Robot society is very different. They have electric lighting, as opposed to the glowstones common everywhere else. The streets are also not the normal dirt-or cobbles setup, or the artificial stone of Trisamorian ruins. They use a different kind of artificial stone, a bit softer and rougher, and dark. In the middle of major roads are metal plates, both marking lanes of travel along with embedded, thick steel bars. As you walk through the streets you see relatively few robots about, too. Much of the traffic is with large, strange vehicles. Some have pretty normal wheels. Some have fancy wheels. Some are big multilegged monstrosities, and some are huge things with giant steel wheels, stuck on the metal tracks.
Outside of a few robots who greet the party with other languages, the robots have a language all their own. To everyone else it seems like hissing or strange dissonant tones, but Trence understands it like a native. Farflame may say 'no mana while travelling', but damn, the upside of that blessing is good. When he greets them back it isn't with the same language, though.. with some robots at some level he understands that it would be deeply frightening or disturbing for them to hear a human speaking in a way they can understand. Others he speaks to in a variety of languages, some understood by the rest of the party, and others unknown to all save the robot in question.
Some of the buildings are warehouses, workhouses, factories, boarding houses.. some with large spaces, small spaces, medium spaces.. lots of variety to match the variations in robots, given how many of them are nonhumanoid. There are also robot entertainment buildings, some of which could be normal enough elsewhere, with a few dozen robots speaking their hissing languages to each other, being maintained by other robots with odd tools. Some of them are things unique to here, such as dark buildings with robots looking at screens with strange, strange lights being played over them. There are shops that sell robotic accessories, which apparently includes everything up to entirely new bodies.
This is fascinating.
..until, of course, you encounter robotic crime. There's a legged human-like robot in an alley ahead of you. Or half of one, anyway. There is no top half. You can see another robot examining the body, and, despite being a two foot tall armoured wheelbot with extendable head and limbs, something just tells you that you're seeing a robotic policeman.
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