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** The splatbook ''Faces of Evil: The Fiends'' mentions the Tower of Incarnate Pain, under construction by the yugoloths on Carceri. It is made of both dead souls and any mortal beings who come too close to it; they are absorbed by the Tower and turned into bricks. Fortunately, all victims have been allowed to die eventually, because the yugoloths can't seem to keep the thing up. Three times, the geheleths have attacked the Tower and torn it into pieces, the absorbed victims screaming in the process.

* One race of monsters, the Aboleth, are immortal abominations of the sea. Should they dehydrate, they don't die, but instead turn into an immobile shell, still aware but incapable of any sort of action. This is described in the Lords of Madness supplement as a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].

** Another specific example, Eludecia the Succubus Paladin from the module ''Legend of the Silver Skeleton''. Disavowing the Abyss and fighting for the forces of Good clearly made Eludecia a lot of enemies, one of them a balor who dispatched one his generals, the marilith Aishapra, to ambush her. Eludecia was beaten, but not killed, the cruel marilith using powerful evil magic to strip her of her flesh, turn her skeleton to silver, and then place it in a giant gelatinous cube (silver is one of the few materials impervious to a gelatinous cube's acid.) Still alive due to her ''ring of regeneration'' (which constantly tries to restore her flesh, only for the cube to consume it) poor Eludencia is helpless and lives in unending and nightmarish agony at a hair-thin border between life and death. The goal of the PCs in the module is to find and rescue her.

** Another specific example, Eludecia the Succubus Paladin from the module ''[http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20061017a Legend of the Silver Skeleton]''. Disavowing the Abyss and fighting for the forces of Good clearly made Eludecia a lot of enemies, one of them a balor who dispatched one his generals, the marilith Aishapra, to ambush her. Eludecia was beaten, but not killed, the cruel marilith using powerful evil magic to strip her of her flesh, turn her skeleton to silver, and then place it in a giant gelatinous cube (silver is one of the few materials impervious to a gelatinous cube's acid.) Still alive due to her ''ring of regeneration'' (which constantly tries to restore her flesh, only for the cube to consume it) poor Eludencia is helpless and lives in unending and nightmarish agony at a hair-thin border between life and death. The goal of the PCs in the module is to find and rescue her.

* ''Dungeons & Dragons''' ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting has a monster known as the Wall of Flesh. It's created when the rage and fear of a person who has been imprisoned within a wall mixes with Ravenloft's special flavor of magic.