You can use the LOCATION verb to tell if you're in the right area or not.

Bandits sometimes take a bit to jump out and ambush you. If you're in the right area, you might want to wait a few seconds in each room (and keep an eye out for flickerings in the shadows)

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Fyonn's player

The Cairnfang is the part of the trail just outside Solhaven.

Remember the part of the spiel where the taskmasters talk about groups? In the case of bandits they really mean it.

While characters that set themselves up to do it can take on bandits solo, bandit tasks are really designed for groups and you'll be lucky to survive solo unless you have the right training/gear/tactics for them. Its just so much easier to survive being trussed up in a net for 15s if your partner has ewaved or trampled the bandits than if you have to lie there while they chop bits out of you.

I can do bandits solo, but I use the same tactics they do. Sort of like Mad Magazine's "Spy vs Spy" strips. :P

But yeah, they're a lot easier in a group.