Ruling — Arcadia Quest: Inferno

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Arcadia Quest: Infernobg-179803-en-1e

To setup the game, follow these steps:

**Guild Setup**

1. Choose your Guild.[1]

2. Choose or Draft 3 Heroes.[1]

3. Get the 5 Starter Deck cards.[1]

**Scenario Setup**

1. Once a scenario is chosen, separate the amount of each requested component before setting up the game board.[2]

2. Place the 9 gaming tiles with the same orientation presented on the scenario map.[2]

3. Place the door tokens as indicated on the scenario map, noting that some start with the 'closed' side up and others with the 'open' side up.[2]

4. Place the portal tokens with the correct side up as indicated on the scenario map.[2]

5. Shuffle all Brimstone cards, separate the requested amount, and distribute them on the indicated Spaces on the map, face down.[2]

6. Place the requested Quest tokens in the indicated spaces with the colored side up.[3]

7. Shuffle the 1s4 Exploration tokens face down, randomly pick the number indicated by the scenario, and place them on the indicated spaces of the board, face down.[3]

8. Shuffle the 5 Spawn tokens face down, separate the number requested by the scenario, place them in the indicated spaces on the map, and then flip the tokens on the board.[3]

9. Gather the requested Monster figures and place them in the spaces indicated on the map.[3]

10. Arrange the Monster cards for all listed Monsters next to the game board, using only the card for the level equal to the number of the scenario being played.[3]

11. Take the Quest cards listed in the scenario and arrange them next to the game board.[3]

12. If the scenario description indicates Reward cards associated with a Quest card, tuck them under that Quest card.[3]

13. Place the Spawn tile next to the game board.[4]

14. Place the piles of Wound tokens, Death tokens, Damnation tokens, and Coins, as well as the Attack and Defense dice, in a common area around the game board within reach of all players.[4]

15. Randomly assign Starting Areas to each player by placing one Guild token from each player in a dice bag or closed hand and randomly placing one token next to each Starting Area.[4]

16. Players must sit around the table in the same order as their Starting Areas.[4]

17. Each player places their Hero figures in any of the indicated Spaces of their Starting Area.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook · p.40 · GUILD SETUP · Hero Activation (in any order): · Rest · OTHER RULES · MONSTER ACTIVATION · QUESTS

[2] RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook · p.10 · SCENARIO SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook · p.11 · SCENARIO SETUP

[4] RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook · p.12 · SCENARIO SETUP

Answer in hand — your move.

🔧 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 204 ms · ask 10485 ms · total 10691 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10691 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 40, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GUILD SETUP · Hero Activation (in any order): · Rest · OTHER RULES · MONSTER ACTIVATION · QUESTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 1006}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SCENARIO SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 1006}, {"page": 11, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SCENARIO SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 1006}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SCENARIO SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 1006}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1006 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1006 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 0.91099 of 1865 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 21, 2026 17:03 UTC

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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.10	0.04866 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.12	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
#3	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.11	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
#4	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SPAWNING MONSTERS	p.24	0.045956 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	ACTIVATING MONSTERS	p.29	0.045688 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	GUILD SETUP · Hero Activation (in any order): · Rest · OTHER RULES · MONSTER ACTIVATION · QUESTS	p.40	0.045262 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	■ SELF SACRIFICE	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
#8	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP · CHARACTER · ALLY · ENEMY · CLOSE	p.13	0.02971 (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 80 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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.10	#1	0.04866 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.11	#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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	QUESTS QUESTS	p.28	#9	0.029412 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	GUILD SETUP · Hero Activation (in any order): · Rest · OTHER RULES · MONSTER ACTIVATION · QUESTS	p.40	#6	0.045262 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)		p.39	#18	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
#6	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)		p.4	#11	0.028021 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP · CHARACTER · ALLY · ENEMY · CLOSE	p.13	#8	0.02971 (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 Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.12	#2	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	GUILD SETUP · Hero Activation (in any order): · Rest · OTHER RULES · MONSTER ACTIVATION · QUESTS	p.40	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.11	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Arcadia Quest: Inferno — Rulebook (corpus doc 1006)	SCENARIO SETUP	p.12	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 204 ms · first delta 6577 ms · total 10691 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 204 ms · ask 10485 ms · gateway work 10691 ms · total 10691 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3290
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 541
tok/sec: 133.4 tok/sec — 541 output tokens in 4.055 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 22s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 0s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 936), 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.