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How do I set up the game?

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1. Draw cards from the Legacy deck one at a time and read them out loud, following instructions on both sides of each card until you reach a card that says "PAUSE" or "STOP" [1][2]. 2. Prepare objectives for the month as instructed by the Legacy deck and collect any needed cards from the reserve [1][2]. 3. Place the board in the center of the table [1][2]. 4. Place 1 safe house in each city marked with a permanent safehouse (for the prologue and January, this is Washington only) [1][2]. 5. Place the Threat Level marker on the leftmost space of the Threat Level track [1][2]. 6. Place agents, Incident tokens, objective tokens, tracking tokens, teams, and remaining safehouses in separate supplies near the board [1][2]. 7. Shuffle the Threat cards and flip over 3 of them, placing 3 agents into each city shown [1][2]. 8. Flip 3 more cards and place 2 agents into each city shown [1][2]. 9. Flip 3 more cards and place 1 agent into each city shown [1][2]. 10. Place the flipped cards faceup into the Threat discard pile [1][2]. 11. As a group, choose and add Event cards equal to your current funding level to the Player deck (for the prologue and start of January, include all five initial Event cards) [3]. 12. Shuffle these Event cards and the City cards together, then deal cards to each player based on the player count: 4 cards for 2 players, 3 cards for 3 players, and 2 cards for 4 players [3]. 13. Players keep their hands faceup at all times [3]. 14. Divide the remaining Player cards into 5 facedown piles as equally as possible, placing smaller piles toward the right side of the row [3]. 15. Shuffle 1 Escalation card facedown into each pile [3]. 16. Stack the Player card piles from left to right (leftmost on top) to form the Player deck and place it on the board [3]. 17. Each player chooses a character and receives the matching pawn, Reference card, and passport (in the prologue, take a temporary alias instead of a passport) [3]. 18. Return any unused pawns, Reference cards, and passports to the box [3]. 19. If characters have more than one alias, each player chooses which alias to start with (if all aliases are burned, the player must use a different character or a temporary alias) [3]. 20. Gather all pawns, randomly select one, and that player takes the first turn [3]. 21. Place all pawns in Washington [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook · p.8 · 1. CHECK THE LEGACY DECK AND PREPARE OBJECTIVES · 2. PREPARE BOARD AND PIECES · 4. ADD AGENTS TO THE BOARD
[2] RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook · p.8 ·
[3] RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook · p.9 · 7. PREPARE THE PLAYER DECK AND DEAL CARDS · 8. ADD ESCALATION CARDS TO THE PLAYER DECK · 9. REASSEMBLE THE PLAYER DECK · 10. CHOOSE CHARACTERS AND ALIASES · 11. BEGIN PLAY
🔧 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 281 ms · ask 8358 ms · total 1092701 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 1084053 ms · generation 8648 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; base rulebook doc 269 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 269 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 14:27

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) p.8 0.046898 (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 Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) 1. CHECK THE LEGACY DECK AND PREPARE OBJECTIVES · 2. PREPARE BOARD AND PIECES · 4. ADD AGENTS TO THE BOARD p.8 0.046696 (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 Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) 7. PREPARE THE PLAYER DECK AND DEAL CARDS · 8. ADD ESCALATION CARDS TO THE PLAYER DECK · 9. REASSEMBLE THE PLAYER DECK · 10. CHOOSE CHARACTERS AND ALIASES · 11. BEGIN PLAY p.9 0.032787 (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 Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) AFTER THE GAME · 1. CHECK OBJECTIVES · ALL OBJECTIVES COMPLETE · 1 OBJECTIVE FAILED · 2+ OBJECTIVES FAILED · 2. CHECK CITIES · … p.16 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
#5 RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) PLAYER TURNS · 1. CHECK SURVEILLANCE · 2. DO ACTIONS · DRIVE / FERRY · COMMERCIAL FLIGHT · UNRECORDED FLIGHT p.10 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
#6 RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) 5. SPEND BUDGET · ASSETS · PERMANENT SAFEHOUSES · COUNTER SURVEILLANCE · 6. CLEAN UP p.16 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
#7 RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) KNOWN TARGET CITIES · UNKNOWN TARGET CITIES · SETTING UP AN UNKNOWN TARGET CITY · ELIMINATING POSSIBLE TARGET CITIES · ACQUIRING TARGETS IN AN UNKNOWN CITY p.11 0.029958 (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 Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) 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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

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 Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) 1. CHECK THE LEGACY DECK AND PREPARE OBJECTIVES · 2. PREPARE BOARD AND PIECES · 4. ADD AGENTS TO THE BOARD p.8 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) p.8 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 — Rulebook (corpus doc 269) 7. PREPARE THE PLAYER DECK AND DEAL CARDS · 8. ADD ESCALATION CARDS TO THE PLAYER DECK · 9. REASSEMBLE THE PLAYER DECK · 10. CHOOSE CHARACTERS AND ALIASES · 11. BEGIN PLAY p.9 no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split
retrieval 281 ms · first delta 4138 ms · total 1092701 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown
queued 1084053 ms · retrieval 281 ms · ask 8358 ms · gateway work 8648 ms · total 1092701 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3864
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
612
tok/sec
137.8 tok/sec — 612 output tokens in 4.442 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 11s 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 197), 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.