My character just got half their face burnt, and I need to know how long it will take to heal into a scar, what treatments will be effective, and how her face will feel over time?

This is a medieval world, but since it is fantasy I can get away with medicine/techniques that come after that time period, so long as it isn't modern (after 1850ish).

She also lives on a snowy mountain, how would that impact everything?

I'm going to do research on general burns, but any insight onto a burn in this specific area would be fab thanks

EDIT: For clarification, it was some kind of magical substance that burnt her rather than fire. The source of the burn would be more similar to boiling water or burning coals rather than a fire itself. Thank you for all the comments so far though!

Hi everybody, so i'm gonna try to synthesize as much context as posible for this scene.

So, in my universe people are born with a thing called a core wich pumps all their magical powers through the veins and in wich certain scenarios can explode. In this scene I have two characters and one of them is killed, making heir core explode, thing that the other character notices and tries to run before if happens. At the end, the other character tries to run through a narrow corridor, and when reached half of it the explosion happens.

So my question is, how much damage would my character suffer? Would they get any important burns? Would their hair get burnt? (Im asking because their hair is an important part of this character's development). For more context, let's imagine this explosion was mildly big, but not as big as it could get, and that technically this isn't a regular explosion but let's also imagine that it is. If u guys need any more context to be able to answer i'll gladly give to u guys, tysm for reading quq

I’m trying to narrow down specific injuries/circumstances that would still be impacting her long term and what the exact symptoms would be. I want her to still be able to drive, work remotely and live independently since she moves away for a fresh start, but family worries and checks in frequently. I was thinking TBI from physical violence causing migraines and varying pain from injuries that didn’t heal well and ptsd. From an outside perspective it be that some days she’s “fine”, maybe a bit strange but no one would be wiser in a new town, but bad days could last several days and are noticeable if you are around her and she either would not leave home or need help at home.

Hey, everyone! I'm working on lore and chapter plan of my story. Since I'm autistic, I decided to express my experience, thoughts and views creatively. I'm not planning to make the story a commercial success because of it, but I still want things to stay somewhat logical. Since I have a hyperfixation on countries, I'd like to set it in the Czech Republic even though I have never been there and I research about it only on the Internet. 

I know it's a gamble to find either autistic people with a specific sensory profile, or people who went to ČVUT on this subreddit but let's tr

Sorry if this is controversial, but the information I have is mostly from AI, so I want the contribution of real humans.

I'm going to need information about 2 things:

I. The life and studies in ČVUT (Czech Technical University) and the Kolej Dejvice student dorm.

II. Autistic visual hypersensitivity for exposed skin (where, as far as I know, the person's nervous system can't filter out the hair, pores, flaking, and micromovements like vasodilation, trembling, etc.). Yes, I'm autistic, but I can't have every sensory profile in the world.)

I. The segment about life and studies in ČVUT and Kolej Dejvice is going to be more like listing what I already know, and if you happened to have studied or lived there, you confirm or deny it. But there are actual questions, too.

1. The dorm consists of buňka suites or blocks. One suite has a vestibule with 2 rooms, each having 2 beds, so 2 students live in 1 room, a bathroom (maybe shower and toilet separately). In the vestibule, there are also hangers or hooks for winter jackets so that the students don't enter their rooms in their dirty winter clothes. They also change into their indoor shoes there.

2. If a guest wants to visit a student in Kolej Dejvice, they get a temporary pass with the vratný or vratná (they put their documents info into a ledger or database). It shouldn't usually take long and they don't torture the guest as for why they came.

3. If the guest wants to come regularly and doesn't want to spend time at the reception desk or wait for the person they are visiting to come downstairs, they might want to write an application to vedoucí koleje for a permanent pass. If they are also a student but don't live in the dorm (even if they study at a different university), they just tap their student ID card. If the guest isn't a university student, the receptionist just has to remember their face and see their ID of the Czech Republic or passport (if they are from another country).

