A disembodied hand with a ragged rotting stump drops from above and begins to choke you to death. Instinct: to choke the life from you

• Drops down on you

The clockworker ant is at the bottom rung of the Machine God's hive. They are tasked by their factory-queens to collect base materials and use them construct items, structures, and machines. They will continue their current assignment regardless of what happens around them, but, if impeded in their work, will attempt to remove the obstruction with impossibly sharp mandibles that can easily cut through almost any substance. Instinct: to follow the Machine God's orders

• build objects from base materials
• work in unison
• break down an object into base materials