For David Bowie’s birthday, adventure hooks based on his studio albums’ song titles.
Never Let Me Down
Day-In Day-Out
The travellers arrive in a future where people can trade days of their lifespan. There are safeguards to prevent overtrading, but of course the time trade takes a small cut, even in donations. But someone is taking a minute here and there off the books...
Time Will Crawl
The travellers have to stop a disastrous time engine failure, and the TARDIS is badly damaged. Now its localised spacetime is out of synch with where it lands. The travellers find themselves losing minutes as time speeds up to correct around them, or having to wait as everything slows. The Stranger will have to take it to a time machine repair facility to get it working again, and the fix involves flying through a Blackstar.
Beat Of Your Drum
The travellers have to help a punk band after someone steals their drum kit. Optional crossover with We Are Lady Parts.
Never Let Me Down
A 30th Century colony built on platforms over a lava planet, and a youth gang daring each other to
hang and swing off the underside.
Never Let Me Down (original idea)
The Stranger never makes promises. “I should be able to stop the Daleks, but you never know...” So when she promises to save a dying companion, you know she means it.
Zeroes
Anybody lacking a certified ID does not exist. Psychic paper will get the Stranger through doors but not past human double-checking. And when the travellers are separated, one of the others will have to find their own way back to the TARDIS through a sprawling city of locked doors, certified citizens who won’t help and whatever hunts the unrecognised Zeroes.
Glass Spider
An ancient rival of the Time Lords, imprisoned in the unseen web for millennia, now free. But did it deserve to be locked away?
Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)
Where did the idea of wishing on a star come from? A living star that can grant wishes. And nowadays has interstellar travellers trying to get her attention.
New York’s In Love
The travellers find an entire city in a good mood. Why not, it’s a lovely sunny spring day, and... is that a spontaneous musical number? Maybe it’s a flashmob thing.
87 And Cry
(The album was released in 1987)
A city where north-south streets are numbered and east-west streets are... a lot more poetic and maudlin than they should be.
Too Dizzy
A terraformed planet with fluctuating gravity. Can the travellers stabilise it before it breaks down completely?
Bang Bang
The travellers land in a gold rush town and one of them is on a Wanted poster, for a pretty hefty reward. What did he do? And when will he do it, because from his perspective he hasn’t done it yet?
