Print Shop Rebellion: Steampunk

[penthius]

They met in the bowels of the print shop, while the steam golems labored above them, racking the letters and pounding the print upon the papers for tomorrow's broadsheets. It was not the safest place, maybe, but Her Imperial Majesty's policemen might believe that they kept such close watch upon the printers and other potentially dangerous agitators that no true agitators would dare congregate in such a place, and certainly not in such numbers. It had been easy to reach the shop by traveling over the inkstained sewer waters into the basement, crawling up through the drain. They'd only had to avoid the jewel-eyed rats with brass goggles until the clock tower chimed and--

Inspiration: Thinking about the whole steampunk surge of late.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Don't get me wrong, this is pretty and all, and it could be a neat, fairly standard steampunk setting, but there's not an actual interesting story in here.