A great question!
Surely you don’t have a character any longer once petrified. You have a statue.
So the question really is “can a statue drown”?
Petrification can be undone in this game!
Although I disagree with the commenters on SE that it’s a dick move to have the statues’ lungs fill with water. Dry out your statues before stone-to-fleshing them, kids.
If it can be undone, then you are no longer a statue (a thing) and are once again someone who breathes.
While petrified you cannot drown. You can only drown (pretty much by definition!) when you’re alive, and stone is not alive.
If you drown after you’re restored from petrification, you’re alive and drowning. You’re no longer petrified.
So timeline:
- I get petrified.
- I fall as a statue into the water.
- I stay there for a thousand years.
- Someone finds me and reverses the petrification.
If my statue-lungs are filled with water, I start drowning after #4. If they’re not (let’s say I get drained first), I don’t start drowning. You cannot drown a petrified character. The drowning happens to the living character iff said character has water in their lungs upon recovery.
Yes, I agree. That’s what I meant to say, too.👍
