The small robots have big numbers, the big robots may only have small numbers, but there's a lot of smaller robots near them advancing.

"THE NEWCOMER MAY DEPART UNHARMED," says a very loud booming voice from one of them.

(Arazni does not seem to be around.)

- that sounds like an effort at negotiations, sort of. Not an ideal one, but - the kind of thing people who are Lawful or pretending to be do more often than people who aren't trying. Of course even if one is widely known to make false assurances of safety one might try it on someone who just arrived, hoping they'll trust it. 

"Is the robot likely to be lying," she says.

"Might be, might not. Depends if bullets or words are cheaper." He's shooting robots.

"Do you request of me that I don't try to speak with it." The description of this place has not earned its ruler any starting goodwill and she will in fact refrain for now if her new friends request it. 

"I request that you kill it."

Is the one that's talking also shooting, or is it just talking.

Oh yeah, they're all shooting.

Then she will crawl up near a window and shout back "I'll speak with a construct that cannot shoot at things!" and then she'll move in case they target off her voice and then she'll ask Century for one of these 'guns'.

Here, take it. (By this point the people in the room are starting to go down, between holes blasted in walls and blasts through existing holes.)

Fascinating. Yes, Julius, send an unarmed drone.

She can pick downed people back up again with another channel, if they aren't killed instantly. 

And she can try to use a gun! ...it's a weird weapon. Heavy, and poorly balanced, and reactive when it's fired, bucking wildly. She can tell it's doing things you couldn't do without a powerful spell at home. She wishes she could spend ten minutes experimenting with it. 

Some of the downed people are dead, because the weapons on the robots, especially the bigger robots, look made for killing heavy-duty adventurers, not just barely-not-commoners. Some of them are just unconscious - as she can tell when one of the beams eventually proves undodgable, the ones they're firing in specifically her direction aren't lethal, they just make her feel a little tired and numb, and also the lethal ones can miss important organs.

The gun is very effective, in spite of how she has practically no idea how to use it beyond 'point and shoot'.

Then the gun will rapidly win her over, because she cares more about that than most other things. Die, robots. 

" - they're not trying to kill me," she reports with surprise once they hit her. She is not natively inclined to take this as a good sign; Tar-Baphon wanting people intact is worse for them than him not caring.

"Huh."

"THIS DRONE IS UNARMED," says a small flying construct well over the fray.

Century is obviously going to shoot it because it is probably going to drop bombs on them.

Steelmind has more!

"Don't shoot at it! I know it's a construct but it's in a sense claiming to be an envoy!"

"Steelmind's not stopping."

His robot army is indeed still advancing!

"NEUTRALS MAY DEPART UNHARMED OR NEGOTIATE WITH THE TYRANT." He does not literally have a foghorn but his drone can be very loud. "TRAITORS TO NOVAPEST WILL BE EXECUTED."

"I noticed the army's not stopping. That is an argument for negotiating. Don't. Shoot. The unarmed talking ones. I will help you shoot the ones that are shooting at us." Channel, to pick everyone up who has been downed since the last channel. She's running low on them.

"Acknowledged. Why do you think they're unarmed?" He'll switch targets, though, since that's Ilderia's preference.

"...that's what it yelled very loudly?" 

"- The Tyrant lies. Often."

"I expect you are telling the truth about that but - if someone comes up to you saying 'I'm an unarmed envoy' you can't shoot them on the grounds that they could be lying about being unarmed! ... in Golarion you can't do that. The Lawful gods would smite you. And they'd also smite the other guy if he had his soldiers posing as envoys. I guess without the gods I can see how the whole thing breaks down, but you've got Aroden now, so try it His way."