I just started playing, and it was solo. There were no cards in the staging area. I drew the encounter card and it was "Driven by Shadow". I resolved the "surge" effect by drawing another encounter card but then another treachery card, "The Necromancer's Reach" came out. Do I continue to draw until a card can go into the staging area? Or do I resolve questing as if the enemy number to beat is 0?
Does "Surge" effect continue if the next card pulled was another treachery card and there are still no other cards in the staging area?
When you reveal a card from the encounter deck, if it's an enemy or location you trigger its keywords and any when revealed abilities and then they go to the staging area. If it's a treachery then you just discard it after resolving it's effects. This still counts as revealing your one card from the deck, so you are questing against 0 threat in the staging area in this case.
Thank you for the quick response and clarification!