[Jack Simth]

Yeah, I know; Context of the statement - it was after noting that the 25,000 gp worth of materials wasn't consumed - consider:

I decided to rate the Encounter Level at 17th - he had almost no equipment on him, and so this reduced his CR; he thought he was secure in his fortress, and so was running around unbuffed (stupid him...) as he was spending most of his energies on making an Artifact.

The treasure value of a EL 17 is around 36,000 gp; you saved 25,000 gp in MC for the True Ressurection, and 1,530 for hiring a Cleric-17 to actually cast it (total: 26,530 gp not spent) leaving a mere 9,470 short of the expected treasure value for the encounter, which is within the range of random variance on the treasure generation tables. As you normally sell treasure, and get half value for everything but coins (call it 20,000 gp netted from an "average" haul) you're ahead of the game for not having to hire the spell.

And Kibin did find something....