… You have 2 boxes to open. You do 2 fast (no killing involved) quests while waiting for RF to pop. In that RF you get kill #20 AND Fatality #5 on the last boss. So you have 4 daily tasks complete and only one buff to show for it.
I spent the next 30 to 40 minutes trying to get an unchained going before I went to work, but nothing.
I’ve been in the same situation as you … and after that happened once I learnt my lesson.
If I have two or three boxes to open then I find a set of low level npc I can safely kill with white hits to get my 20 kills without risk of fatalities (even on a caster - when I’m getting close to the 20 kills but haven’t already got the fatality buff then I kill one npc at a time with spells or even switch to melee white hits). The 20 kills should be fast. The fatalities can take more effort, so I usually try to get those whilst doing a couple of quests.
Spamming the slam instant combo from level 2 or so is a nice way to do it also, you can instantly interrupt it and start the combo right after (pressing W and the combo starter rapidly at the same time so to say) that again until you land a finisher.