Run: 2026-02-20-01KHXQ5HSKB006HFNA0ZESFX3D

Run Details

Model:: Mistral Large 3
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 28.7s
Cost:: $0.002926
Provider:: Mistral

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
89.32%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
9.19%	AI-ism word frequency	(details)
100.00%	Cliché density	(details)
100.00%	Emotion telling (show vs. tell)	(details)
100.00%	Filter word density	(details)
100.00%	Gibberish response detection	(details)
98.16%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
58.42%	Name drop frequency	(details)
60.71%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
0.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
96.71%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
0.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
100.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
42.23%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
41.67%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
16.25%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
23.81%	Technical jargon density	(details)
0.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
71.2155%	Overall

Model input

System

You are an expert fiction writer.

Always keep the following rules in mind:
- Write in past tense and use General English spelling, grammar, and colloquialisms/slang.
- Write in active voice
- Always follow the "show, don't tell" principle.
- Avoid adverbs and cliches and overused/commonly used phrases. Aim for fresh and original descriptions.
- Convey events and story through dialogue.
- Mix short, punchy sentences with long, descriptive ones. Drop fill words to add variety.
- Skip "he/she said said" dialogue tags and convey people's actions or face expressions through their speech
- Avoid mushy dialog and descriptions, have dialogue always continue the action, never stall or add unnecessary fluff. Vary the descriptions to not repeat yourself.
- Put dialogue on its own paragraph to separate scene and action.
- Reduce indicators of uncertainty like "trying" or "maybe"

When writing text:
- NEVER conclude the scene on your own, follow the beat instructions very closely.
- NEVER end with foreshadowing.
- NEVER write further than what I prompt you with.
- AVOID imagining possible endings, NEVER deviate from the instructions.
- STOP EARLY if the continuation contains what was required in the instructions. You do not need to fill out the full amount of words possible.

User/Human

Take into account the following glossary of characters/locations/items/lore... when writing your response:
<codex>
<character id="4412" name="Aurora Carter" aliases="Rory, Laila, Aurora, Carter, Malphora" pronouns="she/her" species="Human" storyRole="Protagonist">
  <eyeColor>bright blue</eyeColor>
  <hair>straight shoulder-length black</hair>
  <height>5'6"</height>
  <age>25</age>
  <scar>small crescent-shaped scar on her left wrist from a childhood accident</scar>
  <description>Aurora, referred to by her friends as Rory, is cool-headed, intelligent, and known for quick out-of-the-box thinking.</description>
  <backstory>Born in Cardiff to an Irish barrister father (Brendan Carter) and Welsh teacher mother (Jennifer Carter née Ellis), Rory reluctantly pursued Pre-Law at Cardiff University. She fled to London at the behest of her childhood friend Eva after leaving an abusive ex named Evan. By day, Rory works part-time as a delivery person for Yu-Fei Cheung's Golden Empress restaurant. She lives in a flat above Silas' bar.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4418" name="Nyx" aliases="Nyx, the Shadow, Nightwhisper" pronouns="they/them" species="Shade" storyRole="Wild Card">
  <eyeColor>faintly glowing violet</eyeColor>
  <height>approximately 6'2" in solid form</height>
  <age>ageless</age>
  <form>humanoid silhouette of living shadow, can shift between solid and incorporeal</form>
  <voice>sounds like a whisper carried on the wind</voice>
  <description>A being of living shadow, existing between the mortal plane and the spaces between realms.</description>
  <backstory>Nyx was once a human sorcerer named Aldric who became trapped between realms during a failed summoning ritual in 1643. They now exist as a Shade, bound to the mortal plane but able to slip between shadows.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="4424" name="Isolde Varga" aliases="Isolde, the Seer" pronouns="she/her" species="Half-Fae" storyRole="Oracle">
  <eyeColor>pale lavender</eyeColor>
  <hair>silver, reaching her waist</hair>
  <height>5'5"</height>
  <age>300 years old</age>
  <appearance>ethereal, ageless</appearance>
  <speech>speaks in riddles</speech>
  <footprints>leaves no footprints when she walks</footprints>
  <compulsion>cannot lie (Fae compulsion) but can mislead</compulsion>
  <description>A Half-Fae seer exiled from the Fae Courts for sharing visions with mortals.</description>
  <backstory>She now lives in a hidden grove in Richmond Park, offering cryptic prophecies to those who seek her out.</backstory>
</character>

