REVENGE OF THE SUPER-SKRULL

REVENGE OF THE SUPER-SKRULL TEAM

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 Contents
/1/ INTRODUCTION..............................................5
Choose Your Heroes.................................................................... 5
How to Use This Scenario.......................................................... 7
What’s Really Going On............................................................. 7
/2/ ACT ONE: MISTAKEN IDENTITY......................9
Scene 1: Daylight Robbery........................................................ 9
Scene 2: Flashback.................................................................... 12
Scene 3: The Suits Arrive......................................................... 12
Scene 4: Shave and a Haircut................................................. 16
/3/ ACT TWO: SECRET A.I.M.S............................ 21
Scene 1: The Briefing................................................................ 21
Scene 2: Infiltrating A.I.M........................................................ 23
Scene 3: Finding the Files.......................................................24
Scene 4: Behold the Fury of M.O.D.O.K.!............................. 27
Scene 5: Back to Base...............................................................28
Scene 6: Poking Around...........................................................29
Art by Jackson Guice & Matthew Wilson
/4/ ACT THREE: WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN....... 31
Scene 1: Gordon Vs. Kurt..........................................................31
Scene 2: Finding a Spider-Skrull........................................... 32
Scene 3: 2099 Reasons to Fight............................................ 33
/5/ ACT FOUR: SUPER-SKRULL.......................... 37
Scene 1a: Captured by the Skrulls!....................................... 37
Scene 1b: Lets Get Those Skrulls!.........................................38
Scene 1c: Spider-Man Defeated!............................................38
Scene 2: Safehouse Shootout................................................39
Scene 3: Epilogue....................................................................... 41
/ / CHARACTERS....................................................
Bank Robber ...............................................................................11
Kl’rt, the Super-Skull................................................................. 14
Skrull Agent..................................................................................15
Art by Mark Brooks & Christina Strain
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INTRODUCTION
After thwarting a minor crime, a group of heroes are
approached by government agents about a potential Skrull
infiltration of the super hero community. With the heroes’ help,
these agents may be able to stop another secret invasion. But
everything is not what it appears to be. Who is really a Skrull,
and how does the Super-Skrull tie into all of this?
Welcome, Narrator, to the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing
Game! If you’re a fan of Marvel heroics and interested in
tabletop games, you’ve come to the right place. To dive in,
you’ll need a copy of the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
Core Rulebook and some dice. This adventure provides you
with everything else. Whether you’re a seasoned gamer
or new to role-playing, this guide has all the essentials to
make your super hero experience as exciting as possible.
This adventure was originally designed for
the Roll20 virtual tabletop, and has now been
adapted for use at any table! Whether you’re
playing online or around a physical table, Roll20
enhances your game with advanced character
tools and easy rule references. We’ll guide you
through adapting any features unique to Roll20
to your own tabletop experience.
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CHOOSE YOUR HEROES
Revenge of the Super-Skrull is an adventure for four to six
players portraying a group of Rank 2 or Rank 3 heroes.
Included in this adventure are six heroes for you to use
(Ant-Man, Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and
Wolverine [Laura Kinney]). However, the following groups
of characters found in the Marvel Multiverse RPG Core Rulebook
are particularly well-suited for this story — feel free to
adjust them as needed for your players:
▶ Iconic Heroes:Ant-Man (p. 139), Black Widow
(Natasha Romanoff), (p. 146), Hawkeye (p. 179), Ms.
Marvel (p. 211), and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) (p. 236)
▶ Hell’s Kitchen Defenders:Daredevil (p. 157), Iron Fist
(Danny Rand) (p. 188), Jessica Jones (p. 190), Luke Cage
(p. 198), and Misty Knight (p. 206)
▶ Mutants:Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (p. 204), Mystique
(p. 213), Nightcrawler (p. 217), Psylocke (Kwannon)
(p. 221), and Wolverine (Laura Kinney) (p. 259)
That said, any of the Rank 2 or 3 characters from the Core
Rulebook can be played, including characters made by the
players themselves! As long as the characters don’t have
any strong personal connection to the characters portrayed
by the Narrator in this scenario (particularly Maria Hill
and Miguel O’Hara) and have at least a willingness to work
together, they should be fine.
 /1/ INTRODUCTION
When choosing heroes, decide why the heroes are
working together. The iconic heroes, for example, have
all worked together in the past (primarily as part of the
Avengers) — they are professional colleagues. The Hell’s
Kitchen defenders, on the other hand, are a collection
of acquaintances, friends, and family that often find
themselves on the same side of problems. Finally, the
mutants are all part of the same identity, feeling loyalty
to each other as mutants.
When putting together your own team of heroes, think
about why they are working together. The three reasons we
just presented are all good starting points. They might all
be professionals, working together on the same super hero
team. They might be a group of friends who sometimes work
together and sometimes fight among themselves, but for
the moment they’re on the same side. Or they might have a
larger social group in common, such as defending the same
city or having the same marginalized identity. These are only
some of the options available, but it’s good to decide at the
start why the heroes are a team. Even the best teams have
tensions and dramatic conflict, but in the end they work
together, so spend some time talking through why that is.
Players should also decide at the beginning of the
adventure which team maneuver their team can utilize:
offensive, defensive, or rally. See the Team Maneuvers
section in the Core Rulebook, p. 38 for more information.
If the players choose characters other than those
included in this adventure listed above, take a moment
to duplicate the character profiles and tokens. They’ll be
useful in Acts Three and Four when the Skrulls attack them
with copies of themselves. If the players chose from the
characters we’ve listed, you can find duplicate character
sheets in the “Skrull Duplicates” folder in your journal.
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HOW TO USE THIS SCENARIO
As the Narrator, you can use these materials to organize this
adventure (or “run the game,” in the common RPG parlance).
We recommend you read everything in here at least once, to
familiarize yourself with what’s inside. Don’t feel like you
have to memorize everything — everything is organized
to help you get to whatever information you need with just
a few clicks. We’ve structured this so you can comfortably
run one act per session in a couple of hours, or two acts at a
time for longer sessions.
If you are running this as a self-contained story (or Single
Issue), we’ve structured this to make it reasonably easy for
players to learn as they play. All your players need to do is
pick or create appropriate Rank 2 or 3 heroes, come to a quick
consensus about why they’re working together (although we
give you some help in Act One), and dive in!
However, if you’re planning to use this as part of an
Ongoing Series, you may need to do a little more work to
introduce the scenario. We provide a simple option in Act
One — a bank robbery — but feel free to use an introduction
more appropriate to your group’s story. As long as the heroes
can plausibly be approached by the Skrull infiltrators, any
introduction is a good one.
In fact, absolutely everything in this scenario is flexible.
Feel free to add material between the acts, or cut out scenes
that don’t make sense for your group. Replace characters with
ones more appropriate. You can even use this as a starting
point for a Series, and we provide some lingering plot hooks
at the end that you can use as the basis for future adventures.
Ultimately, use whatever works for you, and discard the
rest. There’s nothing wrong with following everything here
exactly as written, or using it as inspiration for your own
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improvised scenario. You can even use the characters, maps,
and other elements in this scenario to make completely
new stories. As long as everyone’s having fun, that’s all
that matters!
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON
When Skrulls are involved, it can be hard to tell if everyone is
who they say they are, and what’s really going on. This cloak-
and-dagger feel is intentional, designed to leave the heroes
(and possibly even the players) second-guessing what’s
going on. But we want to make sure you know exactly what’s
happening, so here’s the secret background of this story.
The Secret Invasion
Several years ago, the Skrulls — a race of shape-changing
aliens — had their entire empire destroyed. Left without
a throneworld, they instead infiltrated Earth, paving the
way for an invasion so they could claim Earth as their new
home. Several Earth heroes were replaced by Skrulls as part
of what is now known as the “Secret Invasion.”
Discovery of the invasion led to an all-out conflict
between the heroes of Earth and the Skrulls. During this
conflict, Reed Richards created a device that forced Skrulls
to return to their natural state, thus revealing which people
had been replaced, and the Skrulls were ultimately defeated.
Richards circulated the information on how to construct
similar devices, which were installed into various scanners
and security systems throughout intelligence agencies and
other sensitive buildings all over the world.
The Kree-Skrull Alliance
Kl’rt, the so-called Super-Skrull, became one of many warlords
seeking to re-unite the various Skrull factions scattered all
over the cosmos. Through a series of decisive battles, he
was crowned emperor of a reborn Skrull Empire that had
claimed Tarnax II as their new Throneworld in lieu of Earth.
Over time, the Skrulls grew weary of the eternal war
with their rivals, the Kree Empire. Both empires abdicated in
favor of Hulkling, an Earth hero with both Kree and Skrull
parentage. As Hulkling took on the role of Emperor of the
joint Kree-Skrull Alliance, Kl’rt joined the inner circle of
Hulkling’s advisors. However, Super-Skrull had previously
murdered Hulkling’s mother. As punishment for his past
crime, Hulkling transferred Kl’rt to diplomatic service and
told Kl’rt he could never take a life again.
The Children of Lost Tarnax
During a cosmos-spanning conflict between the Kree-
Skrull Alliance and the Cotati, a faction of Skrull extremists
attempted to kill Emperor Hulkling. Calling themselves the
Children of Lost Tarnax (a reference to Tarnax IV, a previous
Throneworld of the Skrulls), these xenophobes renounced
the mixed parentage of the new emperor and attempted to
kill him, in order to reestablish a separate Skrull empire
ruled only by “pure” Skrulls. They were defeated, but from
the ashes a new leader was named:Go’bak. Go’bak declared
any Skrulls who worked with the Kree-Skrull Alliance
to be heretics.
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Since the events of the Secret Invasion, Skrull scientists
have discovered a way around Reed Richards’ invention, so
now Skrulls can maintain their adopted shape — and thus
their cover identities. Go’bak has acquired this information,
and plans to launch his own secret invasion — this time
to cause enough mayhem among Earth’s superhuman
community so the Children of Lost Tarnax can lure
Emperor Hulking back to Earth and capture or kill him
with an imposter.
But What About the Other Secret Invasion?
If you or your players are up-to-date on Marvel continuity,
you might know that a second Secret Invasion series
(2022-2023) was released. This adventure was written
under the assumption of happening either just before or
at roughly the same time as that series. But remember
that this is a Multiverse, so as Narrator you can adjust or
modify the canon of the comic books in whatever ways
you like to suit your own game.
Now
The Children of Lost Tarnax are in the early stages of their
plan, and they have adapted their physiology to ignore the
effects of the Skrull reversion devices using the information
stolen from the Alliance. However, Go’bak isn’t entirely
sure it will work, nor is he sure new countermeasures
haven’t been developed in the meantime. As such, he plans
to dupe some of Earth’s superhumans into acquiring key
information for the Children before taking the heroes’
identities as part of the next phase of the plan. To further
these goals, Go’bak and the Children have acquired an
abandoned SHIELD safehouse and taken on the identity
of unspecified government agents.
The Super-Skrull has learned of these plans, but due
to the punishment given to him by Emperor Hulkling, he
can’t simply walk into their base and kill the fanatics that
threaten the Alliance. While he’s more powerful than most
other Skrulls, the Children have larger numbers, and he
can’t be sure he can capture them all. Further, he doesn’t
have firm evidence of treachery beyond Go’bak’s mad rants,
and he can’t risk a diplomatic incident with his own people.
As such, he has instead infiltrated the Children, hoping
they’ll make a mistake he can use as hard proof of their
machinations against the Alliance. Further, by manipulating
the Children’s heroic dupes, he might even get the Earth
super heroic community to do his dirty work for him.
/1/ INTRODUCTION
/2/ ACT ONE

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ACT ONE:
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
In this first act, the heroes foil a bank robbery, This is a narrative technique called in medias res, where
meet with the disguised Children of Lost Tarnax, and learn we throw the heroes into the middle of a situation. Since
of the plan to secretly invade the superhuman community. this is a super hero story, we’re starting this scenario off
with action! This works two-fold:both to avoid the players
SCENE 1: DAYLIGHT ROBBERY needing to immediately think of a reason why they would
First, in the Page Toolbar, move the “Player” ribbon on your get involved (they’re already involved!), and to teach them
screen over to the bank page. Put the player’s hero tokens how the core rules of the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
in the space marked A1, the street intersection on the Bank work, including combat. Plus, it’ll help you as the Narrator
Heist map (page 13). Then, read the following to your players: get comfortable with both the game and Roll20 in a relatively
The Big Apple National Bank alarms can be heard even in the low-stakes way.
street as you rush to the scene. On the street there’s chaos, even
more than normal for New York:people screaming and fleeing
the area, cars abandoned on the street, and even a truck that
has crashed into a fire hydrant. The doors to the bank have been
blown off their hinges. What do you do?

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/2/ ACT ONE
When Do We Find Out What’s Going On?
 t some point, players will want to know why the heroes are
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present in the moment. They might even need to know why
they’re even working together at all! We recommend doing
this as a flashback after the events of “Daylight Robbery” are
finished, but some groups might prefer talking it through
beforehand, or even playing through a short prologue before
they dive into the action. Let your players know that you plan
to start in the middle of things, and encourage them to express
their preferences before you collectively decide how to proceed.
So why are the heroes there? Start with thinking about
why the heroes are working together (as established in
“Choosing Your Heroes”, p. 5). A professional super hero team
might have been informed by the local police that they’re
closer to the crime, while a band of friends might have been
on their way to do some personal banking when they stumble
across the crime. Characters visiting from another country
(say, Canada or Krakoa) might offer to help as a show of good
faith to New Yorkers. Some other possible reasons include:
▶ Overhearing the alarm, or a report on police radio
▶ Getting a panicked call from a friend or relative who
is in the bank
▶ Discovering the crime while on regular patrol of the city
Feel free to turn this question around to the players, too.
If there isn’t an obvious answer, or one that all the players
immediately gravitate to, go ahead and ask them “How did you
find the scene of the crime?” The answers might surprise you!
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
SCENE
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Movable Objects
When it's Clobberin' Time, things get broken
and thrown around. The maps are a starting
point and may not survive the encounter. Who
knows where it might end up —
and in how many pieces?
A1: Outside
This is most likely where the heroes will start the scene.
From here they can see panicked people, as well as a few
cars. Most of the items on the street are actually movable
counters, so encourage players to use objects like the cars
in their super heroic actions… assuming they have enough
strength to pick up a car, that is!
There are also some Average Civilian tokens around the
map. These are mainly to make any fights on the street a little
more interesting. Civilians can be captured by bank robbers,
wander into the line of fire, or otherwise change and redirect
the actions of the heroes (and villains!) in interesting ways.
Finally, there’s one van on the street. This is the getaway
van, with a Bank Robber driver inside. Use the Bank Robber
Character Profile for him, if the heroes decide to confront
him. If the bank robbers surrender and the driver is still on
the street, he’ll immediately flee the scene in the van.
BANK ROBBER BIOGRAPHY
KARMA Real Name: Varies
RANK
—
1
Height: Varies Weight: Varies
Gender: Varies
Eyes: Varies Hair: Varies
Size: Average
DAMAGE
Distinguishing Features: Varies
HEALTH
REDUCTION Occupation: Criminal
30 0 Origin: High-Tech
Teams: Bank robbery gang
Base: Varies
History
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FOCUS DAMAGE
REDUCTION
This group of criminals desperately needed cash,

30 0
so they decided to rob a bank.

