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How do I take my turn?

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A player's turn consists of three phases in order: Birdsong, Daylight, and Evening [1][2]. 1. Birdsong [1][2] 2. Daylight [1][2] - For the Corvids, you may take up to three actions in any order or number: Move [3], Plot [3], Battle [3], or Trick [3]. - For the Skunks, you have two steps in the following order: - I. Captain Acts: In any order and combination, you may take up to four actions (or up to three if the Acting Captain was placed in a forest with Ready in Birdsong this turn) using the Acting Captain: Move [4], Battle [4], Filch [4], or Item Action [4]. - II. [No specific step name provided for second step, but it follows Captain Acts] [4] 3. Evening [1][2] - For the Skunks, there are three steps in the following order: - 1. Discard and Return Revealed Cards: Discard any bird cards revealed this turn, then return all other revealed cards to your hand [5]. - 2. Craft: You may craft by activating citadels and markets [5]. - 3. Draw and Discard: Draw one card, plus one card per card draw icon showing; if you have more than five cards in your hand, discard cards of your choice until you have five [5]. After a player ends Evening, the next clockwise player begins their turn [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root · p.2 · 1.4 Game Structure

[2] RULEBOOK Root — Learning to Play · p.2 · Flow of Play

[3] RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root · p.15 · 13.5 Daylight

[4] RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root · p.22 · 18.5 Daylight

[5] RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root · p.14 · 12.6 Evening

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 228 ms · ask 10551 ms · total 10788 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10788 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "1.4 Game Structure", "sharpsignalDocId": 56}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Flow of Play", "sharpsignalDocId": 75}, {"page": 15, "quote": null, "headingPath": "13.5 Daylight", "sharpsignalDocId": 56}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "18.5 Daylight", "sharpsignalDocId": 56}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "12.6 Evening", "sharpsignalDocId": 56}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 75 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 75 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 3, 2026 05:19

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Root — Learning to Play (corpus doc 75)	Play	p.3	0.043928 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Root — Learning to Play (corpus doc 75)	Daylight	p.10	0.041709 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	18.5 Daylight	p.22	0.032266 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Root — Learning to Play (corpus doc 75)	Flow of Play	p.2	0.032018 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	256
#5	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	1.4 Game Structure	p.2	0.030536 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Root — Learning to Play (corpus doc 75)	Changing Your Victory Condition	p.21	0.029762 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	4.2 Move	p.4	0.029211 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	13.5 Daylight	p.15	0.02895 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	1.4 Game Structure	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Root — Learning to Play (corpus doc 75)	Flow of Play	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	13.5 Daylight	p.15	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	18.5 Daylight	p.22	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Root — Law of Root (corpus doc 56)	12.6 Evening	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 228 ms · first delta 8256 ms · total 10788 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 228 ms · ask 10551 ms · gateway work 10788 ms · total 10788 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 1914
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 339
tok/sec: 137.6 tok/sec — 339 output tokens in 2.464 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 33s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 6), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.