That took way too long, but he finally named his figurine!
Haven't much time to play, and also there was a lot of other projects in this fort, but finally after long arena battles with humans, crundles, troglodytes, trolls and even one ettin and Forgotten Beast, after suffering some injuries, recovering from infections Reg finally named his favourite figurine of our first king
I found it hard to get the right opponents for his training because diorite figurines are apparently make pretty good weapons. Crundles died in a few hits, humans, even with helmets on, died from internal injuries (broken hearts, spines and lungs), hands and feet exploded into gore with every hit, making victims pass out and bleed. One of the best opponents were trolls, big and tough enough to stay alive longer than others. Interestingly enough, Reg's worst injuries were done by crundle, lucky bastard managed to knock Reg unconscious in one hit, and while crundle size doesn't allow him to do much damage, bite wounds on the head got infected and i thought that's it. But he recovered after a while (infections are still listed in the health screen for over a year, but skin damage is gone and he seems okay). Also he got few joints broken by troll. After all those trainings he doesn't really care about anything anymore (except his action figure).
He's now expert Action Figure User. And he got some permanent adamantine decoration sewn into his arm.
His last victim was Aditha Lobstercanker, antlion larva forgotten beast. One of the easiest and shortest battles he had. Reg had much harder time fighting Ettin and one of our soldiers helped him with that giant. And for some reason Reg decided to play ophthalmologist.
Sadly, but expected even named figurine can't be used by a squad member. But while trying different things i found a way to force him to fight when he decides to run from danger. When somebody is assigned to a squad while running away they won't drop their equipment and will become somewhat controllable (will drop figurine right after the fight finished). That was really useful against invaders. He rarely ran from wild animals, but naked humans apparently too scary for him. Another discovery was a really easy method of training "doesn't really care about anything". All you have to do is to get a bunch of crundles released on to your dwarf and let him pass out. Then engage crundles with your soldiers to save your dwarf. One session is enough to make him not care.
And while I'm here few words on other projects in this fort. Finally finished construction of clear glass tower with tavern on the top. Created troglodyte breeding quarters. Successfully created new line of werebisons using a wild troll to tap the statue and then infecting isolated visitors (visitors are great test subjects for almost any kind of experiments). And next project in line is obsidian cast statues (maybe even one featuring Reg and his action figure).
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