Ruling — The 7th Citadel

You asked

How do I play?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: The 7th Citadelbg-286063-en-1e

I looked through The 7th Citadel's rulebook and couldn't find a solid answer to that one — and I'd rather tell you so than guess at your table. Try asking it another way, or ask me about setup, turns, or how the game ends: those I know cold.

The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook · p.25

/two.lnum/five.lnum Saving the game You may save the game only once during each scenario. You may save the game at any time as long as the bookmark is in the Threat Booklet, all conscious characters are on the same Terrain card, and no player is: - Reading a dialogue in the Dialogue Book. - Performi

RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook · p.22

/two.lnum/two.lnum To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions) take the move action To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions) take the To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions) take the To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions

RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook · p.18

/one.lnum/eight.lnum Read a dialogue ### The active player opens the Dialogue Book and goes to the indicated numbered paragraph. They read it – out loud if they wish – and apply any applicable effects (new paragraph to read, action to take, choice to make, etc.). If a dialogue contains a mandatory a

RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook · p.10 · 1. Choose the active player and the action to be taken

Each turn, one player is collectively chosen to be the 'active player'. They choose the available action they wish to take. This action will always be represented by an icon in a white square -The Terrain card 1 their figure is standing on. -A Temporary event card visible on one of the following: -A

RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook · p.24

Take this card and, after revealing it, give it to the player of your choice. You decide to focus on some of your skills at the expense of others. One player returns 2 cards – or two players each return card – from their hand, their Action Deck or their Discard Pile. +oned reÀe[eV wiOO maNe aOO the

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below

warm abstain

this ruling — W1 — generic warm abstain · receipt: none (generic)

corpus profile

live,vps

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 91 ms · ask 5336 ms · total 11109 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 5680 ms · generation 5429 ms

retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read

[{"page": 25, "score": 0.044337, "snippet": "/two.lnum/five.lnum Saving the game You may save the game only once during each scenario. You may save the game at any time as long as the bookmark is in the Threat Booklet, all conscious characters are on the same Terrain card, and no player is: - Reading a dialogue in the Dialogue Book. - Performi", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 22, "score": 0.044237, "snippet": "/two.lnum/two.lnum To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions) take the move action To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions) take the To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions) take the To move your figure on the Board, you must (with exceptions", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.043549, "snippet": "/one.lnum/eight.lnum Read a dialogue ### The active player opens the Dialogue Book and goes to the indicated numbered paragraph. They read it – out loud if they wish – and apply any applicable effects (new paragraph to read, action to take, choice to make, etc.). If a dialogue contains a mandatory a", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "Each turn, one player is collectively chosen to be the 'active player'. They choose the available action they wish to take. This action will always be represented by an icon in a white square -The Terrain card 1 their figure is standing on. -A Temporary event card visible on one of the following: -A", "headingPath": "1. Choose the active player and the action to be taken", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 24, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Take this card and, after revealing it, give it to the player of your choice. You decide to focus on some of your skills at the expense of others. One player returns 2 cards – or two players each return card – from their hand, their Action Deck or their Discard Pile. +oned reÀe[eV wiOO maNe aOO the ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "You will choose your character and their starting skills during the introductory scenario ' A new beginning '. When you have finished reading the rules and are ready to begin a new adventure, open the introductory scenario's booklet to page 3 and read until the booklet tells you to stop. 1 2 3 9 9 0", "headingPath": "Begin a new adventure", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "The active player resolves the 4 steps of the action: Gear up , Draw , Result , and Consequence (see ' Action resolution steps ' p. 12 ). Start a new turn A new turn begins with a new active player being appointed. It may be the player from the previous turn, if all players agree. If you cannot reac", "headingPath": "3. Resolve the action", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "/one.lnum /two.lnum /three.lnum /four.lnum /five.lnum /six.lnum /seven.lnum Golden rule! You may not look at the contents of the cards, Threat Booklets, and Dialogue Book until the game invites you to do so. You will choose your character and their starting skills during the introductory scenario “A", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 710}]

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 710 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true

base rulebook doc 710 boosted

answered-before recall

no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough

similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)

debug row retained until

Nov 23, 2026 17:02 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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.25	0.044337 (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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.22	0.044237 (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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.18	0.043549 (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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)	1. Choose the active player and the action to be taken	p.10	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
#5	RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.24	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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)	Begin a new adventure	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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)	3. Resolve the action	p.10	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
#8	RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.7	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

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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.22	#2	0.044237 (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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.22	#10	0.029469 (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
#3	RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.17	#9	0.029727 (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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)	3. Resolve the action	p.10	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.25	#1	0.044337 (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
#6	RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.18	#36	0.014286 (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 The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)		p.24	#5	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
#8	RULEBOOK The 7th Citadel — Rulebook (corpus doc 710)	Overview and object of the game · You win! · You lose…	p.3	#12	0.026121 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 91 ms · first delta 5287 ms · total 11109 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 5680 ms · retrieval 91 ms · ask 5336 ms · gateway work 5429 ms · total 11109 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3795
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 134.3 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.067 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 1s 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 7s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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 644), 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.