YES!
I love it when you guys include little details like this. When our interests outside the RPG world cross over like this, I know my money is going to the right company.
The Oak Island mystery has always fascinated me. Below are some links for extra-curricular reading. The Oak Island wiki is easy to find by casual searching, but the Douglas Preston Smithsonian Magazine article is a little less so.
Smithsonian Magazine article by Douglas Preston who later used this research as the basis for the novel Riptide (which was an ok book):
http://www.prestonchild.com/books/riptide/art35,127
Oak Island wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island
Enjoy!
Eh, you're being to generous to Riptide. While some parts of it were OK...
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How any modern medical professional could fail to recognize, or even at least suspect, the symptoms of radiation poisoning stretched my credulity far more than any idiocy about the sword or how the traps remained so deadly centuries later.
Eh, you're being to generous to Riptide. While some parts of it were OK...
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How any modern medical professional could fail to recognize, or even at least suspect, the symptoms of radiation poisoning stretched my credulity far more than any idiocy about the sword or how the traps remained so deadly centuries later.
Yeah, I know. I was excited enough about Oak Island prior to reading Riptide that I was willing to overlook issues like that.
What I disliked the most was
PPpppbbbbtttthhhhh. I liked Riptide. A lot. I'm generally willing to suspend disbelief for Preston & Child, because they're amazingly entertaining authors.
I just wanted to let others know that back in 1990 I actually got on Oak Island in Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia. Back then, one could access the island across a small causeway. There is a small museum containing items that they had pulled from one of the various pits they had dug over the years. The old oak tree that the first pit was dug under was still there as was all of the equipment that was used for the various attempts at locating the money. As well, the stone with the odd symbols was on display.
Living in Halifax afforded me the opportunity to visit this fascinating island that has been a legend for so long.
At any rate, it was pretty cool to see.