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Start tart Over .. Over Miss Amazing .. Target Other Good Base Event Event Start � Start No Mask Over Over Tip-Off � Base Located Official Game Adventure Contents Welcome To My Nightmare ........•......•......2 Night & Fog ............•.....••....•....•___ . 20 The Mutant Affairs Control Act ......•......•......3 Non·Player Characters .........................24 The X·Factor ...................•.......•......6 Scenarios and Events ...........•..............26 Project Wideawake ...............•• __ ...•......8 Sentinels' SurveillanceBase ...•........ inside cover The Tools of Oppression ..........••.....••..... 13 Search Flow Chart ............•........ inside cover Mutants Underground ...........••......••..... 15 Special Rules ............•......•......•..... 19 Wrinen by Steve Winter Interior Illustrations by the Marvel Bullpen Cover by John Slatema & Typography by Kim N. Undau Mike Machlan Cartography by Dave laForce 'M TSR Inc. P.O. Box 756 � Lake Geneva. WI TSR,lne. 53147 'AODUCTSOF YOUR u.t.ICltUnOH" This bookis protected under the copyright laws of the United Stales 01 America.Any reproductionor other unauthorized use of the material or art· work containedherein is prohibited without the express written consentof TSR Inc. and Marvel Entertainment Group_ Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Random House Inc. and in Canada by Random House of Canada, lid. Distributed 10 the toy and hobby trade by regionaJ distributors. The names of characters used herein are fictitiousand donot refer to any personsIrving or dead. Any descriptions including similarities to persons living or dead are merely coincidental. All Marvel characters and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks of the Marvel Enter­ tainment Group Inc., and are used wTth permiSSion. MARVEL SUPER HEROES, MARVEL SUPER VILLAINS. AVENGERS. SPIDER-MAN. FANTASTIC FOUR, ALISON BLAIRE.ROBERT KEllY, SECOND BROTHERHOODOF EVIL MUTANTS, CHARLES XAVIER. MOIRA MACTAG­ GERT, PROJECT WIDEAWAKE. JUDGE PETRIE. VALERIE COOPER. FRANK LOWELL, RAVEN OARKHOLME, HENRY PETER GYRICH. MYSTIQUE, SENTINEL, MARK IV.MARK V. MARK VI. ALPHA SENTINEL, OMEGA SENTINEL, S.H.I.E.LO.. SEBASTIAN SHAW, NICK FURY. X-FACTOR. DAREDEVIL, HUU<:WANOA MAXIMOFF, SCARLET WITCH. VISION, FRANKUN RICHARDS, NIMROD, DOCTOR STRANGE. CAPTAlN AMERICA, COLOSSUS. BEN GRIMM. IRON f..tAN. ASGARDtAN, andWOLVERINE and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trade­ marks of the Marvel Entertainment Group Inc. C 1987 Marvel Enlertainmenl Group Inc. All Rights Reserved. The TSR logo and PRODUCTS OF YOUR IMAGINATION are trademarks owned by TSR Inc. Game design copyright0 1987TSR Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Picture, if you will, a world gone panic. People with super powers, characters go from there, and how insane. A world where you cannot and mutants in particular, are not long they survive, is up to the attend school, buy food or clothing, considered heroes but enemies and players. They may decide to lie low or even walk down the street without traitors. They are hunted by the and husband their strength until a risking capture and imprisonment. government and hated by the major blow can be struck against the Add to that picture, if you can, the general public. sentinels. Another group may decide specter of giant, killing robots This adventure is not intended for to harry the police and army with programmed to hunt and destroy you any particular group of heroes. In hit-and-run attacks, disrupting and everyone like you. addition, players are encouraged to human operations for as long as This is the world waiting for you in create their own heroes rather than possible. Others may try to get away Nightmares of Futures Past. Mutants use heroes who are active today. to another, less oppressive country, have been declared outlaws and Any heroes who are currently active, or set up an underground railroad to enemies, stripped of their like Spider-Man or Colossus, have lead mutants to safety. The constitutional rights, and condemned either fallen prey to the mutant possibilities are nearly unlimited; this to quick death in battle or slow death hunters or have grown 25 to 50 years book tries to prepare the judge to in concentration camps. The heroes older. Those were hard years, and handle anything the players throw at of our time are gone, either killed they took an awful toll on survivors. him. fighting oppression, stripped of their Nightmares of Futures Past also The world of the future is powers and locked away, or hiding in differs from other MARVEL SUPER frightening and bleak. It is also, shadows, chipping away at the walls HEROES products because It does however, a place of infinite hope. It is of oppression and struggling to not present the characters with a this hope for a better tomorrow that survive as free men and women. specific crime to solve or villain to drives the heroes of the 21 st Century Nightmares of Futures Past is overcome. Instead, this book to fight against overwhelming odds; different from other MARVEL describes the conditions of life in the hope and the knowledge that, SUPER HEROES� adventures. The