<location id="853" name="Dymas (Gluttony)" aliases="Dymas, gluttony, Dymasian" realm="Hel" sin="Gluttony">
  <ruler>Prince Belphegor</ruler>
  <skyColor>warm amber</skyColor>
  <description>A place of excess and indulgence. Sprawling vineyards, orchards, and gardens provide exotic ingredients for master chefs — often helbound souls contracted from Earth. Grand feasts and culinary competitions are common.</description>
</location>

<location id="861" name="The Fae Grove" aliases="Isolde's grove, Richmond grove, the Grove" realm="Earth (Fae-touched)">
  <parkLocation>Richmond Park</parkLocation>
  <standingStones>ancient oak standing stones mark the boundary</standingStones>
  <timeBehavior>time moves differently — an hour inside can be minutes or days outside</timeBehavior>
  <flora>wildflowers bloom year-round</flora>
  <description>A hidden clearing that exists in a pocket between Earth and the Fae realm.</description>
</location>

<item id="2001" name="Heartstone Pendant" aliases="the pendant, Heartstone" type="Artifact" origin="Dymas">
  <gemstoneColor>deep crimson</gemstoneColor>
  <chainMaterial>silver chain</chainMaterial>
  <size>roughly the size of a thumbnail</size>
  <behavior>pulses faintly with warmth when near a Hel portal</behavior>
  <glow>faint inner glow</glow>
  <description>Given to Aurora by an unknown benefactor.</description>
</item>

<item id="2006" name="Fae-Forged Blade" aliases="the Fae blade, Isolde's gift" type="Weapon" origin="The Fae Courts">
  <material>moonsilver</material>
  <shape>slender, leaf-shaped dagger</shape>
  <temperature>always cold to the touch</temperature>
  <glow>faintly luminescent in moonlight</glow>
  <power>can cut through magical wards; particularly effective against demons</power>
  <givenTo>given to Aurora by Isolde as a gift</givenTo>
  <description>A weapon of the Fae Courts, rare and highly coveted.</description>
</item>

<lore id="7001" name="The Veil" aliases="the Veil, the Barrier, the Boundary" category="Cosmology">
  <solsticeEffect>weakens during the winter solstice, strengthens during the summer solstice</solsticeEffect>
  <appearance>faint shimmering distortion visible only to those with supernatural sight</appearance>
  <monitoring>rift points (tears in the Veil) are monitored by the Wardens</monitoring>
  <description>The Veil is the metaphysical barrier separating Earth from Hel and the Fae Realms.</description>
</lore>
</codex>

Continue the story using the following instructions:
<instructions>
Write a fully fleshed out scene of at least 1000 words in the fantasy genre.

A small group enters an ancient, otherworldly place for the first time. The environment is alien and wondrous. Describe their exploration — what they see, hear, and feel as they move deeper. Include moments of discovery, unease, and wonder. Let the world-building emerge through the characters' experience rather than exposition.

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

Model response

The Heartstone Pendant pulsed against Rory’s collarbone, a slow, insistent warmth like a second heartbeat. She adjusted the strap of her bag, fingers brushing the worn leather where the Fae blade lay hidden. The air smelled of damp earth and something older—ozone and crushed herbs.

Nyx materialized beside her, their violet glow flickering like a guttering candle. *"The stones remember us."*

Rory didn’t answer. She didn’t need to. The standing stones loomed ahead, their gnarled oaks twisted into arches that shouldn’t exist in Richmond Park. The bark shimmered, silvered under a sky that wasn’t quite dawn or dusk. Between the trunks, the world blurred, a heat-haze mirage that made her stomach clench.

Isolde stepped forward first, her silver hair catching the light like spun glass. She didn’t look back. "The Grove doesn’t welcome the hesitant."

Rory exhaled through her nose and followed.

The moment she crossed the threshold, the air thickened. It pressed against her skin, cool and electric, like stepping into a storm before the first drop of rain. The ground beneath her boots shifted—no longer dirt, but something softer, spongy, giving way with each step as if she walked on moss-covered bone. Wildflowers burst from the earth in impossible colors: indigo petals veined with gold, blooms that pulsed faintly, as if breathing.

Nyx’s form solidified, their edges sharpening. *"This place is hungry."*

Isolde’s laughter rang out, bright and brittle. "Everything is hungry, shadow. Even you."

A path wound ahead, lined with stones that hummed when Rory brushed them. The sound vibrated up her arm, a low thrum that settled in her teeth. She flexed her fingers. "What *are* these?"

