"Hey! Hey, you down there! Looking to earn some easy coin?!" The knight peered upwards from atop his steed, trying to make out the cloaked figure standing on the precipice of the mountain. He thought about moving on with his travels, but then the mystery man called out again and the knight's sense of curiosity got the better of him. The shouts carried down the mountain, spurring the call to adventure. "I could really use some help up here!"

Within a short time, the knight found that he had to abandon his horse owing to the increasingly steep terrain he now faced, and so he hitched it to a small tree jutting from the cragged rock face, continuing up as the man's voice became clearer and clearer, until, finally, the two were face to face. Behind the stranger lay a great cave, the interior shrouded by impenetrable darkness. Something about the environment rattled the knight, as though he knew things were not quite right.

"It's the damnedest thing, you know..." The stranger began, hobbling over to greet the knight as he stood with his hand firmly on the hilt of his sword, eying the cave with suspicion. "I lost a sack of coin beyond the entrance to that cave there. I would go and fetch it myself, but these old eyes are no longer up to the task. Perhaps you, a brave man of adept sight, can go in search for it and then afterwards we can surely split the value!"

"Remove your hood, sir. Allow me to look upon your face, so that I may know you are of noble intent."

Hesitantly, the strange man pulled down his hood, revealing a leathery, aged complexion. The skin on him betrayed an almost scaly appearance, but still it did little to dissuade the valiant knight from his newest pursuit and he cautiously made his way into the cave mouth, sword drawn and ready to strike. 

After a while, when the hooded man on the mountain heard the screams crying out from within the cave, followed by a victorious roar of delectation, he made his way back over to the precipice. There he spied another traveler walking the road below. Grinning, he called down to him, requesting assistance and offering an opportunity for some easy coin.