Ruling — The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Erabg-356080-en-1e

When it is your adventurer's turn to act, follow these steps: 1. Start of Turn: Trigger any abilities with this timing [1]. 2. Recovery: Remove a number of dice from your cooldown track equal to your Cooldown stat, starting with the die furthest to the left in the track; as you remove dice, slide remaining dice in the track toward the left side to close any empty slots [1]. * Skills: Recover and place skill dice in the correct slots in your attribute rows [1]. * Fatigue: Discard light fatigue; remove overfatigue and replace them at the leftmost open position in the track [1]. * Status Effects: Discard status dice [1]. 3. Adventurer Actions: Your adventurer may perform 1 or more of the following actions in any order you choose, resolving each action before performing another [1]: * Move: Move a number of adjacent hexes up to the value of your Stamina stat [1]. You may perform move actions up to twice per turn, but if you take a second move action, you cannot perform any engage actions that turn [1]. You cannot perform a move action if you have performed an explore action that turn [1]. * Engage: Any number of times per turn, roll a number of available skill dice up to your Stamina or Magicka stat, as appropriate for each skill [1]. After your first engage action each turn, you must gain 1 light fatigue each time you perform an additional engage action (or 2 if playing on Expert difficulty) [1]. * Class Ability: Any number of times per turn, spend the required amount of tenacity to trigger a class ability [1]. Each non-enduring class ability must be triggered at its correct timing and can be triggered only once per turn [1]. You may gain 1 light fatigue to change battle form before resolving the ability [2]. * Explore (delve only): Once per turn, explore a hex from a distance up to your Stamina [1]. You cannot perform an explore action if you have performed a move action that turn [1]. 4. End of Turn: Trigger any abilities with this timing [1]. Then, proceed to the next adventurer or enemy in turn order [1].

[1] RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.59 ·

[2] RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.61 ·

🔧 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 230 ms · ask 16613 ms · total 16852 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 16852 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 318 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 318 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 17:31

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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.91	0.048387 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.57	0.048139 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.59	0.04728 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.39	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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.45	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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.59	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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.34	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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.23	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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)		p.59	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)		p.61	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 230 ms · first delta 13214 ms · total 16852 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 230 ms · ask 16613 ms · gateway work 16852 ms · total 16852 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 5472
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 476
tok/sec: 134.1 tok/sec — 476 output tokens in 3.549 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 34s 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 244), 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.