You scramble into the elevator. You have no idea how you are going to escape, but you know you have to get free of this oppressive place. Bold as brass, you are going to get into that massive walking machine called a “Nauticrawl”, and you are going to steal it.

Being a mech driver is tough work, but being a mech driver in a steampunk is tougher.  Every lever, switch, pulley, and wheel helps you drive your hulking bathyscaphe-mech to lumber forward, and the whole thing is in virtual reality.  Do I have your attention?  Well, then you’ll want