Squalid. You live in a leaky stable, a mud-floored hut just outside town, or a vermin-infested boarding house in the worst part of town. You have shelter from the elements, but you live in a desperate and violent Environment, in places rife with disease.
was foraging or hunting for food, They had an encounter with a trapped predatory beast. Instead of slaying it, they freed it. The freed beast then disappeared. Later, they were trapped by a falling log. The same beast reappeared, aiding and freeing them.