What does an Aballon ice well look like?

[Slamy Mcbiteo]

I am running "Murder in Metal City" and having a great time. But struggling to understand the last chapters location. So the "Teardrop Ice well" is a hole in the ground sort of an inverted funnel, so bigger on the bottom. I think there are edges or lips at each level. But the description of the Abaddon Fields is throwing me....is it not only a mile wide at the bottom? 30 feet at the top and 1 mile at the bottom? Also it appears there are Day Devle is accessible via stairs everything is climbing? At level 1 climbing a mile down a hole could be fatal...just wondering how people dealt with this

Thanks in advance for you time :)

[Driftbourne]

I would think of it as a big cavity under a glacier in Antarctica

Google says:
"Subglacial lakes: Antarctica has over 400 known subglacial lakes, with the largest, Lake Vostok, spanning 12,500 square kilometers."

Just drain the water.

[kaid]

You can also think of them a bit like a sink hole I would think. The thing that causes water to come in just slowly etches out the bottom but due to how inhospitable the surface of aballon is it freezes then sublimates/evaporates as it gets near the top. Given the resources in the ice wells I assume most probably have at least some paths/trails carved in for access.