future and thrusts the characters into without resistance, no one will setting is25 to 50 years in the future. it. Some typical events and hazards remember the terror or the sacrifice The United States is an armed camp are suggested for the judge to get of those who fell before. caught in the grip of hysteria and things rolling. But where the players' • 2 As it is with almost all presidential candidate) Robert Kelly evolution of the United States super-powered characters, the by the Second Brotherhood of Evil rivaling the issuance of Executive general public was skeptical about Mutants. Kelly had long been a Order 9066 in January 1942, which the existence of mutants. While spokesman for anti-mutant forces. led directly to the dislocation and super-powered heroes and villains The need to deal with the "mutant internment of thousands of could be found almost anywhere in menace" was a cornerstone of his Japanese-Americans living on the the world, and all across the United presidential campaign. He was Pacific coast. States, they were highly visible only murdered on Halloween, 1980, while The similarity between the two in New York City and, to a lesser moderating senate hearings on the documents was not lost on anyone. extent, Los Angeles. A surprisingly mutant situation. Also killed were The precedent of Executive Order large portion of the population was Charles Xavier and Moira 9066 was brought up immediately by unwilling to believe those outlandish MacTaggert, who were presentto legal counselors on both sides of the tales about people who could fly, testity on behalf of mutants. The issue. Unlike Executive Order 9066, crush trains with their hands, or attack was filmed by several the Mutant Affairs Control Act was shoot ray beams from their eyes. television news teams and brought before the Supreme Court Headlines from the coasts subsequently seen by millions of almost immediately, where it was concerning the Avengers, viewers on news broadcasts. (The struck down as a wholesale violation Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and same footage appeared repeatedly of constitutionally-guaranteed rights. their costumed friends were in the following years in a multitude Unfortunately, the White House, dismissed as journalistic stunts of anti-mutant documentaries and while publicly discouraged, was not designed to increase sales. A few news specials.) deterred. (Years later, when the people were convinced by television Instead of teaching humans to fear actual chain of events became documentaries and magazine and respect the power of mutants, as known publicly, there was some articles but most dismissed the the Brotherhood intended, the speculation that the Mutant Affairs whole subject as a massive hoax. assassinations created a wave of Control Act was never intended to be The uproar preceding release of hysterical paranoia and cemented a anything but a smoke screen, Alison Blaire's film demonstrated just largely apathetic public into one solid diverting public attention away from how insecure everyone really was. block opposing mutants' rights. the sentinels program.) Within a When word got out that the film The massive outpouring of rage, month of the bill's demise, the starred a mutant, public outcry hatred, and racism following Kelly's president instructed the National bordered on hysteria. Posters were death gave the anti-mutant Security Council to establish defaced, theaters promoting the film movement the legitimacy it had long (illegally) a covertcommission were boycotted or vandalized, and craved. Suddenly, when geared specifically toward dealing hundreds of newspaper, radio, and mutant-haters spoke, everyone with the mutant situation. This ad television editorials spoke out listened. The simple fact that hoc group, dubbed Project against the "clear and present mutants existed and wielded Wideawake, was headed by Judge danger" of mutant infiltration in unknown powers frightened the Petrie, the president's national mainstream human society. The pants off the average citizen. The security advisor. It included Valerie film's distributors were eventually public demanded action. Cooper (special assistant to Petrie), forced to shelve the project and the Frank Lowell (C.I.A.), Raven film was never released. Kelly's Legacy Darkholme (defense department), The public has a short memory Henry Peter Gyrich (National and the furor died down quickly Carried on a riSing tide of public Security Council, head of when the film's demise was support, mutantcontrol became an operations), and many other announced. A small but vocal issue in political contests at every influential members of the American minority, however, clung to the issue, level, from city council to United intelligence community. agitating against mutants, putting up States Senate. In 1984 an The fact that Raven Darkholme anti-mutant graffiti, and attacking anti-mutant reactionary was elected served as a member of the suspected mutants in the streets or president. Within a year, the Mutant commission deserves special even in their homes. The situation Affairs Control Act was pushed consideration.

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