Ruling — Lands of Galzyr

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Lands of Galzyrbg-281474-en-1e

1. If there are 2 or more players, choose whether you want to play competitively or co-operatively.[1][2]

2. Place the global status cards faceup within everyone's view and read them, as some affect the setup.[1][2]

3. Place the game board in the middle of the playing area, showing either the summer or winter side according to the month global status card.[1][2]

4. Place the location cards and any local status cards on the game board on their appropriate places.[1][2]

5. Place the quest cards public side up in a row within everyone's reach to form the noticeboard.[1][2]

6. For each quest on the noticeboard, place a quest token on the corresponding pickup location on the game board.[1][2]

7. Place the remaining quest tokens near the noticeboard.[1][2]

8. Place the event cards facedown within everyone's reach to form the event deck (this deck is not shuffled during setup).[1][2]

9. Place the card trays holding the library, vault, quest slot, and save slots within everyone's reach.[2]

10. Each player chooses an adventurer and takes all cards from their adventurer's save slot, but keeps them aside until step 11.[2]

11. Take all cards from the global save slot and sort them by card type.[2]

12. Place each player's prestige token on the 0 slot on the prestige track.[3][4]

13. Gather all dice, skill marks, and timer tokens together within everyone's reach.[3][4]

14. Open the Book of Adventures and use it to randomise the starting day.[3][4]

15. Place the day token on the appropriate slot on the top row of the calendar.[3][4]

16. For each timed effect in any order, place an unused timer token on the calendar as many days forward from the day token as the number in the timer box shows, then place the token's pair on the number in the timer box.[3][4]

17. For any timed effects, repeat the instructions in the previous step, placing the new timer tokens on top of the earlier ones if on the same day.[3][4]

18. Each player takes the adventurer board and figure matching their adventurer.[3][4]

19. Place your item cards faceup below your board, and status cards and companion cards faceup to the side.[3][4]

20. Quest cards are kept in players' hands.[3][4]

21. The player who has most recently completed a task given by another person receives the starting player token, or you can randomise the starting player.[3][4]

22. The starting player places their adventurer figure on any location card on the game board.[3][4]

23. The starting player may pick up quests matching their location from the noticeboard, filling it to 3 after each pickup, and must abandon excess quests if they have 4 or more.[3][4]

24. Other players repeat the same process in clockwise order.[3][4]

[1] RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook · p.10

[2] RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook · p.10 · Event cards

[3] RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook · p.11 · setup

[4] RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook · p.11

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 255 ms · ask 9295 ms · total 9556 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9556 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1014 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1014 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 0.88487 of 2241 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 20, 2026 00:53 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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.10	0.048652 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Event cards	p.10	0.047712 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.11	0.046394 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	setup	p.11	0.046032 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Digital storybook	p.4	0.045724 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Resetting the game · Reset an adventurer · Reset the whole game	p.18	0.044192 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Round overview · Saving the game · Pack the game into the box · Continue playing	p.17	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
#8	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.2	0.030214 (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 49 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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	setup	p.11	#4	0.046032 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.11	#3	0.046394 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	setup · Adventure phase · Round overview	p.12	#9	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	RULEBOOK	p.1	#11	0.027289 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.1	#12	0.026021 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Round overview · Saving the game · Pack the game into the box · Continue playing	p.17	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.10	#1	0.048652 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Event cards	p.10	#2	0.047712 (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 Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.10	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	Event cards	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)	setup	p.11	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Lands of Galzyr — Rulebook (corpus doc 1014)		p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 255 ms · first delta 5853 ms · total 9556 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 255 ms · ask 9295 ms · gateway work 9556 ms · total 9556 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3672
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 706
tok/sec: 195.5 tok/sec — 706 output tokens in 3.612 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 11s 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: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 944), 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.