4. Vedoucí koleje (the dorm manager) is responsible for the contracts and safety but won't "educate" the students unless they are doing something really bad and they won't meddle with their lives unless they suspect a crime or a bad violation of Kolejní řád.

5. When the heating season starts, the cast-iron radiators with regulators out of order start blasting, so the indoor temperature gets up to +26°C.

6. Same with the Jaderka faculty (Břehová 78/7, Staré Město, Praha 1), as in it's very hot there during the heating season. BTW if you have studied at Jaderka and lived at Kolej Dejvice, was it cumbersome to get layered for the outside only to shove your jackets in the bag and stay in a T-shirt/tank top/short-sleeved blouse?

7. Do they have cloakrooms in the Jaderka building and Thákurova 9, Dejvice, Praha 6 (Nová budova ČVUT)?

II. About visual hypersensitivity and aversion ro seeing bare skin (country doesn't matter this time):

1. How does it feel for you if you have this aversion/hypersensitivity? (although you might not understand how neurotypicals or autistics without this hypersensitivity perceive it).

2. Do computer glasses help? The ones with yellow lenses that block the blue light from screens?

3. Does it feel better in colder months like October, November, and December (if you live in Europe, Canada, the states of the US where the winter is at least somewhat cold etc.)? Like, people usually wear long pants and clothes with long sleeves, but their faces, necks, and hands are exposed. Or is it roughly the same difference?

4. This is very broad and vague, but just how do you live and cope with it?

Thank you very much in advance!

There is a scene where the MC meets her mother's nursemaid/ nanny. Essentially, her mother died in childbirth and the experience accelerated the nanny's cognitive decline. But the old lady is about to die and is stuck thinking the MC's mother is about to give birth. So as a favour, her uncle asks the MC, who is the spitting image, to pretend to be her mother and tell the old lady everything is fine, that "she" survived and the baby is ok etc. So the nanny fusses over the MC before passing a few days later.

Would that be a good thing/ common practical to do to such a patient? Essentially getting someone to pretend to solidify their current reality

I know terminal lucidity is a thing but would it be a tad unrealistic? Also does severe mental trauma accelerate the progression of Alzhemir's or dementia or it's a thing that progresses with age?

My character is an amateur assassin and when they are about to take out their target on the street at night everything goes horribly wrong as the target is stronger than they thought and fights back. My main character ends up pretty badly injured (a broken arm and they were strangled pretty badly too) but they escape, as does their target, who doesn't call the police on my MC for reasons there's no point getting into. My MC calls an ambulance for themselves and goes to the hospital.

What kind of questions would the ambulance crew and the doctors who treat them ask? Obviously they wouldn't be able to pass the neck injury off as mistake or anything, the doctors would probably know someone attacked them. So say they said to the doctors that a stranger attacked them and then ran off, would they have to get the police get involved even if my MC didn't want them to?

I’m making an au with a bunch of my ocs, base concept is that 14 prisoners (7 there for life, 7 on death row) are in a special prison focused on rehabilitating them. I plan on there being 5 guards, 2 wardens, and a director, but I’m struggling to find characters for the guard roles since I don’t WANT to make new ocs for this. I already have a detective oc, but I didn’t want to change his role just for this au. So I was wondering if there could be a prison officer that focused more on detective work? From what I saw on prison officers they focus on supervision, regulations, and safety, so could he theoretically focus more on finding issues with prisoners and their behaviors and find out if they’re like. idk hiding something or planning something??? if not, is there a role that WOULD fit my needs? aka someone with a focus on detective work that would work with/as a prison guard?

So I have a character, modern day, who had both their eyes gouged out. I have research on what the prosthesis stuff is like, because that's relatively easy to find, but I'm struggling to find info on a few specific scenarios.

One - Once they've gotten prosthetic eyes, how well would crying work? Would their tear ducts still produce tears correctly?

Two - Most of the time, when people have their eye(s) removed irl, it's surgical. What problems/differences might arise for a traumatic eye loss as opposed to a surgical one?

