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Both Avadon and Avernum are working for me now on Steam. I didn't see a Steam update, but maybe there was an update for the games or something on Steam's servers. Hopefully they're working for everyone else as well.

Both Avadon and Avernum are working for me now on Steam. I didn't see a Steam update, but maybe there was an update for the games or something on Steam's servers. Hopefully they're working for everyone else as well.

This same bug is affecting Avadon as well. Both games refuse to launch for me. I haven't tried the complete wipe and reinstall of everything Steam yet.

I'm currently having the same problem on OS X 10.6.8. It just started after a steam client update yesterday - I had been playing the game through steam just fine before that. So they must have messed something up with the latest steam update. The new Avernum has the same problem. I put in a ticket with Steam support, so hopefully something will get worked out soon.

I was able to do it a few times without any trouble. I kited her without hitting her at all though, so I don't know if that makes any difference. I just got combat started and ran away, so none of the sentinels were active. It could also be that two other party members were across the map at the start of combat, so she was just chasing them and didn't reset because they hadn't moved.

I came up with an easy (well, really not quite as hard) strategy for Zephyrine. Basically, take your party to some far away corner of the map; the ogre stronghold in the lower right works well because of the gates. Enter combat, and just send one of the party members to Zephyrine. I used Shima, but anyone would work as long as you have a way to teleport (skill or scarab). Make sure that the party member by Zephyrine is the leader or first member of the party. Then, end combat and talk to her to start combat with her. Teleport as far away as you can and run/teleport back to the rest of your party. Zephyrine will follow you, and since you haven't damaged her, none of her guardians will be active. Once she gets into the ogre stronghold, close the grates and pull her away from the grates. Now you can kill her at your leisure, and her guardians will activate but not be able to get to her and heal her. Be warned that once you do kill her, the guardians are still roaming around looking to kill you, so you will have to fight them. If you're lucky, you should finish Zephyrine before they're at the grates and be able to escape. Also, the guardians aren't nearly as tough without Zephyrine hurting you. One thing to note, is that in doing this, I did not get the dragon tooth until I went back into Zephyrine's normal area. When I did, I then got the message about pulling a tooth. I'm currently doing a singleton playthrough on torment, so I'm going to try this method once I get to level 30 to see if I can do it with only one character.