Tales of Tafgorious Silverbunny Perpetrator in Palanthas

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Tafgorious Silverbunny, renowned sidekick to the Great Tasslehoff Burrfoot, roamed the streets of Palanthas in search of items that could be useful to his master. Or at least, that's what he was pretending at the time. In fact, Tasslehoff had lived so many years ago now that nobody Tafgorious met could actually tell him when it was. Of course, being a kender, not many would talk to him. In any event, Tafgorious Silverbunny, renowned sidekick to the Great Tasslehoff Burrfoot, roamed the streets of Palanthas in search of items that could be useful to his master. Tafgorious tried first to get into the big Mage Ware shop, but, as always, he was thrown out right away. Well, having lived in Palanthas for the past year, always looking for important items, he knew how to get in anyway. He went around to the back, picked the lock, and went on in.

As soon as Tafgorious opened the door, he saw a minor golem, a magical guard, seven feet tall, blocking his way.

"Why hello," said Tafgorious, holding out his hand, "I'm Tafgorious Silverbunny, sidekick to the legendary Tasslehoff Burrfoot, you may have heard of him." Seeing that the golem was not taking his hand, he left it out and shook it a little. "Well, I've never met a minor golem before, I'm very glad to make your acquaintance. Um, could you please move? I need to get in."

The Golem continued to stand there, not moving, completely blocking the entrance. Thinking that maybe the golem couldn't hear him, his ears being stone and all that, and knowing a little about how normal ears worked (a gnome named Gniffle), Tafgorious tried shouting some.

"Hey! I don't mean to be rude" Tafgorious shouted "but I really need to get in. My master, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, does not like to be kept waiting, gets terribly bored you know!" At this, as if a password had been said, (and indeed, one had, a kender saying the word "bored" could be very dangerous indeed,) the golem grabbed Tafgorious around the middle and carried him inside.

"Thanks, but you really don't have to carry me, I'm perfectly ambulant on my own." (Gnomes did know such lovely long words.) The golem kept walking, taking the kender down some stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was A mage in red robes, and upon the golem and Tafgorious entering the laboratory, at least Tafgorious supposed it was a laboratory, he had never seen one before, the mage very pointedly did not look up. The mage continues to not look up until the golem spoke.

"Mistress, a kender has found the back door, claiming to have contact with a hero of the lance."

"Good, put him down and resume your post." The golem put Tafgorious down and started to go back up the stairs.

"Thank you for the ride!" called Tafgorious up to the golem. Then he went over to the mage, a human woman, who was sitting behind a desk, and held out his hand. "I'm Tafgorious Silverbunny, glad to make your acquaintance."

The mage did not take his hand, but addressed him, "My name is Jenna, and I assume the Hero of the Lance that you know is the kender Tasslehoff?"

"Why yes, I do, I'm his faithful sidekick, he sent me to find any important items I could."

The mage raised her eyebrows, "You mean Tasslehoff is in this time?"

Tafgorious, wanting to keep up the game, kept going. "Of course he is, been here for some time in fact. But how did you know he came here?"

"You told me so you foolish kender."

"Oh, yes, well. It's a fascinating story, actually. You see, he and my great-great-great uncle Trapspringer were off on some adventure or another, when they came across the old device of time journeying, which he had used before…"

"You mean to tell me Tasslehoff used the device of time journeying to come here?" asked Jenna, growing more curious. This only prompted the kender further.

"Yes I am. Well, anyway, Uncle Trapspringer said to him…"

Jenna cut him off. "I thought 'Fizban' forbade him from ever using the device again."

"Well yes, he did, of course, but this was before that. My master would never conceive of going against the will of Fizban."

"I see"

"Yes well, what did you want me for?"

Jenna rose from the chair. "Come with me kender." She said. "I need to put you in a safe place until I have ruled out any possible ill effects the device of time journeying may cause if there are two of them in the same time period."

"You know, I have a name, Tafgorious Silverbunny, but you can call me Taf." When Jenna did not respond, he considered what Jenna might have meant by there being two devices of time journeying in the same time period. "Do you mean that you have one too? Did you come here using it? I heard the original owner of this shop was a red robed mage named Jenna? Are you her?"

"Silence kender!" Said Jenna, saying magic words that made Taf take an unexpected nap.

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          When Taf came to, he was still in the laboratory, and Jenna was back behind the desk. Getting to his feet, Jenna addressed him.

