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A Mage may not pass their turn if they have Spells or Physical Action Tokens remaining; they must be played if possible.[1]
During the Action Phase, Mages cast Spells to gain Power Points, inflict Damage on opponents, and create Instability to Destroy Rooms.[1] A turn may consist of the following:
1. Using Physical Actions, such as moving to a new Room.[2][3]
2. Activating a Room's effect.[2][1][4]
3. Casting Spells, which can include Standard Spells and Quick Spells.[2][1][3]
4. A Standard Spell may only be combined with the Quick Spell, in any order.[1]
5. A Mage cannot cast two Standard Spells during a single combination.[1]
6. Placing tokens, such as an Instability Token, into a Room when casting certain Spells.[2]
The turn of the next Mage proceeds in clockwise order.[3]
[1] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook · p.25
[2] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook · p.28
[3] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook · p.24
[4] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook · p.38
🔧 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 92 ms · ask 4363 ms · total 4457 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 4457 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
[{"page": 19, "score": 0.048916, "snippet": "Game Turn The game takes place over multiple Turns. Each Turn is divided into 6 phases: 1. Black Rose Phase 2. Study Phase 3. Preparation Phase 4. Action Phase 5. Evocation Phase 6. Clean-up Phase All Mages must complete each phase before any of them can move on to the next one. Tessa The Mage holdi", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.046175, "snippet": "Shuffle and put aside the remaining Quest Card and Event Card Decks until you need them for the next Moon Phases. The player who most recently has given or received a rose in real life takes the Crown Token (First Player). 8. Starting with the First Player (and proceeding clockwise from there) each ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 38, "score": 0.045037, "snippet": "Draw (): Draw the indicated number of cards from the top of the specified deck and add them to your hand. Eliminate: Remove an object permanently from the game, placing it back in the box. Heal (): Remove the indicated number of Damage Tokens of the player choice from the Mage’s Sheet or from an ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 35, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "At the end of the counting, if two or more Mages have the same number of Power Points, play continues with a playoff turn. All Mages play an extra Game Turn following the normal rules of the game. If at the end of this turn there is no winner yet, play continues with yet another Game Turn, and so on", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 34, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Black RoseRoom This is the final phase of the Game Turn. During this phase, Rooms are reset for Activation and checked for Instability, played Spells are disposed of, tokens are restored, and the board is prepared for the next Game Turn. If a Mage, or the Black Rose, has obtained enough Power Poin", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "4. Select a number of Mage’s Cell Tiles corresponding to the number of players in the game. Take the selected Mage’s Cell and shuffle them. Randomly place them face down into the positions shown in the figure below corresponding to the number of players. Do not flip them over yet. Now the Black Rose", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 21, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "Jaf'ar At any point during the Study Phase, a player may remove 1 Spell from their hand by discarding the undesired card to the discard pile of the School to which the Spell belongs (Custom Spells are instead set aside, to be added back to the player’s hand when the Moon Phase changes, see page 18.)", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}, {"page": 20, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "3. Starting from the First Player, each Mage who doesn’t have any Quests draws a Quest Card from the Deck of the current Moon Phase. ♦ If you dislike one or more of your Quests, you can discard one or both of them at the beginning of the Black Rose Phase. The Black Rose gains Power Points equal to t", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 588}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 588 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 588 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 0.88754 of 658 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until
Nov 16, 2026 11:01

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.19 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)) 300
#2 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.16 0.046175 (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 Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.38 0.045037 (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 Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.35 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
#5 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.34 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
#6 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.15 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 Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.21 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 Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.20 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 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 59 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 atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.28 #33 0.010989 (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
#2 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.28 #28 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
#3 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.25 #25 0.012195 (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
#4 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.35 #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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#5 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.38 #31 0.011364 (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 Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.24 #17 0.013699 (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 Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.34 #5 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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#8 RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.19 #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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.25 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.28 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.24 no quote on the wire
[4] RULEBOOK Black Rose Wars — Rulebook (corpus doc 588) p.38 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 92 ms · first delta 3379 ms · total 4457 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 92 ms · ask 4363 ms · gateway work 4457 ms · total 4457 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
4634
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
209
tok/sec
203.7 tok/sec — 209 output tokens in 1.026 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 18s 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 520), 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.