Mastodawn

A visual novel plotline sprung to life:

- Kids at a high school in Rome had been telling each other for decades that there were secret rooms under the school. Teachers laughed it off as playground rumors

- During a protest sit-in, the kids took the opportunity to go where they’re not supposed to go and reported that there were really, definitely secret rooms under the school

- The staff found a mysterious iron door in the basement that apparently no-one knew the purpose of; after getting it open, they found some sort of disused furnace… which opened directly into an entire ancient Roman villa

https://nos.nl/artikel/2617238-scholieren-vinden-1800-jaar-oude-romeinse-villa-onder-eigen-school-in-rome

Scholieren vinden 1800 jaar oude Romeinse villa onder eigen school in Rome

De domus ligt volgens archeologen in een gebied waar grote Romeinse figuren als Augustus, Cicero en Pompeius woonden, maar waar weinig over bekend is.

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Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤3d ago

@0xabad1dea
For decades! How long does it take to graduate from high school there?

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abadidea 3d ago

@sloanlance … you must have gone to a very happily boring school, if the seniors never told you any horror stories about things that happened long before you arrived, and you didn’t have anything to tell the incoming freshmen…

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Stephen Perdue

My high school was that boring, but not happily so. It’s only slightly interesting feature was round building with a hexagonal theater room in the center and movable walls to use 3 surrounding classrooms as folding-chair audience space, inventive in a laughably cheap and inadequate way.