I wandered over to the former Foreman today, and he again mentioned how all he has is these mislabled boxes, and suddenly I have the answer.
The Furniture Thieves(Thief) Revealed!
Obviously, those boxes contain some powerful artifacts, as witness the magical "useless" crystal. (See Clarke's Law.) And it hasn't happened yet, but eventually the Chef will, among those boxes, find two things. One, a time machine. Two, a matter converter the Chef can use to turn objects into food.
But what to use in the converter? There are scrolls galore in the repository, but he'd get into trouble if he used those. There's scads of furniture, but it's all in use. But . . .
. . . the stolen furniture isn't being used (because it was stolen). When the Chef thinks of that, he'll realize he can -- in fact, already did -- steal the furniture from the recent past and bring it into what is for him the present, for us right now the near future. It's for a good cause, he'll figure, since he's doing it to feed everyone. And after all, he knows he wasn't caught because, well, the "thieves" weren't caught.
It only seemed there were multiple thieves because he kept popping into our time while our pets looked in the wrong direction or blinked (maybe he will also find a third item, for disguise/invisibility), all over the repository, so that at any given moment, there were several of him stealing racks and tables and such, while outside the repository the Foreman of that time was raging about all the thefts. If only he'd known!
What the Chef won't recall until too late, though, is that the thieving eventually came to a sudden halt. Perhaps he finally gets his food shipment and doesn't need to steal anymore . . . perhaps he gets caught . . . or perhaps by the time the food shows up, he has been Seduced by the Dark Side of the Force and takes up a life of time-traveling crime. Was the Foreman the one actually behind the theft of Coltzan's crown? Was he once stranded in Tyrannia until he could make repairs? (Remember the disguise ability.) But I don't think the Chef/Foreman will travel to the far future, steal a space station, and become Dr. Sloth.
Clearly, Frank Sloth is the real name of Ed.
Edited to fix a sentence structure mangled by partial rewrite.
hiddenneggs / Will
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"But then again, i think the main reason people invented civilization was to get together and complain about the wild animals eating them." --mousapelli
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