Appearances
Featured Characters:
- New Mutants
- Cannonball
- Boom-Boom
- Rusty Collins
- Rictor
- Sunspot
- Wolverine
Supporting Characters:
- Mr. Furillo
- Dr. Wilhelm Kurtis
- Magneto
- New York City Police Department
- Detective Fenton Muhr
Antagonists:
- Armadillo
- Beetle (Abner Jenkins)
- Dr. Doom (As a hologram)
- Dr. Karl Malus
- Goliath (Erik Josten)
- Mad-Dog (Robert Baxter)
- Mauler (Brendan Doyle)
- 13 punks:
- Ee-ha
- Rocco
- Schiz
- Ramhorn (Donald Elbert)
- Sabretooth
- Sentinels
- Shaw Industries
- Sebastian Shaw
Other Characters:
- Avalanche (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Ms. Carlson
- Hartford Police Department
- Hellfire Club
- Hobgoblin (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Iron Man (Mentioned)
- Fu Lwon
- New Jersey Police Department
- Det. Harold Robeson
- Miss Peters
- Pyro (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Quicksilver (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Jo-Jo Wajhokowski
- John Wixler
The following companies appear in the story as red herrings that the player characters may research about:
- 4M Media Inc. (Named only)
- Allor Inc. (Named only)
- Andres Manufacturing Inc. (Named only)
- Casparet Corp. (Named only)
- CCC Companies Inc. (Named only)
- Controlled Surfaces Inc. (Named only)
- Countryside Pressure Sales Corp. (Named only)
- Creative Designs Inc. (Named only)
- Dragon Dredging Inc. (Named only)
- Dynamic Hydraulics Inc. (Named only)
- E.L. Machining Inc. (Named only)
- ENCO Plastics Corp. (Named only)
- Eversharp Machining Inc. (Named only)
- Falcon Supplies Inc. (Named only)
- Ideal Tool Works Inc. (Named only)
- Isthmus Machining Corp. (Named only)
- K&G Manufacturing Inc. (Named only)
- Kinkaid Distributors Inc. (Named only)
- Master Molders Inc. (Named only)
- Matryx Matchers Inc. (Named only)
- Mohawk Injectors Corp. (Named only)
- New York Holding Inc. (Named only)
- O&C Tools Corp. (Named only)
- Pioneer Laminates Inc. (Named only)
- Power Burrowers Inc. (Named only)
- Propane & Polymers Inc. (Named only), also listed as Propane and Polymers Inc.
- Quality Air Inc. (Named only)
- Schmidt Sales Inc. (Named only)
- St. George Glass Inc. (Named only)
- Superior Drilling Corp. (Named only)
- Tek-it Connections Corp. (Named only)
- U-neek Processes Inc. (Named only)
- United Moldings Inc. (Named only)
- VT Sheet Plastics Inc. (Named only)
- Z-works Inc. (Named only)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Madripoor (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Connecticut
- Hartford
- Shaw Industries Hartford center
- Hartford
- New Jersey
- Newark
- Castle Plastics Inc.
- Newark
- New York
- New York City
- Armstrong Hotel
- Buchanan Park
- Bulk Rifle Corp
- Furillo's Pizzeria
- Poughkeepsie (Mentioned)
- Mill Point
- Jeenex Products Inc.
- Malus' lab in NY countryside
- Jeenex Products Inc.
- New York City
- Connecticut
Items:
- Beetle Armor
- Doctor Doom's Armor (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Mauler Armor
- X-Gene Ray Gun (Malus's "mutie masher")
Plot
Sebastian Shaw, ousted as Black King by Magneto, wants revenge on him. He hires Dr. Malus to build a gun that affects mutants powers - the X-gene ray gun; but the device works weirdly and, every time it hits a mutant, it may change their powers for the worse, or for better, or give them new powers or change their appearance.
The New Mutants and their ally Wolverine (or whoever are the Player Characters) discover about this and, with some hints from NYPD Detective Fenton Muhr, start researching on the components. They visit the factories in Connecticut, Newark and the New York countryside to get the suppliers, in an attempt to find a common link between them - and they are harassed by supervillains protecting the factories. Shaw, knowing that he's being tailed, tries to red-herring his enemies by making them believe Dr. Doom is behind the plot.
The mutants prevail in Malus's secret laboratory at Jeenex Products Inc. Although the mutants stop Shaw's scheme, they fail to apprehend him. Malus is jailed for a long time; Shaw pulls pulls strings so that the other villains get short sentences in exchange for not compromising him. The effect of Malus's gun prove to be temporary.Notes
Trivia
Other Credits[]
- Design: Bruce Nesmith
- Editing: Karen S. Boomgarden
- Interior Illustrations: Mark Heike
- Maps: John Knecht
- Typesetting: Gaye O'Keefe
- Keylining: Roy E. Parker