Ruling — Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein

You asked

How do I setup the game?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Abomination: The Heir of Frankensteinbg-239472-en-1e

1. Place the Paris board in the center of the play area.[1]

2. Place the event board above the Paris board.[1]

3. Set the Leopold the Vast public square cadaver card to the side.[1]

4. Sort and shuffle all other cadaver cards by type to create 4 cadaver decks: Cemetery, Morgue, Hospital, and Public Square.[1]

5. Place the morgue deck face up on the Morgue location.[1]

6. Place the cemetery deck face down on the Cemetery location.[1]

7. Place all other decks face down off the board.[1]

8. Draw a number of cards from the hospital deck equal to the number of players and create a face up stack of those cards at the Hospital location.[1]

9. Shuffle the scoundrel cards and create a scoundrel deck off the right side of the board near the Docks location.[1]

10. Deal 3 scoundrel cards face up to the designated slots above the Docks.[1]

11. Shuffle the research cards and create a research deck off the right side of the board near the Academy location.[1]

12. Deal 2 research cards face up to the designated slots above the Academy.[1]

13. Shuffle the humanity cards and create a humanity deck off the left side of the board near the Saint-Roch location.[1]

14. Deal 2 humanity cards face up to the designated slots above Saint-Roch.[1]

15. Collect 6 random event cards and 4 random encounter cards and shuffle them together to form an event deck.[1]

16. Collect 2 additional random event cards and add them to the top of the event deck.[1]

17. Cover the event deck with the event cover card and place it on the event board.[1]

18. Place the Event markers nearby.[1]

19. Set the Captain meeple on the first space of the story track.[1]

20. Place the appropriate Bribe & Bump track on the Paris board, depending on player count.[1]

21. Randomly select 4 of the 6 possible bonus objective markers and place them face up on the Paris board, then return the remaining 2 to the box.[1]

22. Sort and create a supply within reach of all players for: Leyden jars, Ice blocks, Francs, Materials (sorted into 5 colors), Damage Markers, Alive Markers, Monster Part Tokens (sorted into heads, torsos, arms, and legs), Police Markers, and Shock dice.[1][2]

23. Give each player 1 random character card.[1][2]

24. Give each player 1 laboratory board with attribute dials assembled.[2]

25. Give each player 1 anatomy card.[2]

26. Give each player Francs equal to the number of players.[2]

27. Give each player 4 scientist meeples, 3 assistant meeples, and a player score marker matching their laboratory board color.[2]

28. Give each player 1 player reference card.[2]

29. Each player sets their laboratory attribute dials to 0 for Humanity, and 1 for Reputation and Expertise.[2]

30. Each player sets 1 scientist and 2 assistants on the designated slots on their character card, setting remaining meeples aside.[2]

31. Each player sets their score marker on the 0 space of the score track.[2]

32. Randomly determine the First Player and give them the first player creature meeple.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook · p.3 · Gam/alt_e Setup

[2] RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook · p.3 · Gam/alt_e Setup

🔧 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 108 ms · ask 7061 ms · total 7171 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7171 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gam/alt_e Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 843}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Gam/alt_e Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 843}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 843 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 843 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 0.88952 of 2462 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 17:29

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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Gam/alt_e Setup	p.3	0.047073 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)		p.3	0.046671 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)		p.3	0.046244 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Gam/alt_e Setup	p.3	0.045921 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	2. city phase · Placement Restrictions · Bump Track · Location Space Effect · 3. lab phase	p.4	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
#6	RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	1. event phase	p.4	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
#7	RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Build a Monster Part	p.4	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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)		p.3	0.030018 (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 52 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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Gam/alt_e Setup	p.3	#1	0.047073 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)		p.3	#3	0.046244 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)		p.1	#13	0.026614 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	shock dice icons	p.16	#22	0.012987 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	1. event phase	p.4	#6	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
#6	RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Round Order	p.4	#27	0.011765 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)		p.3	#8	0.030018 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Gam/alt_e Setup	p.3	#4	0.045921 (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 Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Gam/alt_e Setup	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein — Rulebook (corpus doc 843)	Gam/alt_e Setup	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 108 ms · first delta 3349 ms · total 7171 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 108 ms · ask 7061 ms · gateway work 7171 ms · total 7171 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3010
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 778
tok/sec: 205.6 tok/sec — 778 output tokens in 3.784 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 9s 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 778), 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.