Ruling — T.I.M.E Stories

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: T.I.M.E Storiesbg-146508-en-1e

1. Set up the game board facing the players [1][2]. 2. Place half of the normal shields with the skull side showing and other half with the white shield showing, and sort the other three kinds of shields by type [2]. 3. Sort the 24 state tokens and place them to the left of the board [2]. 4. Place the Life points as well as the resource tokens above the board [3][1][2]. 5. Place the 6 action dice and the Time Captain die near the players [1][2]. 6. Place the time token and the group pawn near the players [1][2]. 7. Each player takes one of the main pawns of the color of their choice, as well as the small one of the matching color [1][2]. 8. Install your scenario’s Base cards while respecting the letters shown on the back of the cards [3]. 9. Place the rest of the deck in the indicated space [3]. 10. Pull out the N.T. [4][5].

[1] RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook · p.5 · SET-UP · The set-up of all scenarios remains the same. Simply follow the numbers below step-by-step.

[2] RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook · p.5 ·

[3] RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook · p.15 ·

[4] RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook · p.15 ·

[5] RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook · p.15 · AND YOU'RE READY TO START!

🔧 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 189 ms · ask 12596 ms · total 22050 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 9254 ms · generation 12796 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 425 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 425 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 7, 2026 05:02

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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	SET-UP · The set-up of all scenarios remains the same. Simply follow the numbers below step-by-step.	p.5	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	AND YOU'RE READY TO START!	p.15	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)		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
#4	RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)		p.15	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)		p.5	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	OBJECT OF THE GAME · ANATOMY OF A DECK · SET-UP OF A DECK · RESETTING THE DECK	p.6	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	Special rolls (no TU) · LOCATION CHANGE · 1. Leave the current location · 2. Choose a new location · Clarifications: · 3. Putting away the current location · …	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	All for 1 TU! · For 1 TU	p.9	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 T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	SET-UP · The set-up of all scenarios remains the same. Simply follow the numbers below step-by-step.	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)		p.5	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)		p.15	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)		p.15	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK T.I.M.E Stories — Rulebook (corpus doc 425)	AND YOU'RE READY TO START!	p.15	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 189 ms · first delta 11058 ms · total 22050 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 9254 ms · retrieval 189 ms · ask 12596 ms · gateway work 12796 ms · total 22050 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2881
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 235
tok/sec: 139.5 tok/sec — 235 output tokens in 1.684 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s 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 354), 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.