human
Produce a detailed written description of a foreboding scene outside a town port with a wooden building, doss-house, and door.
assistant
To the south looms a wooden building, painted a leering red. Its gaudy, golden window shutters are closed, but the door has been jammed open. Raucous screams of rage and pain and laughter, shouts for drink, and scraps of music flow unceasingly from inside the doss-house. Guards glance away self-consciously as they pass by, and merchants perceptibly quicken their pace on the road northeast or west.