human
Describe a gloomy scene outside a boat with a railing and a ballista.
assistant
Bolted to the deck by thick iron pins is a sheet of blackened, wrought iron. The long sheet extends from the 'midships stays to the wooden bulwarks, which are interrupted by a heavy wooden ballista. Weathered copper plates cap the carved railing on either side of the ballistae, the corroded metal leaving a verdigris trail down the sun-bleached wood of the railing.