The Quickstream
Someone drinks the flux by the Gauge Stones — where does it go? Go down to the Lees, then read a Master Gauge Stone and a Toll Tap.
How to open it
- Read with the Loupe: Master Gauge Stone; Toll Tap;
lees - Notes: The Stillness — 3, Basics — 3
- After the entries:
The Tollkeepers, 
Reckoner Locks
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The Quickstream is the main channel of the flux: by its races the riverbed is twice that of a river, the current of the place is any of the forty-two, quickwater fills the sea under the islands, and the way between two arches through it is four times shorter. Under the flux of the world runs the main stream: all forty-two currents flow side by side in it as races — rivers of living flux in the air — and the riverbed of every chunk is one of its branches. The Reckoners measured it with great locks; the Tollkeepers dammed it with barrages and drink it.
The way in is the same Sluice Arch that leads to the Stillness: a 4 × 5 frame of Reckoner stone and a pinch of Quickdust. But the lock takes its toll in flux: it wakes toward the Quickstream only where the flux of the chunk is at least 1.4 riverbeds — and drinks it down to the bottom. What the flux of the chunk lacks the lock takes from the Toll Reliquaries in your inventory: with them the arch wakes in a plain chunk too. With three Still Grains in your inventory the arch leads to the Stillness: the toll decides the level — stillness leads to stillness, living flux to living flux.
sluice_arch
The islands of the Quickstream hang over a sea of quickwater, and the races carry whatever enters them: step in and the stream carries you, crouch and you go slowly, step aside to leave. The islands are high: take a Grapnel or a Vane Mantle. You can live here — beds and spawn points work — and the days are half as long. The arch on the far side leads back; a new arch woken in the Quickstream leads out four times farther from where it stands.