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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Pandemic: On the Brinkbg-40849-en-1e

The rules for taking a turn depend on the specific role or challenge being played: **General/Standard Actions** * You may do up to 5 actions each turn if playing as the Generalist [1]. * Actions include: * Draw Card: Draw 1 card from the Infection Deck into hand [2]. * Drive/Ferry: Move to a connected city [2]. * Direct Flight: Discard an Infection card to move to its city and announce an airport sighting there [2]. * Charter Flight: Discard the Infection card that matches the city you are in to move to any city and announce an airport sighting in the city you left [2]. **Bio-Terrorist Turn** * The Bio-Terrorist may take up to 2 actions, plus 1 Drive/Ferry action, which can be done before, after, or between the other 2 actions [2]. * If Captured, the Bio-Terrorist's first action must be Draw Card [2]. After an Escape action, they complete their turn normally (taking a second action if they escaped on their first, plus the optional Drive/Ferry action) [2]. **Role-Specific Turn Variations** * **Archivist:** Once per turn, as an action, you may take the City card that matches the city you are in from the Player Discard Pile into your hand [1][3]. * **Epidemiologist:** Once per turn and only on her turn, she may (with permission) take any City card from a player in the same city [1][3]. * **Field Operative:** Once per turn, as an action, you may move 1 disease cube from the city you are in onto your role card [1][3]. * **Generalist:** Start your turn by looking at as many Infection cards as the current infection rate [1][3]. * **Troubleshooter:** At the start of her turn, she looks at as many Infection cards as the current infection rate (by taking them from the top of the Infection Deck, looking at them, and putting them back in the same order) [3]. **Other Turn Rules** * If playing the Bio-Terrorist challenge, after each player turn, the Bio-Terrorist may do up to 2 actions, plus 1 Drive/Ferry action, in any order [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook · p.1 ·
[2] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook · p.6 · BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · …
[3] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook · p.8 · BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · …
🔧 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 275 ms · ask 10822 ms · total 11106 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 11106 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
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citations (raw)
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
no base-rulebook boost — this ask EXCLUDED the base book, so its rulebook was never resolved and no id for it went on the wire (boosting it would have put that book back into a scope the reader took it out of)
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 20:27

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the TWO-ARM fuse (full-text + vector), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.03279 — both arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). Measured healthy band on this fuse: 0.016–0.033. 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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · … p.6 0.032002 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#2 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) Bio-Terrorist Secrecy · Capturing the Bio-Terrorist · 2. Fold Line · 3. Action Log p.5 0.031514 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#3 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) p.1 0.030679 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#4 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) p.1 0.030366 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#5 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) Etiquette p.7 0.029139 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#6 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) p.2 0.028577 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#7 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) p.1 0.028439 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300
#8 RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) p.2 0.027864 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033) 300

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) p.1 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) BIO-TERRORIST ACTIONS · ACTIONS · Draw Card · Drive/Ferry · Direct Flight · Charter Flight · … p.6 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · … p.8 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 275 ms · first delta 7159 ms · total 11106 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 275 ms · ask 10822 ms · gateway work 11106 ms · total 11106 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
5488
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
523
tok/sec
135.0 tok/sec — 523 output tokens in 3.875 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 43), 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.