Ruling — Escape: The Curse of the Temple

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How do I activate a magic gem?

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Asked with: Escape: The Curse of the Templebg-113294-en-1e

To activate a magic gem, follow these steps:

1. Be inside a chamber containing one or more magic gem icons.[1]

2. Roll the required number of torch or key icons.[1] (Note: Some chambers may require specific die icons to enter and explore before activation is possible [2]).

3. If you are in a Totem Chamber, stack your dice in the middle of the chamber using only dice that show either a golden or black mask; stacking 5 dice activates 1 gem, while stacking 10 dice activates 2 gems.[3]

4. For linked chambers, ensure at least two such tiles have been discovered and at least one adventurer is present in at least two of these chambers simultaneously to roll the required icons.[4]

5. Once the required number of icons has been rolled, take a gem from the gem depot and place it on the appropriate gem icon.[1]

**Additional Rules for Activation:**

* **Cooperation:** Several adventurers inside a chamber with magic gem icons may join forces to obtain the required number of key or torch icons.[1] You may cooperate to activate 1 gem, but you must cooperate to activate 2 or 3 gems.[1]

* **Limitations:** If at least one gem in a chamber has already been activated, no adventurer may activate any further gems inside that specific chamber.[1] In the Totem Chamber, players can activate gems only once.[3]

* **Special Abilities:** A player with three black masks can use them to contribute 3 keys or 3 torches to activate magic gems in any chamber in the temple.[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook · p.8 · 3. Activate magic gems · A player can escape only if he is inside the exit chamber.

[2] RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook · p.4 · Index · Game components for the basic game · Summary and object of the game

[3] RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook · p.35 · QUEENIE: TOTEM CHAMBER · Game components and changes during set-up · The new 'Totem Chamber' · QUEENIE: THE CURSED GEMS · Changes during sequence of play

[4] RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook · p.14 · Changes during set-up Changes during set-up · Special features of linked chambers: · Special features of double chambers:

[5] RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook · p.21 · Activatable: · Permanent: · PRIEST

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 100 ms · ask 5248 ms · total 5351 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5351 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 775 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 775 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 0.91729 of 1209 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 13, 2026 12:17

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.

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#2	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Index · Game components for the basic game · Summary and object of the game	p.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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Activatable: · Permanent: · PRIEST	p.21	0.047123 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Changes during set-up Changes during set-up · Special features of linked chambers: · Special features of double chambers:	p.14	0.046696 (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
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#6	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	QUEENIE: TOTEM CHAMBER · Game components and changes during set-up · The new 'Totem Chamber' · QUEENIE: THE CURSED GEMS · Changes during sequence of play	p.35	0.043697 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	For a more challenging game	p.9	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
#8	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Calendar chamber: · Doomed calendar	p.33	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 40 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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	3. Activate magic gems · A player can escape only if he is inside the exit chamber.	p.8	#1	0.048916 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Index · Game components for the basic game · Summary and object of the game	p.4	#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
#3	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	The temple chambers · Magic gem icon · Entrance · Die icons with a red frame · Stairway entrance · The die icons	p.6	#5	0.045695 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	The actions · 1. Enter a chamber · 2. Discover a chamber	p.7	#11	0.028405 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Calendar chamber: · Doomed calendar	p.33	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	QUEENIE: TOTEM CHAMBER · Game components and changes during set-up · The new 'Totem Chamber' · QUEENIE: THE CURSED GEMS · Changes during sequence of play	p.35	#6	0.043697 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Activatable: · Permanent: · PRIEST	p.21	#3	0.047123 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Changes during set-up Changes during set-up · Special features of linked chambers: · Special features of double chambers:	p.14	#4	0.046696 (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 Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	3. Activate magic gems · A player can escape only if he is inside the exit chamber.	p.8	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Index · Game components for the basic game · Summary and object of the game	p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	QUEENIE: TOTEM CHAMBER · Game components and changes during set-up · The new 'Totem Chamber' · QUEENIE: THE CURSED GEMS · Changes during sequence of play	p.35	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Changes during set-up Changes during set-up · Special features of linked chambers: · Special features of double chambers:	p.14	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Escape: The Curse of the Temple — Rulebook (corpus doc 775)	Activatable: · Permanent: · PRIEST	p.21	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 100 ms · first delta 2804 ms · total 5351 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 100 ms · ask 5248 ms · gateway work 5351 ms · total 5351 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3937
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 339
tok/sec: 137.0 tok/sec — 339 output tokens in 2.474 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 55s 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 711), 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.