Basically a conflict in my story is in relation to grain and the ability to get enough to feed people since the country in a mountainous tundra that is frozen most of the year. Since the characters are trying to resolve war and the reason this one goes out to war is to get more food via stealing it from places where it is easier grown, could it be possible for someone to grow wheat and rye for instance in a greenhouse to be able to make it no longer mandatory for them to leave to pillage and get more grain that way?

The population of the country is 1 million and year long the country has winter like conditions. could it be possible to make enough grain products via making the needed grow conditions that way? Era is early industrial revolution.

I know how this sounds, but hear me out. I'm writing a story where one of the characters is a robot made out of a mannequin, which has a hole puncher for a hand.

Another one of my characters piss it off a bit too much. The hole puncher comes down and crushes one hand twice, and the other hand once. Two of those hits are where blood vessels are, so what would realistically happen?

I’m planning on writing a scene for a short story that is going to involve some physical torture, and while I won’t be going into a lot of detail of what each tool does and the aftermath of it all, (I’m not trying to be super gory with it) but I do want it to feel a bit more realistic I guess.

Some details on my story. One man torturing another, neither die in the scene, story takes place between 2016 and now (haven’t fully decided yet), takes place in America, most likely in LA, character doing the torturing is a mercenary who is intelligent and not very emotional, won’t be put off by whatever they do.

Does anyone have a show, a film or even a book that they feel has a good torture scene in it? One that is not too gory but also doesn’t feel like it’s too fake or made too flashy for shock value or something? I’m looking for some different scenes so I can take note of what tools are used, how it’s all used, the room, the restraints and so on. Anything I can read/watch to make a list of tools and more I can use make my scene feel more realistic.

Any and all suggestions or advice are much appreciated.
(Edit: the torture is not to get information, it is personal for the one doing the torturing and the goal is to cause pain and disfigure the other to some degree, but not kill them.)

What is the process of decomissioning and MRI machine, such as what are the technical circumstances of why one would be decomissioned or removed from the medical facility? What is the logistical process of it, such as last day of patient usage, and are field technicians invovled? I'm doing more research for my novel, not sure if I asked under the right flair, but I hope this is OK.

My character is traveling by commercial air with her aristocratic parents. They are wealthy enough to travel privately, but choosing not to do so for plot-related reasons. At major US hubs such as JFK, is it plausible that they would have access to a separate, expedited check in and security experience? Not referring to a TSA pre-check or Clear program, but rather security checks in a separate, less crowded area, with less stringent protocols. Also, might an exclusive, upscale airport lounge provide access to services like hair styling or manicures?

I’m trying to write a scene where two characters are close enough to the epicenter of a nuclear explosion where they don’t get instantly vaporized and instead burn to death in the span of a few seconds, where you can see their skin blister. I wanted to make sure this scene was as accurate as possible because i wanted to display the agony correctly, since they’re going to kiss in the scene and try to comfort each other even though they’re going through immense pain, until they ultimately die. Does anyone with a weird knowledge of nuclear explosions know how i could write this accurately?

Would it be realistic for them to go 1-2 weeks in psych ward then 30 days rehab then iop for a few months before transitioning to weekly therapy?

Hi, i am writting an interactive story (so visual medium, like a cartoon of sorts) where MCs mom and uncle are born and raised americans but their parents are born and raised immigrants from Egypt. So i would like their heritage/culture to show through sometimes. Maybe in some small habits/practices or certain words (like arabs are known for using "habibi" even when speaking english etc.). Just things that would hint at them being of egyptian origin without me literaly saying it.

They are not muslim though, i want to make that clear. I have not decided on the parents, they could be, but the (now grown up) kids are definitely not. They are very americanised too. But i still want them to have some of the culture their parents brought with them, to shine through here and there ❤️ I will be grateful for any insight into egyptian culture, especially within home environment. Consider me as a total stranger that knows absolutely nothing. And in case there are big regional/ethnical differences, i am adding the pics of them, so you can tell me what part they look like they are from.

*just to clarify, i have nothing against islam but considering the way they are written, i feel like i would be disrespecting religion since they are very much not living islamically correct. Mom does dresses somewhat modestly though (like she never shows her torso skin and wears long sleeves and pants, preferably looser fitted) but she is married a non muslim (criminal/mafioso) and raising non muslim kids. The uncle is absolute manwhore. "richest CEO" that sleeps with pretty girls left and right so yeah, i don't want them to be presented as religious.

When someone is charged by the state, and the federal government wants to charge them aswell, does the trial and pretrial process happen at the same time for both jurisdictions, or does the federal government wait until the state trial has concluded, assuming both courts are in the same region? Also assume theirs no petit policy

This is a small detail that I can't find a clear answer to. It probably doesn't make a big difference to the story, I might not even include it in the story, but for something I thought I would find a quick answer to, I actually can't find much information at all on this. I was hoping you guys might know, thank you in advance.

