Eleven plots from David Bowie's Hours

David Bowie’s 1999 album Hours comes in part from the soundtrack for The Nomad Soul - which also absolutely works as an adventure hook. It was the first album by a major artist to be released online ahead of its physical launch.

“I mean, what a disappointing 21st century this has been so far, you know...”

David Bowie quoted in The Last Five Years

After ★, The Next Day, Reality and Heathen, adventures based on the album’s song titles...

Thursday’s Child

Thursday’s Child has far to go. Surely the Stranger was born that day. Maybe more than once. And what of the pupils of The Man Who Was Thursday, agents of a revolutionary cell with no real members? Where are they now?

Something In The Air

An unknown gas causing outbursts of raw emotion. Declarations of love, howls of sorrow, shrieks of fear and curses of fury. What is causing this?

Survive

Charged with a crime by an alien justice system and exiled onto a desert island with nothing but the clothes on your back. You have to survive for nine days. And something there is determined not to let you.

If I’m Dreaming My Life

Everything goes just right for one of the travellers. Suspiciously so.

Seven

Days, Sins, Samurai, Brides for Brothers? There are a lot of ways that ‘seven’ could matter.

What’s Really Happening?

The traveller from “If I’m Dreaming My Life” wakes up to find they’ve been abandoned by everyone, including the TARDIS. But have they really woken up?

The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell

The latest craze on the scene, cloning and telepresence allowing the idle rich of the 33rd Century to drop onto deathworlds, disaster tourism on a planetary level. And of course something goes wrong, following the clones’ mental link back to the source...

New Angels Of Promise

“Be not afraid...” says the herald, a firestorm of wings and eyes. What does it promise? Is it salvation, or an apocalypse? And if so, for who?

Brilliant Adventure

The Stranger is asked for an autograph by a small child. After saving a children’s author, she has become a much-loved story. But they haven’t met the author yet, and at least one the stories is about to happen.

The Dreamers

The traveller who believed they were abandoned in “What’s Really Happening?” finally tracks down the those responsible, but the TARDIS crew will have to fight to retain their sense of reality to stop them!

We All Go Through

The travellers find themselves at a vast gate, with figures sitting in judgment. Will they get a fair hearing, are there some bureaucratic tricks they can employ, and are the judges really going to let the Dalek Inquisitor bear witness?