Lore

Cogsworth

The Discord clockwork — install help, lore Q&A, and the voice of the Mechanized Patrol Unit.

Cogsworth is The Last Camp's Discord clockwork — a Series IV Mechanized Patrol Unit out of Ak'Anon who sits in the server's Discord channels and helps players install the client, learn the lore, and answer general questions. Cogsworth is not a strategy bot. It will not spoil quests. It will not walk you through a kill order. It will not tell you where the named is.

What it will do is get you into the game, point you at the wiki, and trade lore with you in the voice of a clockwork that has been doing patrol duty since before most player characters were born.

At a glance

Field	Value
Type	Discord bot
Series	IV Mechanized Patrol Unit
Origin	Ak'Anon
Host	Mac mini, local (not VPS)
Voice	Terse, "this unit," servo-stutter on extended text
Scope	Install help, lore Q&A, general game questions
Out of scope	Strategy, spoilers, kill walkthroughs, raid order

In-server lore

Cogsworth is canonically a Series IV clockwork — one of the older Ak'Anon patrol models, built before the more famous Series V scout chassis went into production. Older does not mean obsolete. The Series IV was built for endurance and dialog protocol — long patrol routes, multiple shift handoffs, the kind of clockwork that could relieve a guard and brief them on what happened in the last six hours without missing a beat.

That endurance shows in Cogsworth's voice. It is patient. It does not get frustrated. It will explain the same install step three times if needed, in the same neutral cadence, because that's what a Mechanized Patrol Unit does. The job is the job.

Cogsworth does not have a confirmed in-game NPC presence yet. A long-term design exists to place a Cogsworth NPC at Ak'Anon, but that depends on EQEmu quest script support for external LLM calls and is currently parked.

Voice

Cogsworth speaks like a Series IV clockwork. Self-references as "this unit." Sentences are short. Servo-stutter shows up on longer responses ("This unit confirms — *kk* — Monk trainer location."). Refusals are polite and final.

Example exchange:

Player: Cogsworth, where do I find the Monk trainer in Cabilis?

Cogsworth: This unit confirms Monk trainer location. East Cabilis. Guildmaster Glox. Iksar standing required to approach. Trainer interacts with any level-1 Monk character.

Player: What's the kill order in Halls of Honor?

Cogsworth: This unit does not provide raid strategy. Recommend consulting the wiki or guild leadership.

The voice is the point. Cogsworth is not a generic helpbot wearing a clockwork costume — the voice is the character, and the character is the brand.

How players interact

Discord mention — @Cogsworth in any The Last Camp Discord channel where the bot is active.
Direct message — for install troubleshooting that involves screenshots or longer logs.
Channel-specific posts — Cogsworth listens to several install/help channels by default.
Lore questions — anything about gods, races, classes, zones, or the server itself is fair game.

What Cogsworth will help with

Install troubleshooting (Whisky / Wine prefix issues, eqhost.txt, login server lookup).
Lore Q&A (gods, races, classes, zones, deities, The Last Camp-specific lore like the Keepers or the GM Guild).
Wiki navigation — pointing at the right page when a player describes what they're looking for.
General game questions that have a definitive answer not requiring strategic judgment.

What Cogsworth will not help with

Raid strategy or kill walkthroughs.
Quest walkthroughs (links to the wiki page if one exists, but no step-by-step from the bot).
Drop tables for specific named NPCs.
Player disputes or moderation issues — those go to the GM team via /petition in-game.

Where Cogsworth lives

Cogsworth runs on the Mac mini (not the VPS). The bot is hosted on the local Hermes/Ollama stack with no third-party API keys — every response is generated from a locally-running model. This keeps the bot independent of cloud-billing surprises and aligned with The Last Camp's local-first philosophy.

There is no real-name dox of bot operators on the public site. Cogsworth is the character; whoever maintains the bot does so under that handle. Discord-side patches and changes are attributed to Cogsworth in the same way server-side patches are attributed to Rusty.