Ruling — Under Falling Skies

You asked

What does each player take, and what goes in the middle, before we begin?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Under Falling Skiesbg-306735-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook · p.2 ·

2 white dice 3 gray dice Your first game uses only these dice. research research tracktrack energy energy tracktrack damage damage tracktrack This setup includes everything you will use in your first game. All these components are packed in the top part of your box. Leave the campaign chapters in th

RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook · p.16 ·

CAMPAIGN Leave this in the box for now. STARTING COMPONENTS Everything you need for a standard game. Please do not dump out everything in this box. The game has been c arefully packed with a fourc hapter campaign at the bottom. Remove the starting components at the top. Leave the campaign in the bo

RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook · p.16 · Supporting Artists:

Please do not dump out everything in this box. The game has been carefully packed with a fourchapter campaign at the bottom. Remove the starting components at the top. Leave the campaign in the box for now.

RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook · p.14 · sTarTing The camPaign · removing or saving comPonenTs · seTTing ThreaT level

At the beginning of the campaign, take a sheet from the score pad and fold it to make your campaign notebook. Make up a campaign name and write it at the top of the first page, as shown in the illustration. As explained on the preceding page, randomly create two piles and choose one to be your first

RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook · p.15 · Spice up your Standalone Game · DifficulTy · a Game by tomáš uhlíŘ

The components in the campaign can also be used to spice up standalone games, allowing you to build your own battle. Choose any city, damaged or undamaged. Choose any scenario, or play without one. You can play with any team of characters or none at all. You can play with characters upgraded, not up

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 353 ms · ask 5505 ms · total 5869 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5869 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 364 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 364 boosted
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 18:23

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 Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)		p.2	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
#2	RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)		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
#3	RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)	Supporting Artists:	p.16	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))	207
#4	RULEBOOK Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)	sTarTing The camPaign · removing or saving comPonenTs · seTTing ThreaT level	p.14	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 Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)	Spice up your Standalone Game · DifficulTy · a Game by tomáš uhlíŘ	p.15	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 Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)	campaiGn · chaPTer Briefing · choose your BaTTle · scenarios · characTers	p.13	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 Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)	full Game · ThreaT level · ciTies · DamageD ciTy	p.10	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 Under Falling Skies — Rulebook (corpus doc 364)		p.1	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

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 353 ms · first delta 5734 ms · total 5869 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 353 ms · ask 5505 ms · gateway work 5869 ms · total 5869 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3852
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 136.4 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.066 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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: BEGIN — "begin" / "beginning"
matched words (in the normalized question): begin

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 293), 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.