Hi all,
Thank you so much for any help you can offer! I've been playing Avadon: The Black Fortress for awhile now. I just took on the "Nightshade": wolf quest in the Kva last night, where I am to encounter the pack and kill them. This was after I defeated the Titan Army, and completed the Elder's sidequest.
A very peculiar series of things happened. First, I raced my characters up to the northwestern edge of the map to double-check a chest that appeared closed, and my main character seemed to temporarily disappear, but then she reappeared again. I left Goldcrag to enter the Kva Lands to find Nightshade. Upon my encounter with the strange, green wolf, my main character was immediately enveloped into darkness -- she became outside of the entire map territory, and nothing was clickable. Interestingly, the other two characters also became pitched into blackness, but when I reloaded my save file (which I saved, just before encountering the wolf), my main character had appeared to be permanently off of the map screen and in darkness. The other two characters still existed, but when I returned back to Goldcrag and attempted several trials, including entering and leaving the Titan Lands, Goldcrag, etc., nothing brought the main character back. Also, the Avadon pylon in Goldcrag told me, upon my attempting to return back to Avadon to see if that would reset the whole madness, "Can't move here from where you are". Which is, apparently, in outer space. So, I tried the autosave, and the same thing happened. Upon repeated attempts of opening both of these files, I found that most of the time, my other two main characters would become pitched into darkness and thrown off the map as well, so that nothing was functional, and no one anywhere to be found. Again, I tried to encounter the green wolf Nightshade, and, true to its deadly name, it yet again re-immersed ALL of my characters into immediate darkness, into the void.
A couple of things I'd like to honestly disclose, out of being new to troubleshooting glitches like this, and working on Macs in general (I have a Macbook Pro Retina 2015, no updated graphics card, 16 GB of RAM, running 10.14 Mojave OS.).
Firstly, I downloaded this game from the "MacGameStore", an app built into the MacBook. I read that I should uninstall and then reinstall the game for troubleshooting, but I'm concerned: will this delete all of my save files?? I do have prior save files from this game, but I am hoping I can somehow recover this one, so I don't lose about three weeks work of progress... that would totally demotivate me to continue playing. D:
So, will I keep all of my save files if I uninstall and reinstall the game?
Also, the MacGameStore has apparently discontinued this game. It tells me I can still "play and install it". However, I'm unsure if that means I can also uninstall it, reinstall, etc. without any issues coming up.
Again, I'm not a software or game expert.
I really appreciate your help! I love this game, and I hope I can get my progress back! Nightshade sure is an apt name for this wolf to be reckoned with. I could not find this glitch on the site.
Thank you.