My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 273

ARES 3 solar day 270

The blue light flashed past like a whip, and the wall of a section of the cave with an area of ​​two square meters, shaped like a milky red waterfall, peeled off and floated towards the dragon and unicorn standing aside.

"Why did you cut that thing?" Fireball asked. "There are many better gems than that agate. Agate tastes like paste."

"This is not for you to eat," Starlight Glimmer stretched out his hooves to trace out fine geometric patterns on the cave floor, "I want to make dice. We always can't get good results with those computer dice, so I I want to make some for myself.”

"Ah?" Fireball asked, "Didn't you always say that our magic supply is really not enough, and we can't use it at will unless it is really necessary?"

"It's necessary," Starlight gritted her teeth. "After the humiliation Mark inflicted on us last night, it's absolutely necessary to give him some color!"

"Seriously?" Fireball pretended to be surprised and raised his eyebrows and mocked, "Then please tell me specifically how Mark asked you to preach about the miracles of stones all night long? Or maybe it's the stone master who is improving the dice roll. Can’t you help me with points?”

"That's role-playing," Starlight muttered. "This is our tradition of playing O&O. At least a few of us do it anyway."

"Hey, I obviously did a lot of role-playing last night." Fireball was not happy.

"I don't think shouting 'Who brought it?'[1] every round of battle is considered a character trait." Starlight looked disdainful.

"At least I'm original," Fireball retorted, "You're just imitating your rock-obsessed friend. Why can't you play a character that has no connection to your pony friends?"

Starlight choked at the question. "Yes," she finally countered, "I can play the role of 'cult leader and crazy vengeful witch Starlight Glimmer.' But it would be much harder for me to play such a role."

Fireball tilted his head and looked at the unicorn in front of him with an extremely complicated expression. "If it were any other guy, these words would be quite intimidating," he said, "But what you said makes sense. But it’s like an apology.”

"Maybe," Starlight surrendered, "Then...do you want to hear me talk about the other glories and miracles of stones?"

"No need," Fireball said bluntly, "I just want you to tell me when we can start cutting my rocks. My food for next month. We had planned to do this."

Starlight grumbled and stepped on the pattern she had drawn, and the illuminated magic circle immediately began to operate. The slab of agate she had just collected was neatly cut into fragments, and the large pieces fell off, revealing a cluster of about a dozen small crystal particles. In the blink of an eye, another burst of magic light flashed, and the starlight engraved small numbers on each crystal, and then used its front hooves to pick them out from the rubble and gather them together.

Fireball stretched out his claws to grab two handfuls of crystal blocks and looked at their shapes carefully. "Ha," he said to himself, "interesting."

"What's wrong?"

"You made these weird shapes, and I feel like each side of them is exactly the same as the others."

"That's what it's for."

"That's right, but if you think about it, it's amazing," Fireball said with interest coming from nowhere. "There are many triangles, but here is one made of pentagons. Of course there is also a square." I'm curious if you can get more sides than this in a shape."

"You can and you can't." Although Starlight couldn't suppress the twilight in her heart, she could tell she was very angry from the tone of her explanation, "Five of them are regular polyhedrons. This refers to all the sides and all the faces. , and all the angles are identical. The ten-sided one is a dice—each face is the same, but deflected for easier rolling. Any structure with more sides than the icosahedron here," she Pointing at D20, "Either different angles need to be used, or different faces will appear, otherwise the edges will be different. And unless different shapes are allowed to be mixed and matched, it is impossible to spell out more than five edges on each face. of polyhedron.”

"Really?" Fireball turned his attention back to the new dice he had just made. "It seems like you can build anything with just triangles."

"I've never taught you geometry, right?" Xingguang asked helplessly.

"Nothing. I have learned a little trigonometry for space navigation before - I took a crash course - but I have never been exposed to these shapes or anything like that."

"I'll give you a book when we get home. For now, please give me back my dice."

"Okay. I just think it's fun." Fireball poured the dice into an old food packaging bag that Starlight had specially prepared for this purpose. "Can you get me something now? My black crystal for seasoning. Almost running out…”

"what!!!"

I saw Mark quickly retracting from the table, his agility was an eye-opener for the two horses and one dragon.

"These dice have a grudge against me!" Starlight felt even more angry. "I made them out of Martian rocks anyway. It's not surprising that something like this happened, but this is too much!"

"But they're made of stone," Spitfire's English still needed improvement. "They were touched by your God's hand. They're part of Him, right?"

"I'm seriously considering switching to agnosticism," Starlight cursed, reaching for her computer and opening the dice rolling program.

For the rest of the game, the dice made of blood-red agate were just placed quietly in the center of the table, never used again. In Starlight's imagination, these small crystals were mocking her wantonly.

[Note:]

1. “Who brought the marshmallows?”: (Doubtful) Possibly from Devil May Cry.