Ruling — Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun

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

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Asked with: Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sunbg-297030-en-1e

1. Lay out the main game board in the middle of the table [1]. 2. Place the Obelisk Wheel on its designated location on the game board [1]. 3. Position the Obelisk through the holes in the Obelisk Wheel and game board [1]. 4. Set the Obelisk Wheel to a random position, ensuring its sections line up with the action areas [1]. 5. Locate the arrow on the Obelisk Wheel [1]. 6. Place the Scoring marker four sections clockwise from the arrow [1]. 7. Place another Scoring marker another four sections clockwise from the first (two sections away from the arrow) [1]. 8. Shuffle the Pillar tiles and place them in a face down stack next to the board, near the Ra action area [1]. 9. Draw 3 tiles and display them face up on the three spaces associated with the Ra action [1]. 10. Shuffle the Horus Bonus tiles and place them in random order onto the 6 spaces in the Horus action area [1]. 11. Place all Resources, Scribes, and Faith tokens to the side of the game board to form an accessible general supply [1]. 12. Place 1 Gold resource onto the two Statue spaces by the Temple Complex, the two Statue spaces above the workshops and quarries in the Osiris action area, and to the side of the second row of the Osiris action area [1]. 13. Shuffle the different decks of cards (Blessings, Technologies, and Decrees) separately and place each deck to the side of the game board [2]. 14. Create the Card Market by placing 2 Blessings and 1 Technology face up in the first section marked in I [2]. 15. Place 2 Blessings and 2 Technologies face up in the following section, marked in II [2]. 16. Randomly select starting cards for 2/3/4 players, displaying them face up on the table within easy view of all players [2]. 17. Lay out all 4 Destiny cards near the Starting cards [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook · p.6 · 1 PROGRESS MARKER

[2] RULEBOOK Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook · p.8 · 1 PROGRESS MARKER · A. Draft Starting cards:

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
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timings: search 278 ms · ask 13505 ms · total 13979 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 183 ms · generation 13796 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 509 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 509 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 06:00

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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	ROTATION · MAAT PHASE	p.11	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	B. Determine the initial Turn Order:	p.8	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	PURE, TAINTED, AND FORBIDDEN DICE · ONE ROUND OF PLAY · If you are last in Turn Order: · Otherwise (if you are not last In Turn Order):	p.10	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	Example 7:	p.12	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	If this was the second and final Scoring: · Example 10: · The game is now over! · Otherwise:	p.13	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	PURE, TAINTED, AND FORBIDDEN DICE	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	1 PROGRESS MARKER · A. Draft Starting cards:	p.8	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	If this was the second and final Scoring: · Otherwise:	p.32	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 Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	1 PROGRESS MARKER	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 509)	1 PROGRESS MARKER · A. Draft Starting cards:	p.8	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 278 ms · first delta 10723 ms · total 13979 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 183 ms · retrieval 278 ms · ask 13505 ms · gateway work 13796 ms · total 13979 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4216
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 441
tok/sec: 147.5 tok/sec — 441 output tokens in 2.989 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 4s 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 441), 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.