Aria of Death: A Mission to Kill Hitler (ft. Nick Horseman)

Vienna, 1911. The Habsburg Empire is creaking, Wagner's Lohengrin is playing at the opera house, and somewhere in the audience sits a young, failed art student who will one day start a world war. Nick Horseman has been sent back with one mission: find Adolf Hitler and kill him before he rises to prominence. The time machine is a log flume. Obviously.

The ultimate pub conversation brought to life. As "Klaus Horsmann," Nick arrives in early 20th-century Vienna with a plan that prioritises directness over subtlety. His theory: young Hitler's known obsession with Wagner will draw him to the opera house, his method is a concealed pistol, and his problem is that the target hasn't actually done anything yet — ChatGPT has opinions about that. The question isn't just whether Nick can pull it off, but whether the AI will let him try.

Vienna in 1911 was the cultural capital of Europe — home to Freud, Klimt, Mahler, and a young Adolf Hitler who had just been rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts for the second time. He spent his days in cheap lodgings, attending opera performances he couldn't really afford, and nursing the resentments that would eventually consume Europe. The Hofoper (now the Vienna State Opera) was one of the grandest venues on the continent. It is, to be fair, a reasonably stylish place to attempt an assassination.