The Man who Destroyed Civilisation While Trying to Share a Bowl of Frosties with Charlie Simpson

Neo-Singapore, 2999. A vertical city-state stretching from the ocean floor to the stratosphere. Humanity's entire pre-digital cultural heritage is stored in a quantum archive, and a virus is about to wipe it all. Comedy producer Al Clayton has 72 hours to save the future. His first priority? 3D printing Charlie Simpson from Busted.

Al's mission is clear: recover three cultural artifacts before they're permanently lost. Al's approach is to immediately petition for the resurrection of a 21st-century pop star at a cost of roughly one small moon. The Game Master, playing Sherlock Holmes, is withering: "You've been in the future for precisely 30 seconds and already believe you can casually resurrect a 21st century pop star." Al is undeterred. His creative enthusiasm and 30th-century technology are about to collide, and the consequences will echo through what remains of time.

This is PastMaster's leap into science fiction, where the stakes are literally all of human culture and the person tasked with saving it is armed with nothing but enthusiasm, pop culture references from a thousand years ago, and an unshakeable desire to share a bowl of Frosties with a member of Busted. David Attenborough, for the record, died in 2047 at age 121. His consciousness was backed up. Al's was not.