diff --git a/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts b/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts
index 6029ce8..b323578 100644
--- a/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts
@@ -126,8 +126,13 @@ async function buildAndAssign(module: string, node: string, opts?: { build?: boo
     assert.doesNotMatch(built, /failed/i, built);
   }
   const manifest = (await on(CONTROL, `docker exec mesh-controller cat /${module}.json`)).out;
-  if (manifest.includes("MESH_BROKER_FILE")) await mesh(`module issue ${module} --node ${node}`);
+  if (manifest.includes("MESH_BROKER_FILE")) {
+    const issued = await mesh(`module issue ${module} --node ${node}`);
+    assert.match(issued, /scoped to what it (emits and consumes|consumes and emits)/,
+      `the broker account for ${module} was not issued:\n${issued}`);
+  }
   await mesh(`assign ${node} ${module}`);
+  await mesh(`push ${node}`, 600_000);
 }
 
 async function waitForContainer(node: string, container: string, seconds = 300): Promise<string> {
@@ -205,18 +210,11 @@ test("a joined node's consumers open the store and broker the mesh built and ado
   const base = await mesh(`build ${forgeUrl(BASE.repo)} --ref ${refFor(BASE.repo)} --wait 1200s`, 1_500_000);
   assert.doesNotMatch(base, /failed/i, base);
 
-  // Adopt the foundation store and broker as the postgres and lavinmq modules, BUILT by the mesh.
-  // The store's superuser is the foundation's, made at genesis — carried in through `secret accept`
-  // before the push, or the module mints one the running store does not know.
-  await buildAndAssign("nftables", CONTROL, { build: false });
-  await buildAndAssign("postgres", CONTROL);
-  const superPw = (await must(CONTROL,
-    `docker inspect mesh-store --format '{{range .Config.Env}}{{println .}}{{end}}' | sed -n 's/^POSTGRES_PASSWORD=//p'`)).trim();
-  await must(CONTROL, `printf %s ${quote(superPw)} > /tmp/superuser && docker cp /tmp/superuser mesh-controller:/superuser`);
-  await mesh(`secret accept ${CONTROL} postgres superuser --from /superuser`);
+  // Genesis already adopted the store as the postgres module (superuser accepted), and installed
+  // nftables and the catalogue — verified rather than redone. The broker is the one foundation
+  // half genesis leaves to the mesh proper: adopt it here, BUILT by the mesh's own builder.
+  await waitForContainer(CONTROL, "mesh-postgres", 120);
   await buildAndAssign("lavinmq", CONTROL);
-  await mesh(`push ${CONTROL}`, 600_000);
-  await waitForContainer(CONTROL, "mesh-postgres", 600);
   await waitForContainer(CONTROL, "mesh-lavinmq", 600);
 
   // The consumers on the joined node — built by the mesh, delivered from its registry.