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[Dagada]

My face = in my palm.

I'd been trying every combination BUT silver poplar as I thought you'd done that already. But - well done!!!

[Cortez]

 

[amandel]

[Cortez]

No.

IIRC one of O's tweets mentioned "our founding father's 'name'". The inverted commas suggested to me that we were looking for a nickname.

Cortez

[amandel]

[Cortez]

I spent the last 48 hours searching for info on everything. Part of my search led me to discover that EBG had a nickname. It doesn't take too much lateral thought to try a nickname after you've tried 20 billion different combinations of Edward Baring-Gould and a million other things. O's tweet about the 'name' confirmed to me that his nickname was the important one, and his link to the chess blog confirmed to me that we would find it on blogspot. Finally, O's tweet about 'Samuel' led me to work out about the need for a hyphen, which is when I eventually found the blog we needed. As soon as I saw Aspen, I knew I'd found the right place.

[amandel]

THX

[Dagada]

Aspen has updated his blog in the comments following Cortez's question. He advises us to read up on SBG and his famous book on what we're up against. From the inference, I would imagine it's the Werewolf book.

The good news is you can download it for free from Project Gutenberg. Should you have an iPhone, it's viewable on things like Stanza etc.

Aspen has also requested we contact him directly through email rather than leaving info in the comments - clearly there's stuff he doesn't want falling into certain hands. You can email him at AspenPopulusalbaSPLATaol.co.uk

I've already dropped him a line asking him to clarify a few things...

[Cortez]

[Dagada]

That happened to me once.




It's actually a very interesting book but, as above, can be unexpectedly icky at times.

[Cortez]

Finished reading the SBG book this morning. Gruesome, but entertaining.

Anyway, just browsing the Aspen blog and noticed the members are all named after varieties of poplar tree:

Canescens = Grey Poplar
Tremuloides = The Quaking Aspen (Northern & Western North America)
Tremula = Common or Eurasian Aspen (Northern Europe & Asia)
Sieboldii = Japanese Aspen (Japan, obviously)
Grandidentata = Big-toothed Aspen (Eastern North America)
Adenopoda = Chinese Aspen (ummm...China)
Alba = White Poplar (North-west Africa & Southern Europe)

The locations may give clues to possible areas covered by different 'agents' or 'members', but then again they might not.

[theclaw]

User names of the Poplar group.

Canescens = Emilia hernández Velasco
Tremuloides = James s. sotelo
Tremula = Milton Löfgren
Sieboldii = Nobuto Ishikawa
Grandidentata = Timothy Dean
Adenopoda = Adenopoda(?)
Alba = ?

[Cortez]

Cool, theClaw.

Those names seem to fit quite nicely with the locations.


The blog mentions 'the gate that he [SBG] tried to close".

There are several 'mythological' gates dotted around the world:

Ivory Ural Mountains
Horn Brittany (Zombies and ghosts. Minotaurs?)
Bronze Atlas Mountains
Gold Nile River
Fire
Song Mount Olympus; Greece (Shepherds, Muses, Sirens?)
Sleep Naples, Italy (Chimera, Gorgons, other monsters)
Moon Transylvania? (Werewolves and vampires?)
Ice Arctic (Yeti, Woolly Mammoths, Dire Wolves)
Stone Salisbury Plain

Whilst the Gate of the Moon would be the obvious one, SBG was most closely associated with the Gate of Horn(s), which he believed was in Brittany.

I am off to Brittany on Thursday, so I'll see if I can find it.

[theclaw]

[Cortez]

Yes, that was O's clue which led to the discovery of the Aspen blog.