Ok, this last time the death happened, I decided to get creative.
I loaded my saved game and went into the encounter again. This time,
once the first round was up and the Dragon Prince summoned his
elemental, I chose "Repeat" for my battle instruction, instead of
"Fight." The sudden death did NOT occur! Henceforth I was able to
continue choosing "Fight" and nobody died anymore.

Situation was as usual: Caleb was in slot 1, Iqtar in slot 6, and the
enemy had an elemental summoned.

I hope this info helps the debug process.

--- In DragonBaneII@yahoogroups.com, "Jason Freund" <freund@m...> wrote:
>
> I should've added "MythoLogical" after my name on the previous posts.
> I have reviewed the bug and the status when I left off was that we
> needed more details about how to reproduce it (ie what are the
> monsters, quantities, distances, and what is the exact sequence of
> combat events leading up to the bug)
>
> However, Gabe pointed out that we don't know if this bug has been
> reproduced on the Palm (all of my testing is Palm only). Has anyone
> seen this bug _for sure_ on the Palm (or Palm Emulator)?
>
> In any case, we just forwarded the bug description to our PPC
> developer today, in case it's a PPC-only bug, so maybe he will take a
> look at it, but I can't guarantee anything. But it'd be helpful to
> know if anyone on the Palm can say with certainty they have seen the
> exact same symptom occur in similar circumstances described above.
>
> We'll keep you posted if there is anything more. In the mean time, I
> the only thing I can suggest is:
>
> - See if swapping positions of the characters has any effect on the bug.
> - If you are able to isolate the exact circumstances to reproduce the
> bug better, please let us know. And if you do, you can try to avoid
> those situations as much as possible. For example: load and save more
> often until you get past the offending monsters. Try running from
> those situations. And if you have to fight, try to avoid combat
> scenarios that will lead to the bug (maybe a near foe, or defend or
> some other action can reduce the chance it will occur)
>
> Jason
> MythoLogical
>
> --- In DragonBaneII@yahoogroups.com, "feklhr666" <postingid01@t...>
wrote:
> >
> > This time in lower level of sewer after using the scaled key. I come
> > upon the Dragon Prince, he summons an elemental, next round I choose
> > "Fight" and Caleb is suddenly dead.
> >
> > This is getting truly annoying. Since this is a fairly tough mob for
> > me at this point in the game, chances are there will be a summoning at
> > least once unless I can manage to kill the dragon prince right away.
> > Seems I will always encounter the same glitch, so I'm at an impass in
> > the game.
> >
> > Any word on a patch?
> >
>