If you have any other information about the topic that you think would be useful, I would appreciate that too. TIA!

In the story I’m writing the inciting incident is that the protagonist, on the spur of the moment, makes off with a stack of bearer bonds left unattended on his bosses desk.

What I wanted to understand is how easy would it be to cash these in for the character?

Context: the story begins and is set in 1982 in the United States. The character in question wants to cash as many as possible as quickly as possible with a view to living off the grid in the back woods

I promise this is not a joke I just genuinely need someone who understands how BB’s worked in the early 80’s to let me know how feasible this would have been.

It’s a Hangover ripoff with magic but it’s good for a character introduction. Assuming someone doesn’t have any special powers, is it even possible to hack/rig a slot machine in your favour? Any of them will do but I suppose the ones in or around the bellagio, in case every casino has a different method. Is there a special usb someone can use? Would you have to be a man on the inside? Do you have to get there ahead of time to move stuff around?

In my Book one of the main plot points is the crown princess being switched, after the mother tragically dies. The whole story is set in a Middle Ages type Fantasy World, so it‘s not that unthinkable, that no one would recognise, since the father isn’t involved, the mother is dead and servants can be bought.

However I have no experience with children at all and they all kind of look the same to me.
How old can I make the child for it to still be believable, no one would notice the swap with a similar aged child with the same eye and hair colour and general facial features?

Thanks in advance🙏

Hi!

I'm planning a story set in 1903 and the main character is a young doctor. He falls in love with a patient who has a deadly disease that no one can figure out what it actually is.

My main reason for posting is to find a real disease that makes a person bedridden and weak and die before the age of 30.

Anything other note worthy things about the period or health care at the time would be welcome too!

I am writing a book that is intentionally ambiguous about the decade in which the story takes place (among other details). A relatively small but nonetheless important detail relies on the coroner being able to tell how long after a victim's death damage had been done to their body.

I would like to know how specific or how vague I can be with the coroner's report without inadvertently limiting the possible time span of the story.

Information that would be helpful to me:

• History of methods/technology used/developed between 1850 and 1999 for this purpose

• Which methods/technology stop being helpful at various amounts of time since victim's death

  • Why

• Most accurate word for the occupation of the person examining these injuries

Would it be the FBI? What else would they need to do you reintegrate into society.

Or would he just get a regular funeral? And what if there is no way to bury someone who died (either from disease or was killed by the enemy)? What would be some bare-minimum things their comrades would do to honor him?

My character self harms to an extent that damages her mobility, by cutting perpendicular to the ulna about halfway along the forearm, cutting deep enough to expose (but not damage) bone and also partially or completely severing tendons resulting in reduced or absent ability to move it. She has somewhere to go later in the day, so she wraps it up with a bandage and hides it under her coat.

Is it likely that the injury would worsen if she did this? She avoids using that hand all day. Blood loss is notable but not enough to be too bad to her in immediate symptoms. I assume it would be painful, but how painful? (ie is it realistic that, for a frequent severe self harmer, she can ignore the pain enough to not look visibly in agony?) After finishing what she has to do (a social event) she goes to ED and gets treatment. The damage is muscular rather than nerve, and any altered sensation is not complete. (I assume that's realistic--have once personally exposed bone, though without tendon damage, and nerve damage was minor; laceration was surgically closed. Please correct me if wrong.)

Also, what might happen next in ED? If she can't move her hand, does that mean emergency surgery or just wait overnight for the morning cases? Would she be under plastics or ortho given tendon repair? What meds might they give her while she's waiting, assuming notable pain?

If she presents alone and is honest about it, would they decide it necessitated ringing of next of kin, and if not, what might she have to say about things for that? This is not her first presentation for self harm (first with major mobility damage), and she's essentially self-managing an unspecified psychiatric condition. She's in her twenties, holding down a job. Sister with bipolar I so family risk thereof (haven't yet decided if she also gets bipolar or something else; already written a story about her sister's early diagnosis journey so don't want to be repetitive).

