Before leaving human lands, Bim scouts a bandit plagued hamlet. There he learns a bit more about spear/shield/sword/armor versus a human recruit. For this he dons his iron mail shirt.
He uses training weapons as he's not interested in any higher commitment than casual sparring. Using wood sparring weapons against the lower body is pretty much the best route to avoid inflicting lasting/crippling damage. Upper body shots could cause suffocation, or in the cause of metal/natural attacks, may jam ribs through organs. Limb strikes can sometimes render a limb useless. Head shots with wood sparring weapons may cause unconsciousness. So lower body it is.
Since the beginning though, I've tried to group Bim's experience gains into blocks as seen in the express emotions menu.
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It's based on opportunity. If your character has books, they read. If they are fighting, have a program for what they'll train that sorta goes together, if at all possible.
Bim sees his first waterfall during this time period. His life's dream is to see all the great natural places in the world. It's an unending dream and in that way, ultimately sound. If the goal can be reached, as in create a masterwork, the RNG will grant this at a perfectly silly time over a perfectly silly object. If it's a skill, often tracking ends up as the skill which is mastered firstwhich is to say a meaningless achievement as it's an always-on-skill.
During his return to the land of dwarves, Bim goes fishing and strikes down 2 carp. For this he uses a shield as of the two attacks carp are capable oftail slaps and bitesonly one can be intercepted through grabs; carp have no teeth. As with giant cave toads and giant olms and night trolls, a toothless mouth that bites can't be caught. Your character needs to mangle the mouth to eliminate bites. While for aggressive NPCs this can be done with the multi-attack combo (quick attack + dodge away) during a cyan ! or green + attack of opportunity, a critter like carp (which would rather flee) requires maintaining a grip to prevent flight and the stationary tile occupancy of stand ground/stand ground combat prefs.
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Good way to get in that shield work and to work up that wrestling when carp tries to break grips.
Unfortunately carp aren't considered true fish by DF standards, since they aren't vermin, so Bim doesn't cook any of this meat. He'll stick with the raw diet for a while longer.
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