Guild of Writers

Seeing the water in the canals has turned into ice, it's possible to jump onto the stairs now (most of them anyways).

The canals will not remain accessible on foot, they're meant to be visited by boats. At some point we'll get around to add railings to prevent people from going in the canals; I just haven't had time to do them so far.
Some areas will remain open though, for some ice skating fun (in courtyards probably) but other than that there's no need to go in the canals right now. Which is why you can't jump on some of the stairs when you're down there, you're not meant to. They are (will be) only accesible from the boats.

Aloys, not to sound critical, but there are a few spots where the textures aren't mapped properly. This might be messed up normals, it might be untextured, but it some of the courtyards when the sidewalk is raised up a bit, the inclined part is invisible. I'll try to get a screen shot because what I just said makes no sense.

And you already know about the slight collision malfunctions. You also know how to fix them.

I think I know what you mean, I had noticed that a while ago and I thought I had fixed it on all the courtyards. It looks like I may have missed one or more.
What would be help full (beside a screenshot) would be to tell me in which courtyard(s) you saw it.

Tell me where the link in point is, I'll tell you where I saw it

The linking point is on front of shell 430.
(I call that area the "pool of the 3 moons"; because of the lampposts.)

You can easily find out where you linked in by searching for the large courtyard in the middle of the district and looking at the hub. Then you know it