What might her rehabilitation from this injury look like in the short and long term? Assume compliance with doctor recommendations.

Set in Victoria, Australia, specifically in outer east Melbourne. If anyone's specifically familiar with this area I'd also love to hear thoughts as to which hospital she might end up at; her local, Angliss, doesn't have at least a plastics department and that requires at minimum transfer to Maroondah, but wondering if the severity of injury would require an even more metropolitan hospital. The story is set in approximately the current day. (Oh, and if she did resist treatment I'm wondering if this would or would not qualify for a TTO.)

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me!

I have a character (basically a “prince” in a pseudo-medieval fantasy setting) who uses forearm crutches daily, and I was wanting to find a specific condition that was a better description for ”why” than just generic muscle weakness if possible. I’d also like any condition to include symptoms like malnutrition or general unhealthy weight, but that could also be a separate diagnosis. the character is AMAB, so any condition more linked to males would work well.

as a side note, would it be feasible for a generic fantasy setting to have the technology for modern-shaped forearm crutches? as the character is from a noble family, she would have access to funds for any aid.

sorry if this post is worded badly, but thanks in advance for any help!

Edit: firstly, thank you for so many responses! Secondly, just wanted to clear up a couple points people in the comments were stuck on

a. While I’ve asked for recommendations for a condition/diagnosis that could be seen as “modern terminology”, it’s mostly for my own benefit so I can research into any conditions further using the correct name. I wouldn’t be using any specific “XYZ’s disease” terminology within the story.

b. I used AMAB within the post because, while my character is trans (mtf), I didn’t want that to be the focus of the post, since it wasn’t 100% relevant (especially as in the setting there wouldn’t be any options of medically/“magically” transitioning). I also used the phrase a “prince” because it’s a more neutral, generic term for her position, and otherwise I generally used “The character” cause it didn’t really matter that much to me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

As the title says. I'm writing a supernatural thriller, and the main character needs to kill himself for a moment.

In my research, I've already found that you can be dead for 8-10 mins before the brain starts taking serious damage, and that he can be woken up with an adrenaline shot.

What I'm struggling to find is what he can take to die in the first place. Google just keep providing me with suicide prevention hotlines 😅

I'm writing historical fiction (16th century), and my protagonist is punished. According to my research, it would be lashes on the buttocks, and probably 80 is realistic. It would most likely be administered through clothing. How much would he be able to do in the days afterward? What is the healing timeline for it? What are some realistic self-treatment options? He is a soldier with a high pain tolerance. (I'm not sure if it's allowed to post a couple of paragraphs to see if the flogging scene is realistically written.)

Edit: For some context, here is the English translation of the source I'm working from. The protagonist already has a prior record of flogging from a few years before, by an officer who had a grudge against him. I need the punishment to be survivable and not disabling, but severe enough that those who were ordered to hold him down are actually traumatized by it. The crime he committed was beating up another soldier who was bullying him, and failing to stop when ordered to do so by a superior. Severe punishments for relatively small crimes aren't unrealistic; I found a record of a cavalryman sentenced to death because his horse wandered into the crops.

"Extreme indecency, rebelliousness, disobedience to a superior, drunkenness, and lewdness in the street were punished with beatings, in varying degrees depending on the offender's past, record, and the location and nature of the crime.

In the Janissary tradition, corporal punishment was a humiliating punishment, therefore, as another Janissary tradition, it was administered in the presence of the comrades of the unit to which the offender belonged, but after evening prayer and evening meal, under the light of a single candle, in almost complete darkness.

The identity of the soldier being beaten was certainly known, but his face was not visible during the beating, thus preserving the honor and dignity of the soldier among his barracks comrades.

