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After completing conditioning training and brutally taking out 3 Troglodytes in an Arena, Logan has been taking a break from training and living a normal life. The project is suffering from a lack of enemies for Logan to fight. Finally, a Giant Cave Toad is captured, and is promptly matched up with Logan. A monster fight is expected: 3 times the size of a fully-grown Dwarf, renown for their strength, and building destroyers. The actual fight was… anticlimatic.

From the reports of Erush Lovedwheel, Director of Defense, filed to His Majesty Minkot Figureslick, King of the Steel of Worlds

7th Sandstone 215

Due to the mishap a few months ago, involving a bull picking a fight with a raven, crashing the caravan it was pulling, and sending the merchants running for the hills, funding for the Dwarven Super Soldier project has dropped considerably. This drop in funding has resulted in a drop in Logan’s training: we haven’t been able to capture many creatures for him to fight. I’m calling together a board meeting to remedy this.

Regardless, we managed to capture a Giant Cave Toad we had our eye on for a while. I’ll spare you the details, but the process involved a golden statue made in your likeness and a lot of cage traps.

The rest was pretty standard: we locked the toad in a chamber, then called in the board to watch the fight. We were expected a large struggle. with all that the Cave Toads are known to do. There was even a monstrous one that devoured some of our best dwarves down in Covenboot. Tensions ran high: we feared that we might lose the our Asset Logan. Logan, for his part, was completely calm, playing as he waited for his unknown challenger.

A few seconds after the cage opened, the Toad lumbered out. The chief medical dwarf, ïngiz Towerknives, had an involuntary intake in breath. Even I, seasoned old veteran as I am, felt uneasy: the toad looked so much bigger next to young Logan.

As the Toad lumbered towards him, Logan kept playing, not caring about this giant, hulking monster. Already, the Cave Toad, a male (and therefore very territorial!) prepared itself, snorting like a bull about to charge. Logan looked up, smiled at the toad and bid it good day. The toad lunged, we winced…

Logan calmly sidestepped and delivered a left jab to the leg. As the Cave Toad lunged again, he delivered a grand-slam uppercut, tearing open the beast’s neck!

Logan clearly wasn’t in the mood. Logan declared to the toad that he laughs in the face of death (which we know is true), and warned it to stay back. Alas, the Toad didn’t take the warning. The Toad, angry from the uppercut, let loose a fell roar, and went for a whopper of a headbutt. I lost my uncle to this attack from a giant toad of the above-ground variety, and looked away…

THWAWHAP!!!

I looked back. Logan, having given his opponent a fair warning, held nothing back, and delivered a record-shattering right cross to the Toad, striking it right between the eyes and stopping it cold. The Toad’s eyes rolled up into the back of its head and it collapsed to the floor, unconscious.

The board stared at the scene, speechless. Our 8-year old boy had knocked out a hulking monster, a dwarf-eater, with a single punch. Blood pooled out from underneath it: ïngiz noted that the blow had struck it so hard that its throat was torn open. Logan, neither enraged nor in his normal warrior’s trance, went back to playing, ignoring the monster that he had cold-cocked so stoically.

The Toad bled out a couple minutes afterward. Logan kept playing by himself.

We’re going to need a serious reevaluation of our training program. It’s too effective: having only thrown four blows the entire fight, he didn’t gain any combat experience.

Perhaps we can capture some elves or goblins when they seige… See if Logan can take out our most recurring enemy. I must consult with the board, but I think he is ready.