The Matho-Dungeon Settlement Sphere, Part 5

It wasn't as easy to advance from animal to animal as it had been to go from belt to belt as a Novitiate.

Here I was in my second Stingray Geometry dungeon. I was still a stingray despite doing better than I expected on these.

I had to actually drag things around and put them into position to defeat the monsters here. I had to identify rays. I had to measure a 90 degree angle with a goblin's protractor.

I had to tell another goblin if three points on his diagram were collinear. There were parallel line angles and perimeters once again.

I continued to answer every question successfully without any trouble until I got to a goblin with thick glasses asking me about translations. I hadn't heard of that term in geometry. Or maybe I had, I had to think about it.


This was the type of problem I was dreading. And it was way harder than what had come before.


Images, translations, mappings, images, yikes yikes.

I tried to rule out of the three answers. 

A didn't make since, but B was about parallel translations and kinda made sense, and so did C.

 I hesitated for 5 minutes, trying to figure it out. Finally I picked B.

The goblin said I had to actually do the translation on his board that he was talking about. So I hesitated and then tried to draw it out on his white board.

I couldn't figure out how to draw a translation that the Goblin liked. I tried and tried, he didn't recognize any of it. I couldn't get past that bespectacled goblin.

Finally, I gave up, and left the Dungeon and went back in.

I had to redo some of the same types of problems as before and some different.

 I made a dumbo error and solved for x instead of the angle in question on one them, and somehow that one error meant I didn't get a challenge combat section and I ended up with a 78%.

I checked my status again.

Name: Edmond Bauer

Ranking Status: Initiate (Stingray)

Sphere Ranking: 72,855,273rd (40%)

Lives: 29

Race: Elothean

Race: Streak 3 - Skip three enemies with full rewards for every eleven you defeat without getting defeated.

Class: N/A

Class Bonuses: None Unlocked


Tracking:

Algebra (stingray)
Geometry (electric eel)





I was happy to be past Stingray in Geometry. I just wanted to get done with Geometry forever. I wasn't my cocky confident self in this area.

This next dungeon was a bigger one. There would be 5 goblins with three problems each. The nastier the problem, the more nerdy the goblin looked.

I had some area of shape problems that I had to think about. Actually, for once I had to think about most of them for a bit.

But I figured them out after puzzling over them.

Then I ran into another one of those translation puzzles that had thrown me for a loop before.

Finally, I was able to figure out how to please the Goblin, and I gave a shout in celebration when I got that on right.

There were a bunch of easy ones after that. A lot of disguised math and algebra problems.

Some of the geometric calculations like diameter given circumference or the surface area of the cube, I had to think a bit about.

I managed to get through the dungeon without messing up any of the goblins' puzzling questions.

What would happen if I gave a problem from something other than geometry in a Geometry dungeon bonus battle?


Integral of x e^x  = x e^x - e^x

It did nothing, then I realized I'd forgotten the constant.

Integral of x e^x = x e^ x - e^x + c

The snakes that were flowing towards me blew up in a big flashy explosion.

Implicit Derivative of y^2 = x^2 + k


2 y dy/dx = 2x
 dy/dx = 2x / 2y
dy / dx = x / sqrt(x^2+k)


 A bigger explosion rocked the dungeon, and I was clear to finish the dungeon perfectly.


I was promoted to Geometry track - Octopus

This was a dungeon focused on translations. Finally I realized what the word meant. It meant moving a geometric figure by a certain amount while keeping relative position the same.

I had to draw out some translations to defeat the merlock in this dungeon.

But then I got a question about what kind of transformation something was. So it was a dungeon about all kinds of transformations. I wanted to say scaling, but the merman had a list and it wasn't on it.

It wasn't translation, rotation or reflection, so it had to be dilation.

That was a short dungeon.


I could do these quickly as long as I didn't get stymied. My second octupus dungeon started with a weird question I had to think on about reflections.

But if I thought about it and worked through it, I was able to figure it out. What a novelty, actually thinking about problems.

The novitiate dungeons hadn't done anything except confirm that I knew my basic arithmetic down cold. But I didn't have my geometry that solid yet.

I was going to run the unknown dungeons someday! I had to learn to fight even when it got tough.

I got hit with a ruler a couple times because of assumptions, and only got 71%, but I was on to Geometry - Lanternshark.

I didn't even know what a lantern shark was.

 I left the Geometry initiate dungeon door room, and went to the common room. I had missed questions on half of the dungeons, I could blend into the crowd.

Someone was saying, "I never get the reflection ones, so confusing."

I interrupted, "Me too. I'm so confused about those reflection white boards."

"It's a lot harder once you get past the novice stuff huh?" the guy said. "You may think you're hot stuff based on baby problems from before, but you're probably just going to wash out like the rest of them."

I took that as a sign, and left the facility, going back to my hotel room.

Stingray to Lanternshark in one day. I hoped i'd be able to be a whale somewhere in between finishing the Initiate section.

Name: Edmond Bauer

Ranking Status: Initiate (Stingray)

Sphere Ranking: 66,855,273rd (45%)

Lives: 29

Race: Elothean

Race: Streak 3 - Skip three enemies with full rewards for every eleven you defeat without getting defeated.

Class: N/A

Class Bonuses: None Unlocked


Tracking:

Algebra (stingray)
Geometry (Lanternshark)