Well.... this is not good. I've seen dead people that look more alive, thankfully though Vaughn is one tough son of a bitch. He should survive.... probably. The first thing I need to do is get him to somewhere safe, cant have him lying around in the middle of a road bleeding like that, fuck knows what kind of predators it would attract. I walked over to him and turned him onto his back. He's still breathing which is a bonus. Looks like he managed to get some basic first aid done on himself as well, if he hadn't he would already be dead. Oh yeah.... classic Vaughn.... frozen his wounds shut. Its a clever idea until you think about the fact that you need to get past all that ice to treat him.
First things first I need help with this, time to create a message.... hmm, the guild master should do the trick. Whilst searching through my bag for a healing potion, I envisage the message I want to send to the guild master as well as the target (the guild master). The message read "send a light magic specialist to the hunters cottage near the Gnoll camp. As soon as possible! Vaughn is seriously fucked up." As I finished sending the message I found the healing potion and moved it towards Vaughn's lips, he just choked on it instead of drinking it which could be expected of an unconscious person. I gave him a few slaps on the face briefly forcing him to regain consciousness, during which I made him drink the potion. That should keep him alive for long enough, until help arrives.
About 30 seconds later I got my reply from the guild master, It said "sure they'll be there in 6 hours.... you owe me one though." despite the fact that he is actually in my debt already im going to let that one slide for now. The most important thing currently is keeping Vaughn alive, and to do that Im going to need to get him to the hunters cottage. There should be medical supplies and food there. Once again slapping him conscious, I wrapped his arm around my shoulder and supported his weight. This is going to be a long fucking 2 miles....
It took us about 2 hours to get back to the cottage.... we had to keep stopping for rests and the walking pace could have been beat by a snail. Vaughn was chain smoking along the way to keep himself conscious.... weird man that he is. Hes convinced that it keeps him awake, but I call bullshit.... I mean at most its a placebo affect.
Once arriving I laid him down on the bottom bunk of one of the bunk beds, firsts things first I need to find medical supplies. Hes still drifting in and out of consciousness like the entire way here... im not certain that hes actually lucid. Just in case I found his stash am out one of the bottles of dwarven whisky next to his bed, best to keep him comfortable after all.
The medical supplies I managed to find where the basics of the basics. Some bandages, sterilizing alcohol, and some stitching supplies. I can give him basic treatment but no more. First things first is I need to get a better look at his wounds and remove his current attempt at first aid. I unwrapped the bandages from around his waist and then slowly started to use a tiny flame to melt all of the ice he stuck to himself. As I removed the ice small amounts of blood began to trickle out from his wounds again, its seems the healing potions have done a good job of clotting his blood over wise he may have bled out the second I removed the ice.
There is one way to summon up the sight of his injuries.... FUCKED! hes got a gash through his mid rift that is about 3 inches deep.... much more and it would have reached his spine. Thats then followed up by a 2 inch diameter hole in his shoulder which is a through and through. There's large amounts of bruising on his ribs which I'm assuming is caused by broken ribs... and he's lost 2 fucking fingers. What kind of bull shit was he getting up to?
I mean I thought I was fairly quick at dealing with my part of the job taking like 20 minutes.... I would have been quicker but I got a nasty surprise from the back when the Gnoll hunting party came back. Luckily for me theres was no one there who was anywhere near my level so I got along fine by being careful. The plan had been that Vaughn was going to keep them busy whilst I snuck up behind them... but, its appears that instead he decided to solo them, and slaughtered them all within 5 minutes of entering. I wish I could say I'm surprised, but that would be a lie. Finishing up applying his new bandages and stitching what I could, I realized that there was still about 2 hours until we could expect any sort of help.
Thankfully Vaughn had stabilized, so I just needed to keep on feeding him healing potions and make sure his condition didn't worsen. After around 2 hours had passed I heard a carriage roll up outside and a young elven woman appeared inside the cottage. After a brief explanation of what I thought had happened and her examining his injuries, she concluded that she could keep him alive but needed to get him back to the city for a proper treatment. With no arguments from me I helped her lift him into the carriage and saw them off. I had some business in the form of looting the Gnoll camp and obtaining the proof of the job being done.