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1. Place the game board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. Shuffle the Exploration cards and form a face down deck on the Exploration Track [1]. 3. Shuffle the Lord cards and form a face down deck on the Lords space [1]. 4. Turn over the top six cards from the Lord deck and place them in the Court [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Abyss — Rulebook · p.2 · Contents & Setup · 35 Lords:
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outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile
live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings
search 300 ms · ask 4743 ms · total 5055 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 5055 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
[{"page": 10, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "When you have finished your mandatory actions, your turn is over. The player to your left now begins their turn, following the same steps as above. Players continue taking turns until one of the end-of-the-game conditions is met. The game ends when either of the following occurs: Any player recruits", "headingPath": "The End of your Turn · The End of the Game", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Place the game board in the middle of the table . 1 Shuffle the Exploration cards and form a face down deck on the Exploration Track . 2 71 Exploration cards (65 Allies & 6 Monsters): Back of the Exploration cards Front of the Allies Shuffle the Lord cards and form a face down deck on the Lords spac", "headingPath": "Contents & Setup · 35 Lords:", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Once you have decided to either add an Ally to your hand or fight a Monster, your turn ends. All Allies that remain on the Exploration Track are placed, face down, on the spaces matching their Race in the part of the board called the 'Council'. Any Monsters are placed in the Exploration discard pile", "headingPath": "End of Exploration: · Request Support From the Council", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "THE COUNCIL THE COURT THE EXPLORATION TRACK Place the ten Key tokens in a pile near the board 7 Shuffle the Monster tokens and place them, face down, by the game board . 5 Place the Threat token on the Threat Track as shown . 6 Each player takes one Pearl from the supply, storing it in one of the pl", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Then, they reveal a 4th card, which is bought by the 1st opponent for 2 Peals, as it's the 2nd Ally purchased this turn. Then the active player reveals 3 more cards that their opponents turn down or can no longer afford and which does not interest the active player either. But the 7th revealed card ", "headingPath": "If the revealed card is a Monster:", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Control Locations As soon as you gather three Keys (Keys are gained when you recruit a Lord with a Key symbol or by fighting a Monster while Exploration) you must immediately take control of a Location. 3 On Location cards, you will find: The name of the Location Which gives an indication on how to ", "headingPath": "Refill the Court: · A symbol :", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "You MUST first offer the other players the opportunity to buy this Ally from you: ask each player in turn, going clockwise. Each player can either pass or purchase the Ally. The first player who chooses to purchase the card pays its cost to you. Then, they add the Ally card to their hand. The cost t", "headingPath": "If the revealed card is an Ally: · Important: Each of your opponents can only purchase one Ally during your turn!", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "To be crowned King of Abyss you must have the most Influence Points ('IP') at the end of the game. Influence Points are mainly gained by affiliating Allies, recruiting Lords, and controlling Locations. Also, each Monster you slay during the game will earn you the gratitude of your peers-and an Influ", "headingPath": "Object of the Game · Game Overview", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}]
citations (raw)
[{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Contents & Setup · 35 Lords:", "sharpsignalDocId": 486}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 486 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 486 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 05:54

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) The End of your Turn · The End of the Game p.10 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) Contents & Setup · 35 Lords: p.2 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) End of Exploration: · Request Support From the Council p.6 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) p.3 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) If the revealed card is a Monster: 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) Refill the Court: · A symbol : p.9 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) If the revealed card is an Ally: · Important: Each of your opponents can only purchase one Ally during your turn! p.4 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 Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) Object of the Game · Game Overview 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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Abyss — Rulebook (corpus doc 486) Contents & Setup · 35 Lords: p.2 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 300 ms · first delta 4447 ms · total 5055 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 300 ms · ask 4743 ms · gateway work 5055 ms · total 5055 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
2767
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
78
tok/sec
137.6 tok/sec — 78 output tokens in 0.567 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 9s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 417), 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.