Personality
This group of bank robbers lucked into finding a
cache of super-tech weapons that were intended
INITIATIVE for delivery to an A.I.M. base. They decided to use
SPEED these new super guns to rob a bank. They’re ulti-
MODIFIER
Run: 5
+1
mately cowards, looking for a quick buck. They
Climb: 3 would rather go to jail than face down superhu-
Swim: 3 mans for too long. That said, they are desperate,
ABILITIES Jump: 3 and they think their new guns will allow them to
get away with just about anything.
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT
SCORE SCORE CHECKS
TRAITS & TAGS
2 12 +2 Traits Tags
MELEE ◆ Connections: ◆ Black Market
Criminal Access,
2 12 +2 ◆ Fearless
◆ Tech Reliance
Streetwise

AGILITY

1 11 +1
RESILIENCE
POWERS
1 11 +1 Basic Elemental Control
VIGILANCE ◆ Evasion (Force)
◆ Elemental Burst

1 11 +1
EGO

0 10 0
LOGIC

DAMAGE

1 2
MELEE

/6/ CHARACTER PROFILES

AGILITY

1 2
1 1
EGO

1 0
LOGIC

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 /2/ ACT ONE
A2:Bank Lobby
Read the following to the players:
The chaos continues inside the Big Apple Bank. The smell of
smoke, heated metal, and discharged weapons fills your nose. A
couple of civilians are lying prone on the ground, although you
can’t tell at a glance if they’re unconscious or dead. A third civilian
is being held at gunpoint by one of the bank robbers, in front
of a large gaping hole on the west wall behind the cashier desk.
The two civilians on the ground are unconscious from blows
to the backs of their heads. They aren’t in serious condition,
but will need medical attention soon. A Logic vs. TN 10 action
check will further stabilize them, but a hospital will still be
needed to deal with the concussion injuries.
The bank robber with the hostage is scared and is only
keeping a hostage to avoid being hurt or killed by the heroes. An
Ego vs. TN 8 action check will convince him to let the hostage go.
However, as soon as the hostage is clear, four more bank
robbers hiding behind the desk at A3 will try to ambush
the heroes. The tokens at A3 are only on the GM Layer in
Roll20, so once they attack, use the Layers tool to make them
visible to the players. (In general, assume the heroes won’t be
surprised by the additional bank robbers, given that they’re
walking into a bank robbery and it’s unlikely all this chaos
stemmed from a single criminal. However, if circumstances
are such that you think they might be surprised, feel free
to use the rules in Core Rulebook, p. 28.)
At this point, roll initiative (Core Rulebook, p. 27). The bank
robbers — even hidden ones like the ones in A5 — all roll
initiative as a group and go at the same initiative number.
A3: Desk
If the heroes sneak into the bank, they will find four robbers
crouching behind this desk with pistols, waiting for their
moment to attack. There are also a couple of bank tellers,
tied up behind the desk — reveal their tokens with the
Layers tool. Use the Average Civilian (Core Rulebook, p. 140)
Character Profile for the tellers.
The door separating the desk from the vault area is locked,
but there is a large hole blown in the connecting wall that’s
big enough for one person to walk through. Heroes with the
Big trait or who otherwise are over 6’ tall may have difficulty
stepping through the hole, at Narrator discretion.
A4: Offices
Each of the other rooms in the bank are offices, with the
one nearest the vault doubling as a break room. There’s one
bank employee in each office, tied up by the bank robbers.
This is an opportunity to adjust the conflict, if you desire.
If the heroes are somehow having a hard time of it, feel free
to declare that one of the bank employees manages to escape
their bonds and get a hold of a gun, helping the heroes in
their fight. Conversely, if the heroes are having an easy time
of things and you want to prolong the encounter, you can
add a bank robber token to some or all of the office spaces, as
they guard over their hostages. The choice is yours!
A5: Vault
The bank vault is open, and three bank robbers are hastily
attempting to get as much out of the vault as they can. Two are
in the vault, while one is by the back doors, piling up the money
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to be carried out. If the heroes sneak in via the back doors, they
may be able to surprise the robbers — otherwise, if a fight
starts in the lobby area, assume that one or two of the robbers
will come into the fight to help their allies, while the remaining
robbers continue to steal as much money as they can.
The Police and Mopping Up
The police will arrive just as the heroes are finishing up
with the fight:once the last bank robber is defeated, add a
police car and two police officer tokens to A1. If needed, use
the statistics for a Shield Agent (Core Rulebook, p. 232) for the
police officers. Once the police arrive, they’ll take control of
the situation:arresting any captured bank robbers, calling
for emergency medical aid for wounded civilians, and the like.
The police will politely but firmly take a statement from
the heroes, before asking them to leave the area so they and
emergency services can do their jobs. If the heroes are on
good terms with the police, they may be asked to help with
clean up and rescue services; if they are viewed as criminals,
the police will pull their weapons and make a half-hearted
attempt to arrest them before admitting they have no way
to force the heroes to do anything.
SCENE 2: FLASHBACK
At this point, feel free to run a flashback scene set prior to
the events of Scene 1, as per the sidebar “When Do We Find
Out What’s Going On?” (p. 10). Don’t worry about dice rolling
or Character Profiles for this scene — the goal is to just have
fun explaining how the heroes got from their normal lives
into the chaos of a bank robbery.
This is also a great opportunity for players to role-play
and settle into their characters some more. One way to
encourage this is to focus on each player in turn, playing
a short vignette of what each character is doing prior to
arriving on the scene. Let the player describe what their
hero was doing before the call, perhaps even introducing
new characters or locations. The goal here is to let the players
settle into playing their characters and maybe showcasing
something exciting or interesting about their hero.
If you or your players are stuck for inspiration, here are
some vignette ideas to help you get started:
▶ Meeting with a friend at a coffee shop
▶ Reading up on some scientific journals at home
▶ Playing basketball with some of the local youth
▶ Walking through a park on a blind date
▶ Ordering lunch from a local food truck
▶ Arguing with a customer service
representative on the phone
SCENE 3: THE SUITS ARRIVE
Once the mop-up from the bank robbery is underway, read
the following to the players:
Three black SUVs with tinted windows pull up to the scene, and
several men and women in black suits step out. One of them — a
tall man with a clean-shaven head — pockets a small device and
steps forward with a smile.
“I’m Agent Kurt, and we’re agents of the U.S. government. Can
we have a moment of your time?”

What if the Heroes Fled the Scene?
I f the heroes fled the scene of the bank robbery before the
police arrived, or were forced to flee due to a confrontation
with the police, Kurt and his agents will find them wherever
they’ve fled to. The Skrulls have been keeping tabs on
the heroes, and have been waiting for an opportunity to
approach them. Feel free to adjust the particulars of this
scene in any way you see fit.
It’s possible that some players may be particularly
contrary on this point. Listen to your player’s concerns, but
if you need to, it’s okay to admit that this scene is necessary
to get into the adventure proper.
Kurt is actually Kl’rt, the Super-Skrull (p. 14), and the five
agents with him are all Skrull agents (p. 15). These disguised
Skrulls are here to convince the heroes to help them in
uncovering a Skrull invasion. In fact, Kurt will mention that
he’s here on behalf of Maria Hill of the C.I.A., although his
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group is not “officially connected to any single agency.” He
says he needs the heroes’ help, and he wants to take them
to a nearby safehouse to brief them more fully. He won’t
yet mention that Skrulls are involved, and any attempts to
push him on the matter will cause him to deflect and say
it’s better to talk in private.
Play this scenario as straight as possible. The Children
of Lost Tarnax want to fool the heroes as part of their
plans for their own secret invasion. Kurt wants to fool
the heroes to get them close to the Children and discover
their plans before they’re too far along, as part of his plan
to trick the heroes into uncovering Go’bak’s plot without
dragging the Kree-Skrull Alliance into things. So, right
now, all the Skrulls are on the same page. Note that Kurt
has investigated the heroes as much as possible, so he’ll
get an Edge on Ego action checks to convince them due
to his Leverage Trait.
Here are some things the heroes might try during
the discussion:
/2/ MISTAKEN IDENTITY
BANK HEIST MAP
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KL’RT, THE SUPER-SKRULL BIOGRAPHY

KARMA Real Name:Kl’rt
RANK

5
Height: 6’8” (Varies) Weight: 625 lbs. (Varies)
Gender: Male (Varies)
Eyes: Yellow (Varies) Hair: None (Varies)
Size: Average
DAMAGE
Distinguishing Features: Green-skinned alien
HEALTH with shape-shifting powers, in addition to other
REDUCTION
90 -2
powers.
Occupation: Military; Spy
Origin: Alien:Skrull
Art by Stefano Caselli & Andres Mossa

Teams: Kree-Skrull Alliance; Children of Lost

Tarnax (infiltration)
FOCUS DAMAGE
REDUCTION Base: Abandoned Safehouse
120 0 History
Kl’rt is an experienced soldier of the Skrull
Empire. He was imbued with super powers by the
Skrull Emperor Dorrek in a plot to gain revenge
INITIATIVE against the Fantastic Four, and dubbed the
SPEED “Super-Skrull.” While he would occasionally have
MODIFIER
Run: 10
+3E
the upper hand in these conflicts, he was regu-
Climb: 6 larly defeated by the team. He fell out of favor
Swim: 3 with the government and was exiled, becoming
ABILITIES Jump: 3 a free agent and often having an on-again,
off-again relationship with both the inhabitants
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT of Earth and his home race. Eventually, after
SCORE SCORE CHECKS the Skrull Empire had crumbled into factions,

7 17 +7 TRAITS & TAGS

he joined the group devoted to seeking an heir
to Emperor Dorrek VIII — Hulkling. The Super-
Skrull revealed the truth of Hulkling’s origin
MELEE
Traits Tags and his own role in killing Hulkling’s “mother.”
◆ Battle Ready ◆ Alien Heritage
3
As punishment, Kl’rt was forbidden from taking

AGILITY
13 +3 ◆ Combat
Reflexes
◆ Black Market
Access
another life and relegated to diplomatic duty.

◆ Connections: ◆ Extreme Personality

Kl’rt is arrogant, often considering himself to be
3
Espionage, Appearance

RESILIENCE
13 +3 Military
(Kree-Skrull
(in their
natural form)
the most powerful warrior of his kind, and possi-
bly the entire galaxy. He is also extremely loyal
to the ideals of the Skrull empire, even when his
Alliance) ◆ Obligation:
race has repeatedly turned their backs on him.
3 13 +3
◆ Extra
Occupation
Emperor
Hulkling
He has grown to loathe the superhumans of Earth
due to his repeated defeats, but his recent punish-
VIGILANCE ◆ Interrogation ◆ Secret Identity ment by his emperor is forcing him to re-evaluate
◆ Iron Will (when this hatred. He isn’t adverse to tricking humans
6 16 +6 ◆ Leverage
◆ Situational
disguised) into doing his dirty work for him, however.

EGO Awareness

3 13 +3
LOGIC

POWERS
DAMAGE
Basic Elemental Control Illusion
5 7
MELEE

◆ Disguise (Fire, Force) ◆ Extend Invisibility

◆ Shape-Shift ◆ Elemental Barrier ◆ Invisibility
◆ Elemental Burst
◆ Elemental Push
AGILITY

5 3 ◆ Plasticity Super-Strength
◆ Extended Reach 2 ◆ Clobber

5 6 ◆ Flexible Bones 2 ◆ Crushing Grip

EGO

◆ Slip Free ◆ Ground-Shaking Stomp

◆ Stilt Steps ◆ Smash

5 3
LOGIC

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CHILDREN OF LOST TARNAX AGENT BIOGRAPHY
KARMA Real Name: Varies
RANK
0
2
Height: Varies Weight: Varies
Gender: Varies
Eyes: Varies Hair: Varies
Size: Average
DAMAGE
Distinguishing Features: Green-skinned aliens
HEALTH with shape-shifting powers
REDUCTION
30 -1 Occupation: Outsider
Origin: Alien:Skrull
Art by Francesco Mobili & Jordie Bellaire

Teams: Children of Lost Tarnax

Base: Varies
DAMAGE
FOCUS
REDUCTION
History
30 —
The aliens commonly known as Skrulls are
actually the Deviant variant of their race, created
by visiting Celestials in ancient times. Their
amazing powers to assume any guise allowed
them to drive both the original Skrulls and the
INITIATIVE Eternal variant Skrulls long extinct.
SPEED
MODIFIER Over the past ten million years, the Skrull
Run: 5
Climb: 3
Swim: 3
+1 Empire has spread its influence throughout the
galaxy — first as traders and then as invaders —
conquering hundreds of planets, including the
ABILITIES Jump: 3 Andromeda Galaxy. After Galactus devoured
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT their homeworld, they were scattered among the
SCORE SCORE CHECKS stars, but some recently allied with their ancient
TRAITS & TAGS enemies — the Kree — under the leadership of
2 12 +2 Traits Tags
Emperor Dorrek VIII, also known as the Earth
hero Hulkling. These renegade Skrulls reject
MELEE ◆ Connections: ◆ Alien Heritage this half-breed emperor, calling themselves the
Outsiders ◆ Extreme Children of Lost Tarnax.
4 14 +4 ◆ Fresh Eyes
◆ Stranger
Appearance
(in their Personality
AGILITY natural form) The Children of Lost Tarnax are, perhaps surpris-
◆ Combat ingly, even more xenophobic and jingoistic than

1 Reflexes ◆ Secret Identity their contemporaries in the Kree-Skrull Alliance.

RESILIENCE
11 +1 ◆ Sneaky
(when
disguised)
Few of them would hesitate to give their lives
for the cause. While these particular Skrulls are
◆ Villainous not as powerful as their commanders, they have

