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I'd like to inflict a head injury on one of my poor, defenseless characters and need to know what it would look like and how it would be dealt with.
Ideally the victim should be conscious enough to respond verbally, not necessarily coherently, immediately after the injury but lapse into full unconsciousness shortly thereafter. Due to the verbal response, the victim isn't immediately brought to medical care which will complicate recovery.
Given that the perpetrator intends to cause memory loss (at the least), how would they go about hitting the victim?
What would be the most likely effect of the situation described above, and what would be externally visible? Hematoma? Skull fracture? Bleeding from the ear? Mis-sized pupils?
If the victim were taken immediately to the emergency room, what would the ER see and what would they do?
How quickly (without treatment) would things go from bad to worse?
Thanks for your help!
Ideally the victim should be conscious enough to respond verbally, not necessarily coherently, immediately after the injury but lapse into full unconsciousness shortly thereafter. Due to the verbal response, the victim isn't immediately brought to medical care which will complicate recovery.
Given that the perpetrator intends to cause memory loss (at the least), how would they go about hitting the victim?
What would be the most likely effect of the situation described above, and what would be externally visible? Hematoma? Skull fracture? Bleeding from the ear? Mis-sized pupils?
If the victim were taken immediately to the emergency room, what would the ER see and what would they do?
How quickly (without treatment) would things go from bad to worse?
Thanks for your help!