human
Please generate a detailed written description of a dreary scene outside a boat barge with a barrel and a gangplank.
assistant
Flat and sleek, the barge has no room for crew quarters and a small depression in the deck that suffices as its hold. It sits low in the water, weighed down by crates and a reinforced ironwood barrel so heavy that it sets the deck at an uncomfortable cant. Faint, sickly green light seeps from between the slats of the barrel. Sagging and warped, a gangplank leads down to the bordering dock.