1 11 +1
been raised to believe they are the greatest, most
worthy race of people in the universe.
VIGILANCE

POWERS
2 12 +2
EGO Basic Plasticity Ranged Weapons
◆ Disguise ◆ Extended Reach 1 ◆ Double Tap
0 10 +0 ◆ Shape-Shift ◆
◆
Flexible Bones 1
Slip Free
◆ Suppressive Fire

LOGIC
◆ Flexible Fingers

DAMAGE

2 2
MELEE

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AGILITY

2 4
2 2
EGO

2 0
LOGIC

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 /2/ ACT ONE
▶ Try to determine if Kurt is lying from body
language, micro expressions, and so on:Let any hero
interested in this make an Ego vs. TN 16 action check
(Kl’rts Ego defense) — you can tell the players that
intelligence agents are trained to avoid giving away
their true feelings. Failure means the hero believes
Kurt is telling the truth, but they aren’t completely
sure. Success means the hero knows Kurt is holding
something back, but he really does need the heroes’
help. A Fantastic Success is the same as a success, but
the hero suspects that the agents aren’t working for
any government agency, indirectly or otherwise.
▶ Read Kurt’s mind:Powers like Mind Interrogation
and Mind Reading could be used to try and read Kurt’s
mind. Kurt has a good Logic defense of 14, but he
also has the Telepathy power set (which manifests as
mesmerism), meaning he is likely to recognize such
an attempt to read his mind. Kurt will attempt to
Command any telepath who establishes a Telepathic
Link with him to back his story up.
▶ Check with Maria Hill:Maria Hill isn’t taking calls
from anyone who doesn’t have the right Connections.
Even if a hero does have the right Connections, let
them know it’ll take a while to navigate CIA security
and get a message to Hill.
Once the heroes agree, head to the next scene.
SCENE 4: SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT
Read the following to the players:
You follow the agents to a busy street with several storefronts
closed or boarded up. Kurt directs you to an alleyway besides a
barbershop that hasn’t seen business in decades. The metal door
leading into the shop looks rusted and locked, but Kurt pulls out
a crumbling brick next to the door, revealing an unassuming slot
that he inserts a red card into. With a soft woosh of air, the door
slides aside, revealing several dusty barber’s chairs, a couple
counters, and a door to a side room.
Move the Players ribbon to the safehouse map, and put the
player’s hero tokens in B1.
B1:Barbershop Elevator (Secure)
The entire floor of the barbershop acts as an elevator into the
safehouse. The switch to move the room between locations is
in the side room in the north-west corner. Hitting the switch
that activates the elevator doesn’t require an action, but it
does require a character to be in that room. The doors to the
south are simple metal sliding doors.
B2:Scanning Room (Secure)
Read the following to the players:
This concrete room only has a yellow stripe on the floor in peeling
paint, and a couple of machine gun turrets mounted in the far corners,
guarding a large metal door. Kurt smiles at you. “Just a little extra
security,” he says, and strides across the room, pulling out his red
card again. He waves it at the large door, and it rumbles open.
Unbeknownst to the players, the room is also a large security
scanner, controlled from B3. The turrets are not automated,
instead controlled from the rooms marked B4.
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What if the Heroes Won’t Go Along?
 his scene is written in a way that the heroes should be a
T
bit suspicious, but not immediately leap to the conclusion
that the agents are enemies. Still, particularly paranoid
characters (or players!) might struggle to find a reason to
go with the agents. There are few techniques you can use.
The first is to remind the players that, even if the agents
are planning a trap, the best way to find out what their
overall scheme is would be to play along. This allows the
adventure to move along more or less as written, but feel
free to give the heroes an Edge now and then on appropriate
action checks to help them uncover the true plot of the story.
If the players still aren’t willing to go along, or if they
have powers that make it easy for them to discover the
truth about these agents, you can confide that this is the
story you have planned, and to get things moving the
heroes need to come along with the agents. Reassure them
that their characters won’t be punished for their actions —
indeed, treat the characters as if they’re playing along, as
above — but role-playing games are a collaborative effort,
and the players may need to bend a little in order to have
a fun time playing the game.
However, some players dislike this kind of out-of-universe
direction (often called “railroading”). If that’s the case, or
if you’d rather let the players have more freedom in their
choices, Kurt and the agents will leave the heroes alone. You
can jump to Act Three, and let Miguel O’Hara approach the
heroes with knowledge of the Skrull plot, or attack them for
believing them to be Skrull replacements. That will also get
the story back on track, albeit in an abbreviated form. The
biggest change is that Kl’rt/Kurt won’t have any incentive
to help the heroes, making the Act Four fight more difficult.
The Two Sides of the Safehouse
 he safehouse map can be used in every act of this scenario.
T
However, what rooms the characters have access to, and what is
in each room, depends on what’s happened in the scenario so far.
As such, we have two sets of descriptions:Secure and Alert. The
Secure descriptions are the safehouse as the heroes experience
it in Acts One through Three, where they are cooperating with
the Skrulls (even if they don’t realize it). Once the Children of
Lost Tarnax learn the heroes are onto them, switch to the Alert
descriptions, which will be covered in Act Four.
If the heroes try to get into an area that doesn’t have a
Secure description, use the Alert description. It’s possible this
change might result in the plot fast-forwarding to Act Four,
however — if you’re not sure you want to do that, reference
the advice in the sidebar “What if the Heroes Won’t Go Along?”
Characters with powers that can sense or manipulate the
electromagnetic spectrum, or who have experience with such
devices, might have a chance to notice the scanning with
a Logic vs. TN 14 action check. Unless otherwise prevented,
the scans will not only uncover any weapons the heroes
might be carrying, but also store a complete body scan that
the Skrull Agents can use for later duplication in Act Three
(see the Superpowered Skrull Character Profile for more

