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This is great if you're an archaeologist, gotta say! Guilt-free intensive analysis is worth the slot! Bet those fossil boys'd love it too. Real handy for alchemy classes and kit maintenance too. Oh, also, watchmakers!
Oh, you mean, like, off in the field? Adventuring? You'd be shocked at how many times you have to get in a place with your crossbow hidden up yer sleeves. Nothing really incriminatin' about a bunch of crossbow bits either; the damn things take forever to load when they're whole! Same goes for alchemical tools or your handy dandy polytool. The deconstructing, that is, not the loading.
Hm... speaking of loaded... Do all those pieces have to stay in your possession for it to reassemble? Not that I'd be advocating any fraud or anything, but there's a number of things you can build out of coins n sovereign glue if it's just gonna return to you at the end of the day, or, y'know, minute, so be quick! Or don't do crimes, probably.
That apple example does raise an important point, o'course. If you've got somethin' sturdy and small you really need to hide, and can't afford at all for it to be found, you could always just... cast this on it, and swallow the pieces? Not all that nice, it's gotta be said, and you gotta make sure that it's hard enough to survive the trip, but it'll be nice and shiny once it's all back in once piece!
It could also be VERY convenient if you're targetin' your disguise... I'm probably not selling myself as a very lawful citizen, but I'm sure we've all been there, running away from the baron and REALLY needing our big, flouncy, technically Light Bulk dress to go away for a hot sec so we can duck into the pub...
It's certainly a spell for the, er, discerning derring-doer, but it's far from useless! Somethin' for the spellbook, I suppose. Which it could also deconstruct, by the by, if you really needed to flat-pack the thing.