Death's Door

 is a port in the north of the Blue Kingdom.

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

Captains of any status can come to reclaim their face or name at The Quartermaster’s Office.

Captains of any status can use A Bag of Faces to become Yoked.

Captains must be Ephemera to Acquire a Shovel. This requires a difficult hearts challenge, having a litigator, or costs 3 Undistinguished Souls. Success leads to The Catafalque.

Location Map
Death's Doorstep <-> The Catafalque <-> The Test of Substance <-> Deeper into the Catafalque <-> The Test of Definition <-> Death's Door Event <-> The Opening of the Door

Captains can change from Ephemera to Invisible at either the Test of Substance or the Test of Definition.

Captains with A Bag of Faces can change from any status to Yoked at Death's Doorstep.

Bags of Faces can be acquired at Deeper into the Catafalque, and getting there requires losing your face, effectively costing 1 Testament of the Feather.

The Opening of the Door can reward you with a Searing Enigma, effectively costing 2 Moments of Inspiration, 1 Testament of the Feather and 1 Indulgence.

=Log Entries= A stoker sings: "The wind doth blow today, my love, and a few small drops of rain. I never had but one true love, and in cold grave she was lain." ''Even from here, you can hear digging. This is Death's Door, where the dead tunnel to their final progress.'' Shafts of light burnish the sky ahead: Death's Door, the final horizon. ''Your crew are quiet as the grave. "Please, Captain," a navigator pleads. "No nearer."''

''The Fatalistic Signalman is quiet as you approach Death's Doorstep. "I'll stay aboard, if it's all the same to you."'' ''The Navigator turns away from the window, and the looming shape of Death's Door. "Let's not linger, Captain."'' ''Usually the Vagabond has a story for everywhere you visit. But now he is silent and nervous.'' ''Your Aunt examines the throngs of the dead. "Oh good. I have a number of friends I wish to be certain made it here."''

=The Catafalque= ''A knot of houses surrounds the station. Past these, the landscape declines into mud and misery. Somewhere beneath that bleak mire lies the Catafalque, where spirits approach their end.''

Death's Doorstop
An austere, ugly little town has sprung up around the station, built and inhabited by spirits too afraid to pass beyond the Door.

It has no official name, because officially it should not exist, but some of the Blue Kingdom bureaucrats sneeringly call it Death's Doorstop.

''the Endless Furrows. An endless expanse of churned black mud.''

Interactions

The Endless Furrows
''Once, the vast grounds around Death's Door were called the Seven Concentric Gardens. There were flowers. Grass. Trees, leaves still attached. Now there is mud. A squalid, black, hungering mud. And a seething sea of the masked dead, digging and scrabbling, churning, overturning, searching. Useless now to try to cultivate even a blade of grass, but a few Yoked gardener-spirits dash between the trenches, rakes and hoes aloft. They are still stubbornly attempting the impossible.''

Interactions

=Shops=