1st: Put your pawn in any forest.
2nd: Shuffle the quest deck. Draw 3 *quests to deal out nearby
3rd: put the 4 "R" items under the ruins randomly, unless a non-vagabond has done so.
4th: Put your assigned character card in your Character Card slot. Put the listed "S" items in your Satchel and on their matching tracks, as needed.
5th: put *relationship markers for non-Vagabond factions in play on the Indifferent space of Relationships (after setup).