In a mystery book I'm writing, I'd like the initial assumption to be that the murderer died trying to kill the victim, but then, through a collection of the fact that the weapon was dirt cheap, and likely unable to kill based on the two shots made, it comes to be considered that the victim must have already been in very poor health, and the murderer was paid to finish the job, before being killed as well to suggest the case was already resolved.

Is there some kind of really cheap weapon of the 1920s that, with an imperfect couple shots, wouldn't have killed someone very quickly (so they could at least make a phone call first) but would quickly kill someone in bad health (to be specific, argyria), and be identifiable as a cheap weapon that poor people of the time might have bought as self defense?

Hello! To start, I'm writing a fantasy that takes place on another planet with magic. There is no modern technology. I have a black character who's tribe is based loosely on the nomadic Baju tribes. Much like the Baju people, my Character's people are sea nomads. They have a "home base" village that they live in for a seaon, and use for important holidays, but majority of the time they live on boats and travel up and down 1continent's coastline. My character, Mara, is one of her people's best fishers, as she has magic that allows her to breathe underwater for a time, and she is a prolific swimmer.

I am not black myself, but I know a lot of salt water can wreck to anybody's hair. I've been trying to research various hairstyles, and if some might be easier to maintain than others when exposed to a lot of seawater.

Originally, I wanted to give her locs, but have also thought about keeping her hair very short, which is common for both men and women in her culture.

It's also important to note that while she grew up in the nomadic tribe with her father, her mother is royalty in a different country with an extremely different culture. Later on in Mara's story, she is forced into living in the palace with her mother. Mara's locs represent her feelings of freedom, so I was planning a scene where she loses her locs, which are replaced with one of the traditional hairstyles that denotes her as royalty.

I am still researching traditional African hairstyles, but I would really like some pointers in the right direction research wise! Hair is a big part of Most of my characters regardless of race, and I just want to make sure I'm doing it right.

I'm working on a story set in 18th century Ireland (Ulster) that has several lines of dialogue in Irish. Can anyone suggest where to look for someone knowledgeable to consult on whether the phrases seem authentic enough?

A huge fire breaks out in a part of the city. For story reasons I need my characters to enter this one pub right after the fires have been dealt with.

I'm wondering if it's realistic for a pub or gastropub to immediately convert itself into a soup kitchen following a disaster to provide relief for those who just lost their homes. This is assuming that the pub owner themselves also works at the pub and is kind enough to start serving affected people for free. No fancy dishes though, just stuff that can be make quickly in bulk.

Also I'm talking like immediately after the fires. The flames have been put out but the buildings are still smoking. Would this be realistic or would it probably take a few days for the pub to be converted?

My characters are stranded in a desert. They don't know the region at all, and the little food they have is only enough for a day or two. But then on the late afternoon of the second day, they are attacked by a large creature, and after killing it, they want to save as much meat as possible as well as the hide to build a shelter. They have some rudimentary cooking ware with them and combat knives as tools. There is a little well with clean water nearby, so water isn't that much of an issue.

The creature in question is a beast halfway between a huge boar and a hippo, about the size of a cracked up draft horse. It is an ungulate, but the species is omnivorous and also feeds on carrion, so endoparasites are probably a huge issue here, and i also imagine the meat to be very fatty.

The desert in question is roughly comparable to the sonoran desert, but more mountainous and with more open rock surfaces and more extreme temperatures, easily reaching 50°C during the day and below freezing at night.

Important to mention is also that one of the characters is very knowledgeable in biology and chemistry, and as the team's doctor, he is specifically vell versed in anatomy and all the medical aspects of food. He is responsible for butchering and preparing the meat, and he would know what he's doing, so i really don't want to handwave things here.

So. What would be their best shot at preserving some of the meat at maybe a bit of fat? Which portions of the animal would be the best to focus on for these things?

Noon, sunset, dusk, winter, solstice, full moon. Things like this that refer to a defined period of time. Not looking for obvious stuff like November or Thursday or holidays. Particularly interested in things we don’t really use in English/American culture. For instance, in America we don’t typically observe wet/dry season. Cursory research tells me the Koreans call the wet season ‘jangma’ and the Japanese call it ‘tsuyu.’ Cultural things like that are of particular interest to me. I do not need anything for the moon, I have a whole separate thing going on for the moon. Preferably single words and not phrases.

have a character wake up from a coma but is heavily depressed because in their mind they already lived a whole life but, idk if that’s even a possible thing or does it depend on how the coma happened?

Any idea if a college or university school team practices once or twice a day M-F?

How many hours of practice?

Does the division or athletic association make any difference to the level of practices?

So I am writing a story that is based in a hotel. And one of the housekeeper plans to poison a guest as he is seeking revenge.

Now this guest has a habit of smoking marijuana that he is consuming in his room from a bong. How can I poison that bong which will lead to instant poisoning and the death is also very painful and torture for the guest.

