Knock-Up Stream Named By A Scoffer As The Way Up

Status: confirmed (paid off Ch. 292) · Technique: chekhov-explicit / dialogue-from-a-scoffer

The seed

Bellamy first names the Knock-Up Stream on-page (Ch. 224 p. 15) precisely to ridicule it.

The payoff

The Knock-Up Stream is the real mechanism that launches the Going Merry to the Sky Island — the villain dismisses the exact phenomenon the plot will validate.

Earliest known caller

(unknown)

Why this matters

A textbook chekhov-explicit / scoffer’s-tell seed: the named mechanism the cynic mocks is the one the plot uses. Pairs with the upward-pointing Log Pose recapped the same chapter. Cross-link Knock-Up Stream.