"Teeth," Isolde said, crouching to touch one. "Or they were, once."

Rory’s pulse jumped. She didn’t ask whose.

The trees here weren’t trees. Not really. Their trunks twisted into spirals, bark peeling back in strips to reveal something smooth and pale beneath—like bone, like ivory. Leaves rustled without wind, whispering in a language that made her skull itch. The deeper they walked, the more the path narrowed, forcing them single-file. Rory’s shoulder brushed a hanging vine, and it recoiled, slithering back into the canopy with a sound like a hiss.

Nyx’s voice was a breath against her ear. *"It knows we’re here."*

Ahead, the path opened into a clearing. The sky above was wrong—too close, too vast, a swirl of lavender and bruise-purple that pulsed like a living thing. At its center hung a moon that wasn’t the moon, swollen and pocked with craters that shifted when she looked too long.

Isolde spread her arms. "Welcome to my home."

Rory’s boots sank into the grass. It wasn’t grass. The blades were too thick, too *wet*, glistening with something that wasn’t dew. She crouched, pressing her palm to the ground. The earth *moved*. Not like soil—like muscle, tensing beneath her touch.

Nyx’s shadow stretched long and thin across the clearing, their form flickering between solid and smoke. *"This place is a wound."*

Isolde’s smile didn’t reach her eyes. "A wound that breathes."

A sound cut through the silence—a chime, high and clear, like a struck crystal. Rory’s head snapped up. The standing stones at the edge of the clearing *sang*, their surfaces vibrating with the noise. The air shimmered, and for a heartbeat, she saw *through* them—to a forest that wasn’t this one, where the trees bled black sap and the sky burned crimson.

Then it was gone.

Nyx’s fingers—cold, solid—closed around her wrist. *"We’re not alone."*

Rory followed their gaze. Between the trees, something moved. Not an animal. Not a person. A *shape*, shifting in the undergrowth, its edges too sharp, too *wrong*. It darted behind a trunk, but not before she saw the glint of too many eyes.

Isolde’s voice was a blade. "Don’t run. It’ll chase."

Rory’s breath came fast. The pendant at her throat burned hotter. "What is it?"

"A memory," Isolde said. "Or a warning."

The thing in the trees hissed. The sound slithered into Rory’s ears, coiled around her spine. The ground beneath her feet *rippled*, the grass writhing like snakes. Nyx’s grip tightened. *"It’s testing the Veil."*

Isolde’s lavender eyes darkened. "Then let’s give it something to test."

She reached into the folds of her cloak and withdrew a knife—not the Fae blade, but something older, its edge serrated like a saw. She pressed the tip to her palm and drew blood. It welled dark, too dark, and when it hit the ground, the earth *screamed*.

The thing in the trees shrieked back.

Rory’s vision swam. The clearing twisted, the sky tilting, and for a heartbeat, she was falling—not down, but *sideways*, into the space between the trees where the air smelled of copper and something sweetly rotten.

Nyx yanked her back. *"Stay here."*

The ground steadied. The thing in the trees was gone. But the air still hummed, thick with the scent of ozone and old magic.

Isolde wiped her blade on her cloak. "It’ll be back."

Rory’s fingers found the Fae blade’s hilt. The metal was ice against her skin. "Then we don’t wait for it."

Isolde’s laugh was a silver bell. "Oh, little mortal. You have no idea what you’re asking for."

Nyx’s shadow pooled at Rory’s feet, their voice a whisper. *"She’s right. This place isn’t just a grove. It’s a *door*."*

Rory looked up at the wrong moon, at the trees that weren’t trees, at the path that led deeper into the dark. The pendant at her throat pulsed once, twice—like a heartbeat, like a warning.

She took a step forward.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	2
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	23
tagDensity	0.087
leniency	0.174
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

89.32%

AI-ism adverb frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked)

wordCount

936

totalAiIsmAdverbs

found

adverb	"really"
count	1

adverb	"sweetly"
count	1

highlights

0	"really"
1	"sweetly"

100.00%

AI-ism character names

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

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

100.00%

AI-ism location names

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

codexExemptions	(empty)
found	(empty)

