Ruling — Lords of Waterdeep

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What happens when I complete a quest?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Lords of Waterdeepbg-110327-en-1e

To complete a Quest, follow these steps: 1. Remove the required Adventurers and Gold from your Tavern [1]. 2. Return those tokens to the supply [1]. 3. Collect the specified reward [1]. If the reward includes Adventurers or Gold, take the appropriate pieces from the supply and place them in your Tavern [2]. If the reward is Gold, you immediately collect it and advance your score marker along the scoring track as soon as you complete the Quest [2]. 4. Place the Quest card in the 'Completed Quests' area of your player mat [3]. 5. Turn the Quest card face down [2]. Note: If the completed Quest is a Plot Quest, place its card face up near your player mat to remind you of its ongoing effect [4]. If the completed Quest was a Mandatory Quest, place the card in the Intrigue discard pile [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook · p.6 · waTeRdeep HaRboR · CompleTe QuesT

[2] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook · p.6 · ReadinG a QuesT CaRd · mandaToRy QuesTs

[3] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook · p.3 · playeR maTs

[4] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook · p.6 · ploT QuesTs · end of Round · endinG THe Game · final sCoRinG

🔧 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 315 ms · ask 7840 ms · total 8166 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 8166 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 127 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 127 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 21:19

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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	ploT QuesTs · end of Round · endinG THe Game · final sCoRinG	p.6	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	ReadinG a QuesT CaRd · mandaToRy QuesTs	p.6	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	2. Complete Quest · final sCoRinG	p.13	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	waTeRdeep HaRboR · CompleTe QuesT	p.6	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	GlossaRy	p.12	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	playeR maTs	p.3	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	appendix 3: loRds of waTeRdeep · appendix 4: ClaRifiCaTions · adVanCed buildinGs · QuesTs	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	ReadinG a buildinG · CaRds · loRd CaRds · QuesT CaRds	p.4	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 Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	waTeRdeep HaRboR · CompleTe QuesT	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	ReadinG a QuesT CaRd · mandaToRy QuesTs	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	playeR maTs	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep — Rulebook (corpus doc 127)	ploT QuesTs · end of Round · endinG THe Game · final sCoRinG	p.6	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 315 ms · first delta 6818 ms · total 8166 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 315 ms · ask 7840 ms · gateway work 8166 ms · total 8166 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3213
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 189
tok/sec: 148.1 tok/sec — 189 output tokens in 1.276 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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 49), 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.