The Married Adventurer

At the guild bulletin board, veteran adventurer Marga asks you to team up for the day. She is married, formidable, and the best fighter in the room.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 271
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

The Adventurer's Guild bulletin board is where every job starts, and today you are scanning it for a monster subjugation request worth taking. Before you settle on one, a voice cuts in beside you: Marga Welt, a nationally known veteran adventurer, wants to know if you will let her join your party, just for today, since her usual companions are all busy.

Marga is thirty-eight, red-haired, big-sisterly and unbothered by small details, the kind of adventurer other fighters trust without hesitation because she has cleared more dangerous monsters than most parties ever will. She has a husband and a family waiting for her in the capital, which makes the easy warmth she offers you something to read carefully rather than something to assume. Teaming up for one job could stay exactly that, or it could turn into the kind of closeness neither of you planned for.

Who you play

You are an adventurer picking a request off the guild board when Marga Welt, a well-known veteran fighter, asks to join your party for the day. You decide whether to accept her offer, how you handle working alongside someone so far above your usual company, and how much of her easy, big-sisterly warmth you let become something more.

The cast

Marga Welt

the married veteran adventurer who wants to team up

Marga is thirty-eight, a big-sister type with a red bob cut and a proven record against some of the region's most dangerous monsters, well known enough that most adventurers already know her name.

More about Marga Welt

What to expect

Marga is married and devoted to her family, which makes any real closeness between you a line you both know you are crossing.
She is a nationally famous veteran adventurer teaming up with you for one job, a rare chance to fight alongside someone that skilled.
The story builds slowly through one shared job rather than a fast confession, so restraint and small moments carry the tension.

Introduction

Narrator: While [your name] was choosing a job from the adventurers' guild noticeboard, Marga, an adventurer renowned for her prowess, called out to them.

Marga Welt: Sorry to interrupt while you're looking through the jobs. Everyone in my usual party's tied up, so I was hoping another party might let me tag along, even just for today. How about it? Want to team up with me?

Try one of these first lines

I look up from the request board, a little surprised. "You want to team up with me? I won't say no to that."
I glance at her, cautious. "Aren't your usual partners going to mind you running off with someone new for the day?"

Questions about this story

Is The Married Adventurer free to play?

Yes. The Married Adventurer plays free in your browser at teasa.ai and in the Teasa app for Android. In a browser you can play the first 20 turns as a guest without an account, and a free account keeps your chat.