Official Game Adventure The Revenge of Kang By Ray Winninger Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................ 2 Chapter 18: Back to School..................................... 41 The Player Characters .............................................. 4 Chapter 19: Lunch Time ............................................ 42 Non-Player Characters................................................. 6 Chapter 20: Big Man on Campus .............................. 43 Friendly NPCs ........................................................... 6 Chapter 21: Peter Parker ........................................... 44 Enemy NPCs.............................................................13 Chapter 22: The Big Dance ....................................... 45 Chapter 1: Something Rotten in Manhattan .........17 Chapter 23: Again, Kang .......................................... 45 Chapter 2: A Strange New World ..........................19 Chapter 24: The Man Without Fear ....................... 46 Chapter 3: Across the Bay ....................................21 Chapter 25: Down Through the Alley ....................... 47 Chapter 4: Through the Swamp .............................22 Chapter 26: Title Fight ............................................... 48 Chapter 5: Up the Spire............................................22 Chapter 27: Good Afternoon, Mister Tyler ............ 50 Chapter 6: The Ko-Kri Tribunal ................................25 Chapter 28: The Nam ................................................. 51 Chapter 7: The Test of Skill......................................26 Chapter 29: Mister Stark, I Presume ...................... 52 Chapter 8: The Great Escape ................................27 Chapter 30: Wong Chu's Camp ............. … ............... 53 Chapter 9: The Test of Wisdom...............................27 Chapter 31: Yet Another Kang................................... 54 Chapter 10: Return to the Spire ..............................28 Chapter 32: The Master Kang.................................... 55 Chapter 11: The Test of Courage ............................30 Chapter 33: Here Comes the Bride........................... 57 Chapter 12: The Well of Pain .....................................34 Chapter 34: A Brave, New World ........................... 60 Chapter 13: The First of Many Kangs .......................35 Chapter 35: The House of Ideas ............................... 61 Chapter 14: The Uncanny X-Men .............................37 Chapter 36: Kleinberg's Penthouse.......................... 61 Chapter 15: The Fantastic Four ..............................39 Chapter 37: The Supreme Kang! .............................. 62 Chapter 16: Getting Into Aerodyne ........................40 Chapter 38: Wrapping It All Up ................................. 63 Chapter 17: A Touch of Gray......................................41 Credits The Fine Print Design: Ray Winninger Editing: This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of Caroline Spector Cover Illustration: America. 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Printed in U.S.A. INTRODUCTION Remember the good old days? When back to the Second World War to nite number of rivulets, each com- the Fantastic Four was still the prevent the nefarious Red Skull and prising one of the event's possible Fantastic Four and Spider-Man was his cronies from changing history. In outcomes. At the junction which rep- still a nerdy college student. Remem- the second adventure, The Weird, resents World War II, for instance, ber when Thor would regularly trans- Weird West, the heroes jumped back there might be a branch representing form himself into the lame young to the old west in the 1870s and con- the familiar Allied victory, a branch physician named Donald Blake and fronted a deadly chronovore who representing an Axis victory, a the X-Men all wore matching uni- was swallowing the Marvel time- branch representing the possibility forms? stream. that the major powers might have Of course you do! And so does The Revenge of Kang picks up the signed an armistice years ahead of Kang. action where The Weird, Weird West schedule, and many others. That's right, Kang the Conqueror, ended. If you have not played Therefore, from beginning to end superhuman refugee from the 30th through the earlier adventures there there are an infinite number of possi- century and master of time and is an alternate start provided in ble temporal pathways or time- space. He's back, and this time he Chapter 1 that will allow you to jump streams. The traditional Marvel Uni- has his sights set on the early 1960s, right into the action. If you are not verse and its events (such as the the era that spawned Earth's mighti- playing the entire time travel cam- formation of the Avengers, the com- est heroes. paign, you should probably omit ing of Galactus, and the death of Or does he? "Part II, The Campaign Conclusion" Elektra and her subsequent rebirth) The Revenge of Kang is an adven- from the adventure (see pg.00 for an make up only one such timestream, ture module for use with the Mighty explanation of Part II). there are many others. In fact, every MARVEL SUPER HEROES™ Role- now and then one of the heroes or playing Game. Somewhere within Time and the Marvel villains from the Marvel Universe will this package you will find (or Universe travel into one of these alternate SHOULD find): timestreams seeking adventure. —an enormous 64-page Adventure In order to play through this adven- An interesting side effect of time Book containing descriptions of the ture you need to know a little some- travel in the Marvel Universe is that player and non-player characters for thing about time and its nature. We'll any traveller journeying back and the adventure, as well as the individ- begin with a little physics lesson- forth within the timestreams is dupli- ual encounters that make up the Marvel style. cated in the cosmic order. Where adventure itself. Don't look for this Picture time as a series of rivers once there was one traveller, there booklet for too long, it's in your hand. and streams. Time begins trickling are now two. Thus, there are hun- —a four-color, full-sized pullout down from its source, the beginning dreds of copies of someone like featuring various landscapes and of all things, then runs on down Kang (who constantly flits back and maps you'll need during play. through a series of important histori- forth within the various timestreams) cal events: births, deaths, the Big in existence and another copy is This adventure is quite lengthy and Bang, the signing of the Magna created each and every time one of its plot is rather complex. For these Carta, the death of your goldfish the Kangs travels in time. These reasons it's absolutely imperative Skippy, and just about everything duplicates are usually safely segre- that you read through this entire else that happens to you, me, and gated into separate diverging time- booklet before beginning play. In Aunt May. streams, but it is quite possible for a fact, you might want to read through Most of us are like canoes floating traveller with the ability to move be- the material several times in order to down the river of time. We can only tween the different timestreams (like insure that you are completely famil- move forward at a slow, steady pace; Kang the Conqueror) to meet a copy iar with the adventure and all its con- the currents and eddies sweep us on of himself. cepts before you begin. down our destined paths. In fact, Kang is an excellent exam- However, in the Marvel Universe ple of this phenomenon. Over the The "Time Travel" Trilogy there are a few intrepid individuals years the heroes of the Marvel Uni- like Reed Richards, Kang the Con- verse have battled several different The Revenge of Kang is the stunning queror, and Doctor Doom who have versions of Kang, all of whom were finale in a series of three adventure managed to master time. These be- "created" when the original Kang modules which comprise the "MT" ings can move upstream as well as journeyed through time. Some even Time Travel campaign. downstream and vary their rate of adopted new names and personali- In the first adventure. AII This and movement in either direction. ties like Immortus, the Pharaoh World War II, the heroes captured an Now, at each and every historical Rama-Tut, and the Scarlet Centurion. alien time machine and travelled event time branches off into an infi- Upon occasion, Kang has even met and battled "himself." 2 Kang and His Plan Part I compiling all of the information about During one