Quote Originally Posted by belboz
Any way to do this without summoning more of a type of monster than might plausibly exist?
Well, if you're an Elan Wizard 23+ / Elan Cleric 23+ with Ignore Material Compoinents, Epic Spellcasting, and a Rod of Excellent Magic, you can do the same thing (although it takes longer) by making Simulacrums of yourself, 1/day, free of charge, and then getting the spell slots from your (many) simulacrums (Cleric duplicates it with Miracle).

At 23rd, your Simulacrum of you has 11 or 12 class levels (depending on rounding) good for a 6th level spell slot. You need 1,000,000,000,000,000,011 of them before you can mitigate all the way down to 0 just with extra spells. This will, of course, take you 1,000,000,000,000,000,011 days, which is about 2,739,726,027,397,260.3 years, or you know, long enough for the planet to animate itself. Or turn to dust. Or destabilize due to individual electrons decaying. Or whatever. Which is why you picked an Elan - they very specifically have Maximium Age: n/a.

Quote Originally Posted by Larrin
even if that many exist, where will you stick them all? i mean how many pin heads can 6.47756*10^17 solars dance on?
They can fly, they don't need to sleep, and they don't need to eat. Okay, breathing might be an issue...... but you should be able to rig another DC 0 Epic spell by the time it becomes important..... could delay you a couple of days, though.