information). Having weapons will cause an alarm to sound,
but Kurt will tell the agents to shut the alarm off and let the
heroes keep their weapons. He’ll direct them to B5.
SecurityDoors
 everal doors on the map are color-coded:yellow or red.
S
Red security cards can also open yellow doors, but yellow
security cards can only open yellow doors. Uncolored doors
can be opened by anyone. Kl’rt and Go’bak have red security
cards, as do any Skrulls working in secure areas (such as
B17-B19). The rest of the agents have yellow security cards.
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BARBERSHOP
SECRET BASE MAP
B3:Security Room (Secure)
/2/ MISTAKEN IDENTITY
This room has two chairs in front of a couple of consoles, and
a bank of monitors on the opposite wall. The consoles show a
typical (if more powerful and advanced) millimeter wave and
X-ray backscatter body scanner, similar to those used in airports.
(The body scan information is sent to the computers in B17).
B4:Turret Control (Secure)
Inside these cramped rooms are just large computer screens
and a console with controls. No one is in either room, and
the machinery is powered off.
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B5:Hallway (Secure)
Read the following to the players:
As you pass through the large steel door, you notice two
smaller metal doors behind you. Ahead of you is another large
metal door, with two more large doors on either side. On the
floor is a chipped and faded logo painted onto the concrete
floor — the SHIELD logo.
“A little something from the former owners of the place,” Kurt
jokes. He steps to the door across from you, and waves his red
card at it again as it dutifully slides open. “Let’s meet the boss.”
Kurt directs the team to B12. If asked about the other doors,
he brushes them off, saying “I can give a tour later, if you like.”
B6:Hallway to Guest Dorms (Secure/Alert)
This hallway leads to the various dormitories, which the
heroes can use should they choose. There is a red-access
security door that leads to B16.
B7:Guest Dorm (Secure)
Each guest dorm has a bed, nightstand, a couple dressers,
a closet, and a small desk and chair. It also has a hideous
carpet that looks decades old. The door can be locked from the
inside, but the lock can be overridden by a red security card.
B8:Restroom and Shower (Secure/Alert)
There’s a gender-neutral restroom and shower on either side
of the hallway at B6. Three people can use each room at a time.
B12:Nexus (Secure)
This nexus leads to various doors deeper in the safehouse.
Kurt will direct the heroes to B13.
B13:Conference Room (Secure)
Read the following to the players:
In contrast to the faded concrete and metal of what you’ve seen
so far, this room is fairly comfortable. A long wooden table sits in the
middle of the room, with several chairs seated around it. Against one
wall sits a large screen that’s probably decades old, with a modern
computer console hastily wired into it. Another wall has a large
mirror, which hangs behind the man sitting at the end of the table.
He’s wearing a suit similar to the ones the other agents are
wearing. His hair is gray, and his face looks like it’s wrinkled from
years of stress and worry, but his eyes blaze with intensity. Kurt
says “Let me introduce the leader of our operation, Agent Gordon,”
as the gray man stands and silently offers his hand to shake.
“Agent Gordon” is Go’bak, leader of the Children of Lost Tarnax.
The large mirror is a one-way window from B14. Go to Act Two.
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B14:Watch Room (Secure/Alert)
This room is on the other side of the one-way mirror in B13.
Aside from a short desk, chairs, and a couple of tables, this
room is empty.
B15:Offices (Secure/Alert)
These offices look abandoned. The desks, chairs, and filing
cabinets are decades old and covered in dust, and the
equipment is clearly outdated and doesn’t work.
B16:Commissary (Secure)
The commissary has outdated but functional furniture,
enough to comfortably hold eight people eating meals at
the same time. There’s a door to a gender-neutral restroom
in the corner, and a larger steel door that leads to a walk-in
refrigerator full of food. There’s also a small sink, a counter
and cabinets that have been repurposed as a coffee station,
and a large vending machine that looks broken.
The vending machine actually swings on a pivot,
revealing a secret door. However, the door is unknown to
the Skrulls, and the pivot hasn’t been oiled in years. It will
take a Melee vs. TN 10 action check to open this the first time.
B17:Lab (Secure)
The lab looks to be only partially in working order. A large and
ancient-looking machine in the center of the space has been
demolished at some point in the distant past. Other machines
and scanners have been jury-rigged with much more modern
computers and consoles, but only some of them appear to be
working at full capacity. There are three Skrull Agents in the
room, working on the machinery to get it operational.
Four of the machines in the lab appear to be large glass
tubes of some kind full of a strange-looking liquid. They are
big enough to contain an Average-sized character. If asked,
Kurt will explain that these were prototype Skrull detection
devices before they were able to miniaturize it into a smaller
handheld form. (Heroes with the Scientific Expertise trait
will realize they are devices that have something to do with
genetic engineering, but while they might have been cutting
edge a decade ago, they are badly out-of-date now.)
On the west wall there is a large reel-to-reel computer bank,
with just enough room behind it for someone to squeeze through.
Characters that slide behind that console can find a secret door
hidden there, which leads to B19 (covered in Act Four).
Art by Luke Ross & Matthew Wilson
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ACT TWO:
SECRET A.I.M.S
In this second act, the heroes are directed to their
first target:A.I.M. and their mysterious leader, M.O.D.O.K.
Within the base they acquire a file, and start gaining hints
that things are not as they appear to be.
SCENE 1: THE BRIEFING
Once the heroes are settled into the conference room, read
the following to the players:
Agent Gordon nods silently to Kurt, who turns to you. “Agent
Gordon has asked me to conduct this briefing on his behalf.
Understand that what you’re about to see should be held in the
strictest confidence.” He touches a few controls on the hastily-
wired console, and the screen lights up, showing a green-skinned
alien with large ears and a ribbed chin.
“This, my friends, is a Skrull. They’re aliens from outer space,
and they’re trying to invade our world.”
Go’bak and Kl’rt
 gent Gordon/Go’bak remains silent throughout the briefing,
A but the team have also developed a smaller hand-
as part of a power play happening behind the scenes. Go’bak
doesn’t trust Kurt (who is masquerading as a different Skrull as
part of his infiltration of the Children), but he also realizes that
if this plan fails, he can blame Kurt and thus keep the loyalty
of his followers. As such, he’s giving Kurt enough rope to hang
himself with, as it were. Kl’rt realizes this, and will use his access
to the heroes to enact his own plan:slowly convincing them
to uncover the plot without dragging the Kree-Skrull Alliance
into things. It’s unlikely the heroes will stumble into this, but
keep it in mind as you portray the two agents.
Go’bak is a Skrull as per the Core Rulebook, p. 235.
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Kurt’s briefing covers the following points:
▶ The shape-shifting Skrulls have infiltrated the
superhuman community, and potentially even
the government. It’s unclear how entrenched the
invasion has become, which is why the need for
secrecy is paramount.
▶ The agents have been tasked with rooting out the
invasion. Because they don’t officially report to any
governmental structure, they haven’t been infiltrated,
making them ideal for the task.
▶ The Skrulls have tried several times to infiltrate
Earth before. Past efforts by one of their favored
agents, the Super-Skrull, were nearly successful.
The latest attempt was much more widescale, and
was only thwarted when Reed Richards (Mister
Fantastic of the Fantastic Four) invented a device
that forces Skrulls back into their natural form.
This safehouse has been fitted with such a device,
held version, which Kurt used before he met
with the heroes.
▶ However, they’ve gained intelligence that the Skrulls
have found a way to counteract the device. They’ve
done this by infiltrating or working with A.I.M. The
organization has found a way to circumvent the
procedure. The agents need the heroes to infiltrate the
A.I.M. base they’ve identified, and bring back some files
located in their computers.This story is, of course, a
fabrication, but most of it is actually true. The Skrulls
are attempting to infiltrate — it just so happens that
/3/ ACT TWO
these are the Skrulls in question. The device does exist,
and does work as described — in case rival Skrulls
attempt to infiltrate their ranks — but the Children
(and Kl’rt) have already found a way to circumvent
it. And A.I.M. are actually researching ways to detect
Skrulls outside of Richards’ device, but they are
investigating something, and Go’bak is concerned they
may stumble onto his plans.
This “lie within the truth” approach is Kl’rt’s idea — he
knows that between his relatively-honest approach and
his own mental powers, he can likely keep any suspicious
heroes from suspecting the truth. That said, the heroes might
attempt to discern that truth from Kurt in a couple different
ways — use the advice presented in Act One, Scene 3, but a
Fantastic Success reveals that there’s some kind of tension
between Kurt and Gordon, as if the two of them aren’t on
the same page regarding this operation.
The casual mention of the Super-Skrull serves two purposes
in this scene. From a character perspective, Kl’rt is arrogant
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A.I.M. BASE MAP
and not above bragging about his accomplishments — even
if no one in the room (including Go’bak) is aware that Kurt
is the Super-Skrull. As a Narrator, the namedrop serves
an additional purpose:to get the heroes (and the players)
thinking about the Super-Skrull.
During the briefing, Kurt will give them a read-only chip
to download the information onto, and reveal the A.I.M. base’s
location:the thirteenth floor of a skyscraper in downtown
New York. The heroes may have questions about the Skrulls
and A.I.M. Feel free to read the history sections of their
respective Character Profiles (Core Rulebook, pp. 235 and 138
respectively). If the heroes ask about who Kurt and Gordon
work for, they’ll be brushed off “It’s classified, and it’s best
if you don’t know either way, just in case you’re captured.”
At this point, Agent Gordon will ask if they’re willing
to help, and once they agree, offer to let them stay in the
safehouse for their protection. If the heroes want to stay, Kurt
will direct them to the guest dorms at B7. Either way, they’ll
be given a yellow security card to allow them to go through
some parts of the safehouse, or to come back once they’ve
completed their mission. If the heroes for some reason refuse
the security key, Kurt will insist they keep it “just in case.”
If the heroes decide to poke around the safehouse or do
some investigation on their own before starting the mission,
jump ahead to Scene 6:Poking Around.
SCENE 2: INFILTRATING A.I.M.
Once the heroes agreed to go after A.I.M., Kurt gave them
the location of the base:the thirteenth floor of a skyscraper
in downtown New York.
Information on the location is actually easy to get:The
Bryant Tower is owned by Advanced Idea Mechanics, but they
rent most of the floors out to a variety of other companies.
However, like many buildings in New York, there’s no
“official” 13th floor — the elevator keys skip from 12 to 14.
Any reasonable investigation into the building — a check
into the building site records, talking to the construction
company, setting up surveillance around the building —
reveals that the floor is there, and that the windows on that
floor are false. All official records point to the floor being
abandoned, however.
There are a few ways to infiltrate the 13th floor.
The front door:The lobby at the first floor of the Bryant
Tower is large and open. People are constantly coming and
going from a large bank of elevators, and no one will stop
the heroes if they arrive during business hours. Outside of
business hours, the building is alarmed and has a couple of
security guards patrolling the floor. A Logic vs. TN 10 action
check will disarm the alarm.
Once in the elevator, holding down the “1” and “3” keys
will take the elevator to the 13th floor. A Logic vs. TN 12 action
check will reveal this, but the roll has an Edge if the heroes
did some research into the construction of the building first.
The heroes will arrive in the hallway in front of
C1, Reception.
The back door:There aren’t many other entrances into the
base. Although a violation of safety regulations, this is by
design to ensure the safety of the lab. However, reviewing
the building plans or talking with the building contractors
reveals three possible entrances. The first is via the elevator
shaft, which will deposit the heroes by C1, Reception. There
is a large ventilation shaft that exits into C4, Ventilation.
Art by Luke Ross & Matthew Wilson
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WhyDo the Skrulls Let the Heroes Go?
I t might be surprising to find that the Skrulls don’t pressure
the heroes to stay with them at this stage. This is because
both Go’bak and Kl’rt realize the heroes may still be
suspicious at this stage, and a heavy hand to force them
into staying could foil their plan. They each have separate
things they want to accomplish from this meeting, however.
For Go’bak, his primary objective at this stage is to get
body scans of the heroes in order to duplicate them. That
way, even if everything else falls apart, he can at least move
ahead with his plan to infiltrate the superhuman community
with his detection-resistant Skrulls.
Kl’rt, on the other hand, wants the heroes to have access
to the facility. His goal is to plant the idea of Skrulls in
the heroes’ heads and give them keycards, so they can
potentially poke around later and uncover Go’bak’s plot.
As the story unfolds and the heroes potentially grow more
suspicious, Go’bak and Kl’rt will encourage the heroes to stay
“for their safety.” In Go’bak’s case, this is to keep an eye on
them, while in Kl’rt case it’s to allow them more opportunities
to find out what’s really going on. While it appears all of the
Skrulls are working together, in fact it’s simply a matter that
their goals happen to align until things fall apart in Act Four.
Finally, there’s also a trash chute at C5 that leads down to
the trash room.
Punch in:The walls are reinforced concrete and steel. If a
hero can somehow get to the outside of the 13th floor, they
can attempt to Plow Through the wall (Core Rulebook p. 41).
It requires 40 damage to get through most of the exterior
walls, and 20 damage to get through an interior wall. All
the walls to C15, M.O.D.O.K.’s lab, require 100 damage. If they
break through, place their tokens on an appropriate location
on the map (C1-7, C12, or C13).
Blend in:The heroes can attempt to infiltrate, pretending
to be an employee. Because A.I.M. has a high turnover rate,
security is heavily based on security keys to get around the
lab, so if the heroes can get their hands on one, they’ll likely be
let in without further challenge unless they obviously do not
belong there. A.I.M. “beekeeper” uniforms are available in C2,
/3/ SECRET A.I M.S
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so employees entering or leaving the building aren’t obviously
working for A.I.M. Still, a Vigilance vs. TN 10 action check will
allow a hero to identify an A.I.M. agent out of uniform.
SecurityKeys and Alarms
 .I.M. agents have security keys on them, which look like a
A (she won’t make any offensive moves). The security guards can
rugged circuit board attached to a plastic handle (to allow
the user to grip and slide the “key” into security slots). All
keys look identical, except that some have blue handles
while others have green handles. Unlike the red keys of the
safehouse which also allowed access through yellow doors,
the blue and green security keys here are separate. A green
key will only allow access through green security doors and
blue keys only through blue security doors.
Most A.I.M. agents will have a blue key, while some will
have green keys. None will have both, because M.O.D.O.K. is
paranoid and wants to make sure his agents have reasons
to keep an eye on each other.
Each location below has two states:Secure and Alert.
Assume the base is Secure to start. If the heroes allow
an A.I.M. agent to set off an alarm, the whole location
is considered to be Alert. Punching their way in will
automatically set the base on Alert.
Blue and green security doors require 75 damage to
punch through.
SCENE 3: FINDING THE FILES
Once the heroes have gotten access to the base, they make
their way through stealth or force to M.O.D.O.K.’s lab. In the
Page Toolbar, move the “Player” ribbon to the A.I.M. base page,
reveal the appropriate location (C1, C4, or C5), and place the
players’ hero tokens in that space.
C1: Reception
The reception area looks like the reception area of any major
corporate location:A large curved desk with a polite woman
sitting behind a desk. She is actually an android built into
the desk, so she will always be present even when “work
hours” are over.
Secure:Read the following to the players:
Before you stands a large reception area. Aside from two security
desks on either side, the large room is empty save for an enormous
desk, which is completely devoid of computer screens, keyboards,
tablets, or even scraps of paper. Behind the desk sits a petite blonde
woman wearing a tasteful button-down shirt and blazer. She smiles
as you enter. “Good morning! How can I help you today?”
The receptionist (who prefers to be called Annie) will
continually ask if she can help the heroes. Regardless of their
answers, she’ll deflect and try to convince them they’re on
the wrong floor — no one comes to this floor unless they’re an
A.I.M. agent, so this is purely to keep someone who accidentally
stumbles upon the combination from growing suspicious. It
should be clear after a couple of exchanges that she has no
intention of actually helping the heroes in any way.
A Logic vs. TN 10 action check will reveal that her body
posture is unusually stiff, and she never makes any effort
to get out of her chair. A Fantastic success informs the hero
that her body language is artificial.
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There is a single A.I.M. agent at each security desk to the
north and south, not in their yellow hazard gear. They look
bored, but are actually paying close attention to the heroes.
They each have a blue security key.
If anything suspicious happens, Annie will use an action to
sound the alarm while the two security agents engage the heroes
also activate the alarm from their desks by using an action.
Alert:The two security guards (who are A.I.M. agents) will
attack anyone not dressed like an A.I.M. agent immediately,
using their respective desks as cover. The two agents each
have a blue security key. Also, the guards currently in C10
will arrive here in three rounds.
C2:Changing Room
This is a large unisex changing room, full of lockers. Several
of the lockers have A.I.M. agent uniforms, all fitting Average-
sized characters.
Secure:Two A.I.M. agents are here, in the process of changing
into their yellow uniforms. They each have a blue security key.
Alert:The two A.I.M. agents here are fully clothed and will
attack anyone not dressed like an A.I.M. agent immediately.
If there is a loud, obvious combat, the agents from C3 will
enter the fray. They each have a blue security key.
C3: Showers/Restroom
A combination shower/restroom area, with private shower and
toilet stalls. The doors lock from the inside with simple latches.
Secure: Two A.I.M. agents are in here. One is finishing out
a shower, while another is washing up at a sink. They each
have a blue security key.
Alert:The two A.I.M. agents here are fully clothed and will
attack anyone not dressed like an A.I.M. agent immediately.
They each have a blue security key.
C4: Ventilation
An Average-sized ventilation shaft ends in the ceiling of
this room. No other rooms in the complex connect to this
series of shafts. The room itself is full of discarded cartons,
boxes, and crates all sitting under a handwritten sign that
says “We A.I.M. to recycle!” taped to the wall.
Secure:The room is empty, and the grate from the ventilation
shaft is easily removed with a Logic or Melee vs. TN 12
action check.
Alert:The grate from the ventilation shaft is electrified and
sealed with a magnetic lock. Touching the grate causes 5
Health damage. Shutting down the electricity trap requires
a Logic vs. TN 14 action check. Opening the magnetically
sealed grate requires a Logic or Melee vs. TN 14 action check.
C5:Trash Chute
An Average-sized trash chute leads from the first floor up to
here. The walls of the chute are slick with old refuse, requiring
an Agility vs. TN 14 action check to climb unless the hero
has appropriate powers (like Flight or Wallcrawling). The
chute ends with a large metal door that hinges downward.
The chute and the room smell awful.
Secure:There is one A.I.M. agent attempting to throw some
trash into the chute as soon as it opens. They are surprised
(Core Rulebook, p. 28), and have a blue security key.
Alert:The chute magnetically seals, requiring a Logic or Melee
vs. TN 12 action check to open. There is no one in the room.
C6: Commissary
This commissary contains several tables and chairs, a small
serving area where food would be laid out, and a stack of
trays. There’s also a small beverage stand. Both the food
and beverage area are connected to a large, strange-looking
device — a custom-built food synthesizer.
Secure/Alert:There is no one in the area, although the food
synthesizer doesn’t work when the area is Alert.
C7: Storage
This storage room contains several sets of large metal
cabinets, containing a variety of shelves. On the shelves
are an eclectic mix of supplies:mundane office supplies
like pens, paper, and ink cartridges sit next to power cells
for A.I.M. weaponry. A few shelves have plastic jugs simply
labeled “Food Synthesizer Compound.”
Secure:Everything is accessible from the shelves. There is
no one else in the room.
Alert:All of the shelves have rolling metal shutters that are
magnetically sealed, restricting all access to the supplies unless
opened with a blue security key or a Logic vs. TN 14 action check.
An A.I.M. agent is here, loading a power cell into their weapon.
C8: Closet
This is a simple closet containing cleaning supplies, a broom,
a bucket, and a map.
Secure/Alert:There is nothing unusual in this room.
C9: Barracks
The long barracks looks like a doctor’s on-call room. It
contains nine identical bunks with pillows, sheets, and
blankets, intended for use by A.I.M. agents working long
shifts or on-site security during lockdowns.
Secure: There are three A.I.M. agents here sleeping in
various bunks. They are sleeping in their uniforms, and their
weaponry and blue security keys are stashed under each bunk.
Alert: Two of the three A.I.M. agents are in the hallway
south of the barracks, looking for intruders. The third stays
in the barracks, checking each bunk. They each have a blue
security key.
C10: Lounge
This lounge is a place for off-duty A.I.M. agents to blow off
steam. There’s a couple of vending machines, some couches
and chairs, and a small coffee bar. Near one side is a large-
screen television with a video game system connected.
Secure:Two A.I.M. agents are lounging in this area, wearing
their uniforms. One is getting something from a vending
machine, while another is playing a game on the television.
They each have a green security key.
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Alert:The two agents here have moved into the hallway by
C1, Reception, in order to catch the heroes. They each have a
green security key. The television screen only shows a red
screen with the word ALERT in large, white letters.
C11:Monitor Room
Read the following to the players:
This large room is dominated on one wall with a cluster of screens,
showing a variety of hallways all over the base. A few screens show
other parts of the building, such as the elevator cars, and one or two
are turned to international news channels. Another wall contains
a rack of energy pistols and rifles, behind a blue-tinged force field.
The center of the room has six large curved monitors, with
six A.I.M. agents watching them carefully.
Each of the computers tied to a monitor has security clearance
to override the blue and green security doors. A Logic vs. TN
12 action check will unlock all blue security doors, while a
Logic vs. TN 14 action check unlocks all green security doors.
Both sets of doors are on independent circuits, so action
checks are needed for each set.
The alarm can also be shut off from this room. The base
does not immediately go to Secure, however — consider it
to still be at Alert, but the A.I.M. agents will be less willing
to shoot anything that isn’t in a yellow uniform.
Cameras
 here are several cameras on the map, particularly in the
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hallways of the base. There are also cameras in C1, Reception.
If the heroes do anything obviously suspicious near a camera
and fail to make a Vigilance vs. TN 10 action check, the agents
here will notice and switch the base to Alert status. If the
agents or the camera feeds here are neutralized, however,
the base remains Secure.
Secure: The six A.I.M. agents here are unarmed, but they
do each have a green security key. They are surprised (Core
Rulebook, p. 28), but their first action will be to sound the
alarm, changing the base status to Alert. The heroes will
need to incapacitate or remove all six agents during the
bonus round before that happens.
Alert:Once the base changes to Alert status, the force field
by the weapons locker drops immediately, allowing access
to the energy weapons within. Both doors to the room also
lock, and can only be opened with a green security key. They
require 75 damage to punch through. Each of the agents here
will defend the area to the best of their ability, and each has
a green security key.
If the base goes to Alert before the heroes get to this
room, one agent will leave here and check each of the nearby
offices (C12).
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C12: Offices
Each of these is an office containing a desk, chair, and a
computer terminal. The terminal is turned off.
Secure:Each computer terminal requires a password to access.
A hero with the appropriate skills can attempt to bypass or
brute force the password with a Logic vs. TN 13 action check.
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Most of the files here are administrative:pay records, Any character can make a Logic vs. TN 10 action check
cleaning schedules, low-security email memos, and the like. to determine that A.I.M. is indeed studying Skrull detection
There are some references to a project involving “tracking methods, but this data isn’t the conclusive information that
down a foreign visitor,” however, but no details. (This is a Gordon needs.
reference to M.O.D.O.K.’s project — see Act Two, Scene 3 for
Secure: Each lab has four A.I.M. agents working as lab
more.) On a Fantastic success, they also find today’s password
researchers. They will be surprised if the heroes attack them.
for M.O.D.O.K.’s lab (C15) which was carelessly emailed to a
If an A.I.M. agent can get to one of the computer consoles, they
colleague who had forgotten it.
can use their action to sound the alarm, sending the base to
Alert: As with Secure, but the action check to get past the Alert status. Each agent has a green security key, and knows
password screen raises to TN 15. the password to the computers in their lab.
Alert: Each of the A.I.M. agents are armed and ready for
C13/C14: Labs anyone to attack them. Each agent has a green security key,
Each of these two labs is where A.I.M.’s moderately-secret and knows the password to the computers in their lab.
research projects take place. A large number of machines
are present, each performing some discrete-yet-cryptic
function. Characters with the Scientific Expertise trait will
C15:M.O.D.O.K. Lab
The door to M.O.D.O.K.’s lab can only be opened by using
know this equipment involving studying and analyzing
both a blue and green security key. It also requires a verbal
genetic sequences.
password, which only M.O.D.O.K. and the A.I.M. agents
Each of the computers here is “air gapped,” meaning it
inside the lab know — although it is possible for the heroes
is not connected to any network. Accessing them requires
to acquire it from one of the offices at C12. The door will
a green security key as well as the daily password — both
open without the password, but it will set off an alarm,
of which can be gained from each A.I.M. agent in the labs.
immediately putting the base on Alert status.
The computers do not have any of the information the
Alternatively, the door can be destroyed if it takes 100 damage.
government agents require, but characters with the Scientific
This also sets off the alarm and puts the base on Alert status.
Expertise trait can confirm the information relates to genetic
Once the heroes gain access to the lab, go to Scene 3.
engineering. These characters can make a Logic vs. TN 13
action check to see that it’s a lot of data relating to detecting
Skrulls by reverse-engineering the Richards device.

