Frederick

**Frederick** (actually pronounced **Gtrfrtovl**) was one of the two waiters of the Interdimensional Tavern, alongside another member of the same species as him, Tpxszum. (PROSE: *Multiversal Mischief*)

## Biography

### Origins

Frederick and Tpxszum were the last two survivors of Dimension )-0//zx after its destruction. They were already part of the Tavern's staff by 2019, when Bibliophile-962 wrote up the Cupid Fact File concerning the Tavern. By then, all Tavern staff agreed that their staff had not changed since “April of ∉∝”, suggesting that was when the two of them joined. (PROSE: *The Interdimensional Tavern*)

### As Tavern staff

In 2019, after forgetting a book at the Tavern, Bibliophile-962 wrote to Frederick to warn him that he would be sending someone else along to collect it. (PROSE: *The Interdimensional Tavern*)

Tpxszum took over taking and bringing Darius's orders from Frederick after Frederick's patience was ground down by Darius's endless complaints. (PROSE: *Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market*)

On Halloween 2019, both waiters were working together once again. The two, already worried about their dwindling supplies given the unusually high turnout of guests, were rather concerned when the whole Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids suddenly materialised in the Tavern thanks to the Emergency Transport Button, although the Cupids were quickly returned to the Cupid Homeworld by Lord Thymon and, as one of them had brought a tub of apples, precisely one of the foodstuffs they were fast running out of, it was, in the end, a positive. (PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine*)

   In December, while putting the finishing touches to the Tavern's decorations, the waiters received an invitation to a quest for the Frost King's treasure in the land of Manik. Alistair Neezley, who had recently read about the treasure, convinced them to accept the invitation and take him along, lending his ship to the quest. After arriving in Manik, the trio met an old man who directed them to the mountains where the treasure was supposedly hidden, though he tried to persuade them to get more supplies before they attempted the climb.

Despite Neezley's predictably burdensome antics, they managed to make their way to a ledge near the mountain's peak, where they met up with the various other groups who had been sent identical invitations. As the group included the villainous Wellsians and Retconning Crocodiles, things soon devolved into a fight, but the waiters and 21-419 managed to sneak out of it and start making their way up the remaining staircase. Though they were distracted halfway through by the red herring dropped by the Crocodiles, 21-419 helped them see through the perception trick and they were eventually able to make it to the top of the mountain like the others.

There, however, they discovered that the invitations had been sent as a trap by Darius, who had been attempting to gather everyone he had a grudge against in one spot. The waiters made the list due to allegedly “serving him the wrong drink over and over and over”. The substantially unhinged Darius, however, had not accounted for his assembled foes bringing weapons and generally outnumbering him. They easily overpowered him, and were about to go home when Dandy-432 discovered by pure chance that the treasure really existed. Another fight was about to start when an uncharacteristically mushy Pessimist-242 delivered a moving speech which convinced the treasure-seekers to temporairly put aside their differences and share the treasure equally. Amidst the hoard, Frederick and Tpxszum found a trei-mich, which they'd been missing, and a number of other trinkets with which to complete the Tavern's decor; Neezley, for his part, found a fetchingly weathered-looking sword which he took in order to lend verisimilitude to future tall tales. (PROSE: *The Frost King's Treasure*)

A year later, during the 2020 Christmas season, Frederick told Juliet-178, Jenny Everywhere and Arganthone-056 about his prior encounter with Tarsa while serving them a plate of baruga salad. (PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker*)

When the Tavern was temporarily invaded by the denizens of the Interdimensional Black Market (due to a prank by the Faction of the Fooling Fish), Tpxszum saved Frederick from being fed a cursed toadstool by the Toadstool Salesman and hypnotised by another one of the Black Market merchants. (PROSE: *Multiversal Mischief*)