Turned to stone and back again...

[Kershek]

Your friend was turned to stone. Bummer. Let's say he had a part of his body broken off and then carefully set back on without reattachment. When he was turned back to flesh, that piece would be a bloody mess (and detached) since it was broken off. Could you cast Stone Shape to merge the two pieces before turning him back to flesh?

 

[Psion]

Heh... I had a situation like this come up in my campaign recently. My party entered a mirror universe and faces their evil twins. The mirror of the party's sorcerer prismatic sprayed the party and turned two members to stone. But the mirrors want to destroy their duplicate... so the mirror sorcerer pounded the real sorcerer with fire orbs until it sorta melted a hole in it.

I let an ally of the party stoneshape the statue to repair the damage, and merely made the sorcerer make a fortitude save (dc same as dc of spell) or die when he returned because the stone shape could not hope to perfectly emulate the body of the sorcerer. He survived.

 

[Ravellion]

From the SRD:

Stone Shape

Transmutation
Level: Clr 3, Drd 3, Earth 3, Sor/Wiz 5
Components: V, S, M/DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Target: Stone or stone object touched, up to 10 cu. ft. +1 cu. ft./level
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

The character can form an existing piece of stone into any shape that suits the character's purpose. For example, the character can make a stone weapon, a special trapdoor, or a crude idol. Stone shape also permits the character to reshape a stone door to make an exit where one didn’t exist or to seal a door shut. While it’s possible to make crude coffers, doors, and so forth with stone shape, fine detail isn’t possible. There is a 30% chance that any shape including moving parts simply doesn’t work.

The fine detail thing seems to prohibit it IMO, but this is most likely a DM call. I would stick to a nice regenerate spell, rather than having someone using stone shape: "I think this is how this works. He did have two left arms now didn't he?"

Rav

 

[Gromm]

You could always raise them once they were flesh too.
Also spells like limited wish shouldbe able to restore the statue to perfect condition without any problem, and if prismatic sprays are flying its not out of your level range.
Stone shape might work fairly well, in that you could get rid of the massive hole in the statue, so they could probably survive, though I might require some sort of Craft check.
Regeneration wouldn't work too well, since you can't cast it on a statue and once you turned them to flesh again they'd be dead- ie no regenerating.
I'm sure theres other spells that could work fairly well, but LWish seems the easiest.

 

[Valmur_Dwur]

I guess it would depend on how you look at the problem. Once that arm broke off it broke the bone and severed the arteries, veins and what not. The hole in the statue is even worse since you are talking about internal organs. Without some sort of healing skill or divine intervention I would say stone shape makes that part of the arm stone or the hole stone only. Not conductive for bringing a body back IMHO

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

If I were presented with this problem, I would hire a cleric to cast Make Whole. That should take care of it right there.

 

[Zhure]

Flesh to Stone

Transmutation
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

The subject and all possessions it carries turn into a mindless, inert statue. If the statue resulting from this spell is broken or damaged, the being (if ever returned to its original state) has similar damage or deformities. The creature is not dead (its soul doesn’t pass on), but it does not seem to be alive either (when viewed with spells such as deathwatch). Only creatures made of flesh are affected by this spell.