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SCENE 4:
BEHOLD THE FURY OF M.O.D.O.K.!
Read the following to the players:
Past the massive door, you see there’s metal grating all around
you, with a ramp leading down to the main floor area. Yellow-
suited scientists are working all through the room. In the center,
much like a throne, sits a massive device. Upon the device floats
a man. He has arms and legs coated in a technical suit of some
kind, but his body has been replaced with that of a giant head.
This is the notorious M.O.D.O.K., leader of A.I.M.
▶ If the base is on Secure status:
The people in the lab scurry from station to station as the face
on the giant head screams. “Faster! Work faster! I want results!”
▶ If the base is on Alert status:
The face on the head looks at you. “You! What are you doing
here? Attack!”
There are eight A.I.M. agents in the room, along with M.O.D.O.K.
A Tough Fight
This fight may be more difficult than usual for the heroes,
and that’s intentional. The goal of this scene is to find the
computer file in question and escape, not defeat every
enemy in the room. Feel free to plainly express this to the
players — not every fight in a Marvel comic ends with one
side unconscious. That said, if you prefer to scale down the
conflict, feel free to reduce the number of agents to four.
Each of the large machines on the map are Average size.
They break line of sight, although characters on the metal
grating by the door are five feet above the rest of the floor.
▶ If the heroes captured an A.I.M. agent, Kurt will
Tactics
The A.I.M. agents will attempt to protect the equipment
and M.O.D.O.K.
M.O.D.O.K. will attempt to use his Telepathic Link on the
heroes, one at a time. He’ll need to force a link, making a Logic
check against the target’s Vigilance defense. If he establishes
a link, he’ll use Command or Orders (if they have no Focus
left) to get the hero to attack one of their allies. If he fails
to establish a link, he’ll move on to another hero next turn.
If M.O.D.O.K. is directly threatened, he’ll switch to his
Telekinesis and Elemental Control powers to protect himself
while attempting to escape. He will abandon his agents and
bots without any remorse. If he manages to escape, the A.I.M.
agents will surrender.
because they made a copy to work on in their own time —
they realize it’s data relating to the Richards device and
mentions Reed Richards a lot. A Logic vs. TN 10 action check
reveals that it contains theories on how detectors like what
Reed Richards built could be defeated. A Fantastic Success
shows that it contains field data implying Skrulls have
learned to defeat Reed Richard’s detector, as well as theories
on how they defeated it, and on how to build better detectors.
SCENE 5: BACK TO BASE
Once the heroes have the file, they can return to the safehouse.
Read the following to the players:
You make your way back to the abandoned barbershop. The
next trip underground isn’t as surreal as the first time. You show
your yellow card to the large metal door, and it dutifully rolls
away, allowing you access.
As you step across, an agent steps forward and wordlessly
leads you back to the conference room, where you see Agents
Kurt and Gordon sitting at the table. Kurt smiles as you enter,
but Gordon looks stone-faced. There’s a tension in the air, as if
they have been arguing.
“Come in, sit down. How’d it go?” Kurt asks.
The heroes are encouraged to report on their findings. If they
have the data chip, Gordon will speak up (one of the rare
times he actually does speak), demanding it be handed over.
Once the heroes do so, he keeps hold of it until the heroes
leave or go to their dorms. Any requests for a copy will be
ignored. If they refuse to hand over the data, Gordon will
threaten them then attempt to capture them, moving the
action to Act Four, Scene 1b.
There are some permutations, based on how the conflict
in Act Two, Scene 3 went:
thank them and lock the agent in one of the offices at
B15. Once the heroes have left or gone to their dorms,
the A.I.M. agent is moved to the storage area (B18).

The Needed File

The console to the left of the door, as well as the one nearby
/3/ SECRET A.I.M.S
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M.O.D.O.K.’s throne, both contain the file that the Skrull agents
require. It takes two actions to download the encrypted file
onto the read-only data chip. The encryption can be broken,
but it will take time to do so — more time than a fight with
A.I.M. will allow. A casual skim of the file, however, contains
a reference to “finding foreign invaders.”
If the heroes are able to decrypt the file on their own —
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▶ If the heroes captured M.O.D.O.K., Gordon and Kurt
will both be shocked. Kurt admits they have no way
to detain M.O.D.O.K. for any length of time. Eventually,
they’ll take M.O.D.O.K. to the lab (B17) and try to wire
him up to the large device in the center of the room.
Kurt will explain to the heroes that it’ll take some
time to get the device working, and encourage them to
stay the night (see below). M.O.D.O.K., for his part, will
refuse to answer questions and claim they are all out
to thwart his plans (which he won’t elaborate on) until
one of the agents shocks him into unconsciousness.
▶ If the heroes failed to get the file, Kurt and Gordon will
act concerned. They’ll interrogate any A.I.M. agents that
are captured, but they’ll become insistent that the heroes
are in danger (see below). The Skrull agents will conduct
their own raid on the A.I.M. base that evening to get the
information, since M.O.D.O.K. is most likely captured,
incapacitated, or fleeing to a new base of operations.
Regardless of the outcome from Act Two, Scene 3, both Kurt
and Gordon will encourage the heroes to rest in the dorms
on base. This is primarily because they claim that A.I.M. and
their “Skrull masters” will probably be onto the heroes now,
but also it’s a safe place for the heroes to rest and recover.
If the heroes refuse, Kurt will remind them that the heroes
might be replaced by Skrulls, and by staying on base, the
agents can be sure they haven’t been. If they continue to insist
on leaving, Gordon will slam his fists down on the conference
table and tell them they don’t have a choice. Kurt, however,
will override Gordon and tell the heroes they’re free to go, but
they should come back tomorrow once the agents have had
a chance to decrypt the file (or interrogate the captives). It’s
clear there’s some tension between Gordon and Kurt.
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If the heroes decide to get some rest, go to Act Three. If
they decide instead to do some investigation on their own or
catch up on their private lives, go to Scene 6.
SCENE 6: POKING AROUND
There are two different ways this scene can play out,
depending on whether the heroes head back to their own
lives or stay in the safehouse.
Head Back
If the heroes refuse to stay in the safehouse, they can try to
do some investigation on their own.
▶ Personal business:If the heroes want to conduct
personal business like checking in with loved ones,
spending time in their alternate identities, and the like,
let them. If this adventure is part of an Ongoing Series,
this is a great time to get some role-playing in and
progress any subplots you have in mind as Narrator,
or introduce new characters that might be useful in
future adventures.
▶ C.I.A./Maria Hill:Maria Hill is still “unavailable” and
not returning calls. If a hero has Connections that
give them access to the C.I.A. or any other government
agency, they’ll be told that they don’t know of any
secret group of agents investigating an alien invasion,
but then again such an operation might be too highly
classified for them to know.
▶ A.I.M.:The A.I.M. base is in the process of being
abandoned if the heroes go back that evening —
M.O.D.O.K. and any remaining A.I.M. bots are gone,
although the A.I.M. agents are still there to hastily shut
everything down. If the heroes go back after not being
able to deliver the file, they might run into the Skrull
agents who are conducting their own raid! Add a few
Skrull agents to the A.I.M. base map in their Skrull form.
Stayin the Safehouse
If the heroes decide to stay in the safehouse, they’ll be given
access to the guest dorms, but told they won’t have permission
to use the barbershop elevator until their next mission. They
also won’t be able to call or contact anyone — the base is too
far underground for cellphone reception, and the rest of the
base is cut off from all but the most rudimentary Internet
access, partially for security reasons and partially because
most of the equipment is antiquated.
If the players want to unwind or mingle with the agents,
they can do so. Like with “personal business” (above), it’s a
chance for some role-play, allowing the players to refine how
the heroes interact as a team or settle into their characters
more. The heroes can go anywhere their yellow access allows
them to, aside from outside the base.
However, if the heroes want to use the opportunity to
actually sneak around and find out what’s really going on, they
may have the chance to stumble into parts of the safehouse
that end up revealing the Skrull’s master plan. If they gain
access to any area that requires a red security card or the
secret Skrull lab (B19), check the advice in the sidebar “What
if the Heroes Won’t Go Along?” or just skip right to Act Four.
The file decryption is happening in the secret lab.
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ACT THREE:
WHATEVER
A SPIDER CAN
In this third act, the heroes track down what could Once in the briefing room, you see Agent Gordon sitting in
be their first Skrull invader masquerading as Spider-Man. his customary spot at the end of the table. “Agent Kurt won’t be
However, paranoia within the Children of Lost Tarnax is joining us today,” he says curtly. “So take a seat and I’ll tell you
causing the plan to unravel. what we’ve learned.”

