Ruling — Atlantis Rising (Second Edition)

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To win the game, you must collect resources and build all the Cosmic Gate components in the Blueprint before all 37 island tiles flood.[1] The game is played over a series of rounds, with each round consisting of the following four phases:

1. **Place Atlanteans**: Players place all Atlanteans from their councilor's pool onto empty spaces on the Island or Cosmic Gate board.[1] There is no turn order during this phase, and players may place them simultaneously or in any order they choose; if a dispute arises, the starting player determines the placement.[1] Each island tile (except the center tile) has a limit on how many Atlanteans it can support.[1]

2. **Suffer Misfortunes**: Beginning with the starting player and proceeding clockwise, each player must draw and resolve one misfortune card.[1] Each misfortune must be fully resolved before moving to the next player.[1] If a misfortune card requires a choice, all players may discuss it, but the player who drew the card has the final authority.[2]

3. **Take Actions**: All Atlanteans remaining after the misfortunes phase take the actions associated with their placement.[2] Players collectively decide the order in which these actions are resolved, with the starting player deciding in the event of a dispute.[2]

4. **Endure the Wrath of the Gods**: (The sources identify this as the fourth phase of a round, but do not provide specific gameplay steps for this phase).[1]

After all actions are resolved, all Atlanteans are returned to the player's councilor pool.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.6 · introductory game mode · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes

[2] RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.7 · up to your knees in water? · Flooding · 3. Take actions

🔧 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 91 ms · ask 3753 ms · total 3845 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3845 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 4, "score": 0.048387, "snippet": "This setup is for playing with 4 to 7 people. If you'd like to know about the changes to setup for lower player counts, please refer to pages 14 and 15. 1 Set up the island of Atlantis by laying out its tiles as shown. 2 Place the mystic barriers in their plastic stands. Place these, the resources (", "headingPath": "introductory game mode", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.046394, "snippet": "6 6 To win the game, collect resources and build all the Cosmic Gate components in the Blueprint before all 37 island tiles flood. The game is played over a series of rounds, with each round separated into 4 phases, as outlined below. PLACE ATLANTEANS SUFFER MISFORTUNES TAKE ACTIONS ENDURE THE WRATH", "headingPath": "introductory game mode · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.045285, "snippet": "To build a gate component, players must have placed one or more Atlanteans on one of the spaces in the center of the Cosmic Gate board . One space on this board, and several on completed components, are marked with a '5+'. This means these spaces are only available when playing with 5 or more player", "headingPath": "Build Components", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.045235, "snippet": "During setup, shuffle and create a stack of the unused councilor boards, called the councilor stack. Each round the starting player will receive the Hologram. No changes to setup or gameplay. For a three-player game, adjust the setup and gameplay as follows: during setup, each player receives four A", "headingPath": "The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "8 Place 2 followers of each selected color as well as the volunteers in the supply area of the Wrath of the Gods track. Return any unused player pieces to the box. 9 Place the Cosmic Gate board near the Island board. 10 The player who most recently went swimming becomes the starting player and takes", "headingPath": "introductory game mode", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "The gods are furious with the people of Atlantis, who have embraced technology and mysticism over worship of the divine. But the futile resistance of these mortals, who labor to save themselves, even as their home sinks beneath the waves, merely serves to enrage the gods further. In the Endure the W", "headingPath": "4. Endure the wrath of the gods", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "For a one-player game, vary the setup and gameplay as follows: During setup, take five Atlanteans of one color (4 followers and 1 Leader), and set another three into the Atlantean supply. You may control up to seven total Atlantean followers. Take the Hologram and Automaton pieces and place them wit", "headingPath": "Solo Variant", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.030478, "snippet": "The libraries of Atlantis are the very best in the world, containing the wisdom of an advanced civilization (and some of its most powerful artifacts as well!). While some may believe it folly to retreat into these stacks of books and scrolls when the island is sinking around them, wise councilors re", "headingPath": "Libraries · Artifacts", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "introductory game mode · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "up to your knees in water? · Flooding · 3. Take actions", "sharpsignalDocId": 643}]
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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.92829 of 1283 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 09:12

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	0.048387 (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 · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes	p.6	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
#3	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Build Components	p.11	0.045285 (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)	The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players	p.14	0.045235 (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)	introductory game mode	p.4	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
#6	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	4. Endure the wrath of the gods	p.7	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
#7	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Solo Variant	p.14	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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Libraries · Artifacts	p.10	0.030478 (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)	introductory game mode	p.4	#1	0.048387 (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)	The Hologram · 4-7 players · 3 players · 2 players	p.14	#4	0.045235 (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)	Build Components	p.11	#3	0.045285 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	introductory game mode · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes	p.6	#2	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
#5	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	up to your knees in water? · Flooding · 3. Take actions	p.7	#9	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
#6	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	#10	0.027972 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Libraries · Artifacts	p.10	#8	0.030478 (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 Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	Solo Variant	p.14	#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

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 · Object of P la y · 1. Place Atlanteans · 2. Suffer misfortunes	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 643)	up to your knees in water? · Flooding · 3. Take actions	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 91 ms · first delta 2165 ms · total 3845 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 91 ms · ask 3753 ms · gateway work 3845 ms · total 3845 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3452
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 335
tok/sec: 205.6 tok/sec — 335 output tokens in 1.629 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s 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 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.