Ruling — Atlantis Rising (Second Edition)

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How do I setup the game?

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For a standard game (4-7 players), follow these steps:

1. Set up the island of Atlantis by laying out its tiles as shown.[1]

2. Place the mystic barriers in their plastic stands; place these, the resources (ore, Atlantium, gold, and crystal), mystic energy, and dice within easy reach of all players, near the game board.[1]

3. Shuffle the artifact cards separately from the other library cards and set aside 4 of them; return all other artifact cards to the game box.[1]

4. Combine the set aside artifact cards with all other library cards and shuffle to create the library deck, then place this deck face down near the library peninsula of the Island.[1]

5. Collect the number of Calm Seas and Controlled Flood cards corresponding to the desired level of difficulty (9 Calm Seas and 3 Controlled Floods are recommended for an introductory game), shuffle them into the misfortune deck, and place it near the board.[1]

6. Place the Wrath of the Gods track near the misfortune deck and place the wrath token on the zero (0) space.[1]

7. From the component tiles, collect all 5 marked with the letter A, along with Mystic Siphon (B), Matter Converter (B), Numinous Beacon (C), and Entropy Drive (C); place these tiles, and the Power Core, in a row near the board to form the Blueprint.[1]

8. Collect the councilor boards (assigning one player to be the Artificer on your first few plays) and have all remaining players choose or randomly distribute the remaining boards.[1]

9. Each player selects a player color and takes 2 followers, the Leader, and the player token of the corresponding color; each player also takes 2 mystic energy.[1]

10. Place 2 followers of each selected color as well as the volunteers in the supply area of the Wrath of the Gods track.[1]

11. Return any unused player pieces to the box.[1]

12. Place the Cosmic Gate board near the Island board.[1]

13. The player who most recently went swimming becomes the starting player and takes the starting player marker.[1]

**Additional Setup Variations:**

* **Three-player game:** During setup, each player receives four Atlanteans of their color (3 followers and 1 Leader) and sets another three into the Atlantean supply.[2]

* **Two-player game:** During setup, each player receives five Atlanteans of their color (4 followers and 1 Leader) and sets another three into the Atlantean supply; additionally, the starting player takes the Hologram piece in addition to their starting followers.[2]

* **One-player (Solo) game:** During setup, take five Atlanteans of one color (4 followers and 1 Leader), set another three into the Atlantean supply, and take the Hologram and Automaton pieces and place them with your starting Atlanteans.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.4 · introductory game mode

[2] RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.14 · The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players

[3] RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.14 · Solo Variant

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
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timings: search 415 ms · ask 8863 ms · total 9289 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9289 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 643 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 643 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 10, 2026 10:30

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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode	p.4	0.048172 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode	p.4	0.048131 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players	p.14	0.047379 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Solo Variant	p.14	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
#5	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	The Automaton · ADjuStinG Difficulty · Original design: · Revised edition design: · Development and production: · Illustration: · …	p.15	0.030886 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Build Components	p.11	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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes	p.6	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
#8	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	4. Endure the wrath of the gods	p.7	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 23 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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players	p.14	#3	0.047379 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Solo Variant	p.14	#4	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
#3	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	The Automaton · ADjuStinG Difficulty · Original design: · Revised edition design: · Development and production: · Illustration: · …	p.15	#5	0.030886 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)		p.1	#23	0.012048 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Elf Creek would like to thank our families and our lead playtesters and volunteers: · Q: How do effects like Ancient Atlas, Earthquake, and the Explorer's special ability interact? · Q: How do the cards Cipher of Expertise and Enigma of Alacrity work when a Leader is placed on a double space? · Q. Spirit Seal and Soul Terraformer both refer to followers, rather than Atlanteans. Can I use volunteers or Leaders on these worker locations? · Q: Can I use the Prediction Module to remove misfortune cards from the draw deck and the discard pile? · Q: How does the Priest work at the Cities? · …	p.16	#20	0.0125 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes	p.6	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode	p.4	#1	0.048172 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode	p.4	#2	0.048131 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players	p.14	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Solo Variant	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 415 ms · first delta 4429 ms · total 9289 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 415 ms · ask 8863 ms · gateway work 9289 ms · total 9289 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2880
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 634
tok/sec: 132.0 tok/sec — 634 output tokens in 4.802 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 28s 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: 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 576), 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.