SCENE 1: GORDON VS. KURT

Whether the heroes are called back to the safehouse or wake
up there the next morning, they’re told by Gordon to meet
back in the briefing room for some new information. Read
the following to the players:
Behind the Scenes
 o’bak had the file decrypted — a trivial task for Skrull
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technology — and learned that A.I.M. were investigating a
way to uncover Skrulls. The theories they were investigating
were cross-referenced against a Skrull database, and it may
be nascent technology tied to the Spider-Man of the year
2099, who has come back to the modern day a few times
previously. Go’bak, being paranoid, is convinced that his
plans must be at a critical juncture if that technology has
persisted into the future. He needs to find out what this
Spider-Man knows of the success of Go’bak’s plans.
However, Go’bak isn’t sure who to trust with the next
phase of his plan. That’s why he’s frozen Kl’rt out and is
throwing the heroes against this time-traveling interloper.
If all goes well and this future Spider-Man is destroyed, he
can continue with his invasion plans and use the incident to
manipulate the heroes further. If, however, his plan is about
to unravel, he wants to be able to sacrifice his catspaws
and his followers as a shield to extract himself with the
information he’s gathered. Once he’s escaped, he can create
a new plan to undermine Emperor Hulkling.
Kl’rt realizes he’s running out of time before Go’bak
stumbles onto his infiltration and interference. Kl’rt’s
worried his cover is blown, so he needs to push the heroes
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If the heroes didn’t bring back the file, they’re informed
that the agents were able to recover the file through
undisclosed “alternate means” and had their analysts
working overnight to crack the file. (The truth of how this
happened is covered in Act Two, Scene 4.)
Here’s what Gordon reveals:
▶ First, that some Skrulls are emulating specific
superhuman abilities as well as super heroes
themselves. Gordon mentions that these Skrulls
are similar to the “so-called Super-Skrull, but much
more effective.”
▶ Second, the Skrulls used A.I.M. technology to defeat
Spider-Man in the past few days, replacing him with a
Skrull. However, the replacement Skrull may not have
had a thorough briefing, as this Spider-Man doesn’t
exhibit the same powers, and even has the wrong
costume. He then shows them an image of Spider-Man
2099 (although he doesn’t use that name).
Gordon informs the heroes they need to find and
defeat this false Spider-Man, and bring him back for
interrogation. He then dismisses the heroes, refusing to
take any questions and just telling them to “get it done,
and don’t listen to anything this infiltrator has to say.”
Characters who attempt to discern if Gordon is telling the
truth can make action checks vs. TN 13 to learn that the
story has some holes in it.
Kurt’s Side of the Story
After the heroes are dismissed, Kurt will be waiting for them
outside the briefing room and encourage them to grab a bite
to eat in the commissary. Once there, read the following:
As soon as you step into the commissary, Kurt quickly shuts
the door and waves his key card near it. You hear a soft beep and
a thump as the door locks behind him. After that’s done, he turns
and looks at you, and the customary smile has fallen off his face.
“Look, we don’t have long to talk. There’s something you
need to know.”
Kurt will explain that he thinks something is wrong with
Agent Gordon. The information about the alleged Spider-Man
replacement doesn’t strike him as plausible, but it’s clear
Gordon wants this man for some reason. Kurt’s worried that
there might be a larger game being played here, but he’s not
sure what it is — finding this strange Spider-Man might hold
the answers to what’s going on.
He’ll then encourage the heroes to be careful and reveal
the secret door behind the vending machine, allowing them
to leave the commissary without being seen by Gordon from
the briefing room. If the heroes try to ask questions, Kurt
will just say there isn’t any time and continue with his story.
Characters who attempt to discern if Kurt is telling the truth
can make action checks vs. TN 13 to learn that his story is
mostly true, but he’s still hiding something.
If the heroes ask to borrow Kurt’s Richards device that
forces Skrulls to reveal themselves, he’ll be reluctant but
eventually give it to them.
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Avoiding the Trap
It’s entirely possible that, between Gordon’s strange
behavior and Kurt’s warning, the heroes will refuse to track
down Spider-Man. If they stay at the safehouse, Gordon will
eventually find them and demand to know why they aren’t
out getting the Skrull imposter. Kurt will also encourage
them to leave, saying only that finding this Spider-Man
might hold the key to what’s going on.
If the heroes push, Gordon may decide to simply attack
the heroes. If this happens, jump to Act Four, Scene 1b.
SCENE 2: FINDING A SPIDER-SKRULL
Unlike with Act Two, the heroes aren’t given any leads to
follow. They’ll need to investigate on their own. There are a
few methods they can use to try and track this Spider-Man
down. (Note:In most cases, the Investigator Trait will provide
an edge to these action checks.)
▶ Crawling the Web:As a popular super hero, there
are a wide variety of social media accounts and blogs
devoted to Spider-Man sightings. A Vigilance vs. TN
10 action check will uncover some recent sightings in
the past couple of days of what appears to be a new
suit for Spider-Man:black with red trim and a red
skull-like design on the chest. Reviewing the various
geotags, the heroes can narrow the sightings down to a
residential part of Queens.
▶ The Daily Bugle:This news organization has
closely followed Spider-Man during his career, both
antagonistically and (more rarely) supportive. The
latest edition of the newspaper doesn’t have much
on this “new” Spider-Man, but the website does have
a recent article criticizing his new suit, comparing it
unfavorably to an old black-and-white suit of his. A
Vigilance vs. TN 10 action check reveals the picture
included with the article has a small sign in the corner
that belongs to a family-owned bodega in Queens.
▶ Asking Around:Heroes with appropriate Connections
Traits can be pointed to either of the above options
without requiring an action check. Alternatively,
asking around with people who are hardcore Spider-
Man spotters or reporters that cover the super hero
beat will need an Ego vs. TN 10 action check. If
successful, the hero will learn that Spidey has some
new costume and was last seen around a residential
part of Queens.
If all else fails, Miguel O’Hara is actually looking for the
heroes himself. Part of his research prior to coming to
the modern day was uncovering contemporary files in
old computer backups left intact in 2099. In those files he
discovered the body scans of the heroes, along with the
plans to replace them with super-powered Skrulls, so he
suspects they may have already been replaced with Skrulls.
As such, he is trying to find the heroes as much as they’re
trying to find him.
 Why is Spider-Man 2099 Here?
 iguel O’Hara’s timeline/dimension, Earth-2099, was newly
M Rulebook, p. 238) is on the attack or on the defensive.
reformed after an altercation with Norman Osborn. However,
he started noticing errors and inconsistencies in the world
around him. Worse, some of the people he fought alongside
to take down Norman Osborn turned out to be Skrulls put
into place decades back. Since he remembers the timeline
as it should be (possibly due to the time he’s spent in his
past), he agrees to be sent back in time to stop these events.
Can We Talk?
Once Spider-Man 2099 is found, or he finds the heroes, move
the Players ribbon to the rooftop map. Put the player’s hero
tokens in the alleyway to the south, and add Miguel’s counter
there as well (he’s actually hanging from one of the walls).
If the heroes immediately attack, go right to Scene 3, using
the “On the Attack” section. If O’Hara finds the heroes before he
finds them, or if the heroes approach in a non-hostile fashion,
read the following to the players:
You see Spider-Man clinging to the side of a building. His
costume is different from the red-and-blue one you’ve seen on a
thousand front pages. This one is black, with jagged red highlights
and a red skull motif on the front. He looks you up and down from
his strange vantage point.
“Look, there isn’t an easy way to say this, so I’ll just spit it out,”
he says, his voice muffled by his mask. “Are you Skrulls?”
If the heroes don’t want to listen, go to Scene 3, using the “On
the Attack” section.
Otherwise, Miguel will attempt to sort out if the heroes are
Skrulls or not. Unlike his modern-day counterparts, Miguel is
generally serious, with his rare moments of humor being more
sarcastic than flippant. He is, however, a brilliant scientist with
a strong hatred of corporate evildoers, such as those at A.I.M.
He only has hazy knowledge of the heroes that’s at least
fifty years out of date, and he doesn’t have any devices or
technology to discern if they are Skrulls or not. Still, as far as
he knows, he’s landed at the time before the theoretical future
Skrull invasion has taken place, so he’s wavering between
suspicious and hopeful.
Let the players role-play with Miguel for a while, then
have the hero who is doing the most talking make an Ego
vs. TN 15 action check. Give the heroes an edge if they have
some concrete way to prove they are who they say they are,
such as revealing their secret identities or using the handheld
device taken from Kurt.
If the roll fails, Miguel will pretend to believe them, but
then attack at an opportune moment. Go to Scene 3, using the
“On the Attack” section.
If the roll succeeds, Miguel believes them. Go to Scene 3,
using the “On the Defensive” section.
If the roll is a Fantastic success, Miguel will stay with
the heroes until the end of the adventure. There’s more
information in the sidebar “What Happens to Miguel?”
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SCENE 3: 2099 REASONS TO FIGHT
The previous scene determines if Miguel O’Hara (Core
On the Attack
Read the following:
Suddenly, you hear footsteps pounding down the street. Some
of the agents you’ve been working with are running down the street
towards you. One of them points at Spider-Man. “There! That’s the
Skrull we’re looking for!”
Add as many Skrull agents (in human guise) to the map as
there are players.
Miguel’s main goal will be to escape. If he can get to the
edge of the map and stay there for one round without anyone
being within one square of him, he’ll have escaped. Powers like
Jump 1 and Hit & Run will be useful in helping him to escape.
The Skrull agents will attempt to subdue him, but they
won’t be too picky about injuring or inconveniencing heroes
in the process. At this point they’re more concerned about
stopping the time traveler from upsetting their invasion plans
than keeping the charade up around the heroes.
If Miguel is captured, go to Act Four, Scene 1c.
If Miguel escapes, the Skrull agents will tell the heroes to
head back to the safehouse for debriefing. If the heroes refuse,
the Skrull agents turn into versions of the heroes! Switch the
Skrull Agents with Skrull Duplicate tokens (resetting their
Health and Focus, if needed), and go to “On the Defensive,”
but ignore any references to Miguel.
If the heroes agree to go back to the safehouse, the agents
take them back to a large, unmarked black van and are driven
back to the safehouse. In the Page Toolbar, move the “Player”
ribbon to the Safehouse page, and put the hero tokens in the
scanning room (B2). Then, read the following to the players.
As you walk up to the large metal door, you notice something
out of the corner of your eye. The agents that came in with you are
changing! They’re turning into… versions of yourself!
Swap the Skrull Agent tokens with the Skrull Duplicates
(resetting their Health and Focus, if needed) — Go’bak has
decided that the heroes are now a liability that need to be
disposed of. Go to Act Four, Scene 2, but there are no additional
government agents to help.
On the Defensive
/4/ WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN
Read the following:
Suddenly, you hear footsteps pounding down the street. You
turn to see… versions of yourselves! One of them points at the
group of you. “There! Those are the Skrulls we’ve been looking for!”
Add the Skrull Duplicate tokens to the map. Their goals
are twofold:The primary goal is to capture Spider-Man
2099. Their secondary goal is to cause confusion as to which
heroes are authentic and which are Skrulls. If they have the
opportunity to capture the heroes, thus solidifying their
infiltration, they’ll take that chance, but simply causing
confusion and chaos is good enough for the secondary goal.
Miguel, for his part, will attempt to keep to the rooftops to
avoid the Skrulls. Once he loses sight of a hero, though, he’ll
make Ego vs. TN 10 action checks to discern which character
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is which — if he fails, he’ll believe the hero is the Skrull
infiltrator, and vice versa. If he makes this mistake three
times during the fight, he’ll switch to trying to escape the
Skrulls and the heroes; if he can get to the edge of the map
and stay there for one round without anyone being within
one square of him, he’ll have escaped.
If the heroes are captured, go to Act Four, Scene 1a. If
they’re not, whether Spider-Man is captured or not, go to
Act Four, Scene 1b.
On the Rooftops
Regardless of whether the heroes are on the attack or on the
defensive, the Spider-Man of 2099 will try to keep the fight
to the rooftops, where he has the most advantage.
D1: Restaurant
This is the roof of a restaurant that’s 50 feet above ground.
It’s an older brownstone building with several skylights, as
well as two cooling fans.
ROOFTOP MAP
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D2:Abandoned Building
This old industrial building has been abandoned for years.
The roof is 60 feet from the ground, and has two empty water
towers perched on it, which would allow an Average-sized
character to hide behind them.
D3:Refurbished Office Building
This roof is 100 feet above street level, and has a large number
of industrial cooling fans mounted on the roof to provide air
conditioning to the dozens of offices contained within. There’s
also an entrance to the north that leads to the interior of the
building. The metal door requires 40 damage to punch through.
D4:Apartment Building
The roof of this apartment building is 90 feet above the
ground, and contains a swimming pool as well as some
tables and chairs, both for sitting and for lounging. A door
to the west provides access to the interior. There are three
Average Civilians lounging here.

