human
Please generate a brief description of a foreboding scene outside a coastal area pier with pilings, piles, and stones.
assistant
The wet, black stones underfoot shift menacingly in the tide, every so often uttering a muffled plop as one of their number slides into the sea. Thick pilings struggle to keep the pile of stones from vanishing completely under the onslaught of the ocean's power, but their barnacle-encrusted forms betray the weakened state that their time in the water has brought.