spacetime: modern-day Melbourne, Australia

Two separate questions, same work.

( length of hospitalization/living environment after TBI )

[Very sorry this is late, anon! Happy holidays from me. --Orange Fell]The Setting: A psychiatric hospital ward community room in Colorado Springs in the present day ( Read more... )

Setting: [Cold War era, fictional country] Isaac, a 20-30 something physicist is being chased down after doing something that he wasn't supposed to do. He knew beforehand that the possibility of getting caught/something going wrong was high, so he planned to jump off the bridge into the deep, moving river. However, knowing the physics behind it, ( Read more... )

My hero Urde is in his late teens now and attending a sort of military school for magic users. (This is a fantasy but let's call it post-Renaissance. I've even given them indoor plumbing, as well as magic-powered lighting) Several years ago, Urde's father, Lord Graves (a respected military hero) was caught in one of his rages and hit Urde on the ( Read more... )

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I am writing a fic where one of the characters was shot in the face in-canon, but survived.  The entry wound was towards the base of the left cheekbone, and as far as anyone can tell it crossed left-to-right at a diagonal and exited through the back of the neck, somewhere between the Axis and C3 vertebra of the cervical spine.

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So, my story takes place in a yet to be determined modern American city, and basically the main character ends up with a cut starting at the corner of his mouth and going about 2 inches across his cheek. It's done with a box-cutter in unhygienic conditions, and it will be several hours before he can get treatment for it. (Maybe longer? I'm not sure ( Read more... )

Setting: England, July/Early August of 1914, very beginning of World War I.

Terms Searched: Essentially, I searched for "horses" and "broken legs", "horses" "shooting injured horses", "World War I" got some of what I was looking for: I found articles that discussed how injured/suffering horses were dealt with in WWI and general information on why ( Read more... )

ANSWERED. Thank you all so much for your help ( Read more... )

Based on Google searching it does not seem like a human has enough strength rip a humans head from their body. I was wondering how much force is needed? Is it twice what a person can do, a hundred times? My goal is to find out if it is possible that a natural animal could pull it off (no pun intended) or does it require so much strength that it ( Read more... )