Ruling — Fury of Dracula (Second Edition)

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Fury of Dracula (Second Edition)bg-20963-en-1e

Depending on whether you are playing as Dracula or a Hunter, the steps for a turn are as follows:

Dracula's Turn

1. Timekeeping Phase: Dracula advances the Day/Night marker one space clockwise on the track, unless he is in a sea zone.[1] If the marker moves from Small Hours to Dawn, Dracula advances his Vampire track by one and the Hunters advance their Resolve track by one.[1]

2. Movement Phase: Dracula moves in secret from place to place using a deck of Location cards.[2] He must play a card during this phase.[3]

3. Action Phase:

* Dracula must do one of two things: if there are Hunters in his current location, he must attack them as a group; if there are no Hunters in his location, he must place an encounter marker from his hand facedown on the Location card of his current location.[4]

* Dracula may decide to "mature" any encounter that was on a Location card that "dropped off" his Trail this turn by revealing it and enacting its "Matured:" effects.[4]

* Dracula refills his encounter hand to its maximum.[4]

A Hunter's Turn

1. Movement Phase: The Hunter may move to a new location by Road, Sea, or Rail.[3][2] A Hunter may choose not to move and remain in his current location unless he is at sea.[3]

2. Action Phase:

* The Hunter announces his current location to the Dracula player; if the corresponding card is in Dracula's Trail or Catacombs, it is revealed.[4]

* If there are encounters in the Hunter's current location, they must be resolved.[5] Dracula chooses one encounter, reveals it, and carries out its effects.[5] If there are more encounters and the first did not end the Hunter's turn, Dracula chooses and resolves a new encounter.[5]

* If Dracula is in the location, the Hunter must battle the Count.[2]

* If there are no encounters in the location, the Hunter may rest or resupply to recover Health or gain Item or Event cards.[2]

* The turn ends if there are no further encounters in the location, or if an encounter causes the turn to end (with an exception for Van Helsing, who may rest, resupply, or trade after an encounter unless the encounter specifically ends his turn or he fails to kill his opponent in combat).[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.7 · Timekeeping Phase

[2] RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.2 · Game Overview

[3] RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.8 · Example of Road Movement · Movement Phase · Hunter Movement · Dracula Movement · Road Movement (Hunter or Dracula) · Sea Movement (Hunter or Dracula)

[4] RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.14 · Action Phase · Dracula's Action Phase · 1. Take an Action · Attack · Place Encounter · 2. Maturing Encounters · …

[5] RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.14 · If There Are Encounters · If There Are No Encounters

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5693 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 803 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 803 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.92441 of 1786 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 4, 2026 17:49 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	6. Dracula's First Turn · 7. Normal Play Begins · The Game Round · 1. Dracula's Turn	p.7	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Delayed Over Papers · No Departures · Slow Train · Express Train	p.10	0.046635 (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 Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Example of Road Movement · Movement Phase · Hunter Movement · Dracula Movement · Road Movement (Hunter or Dracula) · Sea Movement (Hunter or Dracula)	p.8	0.045455 (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 Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Timekeeping Phase	p.7	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
#5	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Tracking Time in Combat	p.18	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
#6	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	If There Are Encounters · If There Are No Encounters	p.14	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
#7	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Dracula's Catacombs · Crossing His Own Trail · Sea Zone Cards	p.13	0.030159 (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 Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Express Train	p.11	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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 63 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	6. Dracula's First Turn · 7. Normal Play Begins · The Game Round · 1. Dracula's Turn	p.7	#1	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	If There Are Encounters · If There Are No Encounters	p.14	#6	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Example of Road Movement · Movement Phase · Hunter Movement · Dracula Movement · Road Movement (Hunter or Dracula) · Sea Movement (Hunter or Dracula)	p.8	#3	0.045455 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Game Overview	p.2	#13	0.026882 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Moving into a Hunter's Location · Example of Dracula's Hidden Movement	p.11	#11	0.028219 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Action Phase · Dracula's Action Phase · 1. Take an Action · Attack · Place Encounter · 2. Maturing Encounters · …	p.14	#10	0.028778 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Timekeeping Phase	p.7	#4	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Delayed Over Papers · No Departures · Slow Train · Express Train	p.10	#2	0.046635 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Timekeeping Phase	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Game Overview	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Example of Road Movement · Movement Phase · Hunter Movement · Dracula Movement · Road Movement (Hunter or Dracula) · Sea Movement (Hunter or Dracula)	p.8	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	Action Phase · Dracula's Action Phase · 1. Take an Action · Attack · Place Encounter · 2. Maturing Encounters · …	p.14	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 803)	If There Are Encounters · If There Are No Encounters	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 116 ms · first delta 3030 ms · total 5693 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 116 ms · ask 5573 ms · gateway work 5693 ms · total 5693 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2983
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 521
tok/sec: 200.6 tok/sec — 521 output tokens in 2.597 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 1s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 738), 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.