For David Bowie’s birthday and now monthly, adventures based on his studio albums’ song titles, working backwards.
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) provides the title for the second of the Gene Hunt time warp police series, Ashes To Ashes, as well as an X Files episode named after the title song. And he once performed it on The Jack Docherty Show backed by the show’s mouse mascot.
It’s No Game (No. 1)
The travellers investigate disappearances and get trapped in an alien VR game, or an escape room, or possibly an RPG. Nah, silly idea. Maybe a LARP because the monsters from Rogue were larpers rather than cosplayers. Or a game against the Toymaker. Or a chess match with Fenric. Or a football match with invaders. There’s a lot of this kind of thing, you know?
Up The Hill Backwards
The travellers are caught in an avalanche, which doesn’t seem to be natural.
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
The Stranger finds herself the subject of a horror film about a shapeshifting kidnapper who can appear out of any door. This seems a tad unfair. Who made it?
Ashes To Ashes
One of the companions gets to attend his own funeral. And the date says he should be dead already.
Fashion
The travellers discover a sinister conspiracy pushing youth fashion and other trends wait that’s Josie And The Pussycats oh well do it anyway.
Teenage Wildlife
Young people being targeted by alien big game hunters. How close these are to (a) Predator or (b) fox hunters depends on the point we want to make.
Scream Like A Baby
A baby monster emerges and starts calling for its parents. Given the baby is ten feet long that could be a health hazard. Yes that’s The Abominable Snow Baby oh well do it anyway.
Kingdom Come
A Biblical apocalypse. Angels and demons fighting in the skies over the Earth. And this definitely didn’t happen in the year 1999, so what’s that about?
Because You're Young
A circle of rich old men using an alien medical device to siphon the youth out of people.
It’s No Game (No. 2)
The second round of whatever that game ended up being. But now it’s Sudden Death!
