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Out-of-Placers
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Now also in French:
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And with the nastiest blade I’ve ever seen, no less…
Weeeelp! That’s a long, painful, and slow death. Unless humans in this world are blessed with not having things like a stomach, intestines, kidneys, spleens, etc…. and if it didnt hurt like holy hell immediately, he probably damaged the spinal column.
Lotta muscles in the core, surprised a ratbird like that could get a nasty dagger like that all the way through. … unless he was runnin like sonic the hedgehog at him.
TL:DR : Elim(inated) is gonna need a wheel chair at best.
Not exactly sudden unexpected trauma like that can take a moment to register and start really hurting regardless of spine being hit or not.
As for the internal organs there’s all of that plus major blood vessels in that area but it all really depends on which git hit and how badly.
Best case scenario the damage is mostly to the meat and muscle and his intestines are ‘only’ lightly damaged, though that’s still going to mean a long painful recovery with a high risk of catastrophic infection.
If that dagger is as badly-cared for as it looks, it’s probably not too sharp. In which case, there’s a good chance that the blade pierced, but did not cut, and thus mostly pushed the blood vessels and organs out of the way instead of lacerating them. In which case, while infection from the blade is going to be an issue, survival and healing the actual injury shouldn’t be too difficult.
People get impaled on dull things all the time and survive- rebar, planting stakes, even arrows with target tips on them. And some even go through the chest without major damage.
I agree with you both, but I would also like to point out the damage (wear and tear) to the blade. Sword (dagger?) Impact with another dense object (metal, rock, etc…) causes nicks, wedges, and folding of dirk.
The blade appears to be serrated due to this type of damage. And although the speed of impact may have caused the serrations to fly through the body, the meat and organs tensing or relaxing into the serrations will definitely cause damage once the blade is pulled out.
The folds and dents in the blade (which may more difficult to clean), will have bacteria and rancid food particals still attached, leading to the infection you were talking about.
I personally think the Roman looking Yinglet should be called Brutus!
Elim : “Et tu, Brute?”
I think we may see Isher go full mama-bear mode soon.
Nooooooooooooo!
The relationship between the House and the Enclave just became a little more strained.
Well, that escalated quickly.
It’s okay, it’s just the guts. The guts is the best area to get stabbed. You don’t die instantly…. That blade doesn’t look clean. Maybe it’s time for Elim to start shitting himself again?
Whoa!
Can Elim survive that, or is Valsalia planning to pull a George R. R. Martin?
I know this is true on every page, but for some reason I hovered over the last panel with my mouse and the alt text came up “OOPS” and it was kind of sadly perfect. 🙁
Uh oh. I hope you have another goddamned piece of shiny junk, and that those heal wounds and infections when turning folks.
Who knew that Elim was short for Eliminated?
That’s some serious tetanus stick.
OK, that was totally unexpected
… On the plus side he does have experience with gut wounds, so he likely knows what to do this time around!
waiting for Kass to let out the Female Yinglet Angry Squeal. if she tries to keep control, she may not; if she just completely *loses it* I expect that to be the first thing to happen. at which point we’ll see how well Mister Sneaky Sneak Attack Rogue Yinglet deals with being swarmed by angry yinglets.
Remember he has the ‘boys’ with him.
That might make things even worse, as maybe random scavs that come running will assume the human is the aggressor.
OR there’s an unknown telepathic element to the yinglets mob mentality and they all instinctively know the target.
Weapon is for yinglet, by yinglet. A female is… FIGHTING a yinglet.
Danger? Need more yinglets!
^My prediction of those events. Whether Kass does or doesn’t battlecry, if it’s witnessed, there will be hell for this exile whose name I forget, possibly death. Biezel (sp) the spymaster said it.
Uh-oh.
I wonder how much of Kass’ previous training translates well to ratbird form.
If I remember correctly this is a low magic setting and we have no evidence that transformation does any healing in this setting.
Baring another out of nowhere magic occurence like the transformation that started this mess or some really surprising good medicine and herbs given how sharp, jagged, and pointy that looks he is dead.
From the angle, it’s hard to tell if that hit the spine as well as the intestines. I am interested to see what happens next. I hope Kass snaps and attack.
Oh crap, really unexpected and not what I was hoping for. I hope they have some sort of miraculously good med tech.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets a knife through their gut.
I wonder if that is the tip of a baxxid blade and some framing will be going on. Let’s disrupt the relations between all the species.
Given how long their little legs are, and their low mass, ( I assume, partly hollow bones and whatnot,) I think yinglets could probably get a fair turn of speed in a sprint.
So with a narrow enough blade (think a flat-ish long screwdriver) and a bit of practice bracing their arms during the impact at the end of their charge…I think a good amount of penetration into a human should be do-able. Obviously.
Even so, their upper arm strength is low according to Kass so I doubt bone was hit.
Looks to me like that attack is intended to disable as quickly as possible and is the best possible outcome for a yinglet to get with a surprise attack.
Trying to cut an artery in the leg would be an option too, but it would take some time to bleed out your target and our little humping attacker is trying to get to Kass. Elim is just in the way. I hope he survives.
I also think Mr. Attacker is not reaalllly considering all of the possible outcomes here. He was already an outcast. Now he has a very very big target painted on his everywhere. I do not think he will be returning to hump The Oracle of Baker’s-Roof later after all…
Elim sure knows how to start the new year!
Ya know…I hope that stabbing stick was blunt. That sounds awful but hear me out. Your internal organs are covered in slick membranes and lubricated with mucus so they can bounce and rub against each other without being rubbed raw by friction. A dull penetrator will push things like intestines and arteries *aside* while a sharp point will rip them open. Elim would still be in for a rough time but maybe Ran knows about bread-mold penicillin.
If Best Boi dies, we riot.
and here I thought there’d be a longer wind-up to that. Color me surprised, lol. Also, run, looks like competent yinglets are in your future guys.
Oh Fuck…. Hopefully Elim will be alright after this and Kass kicks that bastard’s ass.
I sorta find this to be a very ….. Predictable “twist” so far. Hope im wrong.
Oh damn.
Now who’s going to tell those two little gaurds stories.
Honestly, I have hard time picturing Kass without Elim.
Really hope he doesn’t die.
ELIM! NOOOOOOoooooooo!!!
You have no idea how unsettled this makes me. I suddenly realize that really don’t want Elim to die!
Well… At least now, he can say he really… Got the point… when it comes to being a guard
That was bad and you should feel bad!
This no time to be “poking” fun.
…. Sorry, had to.
Could of said, ” it was a bad time to take a Stab at him. Glad I didn’t. That would of been bad.
Happy New Year. Elim got stabbed, I was in a wreck. Happy 2019 to both of us!
Guessing we’re gonna get to see how good a medic the biteleaf addict is. At least, I’m pretty sure that’s the first person Kass would think of in a panic.
Mass is getting kidnapped, most likely. Elim will be on his own. Perhaps dead.
*Kass
OOh. Thought. There’s first aid right there on the spot! I present one wiggly little Scav tongue that stops (or slows?) bleeding wounds! They’re buddies! It’s not weird if it saves his life, right? Anyone? eh? eh?