ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Each time, without fail, on a non-Archmage character I complete the apprentice mage's quest and gain access to Angolwen. The portal is perfectly usable, and I've always gone in. However, after leaving to go do something else - complete Old Forest, or anything, really - and returning to the world map...

...like getting the intro text to the level again, and having to fight the Weirdling Beast all over again. The Butler has disappeared, and whilst the storage room still technically works, it empties each time I return to the level via the Rod. All of this has happened in one sitting; I loaded my gam...

So I recently upgraded to beta 37. This isn't an 'I did this and now I can't access my characters' post, as I'm aware characters are usually inaccessible between versions. I just started a new character, eventually lost all lives, and then started a Summoner, as I'd unlocked the class recently. I wa...