Paradoxides goes out adventuring with Jason, a large Southerner who carries a heavy crossbow, a fellow called Hatchet Rack and Galf Blackshield. They encounter a band of Orcs with a Hill Giant. There is a brutal fight in which the giant takes down both Jason and Paradoxides. Galf saves the day by killing the Giant, the orcs flee. Jason and Paradoxides are found to be still alive.
Ref: B-59
OE Date: June – 681
Characters: Jason, Paradoxides, Hatchet Rak. NPCs: Galf Blackshield
Real World: When – 1st Term 1983 ; Where – St Andrews (Warsoc)
Jason had fallen through a wormhole from Pete Tamlyn’s Baja to Old Empire, which I was likely to play more often, based at The Pit, rather than now and again at housecons.
His signature weapon was a modified crossbow which could tune throw small fire oil flasks as well as bolts.