The only place the blessings deck goes is into the blessings discard pile. The blessings deck and blessings discard pile are only used to keep time and the physical cards to not enter into the players hands or anything. (The game mechanics of the cards may enter depending on what certain cards read... but only the rules of them... the physical cards remain separate.
All other cards in play go to the general discard pile for each character if used from your hand.
so each turn I do not attempt to obtain the blessing I turned over? Is that right?
Correct. The blessings timer deck is not something you try to acquire. If you find a blessing in a Location deck while exploring you can try and get that one.
Really? We distributed blessings from the box. I will have to reread that. I like the penalty for the villain escaping.
I see, it is only if you don't defeat him. We were still doing it wrong, because we shuffled him back into his location.
"If any locations are not closed, the villain escapes. If you defeated the villain, count the number of open locations, subtract 1, and retrieve that number of random blessings from the box. Shuffle the villain in with those blessings, then deal 1 card to each open location and shuffle those location decks. If you did not defeat the villain, do the same thing, but retrieve the blessings from the blessings deck instead of from the box."