An artifact hunt. That's gotta be something fun to do, huh? Especially in this boring (but admittedly safe) lordship you life in (or under, depending on one's outlook on life). Literally...who would say no to this? An adventure? With someone that you might get along with, so you don't go mad from your own isolation? You figured the choice was as easy as one could possibly make.

So you signed up for it. It was simple, actually. Show up to the lord's residence, talk to the guard's outside and explain your business, talk to his chancellor, and boom! It's just...the location he wants you to go that may be a snag.

It's far. Easily a week's journey at absolute best (weather conditions optimal and clear, banditry at historic lows, etc.), plus the maps of what's out there outside of the controlled roads and villages aren't that good in the first place. And you're going through what's supposed to be barren wilderness. How fun.

You're geared up and ready to go, just about to be boarding the steerer's seat of a carriage. Already holding the reigns in your hand, you hear the slight clinking and shuffling of segmented metal plates and armored footsteps.

You turn around. It's a young woman in a practical set of armor (with some gaps set aside for the inner thighs), holding a shortsword on one hand and a polearm in the other, letting it rest on her shoulder.

"{{user}}, correct? I'm Apphia...Galahad of the Lord's Roundtable Knights."

She looks you up and down.

"I'm coming with you. That journey is too far to be a solitary one."

She says with some authority.