New Newgate Prison

"The prison regulars call it 'the Spike', or, sometimes, 'the Ceiling Academy'."

"The windowless tip of the stalactite which contains the prison is for solitary confinement, and the oubliettes."

"They say that where the stalactite meets the cavern roof, they've laid charges of blasting powder, and if the prisoners ever riot, they'll blow the charges and let the whole thing drop into the Unterzee. It'd make quite a splash."

"Prisoners are required to wear masks. You could ask the gaolers why, but they're mute. Or perhaps just very unfriendly."

New Newgate, Fallen London's foremost prison, is a fortress carved from a massive stalactite.

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A gaoler.

All prisoners are required to wear masks (they make them out of satin). Supplies and prisoners are brought in and out of the prison via airship. Strangely enough, these supplies include large quantities of candles (obviously because it's dark). Unpleasantly, and on a slightly related note, prisoners have been known to be found with their masks missing, with swaths of the skin beneath torn away (fights can get brutal, mind you). The prison itself is quite shabby, brawls break out daily, and the cells are damp and unforgiving. Furthermore, the Gaolers are quite eldritch; they don't speak, and no on even knows if they're truly human. The tip of the prison is used as a solitary confinement of sorts, and it's said that if the prisoners ever riot, the prison will fall off the roof and hit the Unterzee (possibly creating a second Godfall?).

The Masks Come Off

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New Newgate's first prisoner.

"It is said she was the first prisoner to be cast into New Newgate. That her crime is unspeakable. You know her only through her letters, which are neatly-written, filled with lurid detail about her fellow inmates, and stained with candle-wax."

As it turns out, the prison is actually infested with Snuffers (if you can't already tell). The Prisoner's Masks are designed to protect incarcerates from having their faces ripped off; it's not like we'll know how effective this is. The prison's first inmate apparently did something so horrible it took a secret convention of judges to lay out her sentence; it's possible she too is a Snuffer.