Ruling — Too Many Bones: Undertow

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How do I set up the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Too Many Bones: Undertowbg-235802-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps: **Adventure Setup** 1. Place the Battle Mat in the center of your play area [1]. 2. Select a Tyrant or draw one at random; place its Card, Chip, and Die to the left of the Battle Mat [1]. 3. Place the Day Counter Card and Chip (set to 1) directly below your Tyrant Card [1]. 4. Find all Baddies of the types shown on your Tyrant Card (Scales, Goblin, or Beast), flip them face down, shuffle, and create separate 1Pt, 5Pt, and 20Pt Baddie “Active Stacks” [2]. 5. Shuffle and add stacks of 3Pt Krelln and 3Pt Mech Baddies into their own piles, then place these stacks above the Battle Mat [2]. 6. Find Tyrant Encounters associated with your chosen Tyrant and set them aside; place other Tyrant Cards in the game box [2]. 7. Shuffle the General Encounter Deck (or Solo Encounter Deck if playing with one Gearloc) [2]. 8. Draw a number of cards equal to the number of days shown on your Tyrant Card minus 2, then shuffle these with your Tyrant Encounter Card(s) to form an Encounter Deck; place this to the left (story side up) of the Battle Mat [2]. 9. Place a randomly chosen Day 1 and Day 2 Card, in order, on top of the Encounter Deck [2]. 10. Shuffle all Loot and Trove Loot Cards separately and place both decks (chest side up) to the right of the Battle Mat [2]. 11. Place the 4 Lockpicking Dice nearby [2]. **Battle Set-up Sequence** 1. Trigger “Before Battle” effects and Skills, such as Stanza’s Luitar Skill [3]. 2. Use Encounter Card instructions to build your BQ (Battle Queue) and add Obstacles [3]. 3. Place the top Baddie from the BQ in its appropriate lane and Battle Mat position (including its HP, Lane Marker, and Ini Die), continuing until there are 4 on the mat or the BQ is empty [3]. 4. Roll the party’s Ini Dice and add them to the Ini Meter [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook · p.6 ·

[2] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook · p.7 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook · p.20 ·

🔧 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 218 ms · ask 17405 ms · total 283821 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 266188 ms · generation 17633 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 321}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 321}, {"page": 20, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 321}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 321 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 321 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 6, 2026 14:12

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	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.7	0.047712 (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 Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.20	0.032258 (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 Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.21	0.031746 (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 Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.24	0.03125 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.18	0.030769 (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 Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.25	0.030303 (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 Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.12	0.029851 (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 Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.7	0.02967 (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	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones: Undertow — Rulebook (corpus doc 321)	p.20	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 218 ms · first delta 13886 ms · total 283821 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 266188 ms · retrieval 218 ms · ask 17405 ms · gateway work 17633 ms · total 283821 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3932
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 497
tok/sec: 134.9 tok/sec — 497 output tokens in 3.685 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 248), 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.