NPC: A roper
Long Desc: A stump-like creature waves its tentacles at you menacingly.

A roper resembles a rocky outcropping.  The creature's hide is yellowish
gray and rough, and its body is very malleable.  They are usually
pillar-like in shape, 9 feet tall, about 3 feet in diameter at the base, and
about 1 foot in diameter at the top.  The roper has a single yellow eye, and
a maw ringed with sharp teeth.  Ropers tend to also have the same body
temperature as its surroundings.
He is a strangle weed approximately 5'5" tall.

This NPC can be found in: Maldra Keep.
  …in A Trail on an Open Plain.
*This NPC is stationary.
This NPC is known to carry the following items:
This NPC carries 'a scalpel', a level 80 dagger.
This mob is required by the following quests:
- What Lies Beneath (240-241) from Lord Maldra.