Difference between revisions of "Rogue Clockwork"

Description

There are two different monsters with the same name: one is about the size and level of a large spider while one is about the size and level of a giant spider. The larger ones can be found near the minotaur caves; the smaller ones can be found near the minotaur caves as well as near the windmills. They appear to drop the same loot, so their combined loot table is below.

Lore

The pride of gnome tinkerers, clockwork constructs come in several shapes and sizes suitable for the many roles they play in gnome society: from guards to cargo haulers to sewer cleaners. Made of metal and mechanical parts and powered by magic and steam, clockworks seem very alien to most of Norrath's denizens unaccustomed to the oddities of Akanon's gnomes. Clockworks show no emotion, going about their business with relentless precision. Every movement, every action they take, has a machine's calculated exactitude. Every clockwork has a particular job and place in gnome society as well as the skills and construction to match the job. Rat-like clockworks clean the streets and sewers. Large spider-like clockworks haul cargo overland. Clockworks built in the image of gnomes serve as guards and even automaton merchants.

Well, that is how it all works in theory. In reality, many gnome tinkerers can hardly be bothered with getting every detail of every clockwork just right; there are so many other interesting things with which to fiddle. After being in service for some time, a few clockworks go rogue, distorting their intended functions in gnome society, sometimes with hazardous consequences. Some gnomes suspect that a force is actually at work within their society vandalizing perfectly functional clockworks and causing them to go rogue certainly a better explanation than faulty craftsmanship!

Gnomes take clockworks with them when they travel across Norrath, so the machines are found wherever one encounters gnomes, while defective clockworks might be found wherever gnomes have passed by.

Rogue clockworks appear as giant metal spiders. Smaller versions of spider clockworks are used as messengers to carry news and parcels to programmed destinations. Larger varieties carry merchant cargo overland, their eight legs creating a well-balanced machine to transport goods over the uneven ground of the gnomes' homeland. Both varieties are known to go rogue. Often gnome merchants will be in search of someone to track down their cargo that has run off on the back of a defective cargo hauler, while gnomish nobles might want to make sure an errant messenger clockwork carrying sensitive information does not fall into the wrong hands.

Known Loot

• Rusted Blackbox

  Rusted Blackbox

  

  NO DROP
  WT: 5.0 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (68.5%) (60.6% - 75.5%) [p1999]
• Micro Servo

  Micro Servo

  

  NO DROP
  WT: 0.1 Size: TINY
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (17.1%) (11.9% - 24.1%) [p1999]
• Blackbox Fragment

  Blackbox Fragment

  

  NO DROP
  WT: 0.1 Size: TINY
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (5.5%) (2.8% - 10.4%) [p1999]
• Size 5 Gizmo

  Size 5 Gizmo

  

  WT: 0.3 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (4.8%) (2.3% - 9.6%) [p1999]
• Size 4 Gizmo

  Size 4 Gizmo

  

  WT: 0.2 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (3.4%) (1.5% - 7.8%) [p1999]
• Size 6 Sprocket

  Size 6 Sprocket

  

  WT: 0.5 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (3.4%) (1.5% - 7.8%) [p1999]
• Drop of Grease

  Drop of Grease

  

  WT: 0.1 Size: TINY
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (3.4%) (1.5% - 7.8%) [p1999]
• Size 4 Sprocket

  Size 4 Sprocket

  

  WT: 0.2 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (2.7%) (1.1% - 6.8%) [p1999]
• Size 5 Sprocket

  Size 5 Sprocket

  

  WT: 0.3 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (2.7%) (1.1% - 6.8%) [p1999]
• Size 6 Gizmo

  Size 6 Gizmo

  

  WT: 0.5 Size: SMALL
  Class: ALL
  Race: ALL
  
  (2.1%) (0.7% - 5.9%) [p1999]

Average coin loot: 0.05 pp

Factions

• Defective Clockwork (-30)

Opposing Factions

• None

Related Quests

• Rusted Black Boxes
• Trueshot Longbow Quest