Ruling — Nemo's War (Second Edition)

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Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?

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Asked with: Nemo's War (Second Edition)bg-187617-en-1e

1. Place the game board on the table in front of you, leaving room between yourself and it for your Tableau [1]. 2. Select a Nemo Motive tile and place it face up in the Motives area of the board [1]. 3. Remove the Special Adventure (Act and Rising Action) and Finalé cards from the deck [1]. 4. Shuffle the Event cards and set them aside, face down [1]. 5. Shuffle the Finalé cards face down [1]. 6. Spread out the Prologue, Intermission, and Rising Action cards face up [1]. 7. Randomly select one Finalé card without revealing it, return the others to the box without examining them, and deal four Event cards on top of the chosen Finalé card; shuffle these five cards together and place them face down in the Draw Pile box at the top-left side of the game board [1]. 8. Shuffle the Rising Action card (A Hollow Explosion) with a specific number of face-down Event cards (based on Nemo's Motive) and place them face down on top of the cards already in the Draw Pile [1]. 9. Place the Second Intermission card (Act Three) face down on top of the Draw and Pile [1]. 10. Add more Event cards face down to the top of the Draw Pile (based on Nemo's Motive) and place the First Intermission card (Act Two) face down on top of the Draw Pile [1]. 11. Add six more Event cards face down to the top of the Draw Pile and place the Prologue card (Act One) on top of the Draw Pile [1]. 12. Place the remaining Event cards face down on the Adventure Deck space on the right side of the Notoriety track and place one Treasure Available gemstone on top of this stack [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.5 · 3. GAME 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 268 ms · ask 12344 ms · total 12622 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 12622 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3. GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 495}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 495 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 495 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 05:57

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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	6. EVENT PHASE AND TESTS · Act Cards	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	PLAY Event Cards · KEEP Event Cards	p.11	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	KEEP Event Cards · TEST Event Cards · 7. RESOLVING TESTS · TEST Procedure · Result	p.12	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)		p.1	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	Take a Look · No Peeking · Example · 4. DEFINITIONS AND CONVENTIONS · Character Resource · Die and Dice Rolls	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	A. Spread Out	p.15	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	Example · Turn Sequence · Spend · Tableau · X · Warship · …	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	Limiting Notoriety Gains · Placement Dice Roll · Placing Ship T okens	p.15	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 Nemo's War (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 495)	3. GAME SETUP	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 268 ms · first delta 9885 ms · total 12622 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 268 ms · ask 12344 ms · gateway work 12622 ms · total 12622 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3869
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 392
tok/sec: 147.0 tok/sec — 392 output tokens in 2.667 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 10s 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 426), 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.