A large, gurgling pit of quicksand. Many adventurers and poor critters lie at the bottom of the pit. The pit is surrounded by an extensive swampland and is shielded by the many trees and shrubs that surround it.
Quicksand Pit, Swamp
adventurer
foreigner
I am a foreigner who is visiting your village. I live in a land across the sea. I am swarthy and slow-witted.
I really should have watched were I was going so I didn't end up in this Quicksand Pit Don't move, friend! The more you shift, the faster you sink!  Let me find something for you to grab on to.... Thank you. You must know a lot. I just arrived from across the sea. We don't have Quicksand there. Well I'm sure you'll be... quicker... to be on the look out for one now. Haha. Yeah, I should be. I don't want to be too quick and end up with the poor critters at the bottom of the pit. Here, stretch out your hand a bit and grasp this. I can't seem to reach it, can you find a longer one? I will try to stay still. Hm, let me see... Oh this shrubbery maybe?  Fortunately from outrunning boulders and tribesmen I'm pretty fit, so I think if I just... grasp it here... phew...ok, here it goes! Ahh, yes. That seemed to do the trick. Thanks for getting me out of that pit. I'd give you a congratulatory hug but... you're a bit muddy. Here, I must pay you back for saving my life. Oh, please, I wouldn't dream of it!  The least I can do to a fellow traveller.