Publisher's blurb:
Terminal State is a convention adventure (or tournament module) for Mutant 2089 (also known as "Nya Mutant" or "Svarta Mutant"). It was played at FrunCon-91, a gaming convention organized by the role-playing club Gamers´ Guild / Yxan.
The adventure is a hostage drama out in the twilight zone that leads to a bunker that somehow feels vaguely familiar? A classic Mutant 2089 adventure with a lot of bang-bang and light detective work.
It comes with ready-made characters and a score calculation table. A final note: The adventure was written by a happy teenager who liked Mutant 2089, synth and a lot of shooting (think Twilight: 2000), so it's not at Nobel Prize level, but delivers rattling bunker action.
Back story regarding the PDF re-release told by the designer Mattias Axelsson on Axelmakt.com (translated):
Why am I bothering to post this old Mutant 2089 adventure now?
Well, it was when I met some friends that we started talking about our roleplaying days and a friend thought he had saved this old adventure (he was a gamemaster in the tournament). Unfortunately, my friend didn't find anything in his parents' drawers, but by chance I got in touch with the old chairman of Yxan, Trygge Bergholm on LinkedIn. I asked if he had any material left from the good old days and he had saved it all! He sent over pictures of the whole thing and I got the idea to spruce it up and put it out free of charge for public viewing as a sort of cultural history deed. Download it for free from DriveThruRPG.
I think it's interesting because, for example, Dungeons & Dragons has several modules that were actually tournament modules, but it doesn't seem like any were directly published by Target Games; possibly in Sinkadus or in a fanzine at some time.
About Yxan and convention adventures:
I was a member of the club Gamers' Guild / Yxan for a few years and wrote some in their magazine Argus (the magazine was originally called IQ-blaskan but luckily had changed its name by the time I joined). Anders Blixt was an honorary member and perhaps that's why Yxan was allowed to hold tournaments at the classic game convention organized by Target Games / Äventyrsspel. Yxan started in 1987 and at Spelkongress-88 organized by Äventyrsspel, a tournament was arranged for Mutant 2 with the adventure Barracuda by Andreas and Daniel Rönnedal. It was briefly considered for publication in Sinkadus or as a separate module, but Äventyrsspel backed out at the last moment. Yxan arranged tournaments for, among other things, Stjärnornas Krig, Sagan om Ringen, and Drakar och Demoner at gaming conventions in the following years. Sometime around '90-'91, the name was changed from Yxan to Gamers' Guild / Yxan, where members over 16 were in Gamers' Guild and those under were in Yxan. The club's own conventions were called FrunCon because they were held in Fruängen (in a preschool's premises) 1990-1993.