D5: Bodega
This local bodega has a sloped roof that’s 50 feet off the
ground at its highest point. A few cooling fans dot the roof.
Characters standing on the foot need to make Agility vs. TN
8 action checks each round to keep their balance.
D6/7:Building and Construction Yard
The building (D6) is being renovated and expanded. The
roof is 50 feet off the ground, and the surface is covered in
scaffolding. The construction yard next to it (D7) is at ground
level, and has some construction equipment and supplies.
D8:Abandoned Building
This building, its roof only 30 feet from the ground, also stands
empty and covered in graffiti. It may be next in line to be knocked
down after the construction work next door is completed.
ROOFTOP FIGHT SCENE
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Art by Will Sliney & Antonio Fabela
What Happens to Miguel?
I n general, assuming Miguel isn’t captured, he’ll head off to
find the Skrulls on his own. Even if the heroes convince him
they’re all on the same side, Miguel would rather work on
his own, because he doesn’t completely trust the heroes.
That said, if the heroes scored a Fantastic success in
convincing Miguel of their intentions, or they find some other
way to completely convince him of their sincerity, he’ll stay
with them until the end of the scenario. Make sure his token
is added to the safehouse map in Act Four, and either control
him yourself as Narrator, or give control of the character to
one of the players to portray along with their own character.
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ACT FOUR:
SUPER-SKRULL
In this act the true plans of the Children of Lost Tarnax stand
revealed, and the heroes find themselves in the middle of
an intense conflict.
There are three ways the characters can enter this act:
▶ If the heroes (possibly with Spider-Man 2099) were
captured by the Skrulls, go to Scene 1a.
▶ If the heroes turned on the Skrulls and defeated them
and now want to assault the safehouse, go to Scene 1b.
▶ If the heroes captured Spider-Man 2099 and return
him to the safehouse, go to Scene 1c.
SCENE 1A:
CAPTURED BY THE SKRULLS!
Move the Players ribbon to the safehouse map, and put the
hero tokens at B19, the hidden Skrull lab. Put one on the
table in the center of the room, and three in the containment
pods to the north. If there are more than four heroes, put the
others against the wall to the east. Also put Go’bek’s token
here (in Skrull form) along with three Skrull Agents. Put
Kl’rt’s token (in his human guise as Kurt) at B17.
Read the following to the players:
After your capture, the Skrulls placed strange collars around
your neck. You immediately went unconscious. When you
re-awaken you find yourself inside a strange-looking laboratory,
strapped down to medical tables. Skrulls in white lab coats check
tablets and computer screens.
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“Ah, I see our patients are awake,” says a familiar-sounding
voice. Agent Gordon steps into view, and within moments his face
turns into that of a Skrull. “I think the time for games is at an end.”
At that moment, an alarm sounds through the complex. One
of the Skrull lab assistants taps furiously at her tablet. “Intruder
alert, leader!”
The intruders can be one of several possibilities:
▶ If the heroes befriended Spider-Man 2099, and he
managed to avoid being captured, then he has found
the safehouse and broken his way in. Put his token
at B5. Any Skrull Agents at locations B1 through B4
are unconscious.
▶ If the heroes had C.I.A. contacts or otherwise
attempted to get in touch with Maria Hill or
some other government agency, this is a group of
government agents who are attempting to reclaim the
facility. Put as many government agent tokens at B5
as there are players. Any Skrull Agents at locations B1
through B4 are unconscious. (Government agents use
the same Character Profile as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, Core
Rulebook, p. 232.)
▶ If neither of these is true, then the alarm is false, set
up by Kl’rt to sow confusion. All Skrull Agents at B17
are unconscious, and he’ll claim the intruders fled
through the door to B12.
Infiltrators will take one round to go through a location:
B5 to B12, B12 to B17, and B17 to B19. In the first round, the
Skrull Agents in the lab at B19 will open the secret door to
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B17 and move towards the disruption. Kl’rt, who is in B17, will
override the door controls, forcing it to stay open.
The heroes have three opportunities to break their
restraints and join the fight. They are computerized, flexible,
and strong — it will take a Melee, Agility, or Logic vs. TN 13
action check to break free. If the heroes have a power that
would allow them to easily escape, such as Slip Free, they
don’t need to make an action check. Any heroes not free once
the invaders (or Kl’rt) arrive will be freed.
As soon as the heroes are freed, go to Scene 2.
SCENE 1B:
LET’S GET THOSE SKRULLS!
Read the following to the players:
Now it’s clear who the Skrulls really are. They were
manipulating you into whatever plans they had in store for
Earth. As you’re considering the ramifications of this, a woman in
a suit and sunglasses approaches you. You tense in anticipation
of another fight, but she puts her hands up. “Whoa! Not a Skrull.
Totally human. But I think you need to hear this.”
She holds up a cell phone. “Director Maria Hill wants to
talk to you.”
The person on the call is really Director Hill. If the heroes
had been trying to get a hold of her, she’ll apologize for not
being able to get in touch sooner. Then she’ll explain.
▶ The reason she and her associates had been
unavailable was because they were dealing with
reports of rogue government agents operating in New
York, and specifically out of a decommissioned SHIELD
safehouse. Until she knew who she could trust, she had
put all outgoing communication on lockdown.
▶ Last night she got a report about a break-in at an
A.I.M. lab, and the word “Skrull” popped up as part of
her investigation. Although her team couldn’t find
anything at the A.I.M. lab, she started to suspect that
another secret invasion was in the works.
▶ She put a surveillance team on the safehouse, and
followed the heroes to determine if they were Skrulls
or not. When it was clear which side they were on, she
approached them. She wants to raid the safehouse
immediately and take out the Skrulls before they can
vacate and start up their invasion somewhere else.
Hill plans to raid the safehouse with or without the heroes’
help, but she’d prefer if they worked with her. If they agree,
the agent with the phone issues each hero with a black
security card, which will override all the security doors in
the safehouse. They then leave for the safehouse.
In the Page Toolbar, move the “Player” ribbon to the
Safehouse page. Put Go’bak in the secret Skrull lab (B19),
Kl’rt in the open lab (B17), and the heroes in the barbershop
elevator (B1), along with government agent tokens equal to
the number of players. Government agents will generally fan
out in pairs and leave the heroes to do the primary work on
the raid. That said, if needed, they use the same Character
Profile as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, Core Rulebook, p. 232.
Go to Scene 2.
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Thanks, DirectorHill, But No Thanks
 he heroes may decide that they don’t need Director Hill’s
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help with the raid, or they might not want to risk lives in
the attempt. If that’s the case, Hill will agree to simply
monitor their progress and reserve her agents to handling
any mop-up, as well as detailing Skrulls who attempt to
escape the safehouse.
However, it’s entirely possible that the heroes will
distrust Maria Hill — potentially because they won’t have
any assurance she isn’t also a Skrull, and possibly because
of her past history of manipulation.
Hill will try once or twice to convince the heroes,
particularly asking if they really want to let the Skrulls
get away with their plans, but ultimately she’ll leave them
be if they don’t want to participate. If that’s the case, Hill
decided not to risk an invasion without the heroes’ help.
SCENE 1C: SPIDER-MAN DEFEATED!
Read the following to the players:
After capturing this ersatz Spider-Man, one of the agents
places a strange collar around his neck. As soon as it clicks shut,
Spider-Man falls limp, as if sent immediately unconscious. The
agent smirks. “These neural inhibitor collars are great. He’ll be
out like a light for an hour. Let’s get him into the van.”
Move the Players ribbon to the safehouse map, and put the
hero tokens (as well as Spider-Man) at B17. Also put Gordon
and Kurt’s tokens here as well. Then, read the following
to the players:
You make your way back to the safehouse without incident, and
the agents help you haul Spider-Man back to the lab. Kurt looks
surprised, while Gordon looks pleased. “Excellent! Excellent! Just
put him anywhere, and we’ll get things ready for the experiment.”
Kurt spun to look at Gordon. “Don’t you mean interrogation?”
Gordon smiled cruelly, and within moments his face turns
into that of a Skrull. “Oh, I think we’re well past those games
now, soldier.”
At that moment, an alarm sounds through the complex. One
of the Skrull lab assistants taps furiously at her tablet. “Intruder
alert, leader!”
The intruders can be one of two possibilities:
▶ If the heroes had C.I.A. contacts or otherwise
attempted to get in touch with Maria Hill or some other
government agency, this is a group of government
agents who are attempting to reclaim the facility. Put
as many government agent tokens at B5 as there are
players. Any Skrull Agents at locations B1, B2, and
B3 are unconscious. (Government agents use the
same Character Profile as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, Core
Rulebook, p. 232.)
▶ Otherwise, the alarm is false, set up by Kl’rt to sow
confusion from a button in his jacket.
Go to Scene 2.
SCENE 2: SAFEHOUSE SHOOTOUT
The base is now on alert. Use the following key references
for the base, modified as needed based on which version
of Scene 1 your group played through. A few overall tactics
to keep in mind:
▶ All yellow and red security doors close, and the heroes’
access cards no longer open the doors. Access cards will
need to be taken from a Skrull Agent or Skrull Duplicate
(for a yellow access card), or from Go’bak (for a red one).
Kl’rt will use his card to open doors for the heroes if he
is able. Maria Hill’s agents have black override cards
that can open any door (and the heroes may have one
themselves, depending on how Scene 1b played out).
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▶ Flip all Skrull agents near the heroes to their Skrull
side. If a Skrull Agent manages to get away from the
heroes, flip them back to the human agent side. They’ll
attempt to confuse the situation as much as possible by
pretending to be sympathetic government agents to
get close to the heroes and attack them.
▶ If the Skrull Duplicates weren’t already dispatched in
Act Three, put them in the agent dorms in B9. Like with
the Skrull Agents, Skrull Duplicates will attempt to
confuse the situation, acting as if they are the heroes
and the heroes are the Skrulls. An Ego or Logic action
check against the Skrull’s Ego or Logic defense will
discern if the subterfuge works or not — Ego is the
characters are judging the Skrull’s acting, or Logic if the
heroes are looking for mistakes in the impersonation.
BARBERSHOP
SECRET BASE MAP
/5/ SUPER-SKRULL
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▶ Karl will reveal himself to be the Super-Skrull, who
starts attacking the Skrulls in non-lethal ways. He won’t
attempt to help the heroes in any way. However, if one
of the heroes attempts to kill a Skrull, or of one of the
heroes looks to be on the verge of dying themselves,
Kl’rt will stop them, as he has sworn that no one will
lose their life by his hand and he wants to make sure
there’s no shadow of guilt that could be cast on him.
▶ Go’bak will try to escape, by any means necessary.
He will gladly sacrifice any Skrull Agents or Skrull
Duplicates to accomplish this. Kl’rt’s main goal is to
capture Go’bak alive.
Just How Many People are
in This Safehouse?
We’ve been intentionally vague about how many Children of
Lost Tarnax there are. The truth is, there are as many Skrulls
as there need to be to make the scenario interesting for
your players. There are at least Go’bak, Kl’rt, and the Skrull
Duplicates, but the other Skrull Agents are just suggestions.
Feel free to remove or add some as needed.
Similarly, there are as many government agents as
you need to have. We recommend an amount equal to the
number of players but again you can adjust this down if the
heroes are in a strong position (such as having Miguel O’Hara
on their side) or up if the fight looks to be too challenging.
B1:Barbershop Elevator (Alert)
The switch that activates the elevator doesn’t work unless
someone has a red access card, or one of Maria Hill’s black
override cards.
B2:Scanning Room (Alert)
The scanner has been shut down, but the turrets are active. If
there is a Skrull Agent in either B4 room, that turret will fire
on the Skrull Agents’ initiative, using the Agent’s Agility (+2).
Each turret has a +1 damage multiplier, a range of 10 squares,
and can take 40 damage before it is destroyed.
B3:Security Room (Alert)
The body scanner in this area is turned off, but there is one
Skrull Agent here.
B4:Turret Control (Alert)
One Skrull Agent is in each of these rooms, managing the
turrets in B2.
B5:Hallway (Alert)
The hallway is empty.
B7:Guest Dorm (Alert)
If a character enters a guest dorm, the door will close and
lock behind them, requiring a new yellow, red, or black
access card to open. At the beginning of the next round, the
room fills with sleeping gas — unless the character makes a
Resilience vs. TN 10 action check, they take 15 Focus damage.
If the character falls to 0 Focus, they are unconscious.
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B9:Hallway to Agent Dorms (Secure/Alert)
This hallway is empty. However, the floor of this hallway is
pressure-sensitive. Unless the hero avoids standing on the
floor, or weighs less than an Average-sized person, the base
goes to Alert status if it isn’t already.
B10:Agent Dorm (Secure/Alert)
If the safehouse is not already on Alert status, each dorm
contains a Skrull sleeping in their natural form on the bed.
If the safehouse is on Alert status, and if the Skrull
Duplicates weren’t defeated, each one starts here and makes
their way to the fight via B9.
If the safehouse is on Alert status and the Skrull Duplicates
were defeated, these rooms are empty.
B11:Weapons Locker (Secure/Alert)
One Skrull Agent is in here, weapon ready.
The lockers contain the following weapons:
▶ 20 pistols (range 10 spaces, damage multiplier +1)
▶ 10 rifles (range 20 spaces, damage multiplier +1)
▶ 30 grenades (range 10 spaces, damage multiplier x2)
▶ 1 bow (range 15 spaces, damage multiplier +1)
B12:Nexus (Alert)
There are two Skrull Agents here, guarding the door to
the lab (B17).
B13:Conference Room (Alert)
This room is empty. As soon as the safehouse changes to
Alert status, the computer console here activates a hidden
circuit and melts itself, destroying all data contained within.
B16:Commissary (Alert)
As with Secure, but the secret entrance to B16 is open.
B17:Lab (Alert)
Unless otherwise stated, Kl’rt is in this lab along with two Skrull
Agents. They are here to stop anyone from entering the secret
lab at B19, but in reality Kl’rt is trying to stay close to Go’bak to
be ready to capture him as soon as Go’bak steps out of the lab.
B18:Storage (Secure/Alert)
This area is off-limits to the heroes, but on the surface it just
looks like a common warehouse-style storage room:concrete
floors and metal shelves covered with cardboard boxes as
well as wooden and metal crates. To the north there’s a
forklift, but it’s covered in cobwebs and hasn’t run in years.
However, if the heroes start looking through the boxes,
they’ll realize that while most are things like food and office
supplies, a few of the crates contain strange devices and
metal objects. Characters with the right Traits or Tags might
recognize them as Skrull in origin; otherwise, it requires a
Logic vs. TN 16 action check.
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This lab looks radically different from the one next door. All
of the devices here look alien and strange. There are three
Average-sized tubes against the north wall, with magnetic
locks to keep someone inside. The table in the center also
has devices to keep a character strapped down, as well as
two articulating arms with a variety of deadly-looking
probes and blades. The west wall has a variety of computer
banks and tables covered with various equipment and
scientific devices.
The tubes to the north not only act as tiny cells to hold
unruly people within, but also can be programmed to
reconstruct a Skrull’s DNA, making them immune to the
Skrull detection devices created by Reed Richards. When
used on a human, however, their DNA is simply broken down,
killing them painfully and messily.
The arms on the table in the center can be controlled
manually. It requires a Logic vs. TN 12 action check to use
them if the character hasn’t previously operated them before.
Each blade has a mono-molecular edge, doubling the user’s
Melee damage modifier. A character has to be on or next
to the table to use the arms, however, and using an arm
requires an action.
SCENE 3: EPILOGUE
If the heroes are defeated, overpowered by the Skrulls, Go’bak
will attempt to escape, and any conscious Skull Agents and
Skrull Defectors will try to leave with him. Kl’rt, if able, will
take Go’bak down. He’ll then explain the situation to the
heroes (below).
More likely, the heroes will be able to defeat the Skrull
Agents and Skrull Duplicates. In this case, Kl’rt will reveal
himself to be the Super-Skrull, if he hasn’t already. After all
the Skrulls are carted off, read the following to the players:
The Super-Skrull looks at you imperiously as he explains. “This
group of Skrulls were a radical offshoot known as the Children
of Lost Tarnax — a Skrull supremacy group. The Skrulls have
joined forces with our ancient enemies, the Kree, under Emperor
Dorrek VIII — the half-Skrull, half-Kree you know as Hulkling.
The Children see Emperor Dorrek as an abomination, and they
were attempting to stage their own secret invasion plans in order
to replace powerful superhumans to get close to the Emperor.
Go’bak — the one you knew as Gordon — is their leader. I don’t
know how he found a way to circumvent the devices that Reed
Richards created, but he did. And from that knowledge did I start
to develop a plan to stop him.”
He sighs, looking as if he’d rather be doing anything else than
explaining this. “Due to my… past misdeeds… my emperor has
sentenced me to diplomatic service. Further, I am not allowed to
take a life or allow one to die due to my neglect. As I could not allow
the Skrull empire… my apologies, the Skrull race to come under
suspicion due to Go’bak’s actions, I had few options. I infiltrated
his operation in order to gain hard evidence I could bring before
my emperor — enough to satisfy our Kree allies that Go’bak acts
alone. That is why I did what I could to rouse your suspicions of
Go’bak’s activities, without revealing my true intentions to him.
“Trust me — it would be much simpler were I able to murder
him and present his head to my emperor.” He shakes his head.
“But these days, I am reduced to working with Earthlings to
police my own.”
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Kl’rt isn’t entirely telling the truth here, but rather painting
himself in the best possible light, on the off chance that word
of this operation will get back to his emperor. Regardless, he
will then open the door to the secret lab, if the heroes don’t
know about it already. If Go’bak isn’t captured, he’ll leave to
find and recover Go’bak. If Hill or her agents capture Go’bak,
Kl’rt will be happy to let her take him and his Children
into custody.
If Maria Hill’s agents aren’t already there, they’ll show
up and want to know what happened. Once she gets their
report, Hill will thank the heroes for their part in staving
off another secret invasion. If the heroes don’t trust Hill or
her agents (perhaps thinking them to be yet more Skrulls),
she will reveal that she has determined yet another way
to detect Skrulls:by drawing and baking the blood to see
if it turns green.
Dangling Threads
If you are running Revenge of the Super-Skrull as a self-
contained adventure, the story ends there. Hopefully
you and your players had a good time! However, if this is
part of an Ongoing Series, there are a couple of additional
things to consider.
First is whether the heroes go up in rank or not. There’s
some advice on this in the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing
Game, but in general this adventure is worth one milestone
towards that goal.
Second is to decide how much of the consequences from
this adventure linger. There are several possible story hooks
you can use as the foundation for possible future adventures:
▶ Go’bak:If Go’bak escaped, he could try to rebuild the
Children of Lost Tarnax. It wouldn’t be the first time
he’s lost people as part of his cause, and he is a patient
(if paranoid) Skrull. He could become a regularly
recurring villain for the heroes to face.
▶ Kl’rt:Although Kl’rt’s goals aligned closely with
those of the heroes this time, that doesn’t mean he’s
happy with having to cooperate with Earthlings in
the defense of the Skrulls. He may ask the heroes’
help again in future — perhaps to help him capture
Go’bak — or he may just manipulate them for
his own ends.
▶ A.I.M.:Why was A.I.M. interested in finding ways to
uncover Skrulls? Perhaps they had some plan of their
own to use the Skrulls. The heroes might want to track
down those plans and deal with A.I.M.’s schemes.
▶ Maria Hill:Depending on how the adventure panned
out, Hill might feel like she’s indebted to the heroes,
or she may assume she’s pulled their butts out of the
fire and they owe her a favor. And the C.I.A. certainly
have uses for people with superpowers and experience
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dealing with the tangled web of espionage.
▶ Duplicates:If the Skrull Duplicates escape, they
might attempt to discredit the heroes further —
perhaps by performing crimes in their identities, or
misrepresenting themselves to the heroes’ friends
and allies. Even if they’ve been captured, however, it’s
possible that the fight with Spider-Man 2099 led to
some awkward cell phone photos or police reports that
the heroes are going to have to explain away.
/6/ CHARACTERS

