Jester's Court
'''Jester's Court' is an alley located in Castle Ward, Waterdeep.
This famous local landmark and meeting place lies north of Howling Cat Court, just south of Selduth Street in the same block. Its a large courtyard used by ladies of the evening and by minstrels (sometimes both are the same person, as with the famous Masked Minstrel). Sometimes on warm summer evenings it becomes an improvised dance court for the locals, lit by faerie fire or dancing lights'' conjured by a mage or apprentice.
Of old, jugglers and comics used to perform here for thrown coins (hence its name), but none are left now but a few men too old to perform. They sometimes come here of afternoons to just stand and remember.
By night, trouble in Howling Cat Court tends to spill over into here, too - and more than once warring gangs, bands of thieves, or adventuring groups have drawn steel and had it out here, until bodies were slumped on the cobbles and the shouts, screams, and clangor and skirl of blades brought both the watch and the city guard on the run. By Waterdhavian legend, its also the place for couples in love to meet before eloping.
