Run 2026-02-17-01KHMPE4BNND0CZDWP85PZBRG7

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Model:: DeepSeek-V2 Chat
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Mystery: examining a crime scene
Duration:: 19.5s
Cost:: $0.001160
Provider:: Novita

Model input

System

You are an expert novelist with a gift for vivid, immersive prose. You write in tight third-person limited point of view with a strong narrative voice. Your prose is clean, precise, and engaging — you favor strong verbs, concrete details, and natural-sounding dialogue.

You will be given a story bible (codex) containing canonical details about characters, locations, items, and lore. Use these details to ground your writing in the established world. Stay consistent with the codex.

Write only the prose of the scene. Do not include titles, chapter headings, markdown formatting, or any commentary before or after the scene.

User/Human

<codex>
<character id="4416" name="Detective Harlow Quinn" aliases="Quinn, Detective Quinn, Harlow" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Antagonist">
  <eyeColor>brown</eyeColor>
  <hair>closely cropped salt-and-pepper</hair>
  <height>5'9"</height>
  <age>41</age>
  <jawline>sharp jaw</jawline>
  <watch>worn leather watch on her left wrist</watch>
  <bearing>military precision</bearing>
  <description>A Metropolitan Police detective with 18 years of decorated service who suspects the clique is involved in criminal activity.</description>
  <backstory>She lost her partner, DS Morris, during a case three years ago under unexplained circumstances that had supernatural origins she doesn't yet understand.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4414" name="Eva Kowalski" aliases="Eva, Evie" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Best Friend">
  <eyeColor>green</eyeColor>
  <hair>curly red</hair>
  <height>5'4"</height>
  <age>26</age>
  <glasses>round glasses</glasses>
  <satchel>worn leather satchel full of books</satchel>
  <freckles>freckled complexion</freckles>
  <nervousHabit>tucking hair behind her left ear</nervousHabit>
  <description>Aurora's childhood friend and an occult researcher.</description>
  <backstory>Moved to London two years before Aurora and works as a research assistant at the British Museum's restricted archives. She holds a master's degree in Ancient History from Oxford.</backstory>
</character>

<location id="856" name="The Veil Market" aliases="Veil Market, the Market, underground market" realm="Earth">
  <currentLocation>abandoned Tube station beneath Camden</currentLocation>
  <entryRequirement>bone token</entryRequirement>
  <schedule>moves locations every full moon</schedule>
  <description>A hidden supernatural black market that sells enchanted goods, banned alchemical substances, and information.</description>
</location>

<item id="2004" name="Veil Compass" aliases="the Compass, shadow compass" type="Tool" origin="The Veil Market">
  <casingMaterial>small brass compass</casingMaterial>
  <faceMarkings>face etched with protective sigils</faceMarkings>
  <needle>points toward the nearest supernatural rift or portal</needle>
  <patina>casing has a patina of verdigris</patina>
  <creator>crafted by a Shade artisan</creator>
  <description>A compass attuned to supernatural energy.</description>
</item>
</codex>

Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the mystery genre.

A detective arrives at a crime scene in an unusual location. Something is wrong — the evidence doesn't add up. A colleague is present, offering a different interpretation. Through careful observation and deduction, the detective begins to see what others have missed.

Use the codex entries above as your world reference for characters and setting.
Only include the prose of the scene without any markdown or commentary.

Model response

AI

The abandoned Tube station smelled of damp concrete and something metallic underneath—blood, maybe, or rust from the disused tracks. Detective Harlow Quinn stepped carefully over the threshold, her boots crunching on broken glass. The emergency lights flickered overhead, casting long shadows across the platform where the body lay.  

Eva Kowalski stood near the edge, her round glasses catching the dim light as she adjusted them with one finger. Her freckled face was pale, her green eyes wide behind the lenses. She clutched her worn leather satchel to her chest like a shield.  

"You shouldn't be here," Quinn said, voice clipped. She didn't look at Eva, scanning the scene instead. The victim—male, mid-thirties, dark hair—was sprawled unnaturally, limbs twisted as if he'd been dropped from a height. But there was nothing above him but the vaulted ceiling, its tiles cracked and peeling.  

"I was already here," Eva said, tucking a loose curl behind her ear. "Research. The Market moves tonight."  

