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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 3184665" data-attributes="member: 29252">Consider: You're putting a lot of work into making sure that guy never bothers you again.  At that point, it's easier (although very evil) to call up a Bhargest to kill and eat him (if he's humanoid, anyway) than it is to put him back together.  You've cast a spell, taken the time to grind a statue to dust, taken the time to mix him with sand from different sources, and taken the time to make something of that sand, and taken the time to distribute said sand.  You've gone to a lot of trouble to do this, when you could have just killed him much more readily (broken head off statue, cast Stone to Flesh).  Doesn't it stand to reason that when you take a lot of time and effort to deliberately make something difficult, that it should be ... get this ... I know it's absurd ... hard to contemplate, even ... that one should actually manage something one took a lot of time and effort to do ... difficult?  The level of effort I outlined (turning him into a pseudoconcrete slab), is about on par with casting Animate Dead on the subject and having the skeleton or zombie hide out somewhere for the rest of eternity, or killing him, using Soul Bind on him, and dropping the gem off somewhere for all eternity.  With grinding him to dust, mixing the dust, making glass ornaments from the dust, and distributing the glass ornaments far and wide, you've gone a bit beyond the effort involved with the "standard" methods of disposing of someone for a long, long time.  And he's still a creature, so a single Wish can move all the pieces of him to somewhere you specify (it's even on the safe list) which you can then Stone to Flesh and Reincarnate or Ressurect (probably in too bad a shape for Raise Dead, but he just now died, and not by a death effect, so....).  Or you can go on a quest to gather all the little glass ornaments made by the shang dynasty so you can turn him back.Or there's suddenly a bunch of red specks in a zillion glass ornaments around the world as soon as you find one, and you can ressurect him a few rounds later.  DM call.</blockquote>

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