human
Produce a detailed written description of a foreboding scene inside a building with scaffolding, loose timbers, planks, tools and a counter.
assistant
The Assay Office looks like a contractor's storeroom: scaffolding, loose timbers, planks, and tools lie everywhere, as carpenters and plasterers work away. Behind a tin-topped counter stands the assay clerk, who is adjusting the beam of the smallest of three graduated scales.