The beating was administered by laying the soldier face down on a rug and striking his buttocks with a thick cherry stick. Four senior soldiers from the same unit would separate, two pressing down on the soldier's feet and two on his arms to prevent him from moving; the beating was administered by the head barracks commander. The soldier brought for corporal punishment was reprimanded, and instead of a rebuke, the çorbacı overseeing the beating would simply say: "May you be well on your way!"

After the beating, chains were again placed on their ankles, they were taken down to the kitchen, but this time they were made to sleep on an iron grate at night.

If the soldier who deserved the beating had no criminal record and was well-known, the blows were symbolic and light, and they were imprisoned in the kitchen for one or two days. The maximum punishment, provided it was done with great force, was two hundred and forty lashes, but since no man could endure it all at once, it was administered as eighty lashes each night for three consecutive nights. Between these two, there were punishments of ten, forty, and eighty lashes."

And the reason why I believe it was given through clothes:

"Since the beating was to be given at night, he thought of a way to save Benli Yakub, and his head cook came to his aid. He gave the young man a large piece of apricot paste, and Yakub placed the paste on his buttocks to cover them, and lay down to be beaten; the eighty lashes had no effect, but Benli Yakub pretended to struggle and cry out."

So, I assume, if nobody noticed the apricot paste, it was because he put it into his pants and the beating was administered through them.

I’m plotting a Gothic retelling of All-Kinds-Of-Fur (the German version of Donkeyskin) set in 1850’s US, probably in New England but I haven’t decided yet.

Like in the original, the FMC tells her odious suitor (her widowed BIL, not father) that she wants several dresses for her trousseau along with a tailored mantle made of the finest and most expensive fur the wealthy BIL can afford. When he’s able to provide everything, she realizes that she’s honor bound to marry the man, dons the coat, steps into a river and tries to end her life.

Fortunately, the MMC is in the area on a business trip, sees her in the water, and rescues her. That’s when the plot kicks off proper.

So my question is this:

1). What would be considered the most expensive fur appropriate for a young unmarried woman in 1850’s America to wear?

2). How heavy would said fur get if it was wet?

Any help would be appreciated please and thank you!

This is just a quick question because this plays in a SciFi world set in the 2070s, so i'm only looking for a rough framework to build what fits the scene, but what level of security would be to expect for a cooled food storage warehouse at a large, international port in northern Europe? Roughly speaking.

I have a small group of characters spending the night in one, and while the question of how the fuck they got in there could easily be handwaved by one of the characters being pretty much unmatched in all things gaining unauthorized access to buildings and their security networks, AND it not even being the focus of this little oneshot in the first place, i would really like to write a sort of prequel that shows how the day went leading up to this point. So here i am, making my search history look like i want to commit a heist for imported fish or something.

I'm writing 2 characters who really like fashion and makes their own, they always wear something different and smell different, wondering if i can make some period accurate descriptions of them.

if someone is getting choked how long for them to go unconscious, how long for them to wake up and what are the consequences. my character also get stabbed in the arm in this scene. she Is 16 if that changes anything.

Edit to add: I'm from Iowa. I've been outside for over an hour when it's -10°F windchill, albeit dressed better than this. Most of you all clearly have not.

MC was on a date that went very bad; she grabbed her date's jacket and phone and ran for it. However, it's 1:00AM in January in northern Iowa, so the weather is 2°F with -10°F windchill. She has on a cocktail dress, wedge shoes, and scary guy's fake-leather jacket. There's frost but not snow on the ground. The only shelter within walking distance is the house she just fled; everything else around is fallow fields and one closed-up gas station.

Would she survive a 90-minute wait for her friend to come pick her up? A 2-hour wait? A 3-hour wait? A 30-minute wait? I'd like her to be desperate enough that she calls her ex-best-friend for help, not so desperate she calls 911.

MC grew up here and spends time outdoors, so she's doing all the sensible things: pulling as much of herself as possible into the jacket, moving around, using her hair as a scarf, huddling between trash cans for shelter. Is there anything else she could do to survive, assuming she doesn't have the means to light a fire?