The Encroaching Dust II

“The portals are barred and sealed, dome-wide hatch lockdown protocol is in effect, environmental negation and reprocessing units are at an impressively high 72% efficiency and exterior hazard prevention work shifts report no abnormalities – but somehow, Emperor-damnit, it just keeps getting in…”

Everyone knows something is deeply wrong. The gnawing sense of unease permeates everyday life, the sense of dread borne on the wind that should be unable to blow. Despite rigorous checks, additional taxation and forced-labour parties, the occupants of Regolith Falls wake for every work-shift to ever greater layers of ash covering every surface. Mysterious and unexplained events occur with unnerving frequency. Suspicious strangers have been reported by those who look for such things, and rates of theft, vandalism, atmospheric leaks, accounting anomalies and of course, murder, have all increased.

Always an outlying and (by Necromundan standards) peaceful dome complex, House Orlock and Escher have long coexisted and made money here in (relative) peace. However, with the increasing disquiet caused by the deteriorating situation, both Houses have dispatched gangs to shore up their interests in the region…