diff --git a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go
index bf848999..f815789e 100644
--- a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go
+++ b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/adr505_test.go
@@ -209,3 +209,39 @@ func TestAWalkThatSettlesSurvivesARouterRestart(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("its late start opened it again: %+v", again.walks)
 	}
 }
+
+// ADR 0505 §6: a condition raised on a touched subject 30 seconds after a failed walk is sent at once, even while
+// another open walk touches the same machine; the same condition after a delivered walk is held.
+func TestAConditionJustAfterAFailedWalkIsSentAtOnceAndAfterADeliveredOneHeld(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, outcome := range []string{WalkFailed, WalkStopped, WalkDelivered} {
+		h, tg, dt, c, _ := newHolder(t)
+		walk(t, h, "plan-f", WalkStarted, "", c.now(), 600, novox("gitea"))
+		walk(t, h, "plan-o", WalkStarted, "", c.now(), 1200, novox("mesh-issues"))
+		runFor(h, c, 2*time.Minute)
+		walk(t, h, "plan-f", WalkEnded, outcome, c.now(), 0, novox("gitea"))
+		runFor(h, c, 30*time.Second)
+		k := cond("machine.novox.uncomposable", Urgent, "novox cannot get new instructions")
+		k.Machine, k.Raised = "novox", c.now()
+		h.Condition(EventRaised, k)
+		runFor(h, c, 30*time.Second)
+		sent := heard(headlineOf(k.Key), tg, dt)
+		if outcome != WalkDelivered && !sent {
+			t.Fatalf("after a walk that %s, held: %v", outcome, outcomes(h, k.Key))
+		}
+		if outcome == WalkDelivered && sent {
+			t.Fatalf("after a delivered walk, sent at once: %+v", dt.sends)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// ADR 0505 §6: an urgent condition on a machine no open or settling walk touches is sent at once during a walk.
+func TestAnUrgentConditionOnAnUntouchedMachineIsSentAtOnceDuringAWalk(t *testing.T) {
+	h, tg, dt, c, _ := newHolder(t)
+	walk(t, h, "plan-u", WalkStarted, "", c.now(), 1200, novox("gitea"))
+	k := cond("machine.ace.silent", Urgent, "ace has not been heard")
+	k.Machine, k.Raised = "ace", c.now()
+	h.Condition(EventRaised, k)
+	if !heard(headlineOf(k.Key), tg, dt) {
+		t.Fatalf("held, while no walk touches ace: %v", outcomes(h, k.Key))
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go
index a0a5081f..201e0a80 100644
--- a/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go
+++ b/modules/messenger/cmd/messenger/walks.go
@@ -392,7 +392,11 @@ func (h *Holder) Walked(ev WalkEvent) {
 				w.Started = ev.StartedAt
 			}
 		}
-		tomb := &Walk{ID: ev.Walk, Started: ev.StartedAt, Ended: at, EndedSaid: ev.At}
+		tomb := &Walk{ID: ev.Walk, Started: ev.StartedAt, Ended: at, EndedSaid: ev.At, Outcome: ev.Outcome,
+			Touches: mergeTouches(ev.Touches, nil)}
+		if w != nil {
+			tomb.Touches, tomb.SettleSeconds = w.Touches, w.SettleSeconds
+		}
 		if prev := h.ended[ev.Walk]; prev != nil && prev.Ended.After(at) {
 			tomb = prev
 		}
@@ -944,6 +948,13 @@ func (h *Holder) hold(r *Record, what string) bool {
 	now := h.Now()
 	h.mu.Lock()
 	s := subjectOf(r)
+	if f := h.failedJustNow(s, now); f != nil {
+		// A failure is the case the operator most needs the cause of: sent at once, with its delivery line (ADR 0505 §6).
+		h.mu.Unlock()
+		h.record(Sent{At: now, Channel: "-", Key: r.Key, What: what + ", " + roughly(now.Sub(f.Ended)) + " after walk " + f.ID + " " + f.Outcome,
+			Outcome: "not held: its walk " + f.Outcome})
+		return false
+	}
 	var by []*Walk
 	var ids []string
 	fresh := false
@@ -984,6 +995,32 @@ func (h *Holder) hold(r *Record, what string) bool {
 	return true
 }
 
+// failedJustNow is the walk that failed or stopped within its settle and touched a subject (ADR 0505 §6): nothing
+// on it is held then. Under the lock.
+func (h *Holder) failedJustNow(s subject, now time.Time) *Walk {
+	var newest *Walk
+	for _, e := range h.ended {
+		if e.Outcome != WalkFailed && e.Outcome != WalkStopped {
+			continue
+		}
+		if now.Before(e.Ended) || !now.Before(e.Ended.Add(h.settleOf(e))) || !e.touches(s) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if newest == nil || e.Ended.After(newest.Ended) {
+			newest = e
+		}
+	}
+	return newest
+}
+
+// settleOf is the settle a walk took at its start, or the setting's for one kept before it was.
+func (h *Holder) settleOf(w *Walk) time.Duration {
+	if w.SettleSeconds > 0 {
+		return w.settleFor()
+	}
+	return h.settle()
+}
+
 // heldBy is the walks holding a record now.
 func (h *Holder) heldBy(key string, now time.Time) []string {
 	var ids []string