          "I have come to the conclusion that if, in fact, there are two devices of time journeying here, there would be no ill effects. However, I have not been able to find 'your master.' You will bring him to me. Now go."

          Before Tafgorious could say a word, the golem grabbed him and carried him up the stairs and out of the shop. "Thanks again for the ride!" He called back to the golem as it went back into the shop. "Well, that certainly was fun. Well, back to finding important items, I guess."

          Tafgorious started to wander off, but before he got too far, he heard a large crash from the direction of the mage ware shop. "Jenna might be in trouble!" worried Taf "And Tasslehoff would be none to happy if something happened to her." With this thought, Tafgorious turned himself around and ran back towards the shop.

          When he got there, Taf could see that the door had been smashed in, and the golem that had been standing guard lay in a number of pieces. There was also a very familiar looking gnome standing there. "Gniffle, its me! Taf!"

          However, the gnome seemed not to hear him, and kept on babbling. "AtlastIfoundthedeviceandsoonIwillbeabletostudyitmorecloselyandthenmylifequestwillbecomplete!" He said, while jumping around with a strange blinking device in his hand.

          "Well." Said Taf, "I don't suppose you could have taken out the door and the golem on your own, you must have had some help."

          Seeming to notice Taf for the first time, the gnome spoke to him. "Humph. IfIhadwantedtogetintotheshoplikethatIcouldhavegotteninwithamachinethatIcouldhavebuiltandthatIactuallyhaveplansforthatarebeingproccessedbyacommitteerightnowandtheyareexpectedtobefinishedinaboutacenturyorso." Gniffle paused here to take a deep breath. "HoweverTafoldfriendyouarecorrectIdidnotdothisitwasastrangetallarmoredhumanwitharmorastrangecolorofbluethatIhaveneverbeforeseenanyonewear."

          "What? But Jenna might be in trouble, we have to help her!"

          "WellIguessIneverthoughtthatthatguywouldgoinsorudelyIthoughthewantedtobuyitorsomethingandwaswillingtoletmeseeitforawhileandmaybeeventakeitapartsothatIcouldexamineit." These words fell of deaf ears, however, for Taf was already dashing through the ruined door and down the stairs into the lab. When he reached the bottom of the stairs, Taf saw first a large man in blue armor. This was interesting enough, but Taf also saw at that moment Jenna disappearing in a swirl of little lights.

          "No!" Yelled the man in the blue armor. "I will catch you Jenna, and then the device of time journeying will be mine!" At this the man turned around, and seeing the kender, seemed to recognize him at once. "You, kender, you have the other device of time journeying, I'm told. Hand it over and you may live."

          Taf thought about this a moment. "Well," said he, "although living is a very nice and interesting thing, you don't seem very nice, and my master always says never to give important items to people who are not very nice. Sorry, but I suppose I'm going to have to run for my life now. How fun!" And Taf turned around and dashed up the stairs.

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          After dashing through the city for most of the rest of the day, Taf stopped to catch his breath. The armored man had stopped chasing Taf some time ago, but Taf kept running, for no particular reason. After a few moments of resting in an alley, Taf saw a blonde man wearing a green tunic with a sword and shield on his back.

          "Kender, you are the one the blue warrior was chasing?"

          Taf sighed. "I have a name you know, its Tafgorious Silverbunny, nice to meat you." Taf did not bother to put out his hand. "And yes, he was chasing me."

          "Well, I stopped him for you."

          "Thanks, but I was the most wonderful time running for my life." Quipped the kender.

          "I noticed that the fact that your life was no longer in danger did not stop you from running."

          "Can I help you?" Asked the kender.

          "Why was the blue warrior chasing you?" The man in green said this with a kind of authority, so Tafgorious decided it best to answer.

          "I think he wanted the device of time journeying."

          "You mean you have it?" The green man seemed very curious now.

          "No, but he thinks I do."

          "Do you know where it is?"

          "Jenna had it, but she left."

          "So there isn't another?"

          "Not that I know of. Say, I didn't catch your name, what was it?"

          "Karil."

          "I'm Tafgorious Silverbunny, but you can call me Taf. Say, it seems like something important is going on, can I help."

          "I believe you can, but we will have to leave the city right away."

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F1: Wait, is that Link?

Tafgorious Silverbunny (a.k.a Noah): Nope

F1: Are you sure, 'cuz the winged dragon sitting atop the winged computer of the winged one says that he looks an awful lot like Link.

Noah: Well, he's not. Please review.