The White Well

 is a station in the Blue Kingdom, located north-west from Sky Barnet.

Guide
Captains of any status can visit the bazaar and shops.

Invisible, Antedeceased or Ephemera captains can enter The Stone-Faced Court.

Entering requires a pass, good for 30 days, which costs 3 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones, 1 Testament of Roses or having a litigator.

This location leads to The Stone-Faced Court.

=Log Entries= Here judgement is pronounced and sentence executed. The Watcher-in-the-Well holds dominion here over the quick and the dead.

The Conductor has a suggestion "Why don't we leave your Aunt—" The rest is lost under the barrage of her handbag. ''The Eccentric shivers as you near the White Well. "Let's not stay long, Captain." She withdraws to the engine room.'' ''The Fatalistic Signalman peers at the Well. "'I suppose we've seen the worst of it all now', I was just thinking to myself. Happier times."'' ''The Inconvenient Aunt frowns at the well. "There are quicker ways of getting rid of people."'' ''The Repentant Devil observes the White Well. "A simple and effective punishment." His tone is one of grudging admiration.'' "I hope you have no intention of leaving me here," the Forged Companion says, in a calculatedly neutral tone.

=The Stone-Faced Court= ''Half-ziggurat, half-fortress, the Court is where spirits go to face judgement before they meet their end. A meek little city has sprung up around it almost by default.''

Urd
''A quietly frostbitten city that clings like a scab to the White Well. Masked dead wander its ice-sheathed streets, going wherever dead people go. A statue crumbles on every corner, subjecting passers-by to forbidding stone glares.'' ''At Urd's centre looms the Stone-Faced Court, where the dead are judged. A ziggurat wide as a mountain, as tall as a stack of castles. Urd's population are mostly waiting for permission to enter.''

A Bit of a Wait
''A woman sits in a booth beside the gates. At least, you think she's a woman. The flesh above her collarbone has been carefully trimmed away, leaving a picked-clean and perfectly bald skull with gemstones in its sockets. She grins more fixedly than one might expect, even from a skull.'' "It's a bit of a wait, dear," says the Unreasonably Chirpy Administrator.

A Dutiful Chaperone
Blue Kingdom Status(met_by_official_stone_faced_court) Blue Kingdom Status(met_by_official2)

Interactions

A Designated Chaperone
''The Carious Official sighs deeply when he meets you at the gates. He has a thick folder under one arm with your name on the front. "No one else wants to deal with you, you know. You're everywhere at once, you change your Status like a pair of underpants, people disappear around you. So guess who's lumped with being your designated guide for the foreseeable, rain or shine? Muggins here."''

Interactions

The Exacting Ombudsman
The Ombudsman asked you to meet him at a coffee-house in Urd, where masked spirits silently contemplate empty cups and remember what coffee was like.

=Shops=