Author: Jason Kottler

This all started because Churchill got bad reviews.

We were down in London for a weekend and I had intended to check out Churchill’s War Rooms. However, they got mixed-at-best reviews on the internet. So at the last moment I changed my mind and we went to the Imperial War Museum instead.

I knew they had a Secret War exhibit (http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iwm-london/secret-war – go see it!) and I thought I would be interested in strolling through the espionage / intelligence stuff.

Instead, I spent essentially the entire day in that exhibit, captivated by the unconventional warfare bits and the stories of the S.O.E.. We barely made it through the WWI trench, skimming as we exited.

I couldn’t get the idea of playing that experience out of my head. The constant pressure, the twin threats of action and inaction, the danger of trust, the impossibility of succeeding alone.

So blame Yelp’s lukewarm response to Churchill for #ablazeinthedark.

Ok, it’s time for me to throw my hat into the ring, to put my flag in the sand.

I’m developing a Blades hack that focuses on the activities of a small cadre of S.O.E. agents in Axis territory during the second world war.

It’s tentatively titled Ablaze in the Dark, after Churchill’s remit for the S.O.E., “And now set Europe ablaze.”

I’ll be posting more here soon, but with so many hacks appearing, I figured I should stake out my little chunk of story.

#ablazeinthedark