Quinn's jaw tightened. The Veil Market. She'd heard whispers of it—dealers selling things that shouldn't exist, smugglers trading in the impossible. She'd never seen it herself, but Morris had. Before he died.  

She crouched beside the body. No visible wounds. No blood pooling beneath him. Just that unnatural angle to his neck, like his spine had been snapped clean. She checked his pockets—empty. No wallet, no phone. But something glinted near his collar. She tugged it free.  

A small brass compass, its casing weathered with verdigris. The needle spun lazily, not settling on north.  

Eva sucked in a breath. "That's a Veil Compass."  

Quinn turned it over. The face was etched with strange symbols—protective sigils, maybe. "What does it do?"  

"It points to rifts. Places where the barriers between worlds are thin." Eva hesitated. "He was looking for something. Or running from it."  

Quinn stood, pocketing the compass. "You're telling me he was killed by something that doesn't exist."  

Eva's fingers tightened around her satchel strap. "I'm telling you the evidence doesn't fit a normal crime scene. No weapon. No signs of struggle. Just a broken neck and a missing Market token."  

Quinn frowned. "Token?"  

"The bone token. You need one to get into the Veil. He should have had it on him."  

Quinn scanned the platform again. No token. No witnesses. Just the flickering lights and the distant drip of water. And the body, posed like a warning.  

She exhaled sharply. "You think something came through. Something that didn't want him talking."  

Eva nodded.  

Quinn's fingers brushed the worn leather of her watch. Morris had been investigating something like this. Something that left no trace.  

She looked at Eva. "Show me the Market."

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.0000%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	2
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)

33.3333%

AI-ism adverb frequency

Target: <1% AI-ism adverbs (57 tracked)

wordCount

450

totalAiIsmAdverbs

3

found

0

adverb	"carefully"
count	1

1

adverb	"lazily"
count	1

2

adverb	"sharply"
count	1

highlights

0	"carefully"
1	"lazily"
2	"sharply"

100.0000%

AI-ism character names

Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

100.0000%

AI-ism location names

Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each)

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

55.5556%

AI-ism word frequency

Target: <1% AI-ism words (140 tracked)

wordCount

450

totalAiIsms

2

found

0

word	"flickered"
count	1

1

word	"etched"
count	1

highlights

0	"flickered"
1	"etched"

100.0000%

Cliche density

Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window

totalCliches	0
maxInWindow	0
found	(empty)
highlights	(empty)

100.0000%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	44
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Filter word density

Target: ≤12% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount

1

hedgeCount

0

narrationSentences

44

filterMatches

0

"watch"

hedgeMatches

(empty)

100.0000%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤10% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	54
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

19

mean

23.32

std

14.39

cv

0.617

sampleLengths

0	48
1	44
2	49
3	18
4	32
5	45
6	17
7	9
8	17
9	23
10	16
11	33
12	3
13	18
14	26
15	14
16	2
17	21
18	8

87.8788%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤5% passive sentences

passiveCount

3

totalSentences

44

matches

0	"was sprawled been dropped"
1	"been snapped"
2	"was etched"

100.0000%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤10% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	59
matches	(empty)

100.0000%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking

wordCount	337
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	13
adverbRatio	0.03857566765578635
lyAdverbCount	4
lyAdverbRatio	0.011869436201780416

100.0000%

Repeated phrase echo

Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2)

totalSentences	54
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.0000%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

54

mean

8.2

std

5.48

cv

0.668

sampleLengths

0	19
1	14
2	15
3	20
4	12
5	12
6	8
7	9
8	17
9	15
10	13
11	5
12	3
13	3
14	15
15	8
16	3
17	5
18	3
19	5
20	14
21	4
22	4
23	6
24	4
25	9
26	8
27	5
28	4
29	4
30	9
31	4
32	14
33	9
34	5
35	11
36	7
37	26
38	2
39	1
40	18
41	5
42	2
43	2
44	10
45	7
46	3
47	11
48	2
49	9

65.4321%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	3
diversityRatio	0.42592592592592593
totalSentences	54
uniqueOpeners	23

0.0000%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤30% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags

2

fancyCount

2

fancyTags

0	"Quinn said, voice clipped (say, clip)"
1	"Eva said, tucking a loose curl behind her ear (say, tuck)"

84.8353%

Run: 2026-02-17-01KHMPE4BNND0CZDWP85PZBRG7

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