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So I'm attempting the most recent Season solo, as I tend to do, and I already have an archenemy - the Baited Jewel Box barrier. It's the one that shuffle some extra treasure in your location if you examine it, and gives you 1-2 items and possibly some poison damage if you defeat it. That's not why I am growing to dread seeing it.
Unlike most caches, the BJB does not optionally banish if you fail it. And it's checks are all skills that many characters lack, so you're rolling a d4. Against a veteran bane, so we're looking at a 7 difficulty on that d4 in AD1, just getting worse as we go.. Technically possible with a blessing, but it's already cost me a scenario when I ran out of blessings and it was the last card left in a location. It was actually the last card left in the scenario(no villain).
This post is mostly just to vent, I've been having a lot of fun with the new season. I'm rolling Salim from the inquisitor deck solo, so now that I've got a power feat I've at least got a free d4 against the cursed box. I've already had two situations where I was on the brink of death but pulled through, there's a lot of ways to take a d4 damage in this set.
Not looking forward to AD6 BJB with Disable difficulty of 12 though.
If it's any consolation, the Baited Jewel Box is my archenemy, too.
Longer term, it'll turn up more rarely. Salim's d8 will also really help with it. Short term... it may be worth taking the Scarab Buckler and Tablet of Languages Lost, both of which can assist against it. There are other trap busting cards in the set, but relying on location or trader kindness is a rough deal :)