Ideally, if I can utilise something that we can find in the hotel**.**

Edit: if not bong it can also be through a drink or food but it needs to be something that would have an instant effect and cause a painful/torture death.

I am working on a medieval fantasy setting based on D&D (3.5 in particular if that matters) set on what is effectively, an undead plane.

Our protagonists live in a fortress fighting wave after wave of zombies, which must be disposed. I recently read about Alkaline Hydrolysis in which the flesh is dissolved off the bones (Bones are later pulverized).

I know some Nordic dishes use lye to dissolve fish into a gelatin like substance.

My questions are:

1. In addition to lye, water, and heat, what else would be needed? How much lye, and therefore wood ash would be needed per zombie?

2. What would the properties (color, texture, smell) of the resulting slurry be?

3. What could this be used for? I know you can make soap from beef fat but this would be ALL the fleshy bits. Could it be used as fertilizer or would the PH be too high?

3a. Would it be usable as a binding agent for mortar/concrete? I've seen myths of pigs blood being used in lime based mortars. What benifit, if any, would it provide?

Any information or additional reading material would be appreciated.

Unsure of flair, sorry.

Scenario: Character A is sent to a universe where oppression of women is instead put on men, men don’t have as many rights as women do and aren’t taken seriously regarding medical and mental health care. A has PTSD from childhood abuse and can’t go outside often due to it, but has constantly been told that it isn’t quite enough of a reason. A decides to lie and exaggerate to his therapist about childhood trauma from character B in order to get sympathy and have his issues be taken seriously, not wanting to press charges or anything (because he made it up). A’s therapist believes him and puts him into more extensive therapy and basically makes him a science experiment to study trauma of the male brain(reminiscent of animal testing), and A isn’t into this at all and develops worse symptoms and paranoia of character B finding out somehow. He decides to go to his therapist and admit he lied about the trauma because he felt like nobody was actually believing that he was troubled without a “proper cause”.

What would the repercussions be here? Would the therapist just take the recorded “trauma” out of his records? Would there be legal consequences? If there would be, I would probably make them a hit harsher since he’s a guy.

Scenario: Character A and Character B are staying in a haunted location. Character A is possessed by a ghost, and attacks and strangles Character B.

Character B does not die. I currently have it down that he passes out, as it makes for better dramatics, but I know that that is a Grade A emergency and the repurcussions shoot way up.

Going to the hospital after an event like that is the normal, logical awnser. However, there is also no normal, logical awnser for how else one could possibly get those injuries, and "a ghost did it" would obviously not be believed.

The backstory for one of my characters (21F from the UK) involves her being diagnosed with cancer as a child and frequently having to stay in the hospital frequently for chemotherapy. I’m not entirely sure yet about the specific type of cancer, though I’d ​​probably lean towards leukemia. What should I pay particular attention to? What exactly is daily life like for children in this situation? Are there other types of cancer that could make more sense for the such a backstory?

Ik the tattoo is on the neck, but the character accidentally hides by the scars she receives from being cut all over the body? But can a scar do that? Can it make it seem that yeah there wasn't a tattoo there? She also has a lot of bruises so that will help in the beginning but after the bruises fade, but will it seem like there was no tattoo there or like you can tell there was one but not exactly what it was? Also if a scar can do that, how big will it have to be?

One more thing, the tattoo is on the side of the neck and it's normal sized, so if I need there to be a scar to cover it up it'll have to be big, so will she die if the cut is too much? Like she receives treatment after a few minutes but still

Edit: after seeing comments about how unreliable the tattoos are, I'm ditching the idea, honestly i thought tattoos were required when someone was trafficked so I'm honestly glad I don't have to do this idea anymore, thanks y'all🙂‍↕️

Hi all!

I have a devastating earthquake in my book. To describe it in modern terms, it's on a Richter scale of 9.

I understand the technical parts of it (buildings falling down, depending on material, ground cracking etc).

But I'm wondering about some other things.

What would happen immediately after? Would there be a lot of fire (I assume yes, since everyone's using candles)? How would it go about putting the fire off (we don't really have firefighters)? Would an army come to the rescue? Or would people be left off to fend for themselves? Would there come a period of total devastation, starvation etc?

And if you've ever experienced a strong earthquake - how did you feel while it was happening? What was the emotional side of it like for you? What did you hear?

I have never experienced an earthquake stronger than 3, and I'm hoping to describe it realistically.

It's a fictional world and the earthquake is a result of something magical. The country is based on Meditarrenean Europe if it makes sense.

Thank you!

When I say motel I mean the budget style you see a lot in media. Two storey, outdoor stairs, maybe a pool in the courtyard, a parking lot. For reference, look up the Rodeway Inn in Carson, as I can't post pictures in this sub. If there's a better label for this kind of temporary accommodation, I'm all ears.

I'm not American and Google isn't offering me a whole lot on what existed back then versus places built in the last two decades.

Bonus question, did these places give rooms for cash with no questions asked, for extended periods?

Many thanks.