So, with all the focus Adom 1.2 will place on those rare magic statues, wouldn't it be nice to make the Petrification spell a little more interesting? What I'm thinking of is Stone-To-Flesh type of spell that could reanimate creatures turned to statues or animate the various magical statues that will be/already are present in the ADOMverse

As for for uses, the main one would be probably transportation issues with slower companions falling behind a fast traveling character using 7LB, greater speed, class powers or teleportation to get around - as primary use, you could Petrify allied monsters, pack them up and just un-Petrify [still friendly] at place of destination. As second use, it'd work on the BugVille statues and player statuse, maybe generating a boss monster of a fitting type? I understand coding bosses for all statues would be a drag - but since we can assume those statues are images, not the actual heroes themselves, a corresponding monster type would work pretty much as well

And the third use would be as an emergency food source [with ''emergency'' with some really huge quotemarks] - turning stone weapons and huge rocks into equivalent weight of raw meat pieces. when used on singular rocks, it'd just give a message of sorts ['The rock turns into some bloody mess']