Derinkuyu was discovered by accident

[richardthinks]

bldgblog is always worth reading, but this latest post is dungeon delving gold:

No one knows how many underground cities lie beneath Cappadocia. Eight have been discovered, and many smaller villages, but there are doubtless more. The biggest, Derinkuyu, wasn’t discovered until 1965, when a resident cleaning the back wall of his cave house broke

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[st_rev]

Derinkuyu was actually used as the site of some important events in the backstory of Vampire: the Masquerade.

[richardthinks]

It makes sense that the underground cities of Cappadocio would end up in any literate RPG.

...I guess it's a shame it was Vampire canon, though: I'd've preferred something less IP-centred, less splatbooky, personally.

[st_rev]

The Nevins link sounds very Unknown Armies-ish.

[richardthinks]

once this PhD business is done UA is one of the first things I intend to read.