Here’s a Spirit of 77 extra that was previously only available to people on our mailing list – a plotline snippet you can add into any adventure.
The Prisoner of Graceland
Description: In a hotel room that shouldn’t exist, unmarked and under lock and key, a strange prisoner is forced to wear a black velvet mask in the multi-bedroom suite. He is afforded every extravagance and accommodation, outside of permission to leave the room. His silver ring is engraved “TCB” and his voice sounds vaguely familiar. Wait a second, this couldn’t be… but he’s dead! (Isn’t he?)
Twists:
- DJ OPTION – The Colonel has been hiding Elvis’s long-lost twin brother Jesse Garon, presumed dead at childbirth. Unfortunately, the King’s twin brother has some murderous tendencies that are best kept in seclusion… until the players let him out.
- DJ OPTION – Elvis’s entourage, the so-called “Memphis Mafia”, had been secretly grooming a look-alike double for Elvis to launch a proposed European tour while letting the real Elvis rest and recuperate from his numerous health issues (including facial reconstruction surgery). With the King’s public death, the body double is no longer needed… and marked for death.
- DJ OPTION – Elvis was a secret “Boys from Brazil” type of experiment – cloned children across the country that were based off the same genetic structure. One of them broke away from the laboratory conditions and became the King of Rock and Roll. Now the question is, do they all have the most famous clone’s talent?
One Comment on “From the Spirit of 77 Archive – The Prisoner of Graceland”
Absolutely love all things Spirit of 77. Have purchased everything non-reprint, including the pilots. Suggestions:
Summers of the ’60’s – Every year something major happened–esp if you were a young teen in HS/older teen in college. Could be totally set in a college situation with more militant groups the Vigilantes, and various sub-categories of rockers (plus radical professors, aka Leary et al). And the entire system could be set up through the eyes of a band (folk to pop to rock to psychedelic to eventually–Spirit of 77!). Or every year from ’63 on could be Beach Boys, Beatles, and finally Woodstock 🙂
Spirit of the ’50’s – a bridge between noir ’40’s and summer of ’60’s complete with cold war spying, the birth of rock & roll, and the “modern American family” leading to — Summers of the 60’s!
Thanks for your system–I can GM with players from any system & bring them together via Spirit of 77 due to its fun and creative simplicity that belies a systme that can do virtually anything.