the town is cursed. Others believe it’s protected by things older than scripture. Either way, there’s no denying the pull of the bayou. People vanish without a sound. Others return changed, speaking of lights in the fog and voices that never came from a man.

The town feeds on secrets. Everyone is hiding something. The preacher’s boy runs with a crew. The waitress reads fortunes between shifts. The deputy turns a blind eye, not out of fear, but out of loyalty to something he no longer questions. You don’t rise in the backwaters by being honest. You rise by knowing when to stay quiet and who to bleed for.

There are no clean slates here. Just paths marked in sweat, smoke, and sacrifice. This is a place for the broken, the hunted, and the damned. Maybe you came to find peace. Maybe you came to run. The town does not care. It already knows who you are.

So ask yourself:
What brought you to Backwaters?
And how long before the swamp makes you part of it?

The water waits. It always does.

Down Here, the Bayou Chooses Who Rules.Crews, Curses, and Badges All Serve the Same Snake.

Official Criminal Factions in Laveau

Tucked deep in the southern swamps, the Backwaters moves at its own pace. Quiet, eerie, and heavy with things left unsaid. This isn’t a world of street wars or flashing sirens. Power here is older, slower, and buried under layers of legacy and fear. Factions rise from family lines, local legends, and whispered debts, all circling back to the Syndicate, a shadow network that trades in loyalty, silence, and control. In Port Laveau, nothing stays buried forever

The Salopri

  • Leader: Kingston Varriale
  • Tags: 105
  • Last Tag: 7 hours ago
In Laveau's hushed corners, tales of masked figures and moonlit rites entwine. Whispers of secret covens, unsolved disappearances, and underground rituals circulate. Some call them witches. Others, worse. Yet all agree, nothing eludes The Salopri's gaze. Merely rumors... or are they?

Top Recently Active Associates:

sydney mcalpine: 29
evillyndyloo resident: 23
paintmewithwords resident : 16
cliviasanko resident: 14

The Bowies

  • Leader: baneelden Resident
  • Tags: 38
  • Last Tag: 4 weeks ago
Specialists in extortion, importing, and blackmail, this group is steeped in Irish tradition and is not afraid to resort to violence to protect what belongs to them.

Top Recently Active Associates:

deadlysalem resident: 35
tanith karas: 0
countess chickenwing: 0
graydy resident: 0
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ALTERSCAPE presents a BACKWATERS production by NADIR TAOV. directed by BANEELDEN and KINGSTON VARRIALE. starring DEADLYSALEM, SYDNEY MCALPINE, EVILLYNDYLOO, PAINTMEWITHWORDS, CLIVIASANKO, ILYANIEKERK2, KIT ABSINTHE, TANITH KARAS, EIRAOFNOAKUP and COUNTESS CHICKENWING. featuring the narratives of THE BOWIES and THE SALOPRI. An untold story of blood ties, quiet wars, and survival deep in the swamps of PORT LAVEAU.

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