Cordelia Bedelia
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I had been reading on here about the feasability of a character getting hit by an arrow and surviving. It seems like this idea of a "glancing blow" might work better. It's the age old dilemma of injured, but not dead. I'm not looking for them to continue fighting or anything like that. She's meant to sustain a wound when an unknown archer tries to assisinate her. At the last second she unwittingly moves out of the path. My original idea was to have her get hit in the shoulder by a second shot and pass out. Then her guard and a medic character do some immediate kind of treatment before she's moved somewhere safe for better treatment. After reading posts and blogs about arrow wounds and treating them I'm a bit nervouse to use the trope. What would a "glancing blow" from an arrow look like? Could it cause a serious enough injury to keep her held up in treatment for a few days? Plotwise I want to keep her in place a for at least a day or two before sending her home to bloody suprise.