Injuries from stoning

[seekingnevada]

Setting: Fairly generic medieval fantasy

Situation: There's a big crowd gathered, and... long story short, it turns very nasty. I'm intending for the two women that are the focus of this whole mess to end up being stoned by the crowd - the area where everyone's gathered is covered in seashore-style stones of the sort that fit in the hand nicely and

Comments

[snakewhissperer]

a general mob will have good throwers and bad throwers. Some will be accurate, some way off, so depending on who is aiming for what, your stones could go anywhere you please.

A person will try and shield their head pretty instinctively. After all, the brain is a pretty vital organ! having said that, you can't wrap your arms totally around your head (as in there will still be spaces stones can get in). That could lead you to any injuries you wanted there.

Yes, stones can break bones if thrown hard enough (Though more likely to break say, a finger or forearm than a femur). Internal injuries if stones hit the belly/torso while unshielded are an option (kidneys are outside the stomach wall for instance). Concussions are possible if it hits the head, skull fractures if it hits at the right angle (temple is prone to this), nose fracture, cheekbone or jaw is also possible. Depends on what you want hit!

AS to damage from riding...depends on the injury again..internal injuries usually are either a) small and stop by themselves, or b) don't and you tend to have problems that require intervention. Jostling won't help either case. In the case of broken bones..if its a normal fracture, jostling is going to hurt. If its a fracture where the ends of the bones are next to each other as opposed to against each other then think about how sharp they are. You could do damage to muscle, ligament, artery....whatever you want. If its at an angle..again you could do damage to all of the above, or you could simply hurt (btw, I walked around with a broken thumb at an angle for three days. It bruised a lot, but aside from setting it- no surgery, just a guy yanking at it and then putting plaster around it- I instinctively tried to shield it - people will clutch broken arms to themselves and try to minimise jostling of any injured limb.

What do you want to happen?

[seekingnevada]

See, this is why I love this community.

I figured it might be one of those 'anything from here to there' type answers, but wanted to know what I was dealing with. Thanks for this, it's really given me things to think about when they turn up with said injuries.

[snakewhissperer]

Your welcome!