Ruling — Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fallbg-364655-en-1e

To play, follow these procedures:

Order of Play

1. Each turn, a player draws a chit from the bag to see what happens next: [1]

2. If an enemy chit is drawn, place it in the spent chits area and trigger the ability next to the matching token on an enemy sheet: [2][1]

3. If a Seeker chit is drawn, place it in the spent chits area, and the Seeker shown on the chit takes a turn: [3][1]

4. If a heart chit is drawn, place it in an empty space on the time track: [2]

5. If a Darkness chit is drawn, place it in an empty space on the time track and trigger the matching Darkness ability token next to an enemy sheet: [2][4]

6. When all 4 spaces on the time track are full of heart and/or Darkness chits, reset the Destiny bag by returning all spent chits and chits on the time track to the bag and shaking it: [2]

A Seeker's Turn

1. You may move your Seeker standee 1 space either before or after you act: [5][3]

2. You must either play 1 action card from your hand and do what it says, or pass and either draw or discard 1 card: [5]

3. After resolving an action card, place it in your discard pile (unless it has the Disposable trait, in which case you return it to its source): [3][6]

4. After moving and acting, check your hand to ensure you have at least 1 action card left; if so, your turn ends: [6]

Boosts

1. Boost cards are played outside of your turn and cannot be played on your own turn: [5]

2. Each other player may play 1 boost per action or attack: [5][3]

3. You cannot play a boost to defend against an attack targeting you: [5]

4. A boost must match the color of the action or attack it is played on (unless the action is white or two-colored, in which case a boost can match either color): [5][3][7]

5. A block boost must match the color of the attack it is played on and can reduce damage for an ally: [5]

6. A damage boost must match the color of the action it is played on and increases an ally's attack damage: [5]

7. A move boost must match the color of the action it is played on and allows an ally to move 1 extra space: [5]

8. A card boost must match the color of the action it is played on and allows an ally to draw or discard 1 card: [5]

9. A health boost must match the color of the action it is played on and allows an ally to regain health: [7]

10. A redraw boost is not played on actions or attacks and does not need to match a color: [7]

[1] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.9 · READING ABILITIES · ORDER OF PLAY

[2] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.10 · ORDER OF PLAY

[3] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.5 · COMBAT EXAMPLE

[4] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.13 · PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS · A SEEKER'S SPECIAL ABILITY · AN ENEMY'S TURN

[5] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.11 · A SEEKER'S TURN · MOVE · ACT · BLOCK BOOST · CARD BOOST

[6] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.6 · COMBAT EXAMPLE

[7] RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook · p.12 · HEALTH BOOST · REDRAW BOOST · PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 98 ms · ask 4792 ms · total 4892 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4892 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1202 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1202 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 0.90053 of 1900 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 13:27 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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.5	0.047643 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	READING ABILITIES · ORDER OF PLAY	p.9	0.047371 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	HEALTH BOOST · REDRAW BOOST · PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS	p.12	0.047163 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	A SEEKER'S TURN · MOVE · ACT · BLOCK BOOST · CARD BOOST	p.11	0.046432 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	ORDER OF PLAY	p.10	0.045956 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	BEING DEFEATED AND DEFEATING ENEMIES · OVERLAYS	p.16	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
#7	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	SETTING UP A BATTLE	p.3	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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.6	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

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 20 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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	A SEEKER'S TURN · MOVE · ACT · BLOCK BOOST · CARD BOOST	p.11	#4	0.046432 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.5	#1	0.047643 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	ORDER OF PLAY	p.10	#5	0.045956 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	HEALTH BOOST · REDRAW BOOST · PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS	p.12	#3	0.047163 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.6	#11	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
#6	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.7	#9	0.029387 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS · A SEEKER'S SPECIAL ABILITY · AN ENEMY'S TURN	p.13	#10	0.029236 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	READING ABILITIES · ORDER OF PLAY	p.9	#2	0.047371 (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 Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	READING ABILITIES · ORDER OF PLAY	p.9	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	ORDER OF PLAY	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS · A SEEKER'S SPECIAL ABILITY · AN ENEMY'S TURN	p.13	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	A SEEKER'S TURN · MOVE · ACT · BLOCK BOOST · CARD BOOST	p.11	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	COMBAT EXAMPLE	p.6	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall — Rulebook (corpus doc 1202)	HEALTH BOOST · REDRAW BOOST · PLAYING BOOSTS ON WHITE OR TWO-COLORED CARDS	p.12	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 98 ms · first delta 1511 ms · total 4892 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 98 ms · ask 4792 ms · gateway work 4892 ms · total 4892 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3616
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 659
tok/sec: 198.3 tok/sec — 659 output tokens in 3.323 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 23h, checked 0s 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 1132), 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.