Ruling — Rising Sun

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How do I set up the game?

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To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Each player chooses one of the available Clans by placing a Clan Screen in front of them and placing a Political/War tile behind it with the Political side facing up [1]. 2. All materials and figures for unchosen Clans are returned to the game box [1]. 3. Players sit around the table in clockwise order according to their Clan's Starting Honor Rank, starting with the Clan with the lowest-numbered Starting Honor Rank [2]. 4. Place one Clan marker on the first slot of the Victory Point Track and place the other Clan marker on the Honor Track based on the Clan's Starting Honor Rank [2]. 5. Each player takes 1 Daimyo figure, 1 Bushi figure, and 1 Stronghold token and places them in their Home Province on the board [2]. 6. Players take their Daimyo, 3 Shinto figures, and 6 Bushi figures (ensuring the Daimyo has a black base and Shintos have white bases) and keep them in their Reserve next to their Clan Screen [2]. 7. Players keep all plastic bases of their Clan's color, 4 Stronghold tokens, and their Alliance token next to them [2]. 8. Shuffle 7 Shrine tiles facedown; draw 4 and place them faceup on the board's Shrine Slots from left to right (first-time players should use Amaterasu, Fujin, Hachiman, and Tsukuyomi) [3]. Return the remaining 3 tiles to the box [3]. 9. Create three separate facedown decks (Spring, Summer, and Autumn) using the Core Season cards [3]. 10. Select a Set of Season Cards (such as Archway for first-time players) and add its 5 cards for each season to the Core decks so that each deck contains 12 cards; return all other Season cards to the box [3]. 11. Separate War Province tokens into three facedown piles (I, II, and III) with 8 tokens each and place them next to the board [3]. 12. Place all War Number tokens next to the board [3]. 13. Shuffle 10 Political Mandate tiles facedown and place them in a pile next to the board [3]. 14. Place all Monster figures, Coins, and Ronin tokens in common piles next to the board within reach of all players [3]. 15. Place the randomized War Province tokens for the current Season (I-Spring, II-Summer, III-Autumn) faceup on the board's War Province Slots [4]. The number of tokens must equal the number of players plus 2 [4]. 16. Place each War Number token in the War Number Slot of the Province indicated by the War Province tokens; return unused tokens to the box [4]. 17. Set current Season cards next to the board [5]. 18. Organize Clan markers on the Honor Track according to each Clan's Starting Honor Rank [5]. 19. Give each player their Seasonal Income Coins and return any Hostages, granting 1 Coin from the common pile for each [5]. 20. Negotiate to form new Alliances [5].

[1] RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook · p.8 · Setup

[2] RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook · p.8 · Sitting Order

[3] RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook · p.9 · PrePare The Kami · PrePare The season deCKs · lasT sTePs

[4] RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook · p.10 · Playing the Seasons · The Phases of each Season: · Seasonal Setup · PrePare for War

[5] RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook · p.28 · SETUP · SEASONAL SETUP · TEA CEREMONY · MANDATE TURNS · · RECRUIT · · MARSHAL · …

🔧 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 288 ms · ask 15236 ms · total 966017 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 950484 ms · generation 15533 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 314 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 314 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 14:24

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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	Playing the Seasons · The Phases of each Season: · Seasonal Setup · PrePare for War	p.10	0.047183 (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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	Setup	p.8	0.047073 (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))	283
#3	RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	PrePare The Kami · PrePare The season deCKs · lasT sTePs	p.9	0.046875 (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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	Sitting Order	p.8	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
#5	RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	SETUP · SEASONAL SETUP · TEA CEREMONY · MANDATE TURNS · · RECRUIT · · MARSHAL · …	p.28	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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	MARSHAL · ALL PLAYERS · Negotiation Tip · CURRENT PLAYER AND THEIR ALLY	p.15	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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	RECRUIT · ALL PLAYERS · CURRENT PLAYER AND THEIR ALLY · Negotiation Tip	p.14	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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	resolvinG baTTles	p.22	0.029412 (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 Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	Setup	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	Sitting Order	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	PrePare The Kami · PrePare The season deCKs · lasT sTePs	p.9	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	Playing the Seasons · The Phases of each Season: · Seasonal Setup · PrePare for War	p.10	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Rising Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 314)	SETUP · SEASONAL SETUP · TEA CEREMONY · MANDATE TURNS · · RECRUIT · · MARSHAL · …	p.28	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 288 ms · first delta 10386 ms · total 966017 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 950484 ms · retrieval 288 ms · ask 15236 ms · gateway work 15533 ms · total 966017 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3366
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 691
tok/sec: 136.2 tok/sec — 691 output tokens in 5.074 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 16s 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 242), 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.