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by mushgnome » Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:14 pm
OOC: I'm thinking, maybe there should be some combination of druid spells that can restore stone to flesh? Like Stone Shape followed by Remove Curse? And it shouldn't be easy: Your friends would have to carefully carry your statue back to the surface, and the ritual needs to be performed in a forest clearing under the light of the full moon, or something. I'm open to suggestions?
Otherwise, Stone to Flesh is a 6th level magic user spell, and how many high level NPC magic users have we met so far? Zero! Petrification is as good as a death sentence, without some in-game means to reverse it. (Worse than a death sentence, since arguably the Raise Dead scroll won't work since you're not technically 'dead.')
There aren't any scroll shops or potion stores in town. This is my intentional decision: All the 'good stuff' is in the dungeon. Potty and Ursa are cranking out magic items as fast as they can make them, but realistically, it takes at least 1 week in-game to craft any magic item, which is months if not years of real world time, at the slow rate of play by post. Spoiler alert there are a couple of NPC casters living in the dungeon, who would be willing to sell or barter magic items; you just haven't found them yet.
I think the new ruling on Read Magic spell opens a lot of doors: Druids can use Read Magic on cleric or MU scrolls. Maybe this should also work for other magic items, for example can a druid use Read Magic to find the activation command word of a Crystal Ball (normally restricted to MU), what do you think?
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