human
Produce a detailed description of a dreary scene outside town with a catapult.
assistant
An aging heavy catapult lies abandoned at this junction in the courtyard, with only a broad, wooden frame and broken crossbeam to distinguish it as a siege engine. A junk pile near the outer rampart reveals the splintered catapult arm and its water-logged skeins, useless now, but at one time capable of raining death far beyond the barony's walls in the form of massive boulders or fiery concoctions.