human
Generate a detailed description of a foreboding courtyard with a wooden blockhouse and a rampart.
assistant
Within the stockade's high log walls, bare soil has been trampled into firm pavement by thousands of booted feet. In the center of the square courtyard stands a squat wooden blockhouse, apparently constructed with neither windows nor doors. A steep, shallow stairway cut into the logs runs parallel to the wall, leading to a rampart above.