Clockworks

Well, they can basically do anything that a normal machine, an animal, or a human can do, the just do it with gears and springs instead of wire or flesh or blood. They can’t do magick or use avatar channels, but other than that, the only limits are the materials you can get and the charge type.

So if you wanted, you could make an Analytical Engine number cruncher and use that instead of a laptop, or make a mechanical cell phone or something. Of course, a lot of the fun in Clockworking is in building new and innovative attack machinery.

Basically, if it’s not going to walk around and think under its own power, but it’s also not a single-purpose gadget (Dishwasher, Sand Counter, Fish Finder), it’s probably a significant gadget of some sort.

Nice idea. You could also rig them with wax cylinder machines and have them repeat insults at Irascimancers. If the insults are personalized enough, then that’ll make them snap right there.

Or spritz pepper spray at them. THAT will get a response.

I also had one idea for a scenario, where a clockworker made a whole bunch of perpetual motion attack machines out of mannequins — they would walk around until they found a specific target, grabbed the target in a bear hug, ungeared the Free Energy Machine from the rest of the clockwork, and let it overcharge. Ten seconds later, kaboom.