Honestly, I think we are all in the mind space that we are just kind SOL here, so have accepted things as they are. Due to this, I don't really think that anyone is on board with starting again. We have had a lot of fun events that have happened and forced us down into some decisions we would really want to preserve.
I think in my mind, I was hoping for just some way of promoting/changing/updating a character in a save to an Avatar Character. It does suck that up to now, the player we are talking about has missed out on some of the Avatar Specific content, but I really think just him being able to play some content while the rest of us are would be enough. It feels really bad to be playing through some story, talking about with the 2 other Avatar characters in chat and everything, while he has to just listen and be like "Ill wait for you guys in town". It just makes the rest of us feel pretty bad and want to rush the content, that we don't want to rush because we are enjoying it.
I appreciate the offer (Re: Steam) and will probably take you up on this, but wont be able to until later this week.
