"I can use his body, yes, but he'll only last nine minutes."  Wendy responded to the first question.  "We'll either have to press on, or wait until we're done resting to reanimate him.  He probably won't last long, either..."<br/><br/>Most of his combat prowess and toughness was probably a result of experience, rather than innate ability.  Those things didn't translate over when one was reanimated as a zombie or skeleton, so at most he'd probably last one or two traps.  And another monster like that gargoyle would tear him apart.<br/><br/>Still, better a flimsy shield than none at all.<br/><br/>"Well, I wasn't killed when I disappeared through that statue's mouth.  Just stripped of my clothing and my beautiful, wonderful equipment and deposited somewhere else."  Was the halfling's answer to the second question.  "She's probably been sent somewhere else and cut off from all the rest of us, but I think Treats is probably still alive.  She might be getting raped, though, if that four-armed creature is any indication of what the other monsters in this place will do to defenseless women."<br/><br/>And maybe defenseless men, come to think of it.  No telling just which way a given creature was likely to swing, after all, or whether or not there might be female creatures in this dungeon...