Collaborative World Building Effort?

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Gentleman Vaultboy
It's more like space and physics warps to allow them to use superhuman feats.

Say you have the world I talked about before, with the grassy field, the picnic, and the good book. With that one, you could conceivably summon any book you require, and piece of picnic food you want, call up the sunlight and perfect weather.

You could also summon the world in the Marble, which sort of encases you in a dome of reality that's bigger on the inside. That's why it get's crazy when Marble users fight: they end up summoning their worlds inside another persons, causing overlap that makes it behave in strange ways.

I'm just piling on ideas here.
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Zaleramancer
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What other relics of the past age would remain?
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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Gentleman Vaultboy
Yes, what would? That would depend on hos long it's been since everything fell apart.

Well, robots would be at the top of that list. Servants, maintenance, ones that ran farms and dug up minerals from the ground.

How do I reconcile that with the way the cities dissolved, though?
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Zaleramancer
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Automatons are designed to be autonomous.

Particularly the more people became absorbed in their marbles.

The ones in cities either continued to attempt to preserve them, failing more often than not, while those with rudimentary intellect split off into self-supporting groups.

Or the hierarchy of programmed impulses caused their self-preservation to eclipse restoration.

A slow evolution of under ground robots who wait for their masters to return.

Perhaps a few even found some, and now serve to the best of their ability- though the human know little of how to command them.

Most of the current languages would be almost dead in their modern form by now.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
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Gentleman Vaultboy
Maybe a few Robot cults, where they build effigies to the people they used to serve? Miniatures made out of stone and scrap of how the cities used to look.

Some who hate modern humans because they aren't their masters, and see them as some sort of heretical usurpers.
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Zaleramancer
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It reminds me of a story Idea I heard once: Robots designed to serve people. Nuclear war comes, some human survive somewhat mutated.

Some of the Robots say that the survivors are no longer quite human, while others say they are.

Agree with those ideas though.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
― Hogfather
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