ANT-MAN BIOGRAPHY
KARMA Real Name: Scott Lang
RANK
3
3
Height: 6' Weight: 190 lbs. Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue Hair: Red Size: Average
Distinguishing Features: None
Occupation: Criminal
HEALTH DAMAGE Origin: High Tech: Pym Particles
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Teams: Avengers, Future Foundation,
Guardians of the Galaxy
Base: Mobile
Art by Chris Samnee & Matthew Wilson

History
Scott Lang was just a penniless engineer with
FOCUS DAMAGE a minor rap sheet. Then his daughter took ill.
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Desperate to pay for her treatment, Lang broke
— into the home of Henry Pym and stole Pym’s
Ant-Man suit.
Pym recognized Lang’s decent nature and
eventually decided to let Lang keep his old suit.
Since then, Lang has served the world as a new
SPEED INITIATIVE Ant-Man. In addition to his solo pursuits, Lang
MODIFIER has served as a valuable asset to some of the most
Run: 5
Climb: 3
Swim: 3
+3 powerful super-teams on Earth, and he recently
found his way into the company of the Guardians
of the Galaxy.
ABILITIES Jump: 3
Personality
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT Scott Lang is a good friend and a caring father, if a
SCORE SCORE CHECKS bit of a goofball. He serves as an inspiration to his
TRAITS & TAGS
3 13 +3 Traits Tags
daughter, Cassie, now a super hero herself under
the codename Stinger.
MELEE ◆ Connections: ◆ Black Market
Criminal Access
4 14 +4 ◆ Gearhead
◆ Glibness
◆ Heroic
◆ Obligation:
AGILITY
◆ Inventor Family

2 12 +2
◆ Tech Reliance ◆ Poor
◆ Public Identity
RESILIENCE ◆ Streetwise

3 13 +3 POWERS
VIGILANCE
Basic Telepathy Resize
3 13 +3
◆ Combat Trickery
Elemental Control
◆ Animal Communication
(Bugs)
◆ Resize Object
◆ Shrinking Dodge
EGO ◆ Shrink 4
(Energy)

1
◆ Elemental Blast

LOGIC
11 +1 ◆ Elemental Burst
◆ Elemental Push

DAMAGE

3 3
MELEE
AGILITY

3 4
3 3
EGO

3 1
LOGIC

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DAREDEVIL BIOGRAPHY
KARMA Real Name: Matthew “Matt” Murdock
RANK
2
2
Height: 5'11" Weight: 185 lbs. Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue Hair: Red Size: Average
Distinguishing Features: Blind
Occupation: Lawyer
HEALTH DAMAGE Origin: Weird Science
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Teams: Defenders
Base: Hell’s Kitchen, New York City
History
When Matt Murdock was just a boy, his face was
splashed with a rare radioactive isotope. While
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the isotope cost him his sight, it enhanced all his

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other senses. Shortly thereafter, his father was
killed by mobsters for refusing to take a fall in
Art by Marco Checchetto

a mob-run boxing match. Matt vowed revenge

on all the criminals of Hell’s Kitchen and began
training in martial arts with the legendary
INITIATIVE sensei Stick.
SPEED
MODIFIER As an adult, Matt fights crime both within and
Run: 5
Climb/Swim: 3
Jump: 3
+1 without the boundaries of the law. In addition to
his duties as Daredevil, he often runs a thriving
law office with his longtime pal Foggy Nelson.
ABILITIES Swingline: 15
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT Personality
SCORE SCORE CHECKS Though firmly dedicated to the pursuit of justice,
TRAITS & TAGS Matt is not above a joke or engaging in a bit
2 12 +2 Traits Tags
of romance. His legal clients think of him as a
charming, highly considerate gentleman.
MELEE ◆ Dealmaker ◆ Heroic
◆ Fearless ◆ Obligation:
3 13 +3 ◆ Free Running Work
◆ Secret Identity
AGILITY ◆ Legal Eagle
◆ Public ◆ Vision Issues

2 12 +2
Speaking
◆ Weird
RESILIENCE

POWERS
1 11 +1 Basic Martial Arts
VIGILANCE
◆ Heightened Senses 2 ◆ Attack Stance

1 11 +1
◆ Iconic Weapon:
Daredevil’s Billy Club.
Adds +1 damage multiplier
◆
◆
Chain Strikes
Do This All Day
EGO ◆ Fast Strikes
and grants the swingline
◆ Leg Sweep
2 12 +2
movement mode, with
a speed equal to triple
his Run Speed. The Billy
LOGIC
Club can be thrown and
instantly retrieved. The
DAMAGE range of the Billy Club and
the reach of the swingline

3 2
is equal to its Swingline
MELEE

Speed: 15 spaces.
AGILITY

3 3
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2 1
EGO

2 2
LOGIC

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HAWKEYE (CLINT BARTON) BIOGRAPHY

KARMA Real Name: Clinton Francis “Clint” Barton
RANK
2
2
Height: 6'3" Weight: 230 lbs. Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond Size: Average
Distinguishing Features: None
Occupation: Entertainer
Art by Carlos Pacheco, Jesus Merino & Frank D’Armata

HEALTH DAMAGE Origin: Special Training

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Teams: Avengers, Thunderbolts
Base: Brooklyn, New York City
History
After his parents were killed in a tragic car
accident, Clint Barton ran away to join the circus.
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Naturally talented, he quickly made a name as

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Hawkeye, one of the premier archers. Barton
might have stayed a performer into his old age
if a chance encounter hadn’t brought Iron Man
to his circus. Inspired by Iron Man’s exploits,
Barton created a costume and began fighting
INITIATIVE crime as Hawkeye.
SPEED
MODIFIER While Barton sometimes operates solo, he’s
Run: 5
Climb: 3
Swim: 3
+2 best known for his work with the Avengers.
After years of such adventures, Barton trained
and mentored Kate Bishop into becoming a
ABILITIES Jump: 3 second Hawkeye.
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT
SCORE SCORE CHECKS Personality
TRAITS & TAGS Clint Barton is well aware that his lack of
2 12 +2 Traits Tags
super-powers places the upper limits of his
abilities well below those of most super heroes. He
MELEE ◆ Combat ◆ Auditory sometimes puts on an arrogant attitude to cover
Reflexes Issues his insecurities. Barton is sometimes led astray
4 14 +6 ◆ Determination
◆ Famous
◆ Heroic
◆ Public Identity
by his passions, but his conscience always brings
him back to the fight for justice.
AGILITY
◆ Fearless ◆ Signature

1 11 +1
◆ Presence
◆ Public
Weapon: Bow
and arrow
RESILIENCE Speaking ◆ Streetwise

2 12 +2 POWERS
VIGILANCE
Basic Martial Arts Ranged Weapons
0 10 0
◆ Accuracy 2
◆ Slow-Motion Dodge
◆ Fast Strikes
◆ Leg Sweep
◆ Double Tap
◆ Stopping Power
EGO ◆ Sniping

1 11 +1
LOGIC

DAMAGE

2 2
MELEE
AGILITY

4 4
2 0
EGO

2 1
LOGIC

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LUKE CAGE BIOGRAPHY
KARMA Real Name: Lucas “Luke” Cage; formerly Carl Lucas
RANK
3
3
Height: 6'6" Weight: 425 lbs. Gender: Male
Eyes: Brown Hair: Bald Size: Average
Distinguishing Features: None
Occupation: Adventurer, Leader
HEALTH DAMAGE Origin: Weird Science
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Teams: The Defenders, Heroes for Hire,
Mighty Avengers
Base: New York City
History
Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, Carl
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Lucas was recruited by the prison’s doctor as a

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test subject for an experimental variant of the
Super-Soldier Serum that empowered Captain
America (Steve Rogers). Imbued with superhuman
strength and durability, Lucas broke free of his
Art by Dale Keown

prison and returned to the Harlem of his youth.

SPEED INITIATIVE As a fugitive, Lucas adopted the name Luke Cage
MODIFIER and began working as a Hero for Hire. Cage has
Run: 5
Climb: 3
Swim: 3
+1 been through a lot in the years since, sometimes
teaming up with internationally recognized
super-groups and sometimes returning to for-hire
ABILITIES Jump: 3 work, but he’s never stopped being a tireless
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT fighter for the people of Harlem.
SCORE SCORE CHECKS
TRAITS & TAGS Personality
4 14 +6 Traits Tags
Cage is as sensitive and caring as he is tough and
strong. Circumstances may force him into work
MELEE ◆ Connections: ◆ Authority as a paid hero, but he often helps those in need
Super Heroes ◆ Black Market for free. Nothing is more important to him than
1 11 +1 ◆ Extra
Occupation
Access
◆ Headquarters:
his friends and family, including his wife, Jessica
Jones, and their daughter, Danielle.
AGILITY
◆ Fearless Harlem

5 ◆ Presence Apartment

RESILIENCE
15 +5 ◆ Public
Speaking
◆ Heroic
◆ Hounded
◆ Surprising ◆ Powerful
1 11 +1
Power
(Sturdy 3)
◆ Public Identity

VIGILANCE ◆ Weird

3 13 +3 POWERS
EGO
Basic Martial Arts Super-Strength
1 11 +1 ◆ Mighty 2
◆ Sturdy 3
◆ Attack Stance
◆ Do This All Day
◆
◆
Banging Heads
Clobber
LOGIC
◆ Crushing Grip
◆ Immovable
DAMAGE ◆ Smash
◆ Quick Toss
5 4
MELEE
AGILITY

3 1
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3 3
EGO

3 1
LOGIC

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/6/ CHARACTERS

MS. MARVEL (KAMALA KHAN) BIOGRAPHY

KARMA Real Name: Kamala Khan
RANK
3
3
Height: 5'4" Weight: 125 lbs. Gender: Female
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown Size: Average
Distinguishing Features: None
Occupation: Student
HEALTH DAMAGE Origin: Inhuman
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Teams: Champions, Protectors
Base: Jersey City
Art by Valerio Schiti & Rachelle Rosenberg

History
From a young age, Kamala Khan idolized Captain
Marvel (Carol Danvers), who exemplified a sort of
FOCUS DAMAGE
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uncomplicated femininity missing from Khan’s

30 —
own life as the teenage daughter of Pakistani
immigrants. One night, while sneaking out of
her parents’ house to go to a party, Khan was
exposed to a mysterious cloud of Terrigen Mist that
activated the Inhuman DNA lurking in her system,
INITIATIVE giving her the power to grow, shrink and morph
SPEED into whatever shape or appearance she pleased.
MODIFIER
Run: 10
Climb: 5
Swim: 5
+1 Donning a costume of her own, Khan adopted
Carol Danvers’ former alias and became the new
Ms. Marvel. In short order, she met her idol Carol
ABILITIES Jump: 5 and even joined the Avengers, but she later left
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT them to form the new teenage Champions.
SCORE SCORE CHECKS
TRAITS & TAGS Personality
2 12 +2 Traits Tags
Khan is a lovable and friendly nerd and a natural
leader. She’s also a teenager still trying to figure
MELEE ◆ Determination ◆ Heroic out the specifics of who she is, but she’s grad-
◆ Glibness ◆ Inhuman ually becoming more confident in herself and
4 14 +4 ◆ Honest Genes
◆ Mentor:
her identity.

AGILITY ◆ Quick Learner

Captain Marvel

4
(Carol Danvers)

RESILIENCE
14 +4 ◆ Obligation:
School
◆ Secret Identity

1 11 +1
◆ Young

VIGILANCE
POWERS
3 13 +3 Basic Plasticity Resize
EGO ◆ Disguise ◆ Bounce Back ◆ Grow 2
◆ Extended Reach 2 ◆ Shrink 2

1 11 +1
◆
◆
Flexible Bones 2
Reverse Punch
LOGIC
◆ Slip Free
◆ Stilt Steps
DAMAGE

3 2
MELEE
AGILITY

3 4
3 3
EGO

3 1
LOGIC

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WOLVERINE (LAURA KINNEY) BIOGRAPHY
KARMA Real Name: Laura Kinney
RANK
3
3
Height: 5'1" Weight: 130 lbs. Gender: Female
Eyes: Green Hair: Black Size: Average
Distinguishing Features: Retractable adaman-
tium claws in hands and feet
DAMAGE Occupation: Adventurer
HEALTH
REDUCTION
90
Origin: High-Tech: Cybernetics, Mutant

-1 Teams: X-Force, X-Men

Art by Ema Lupacchino & Rachelle Rosenberg

Base: Krakoa
History
Laura Kinney was created as part of a secret
FOCUS DAMAGE
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attempt to re-create the experiment that gave the

60 -1
original Wolverine (Logan) his adamantium skel-
eton. She’s a partial clone of Logan himself, with
DNA mixed in from Sarah Kinney, the geneticist
who created her.
The shadowy figures funding this experiment
SPEED INITIATIVE intended for Laura to be an assassin, but Sarah
MODIFIER Kinney took pity on her creation and helped
Run: 5
Climb: 3
Swim: 3
+2 Laura escape from their clutches. Free from her
captors, Laura tracked down her genetic father
and became his protégé. Now she fights alongside
ABILITIES Jump: 3 Logan, both of them acting under the code-
ABILITY DEFENSE NON-COMBAT name Wolverine.
SCORE SCORE CHECKS
TRAITS & TAGS Personality
6 16 +6 Traits Tags
Although the people who funded her creation did
their best to erase her humanity, Laura Kinney
MELEE ◆ Combat ◆ Black Market has grown into a mature and empathetic young
Reflexes Access woman. She serves as a levelheaded counterpart
3 16 +3 ◆ Connections:
Super Heroes
◆ Heroic
◆ Hounded
to her younger, freewheeling genetic twin sister,
Gabrielle Kinney (Scout).
AGILITY
◆ Extraordinary ◆ Krakoan

3
Origin
◆ Public Identity

RESILIENCE
13 +3 ◆ Fearless
◆ Iron Will
◆ X-Gene

◆ Tech Reliance
2 12 +2 POWERS
VIGILANCE

0 10 0
Basic
◆ Brawling
Melee Weapons
(Sharp)
EGO ◆ Combat Trickery ◆ Exploit
◆ Healing Factor ◆ Fast Attacks
1 11 +1 ◆
◆
Heightened Senses 1
Iconic Weapon:
◆
◆
Focused Fury
Furious Attacks
LOGIC
Adamantium Claws ◆ Hit & Run
[+1 Melee damage ◆ Vicious Attack
DAMAGE multiplier]
◆ Whirling Frenzy
◆ Reinforced Skeleton

4 6
MELEE

◆ Uncanny 1
AGILITY

3 3
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3 0
EGO

3 1
LOGIC

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