Ruling — Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.”

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.”bg-284653-en-1e

To prepare everything before the first turn (Recruiter Setup), follow these steps: 1. The Recruiter takes the Secret Map, Mental Screen, and 1 dry-erase marker [1]. 2. The Recruiter places their Secret Map behind their Mental Screen, orienting it to match the game board [1]. 3. Before choosing a starting location, the Recruiter marks the location of all Mayhem tokens on their Secret Map [1]. 4. The Recruiter takes 1 MIND SLIP token and places it in front of their Mental Screen, visible to the Rogue Agents [1]. 5. The Recruiter either chooses or randomly draws 1 Recruiter card, secretly looks at it, and places it behind their Mental Screen; the unselected card is returned to the box [1]. 6. The Recruiter chooses a starting location by writing '1' on any location on their Secret Map (not on the game board) [1]. 7. The Recruiter reveals their starting location to the Rogue Agents by taking a Mental Note token from the supply, flipping it to its 'Confirmed' (green) side, and writing a '1' on it, then placing that token on the corresponding location on the game board [1]. 8. The Recruiter shuffles the Feature cards and draws 3 at random, secretly looking at them and placing them face-up behind their screen [1]. 9. On their Secret Map, the Recruiter circles every Feature that matches any of their 3 cards [1]. 10. The Recruiter performs 4 STEP Actions and marks them on their secret board as '2,' '3,' '4,' and '5' [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook · p.3 · RECRUITER SETUP

🔧 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 207 ms · ask 8652 ms · total 64408 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 55539 ms · generation 8869 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "RECRUITER SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 410}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 410 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 410 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 05:06

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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	Advance Time Token	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	RECRUITER SETUP	p.3	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	Using SHIFT TM Modules	p.9	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	Recruiter's Turn · Recording Hidden Movement · Recruiter Action · STEP action · MPORTANT:	p.4	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	REVEAL action · SHAKEDOWN action · IMPORTANT:	p.8	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	RECRUITER SETUP	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	Extra Immortal Move · Draw New Immortal Feature Cards	p.6	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	Packing up the SHIFT TM System · All Packages Unlocked · Solo and Co-op	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 Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game.” — Rulebook (corpus doc 410)	RECRUITER SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 207 ms · first delta 5455 ms · total 64408 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 55539 ms · retrieval 207 ms · ask 8652 ms · gateway work 8869 ms · total 64408 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4017
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 354
tok/sec: 105.5 tok/sec — 354 output tokens in 3.357 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 22s 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 339), 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.