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So I sort of have a silly question regarding Iesha. I understand that beating her will allow you to narrow down or pinpoint where the Skinsaw Man is. However, her second ability of reducing the difficulty of checks against him by 5 on that turn confuses me a bit.

I was under the impression that you can only move at the beginning of your turn, before doing any exploration (or at the end of your turn if you're Amiri). You also only potentially face Iesha when you encounter a Haunt.

So with all that in mind, it appears that beating Iesha for her ability to reduce the Skinsaw Man's difficulty check would only happen in a very specific circumstance. You'd have to encounter the Skinsaw Man, temporarily close all other locations except one, beat him so he runs to that location, manage to have Kyra draw the Haunt in that location deck, roll high enough to summon Iesha, beat Iesha, pull the Skinsaw Man to the top of the location deck that you're currently at, and then have a blessing/ally allowing you to explore again to encounter him.

This seems... extremely convoluted to me. I have a feeling I'm reading something wrong here.

The intent with numerically progressive feats seems pretty clear, especially since they don't stack (only the highest applies).

For the weapons/armour thing, I just look at Amiri's character card for precedent. She starts off with Light Armour, can get Heavy Armour but doesn't start with it, and has Weapons. They are still arranged in that order though, which leads me to believe that they don't depend on each other.