Dustspire enclave pinned the perimeter breach and 23 radstorm deaths on Crankley’s Apothecary and Supply after the convoy arrived late. Regulators traced the holdup to outdated brass-caravan rules that the apothecary still treated as iron law.
Lights failed forty-seven minutes after the last stored current ran out. Survivor Bartholomew Nox recalled trading scavenged casings for a black-market jolt, then watching the settlement go dark. District Overseer Helga Voltsworth defended the rationing rules, insisting that electrons cannot be spent without paperwork.
Survivors now log the losses in the margins of their ration books, each entry another reminder that one late volt-pouch can empty an entire district.
