TANDRIC THE
TRAPWRIGHT
Tandric the
Trapwright was a member of the Hunter’s Guild and a woodsman of great skill who
was known for his ingenious methods of setting traps for animals. Eventually, however, he used his skills to
turn to crime and created a small band of bandits. His headquarters was a very cleverly hidden treehouse in the Forest of Youth (complete with rope ladder). Using his trap-setting skills, the bandits plagued the merchants
who would travel through many forests, until the entire band was eventually
caught and captured by Bozbik the Face Breaker. Like Beldric the Enchanter and Oldric the Pirate, he hoped to join forces with other
victims of the Face Breaker’s brand of face-breakingly effective justice, only
to be thwarted at the end.For in that final scheme, the three were able to shrewdly recruit a man in Mizniaport, known
only by his alias "Detective Softly", into recovering the Spear of Zoz
for them (a weapon they believed would give them a considerable
advantage over Bozbik) without drawing attention to themselves. To do
this, they first manipulated "Softly" into finding the Dice of Gnilbel,
which would always magically reveal the location of the spear.
Discovering through this arcane means that the weapon was in Fenshire,
"Softly" set out to recover it. Beldric presented him with a crystal ball so that the detective's journey would be observed all the while from afar.
Prior
to the retrieval of the legendary spear, Bozbik himself recovered the
relic and planned to place it in
his soon-to-open
Museum of Face Breaking. Oldric, Beldric, and Tandric
later assaulted Bozbik at the
Miznia Marshlands and snatched
the Spear of Zoz off his back. The trio returned to their super secret
clubhouse in the
Jungles of Miznia, then, after ransacking the place,
left in a hurry for the
Fields of Frotzen. When "Softly" arrived at the
hideout, he was too late. He and Bozbik also discovered Tandric's
headquarters in the
Forest of Youth to be vacant. The two finally
tracked down
the trio at the Fields of Frotzen, defeated them, recovered the Spear
of Zoz, and took the three tied-up villians back to Mizniaport.
SOURCE(S): Legends
of Zork (game, personal correspondence from the author of 'Enter the
Face Breaker' quest) |