9.19%

AI-ism word frequency

Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked)

wordCount

936

totalAiIsms

found

word	"pulsed"
count	4

word	"warmth"
count	1

word	"loomed"
count	1

word	"shimmered"
count	2

word	"stomach"
count	1

word	"electric"
count	1

word	"vibrated"
count	1

word	"pulse"
count	1

word	"glistening"
count	1

word	"silence"
count	1

word	"crystal"
count	1

word	"glint"
count	1

word	"whisper"
count	1

highlights

0	"pulsed"
1	"warmth"
2	"loomed"
3	"shimmered"
4	"stomach"
5	"electric"
6	"vibrated"
7	"pulse"
8	"glistening"
9	"silence"
10	"crystal"
11	"glint"
12	"whisper"

100.00%

Cliché density

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

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

100.00%

Emotion telling (show vs. tell)

Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling

emotionTells	0
narrationSentences	82
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	82
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words)

analyzedSentences	103
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	33
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

98.16%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans

markdownWords

totalWords

923

ratio

0.051

matches

0	"\"The stones remember us.\""
1	"\"This place is hungry.\""
2	"are"
3	"\"It knows we’re here.\""
4	"wet"
5	"moved"
6	"\"This place is a wound.\""
7	"sang"
8	"through"
9	"\"We’re not alone.\""
10	"shape"
11	"wrong"
12	"rippled"
13	"\"It’s testing the Veil.\""
14	"screamed"
15	"sideways"
16	"\"Stay here.\""
17	"\"She’s right. This place isn’t just a grove. It’s a *door"

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	7
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

58.42%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

819

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.83

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

2.5

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Heartstone	1
Pendant	1
Rory	15
Fae	3
Richmond	1
Park	1
Nyx	8
Isolde	10

persons

0	"Rory"
1	"Nyx"
2	"Isolde"

places

0	"Richmond"
1	"Park"

globalScore

0.584

windowScore

0.833

60.71%

Narrator intent-glossing

Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"quite dawn or dusk"
1	"as if breathing"

0.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words

totalMatches

per1kWords

2.167

wordCount

923

matches

0	"not the Fae blade, but something older, its edge serrated like a saw"
1	"not down, but sideways, into the space between the trees"

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	103
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

24.29

std

19.12

0.787

sampleLengths

0	45
1	16
2	51
3	23
4	7
5	72
6	10
7	13
8	34
9	11
10	7
11	72
12	12
13	49
14	8
15	41
16	21
17	10
18	62
19	4
20	9
21	43
22	9
23	14
24	7
25	34
26	11
27	48
28	7
29	35
30	6
31	24
32	10
33	20
34	17
35	21
36	35
37	5

96.71%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"was gone"
1	"was gone"

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount

totalVerbs

133

matches

0	"was falling"

0.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons

emDashCount

semicolonCount

flaggedSentences

totalSentences

103

ratio

0.107

matches

0	"The air smelled of damp earth and something older—ozone and crushed herbs."
1	"The ground beneath her boots shifted—no longer dirt, but something softer, spongy, giving way with each step as if she walked on moss-covered bone."
2	"Their trunks twisted into spirals, bark peeling back in strips to reveal something smooth and pale beneath—like bone, like ivory."
3	"The sky above was wrong—too close, too vast, a swirl of lavender and bruise-purple that pulsed like a living thing."
4	"Not like soil—like muscle, tensing beneath her touch."
5	"A sound cut through the silence—a chime, high and clear, like a struck crystal."
6	"The air shimmered, and for a heartbeat, she saw through them—to a forest that wasn’t this one, where the trees bled black sap and the sky burned crimson."
7	"Nyx’s fingers—cold, solid—closed around her wrist."
8	"She reached into the folds of her cloak and withdrew a knife—not the Fae blade, but something older, its edge serrated like a saw."
9	"The clearing twisted, the sky tilting, and for a heartbeat, she was falling—not down, but sideways, into the space between the trees where the air smelled of copper and something sweetly rotten."
10	"The pendant at her throat pulsed once, twice—like a heartbeat, like a warning."

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	832
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	25
adverbRatio	0.030048076923076924
lyAdverbCount	3
lyAdverbRatio	0.003605769230769231

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	103
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

103

mean

8.96

std

6.36

0.71

sampleLengths

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

42.23%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	8
diversityRatio	0.2524271844660194
totalSentences	103
uniqueOpeners	26

41.67%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Then it was gone."

ratio

0.013

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She adjusted the strap of"
1	"She didn’t need to."
2	"She didn’t look back."
3	"It pressed against her skin,"
4	"She flexed her fingers."
5	"She didn’t ask whose."
6	"Their trunks twisted into spirals,"
7	"It wasn’t grass."
8	"She crouched, pressing her palm"
9	"It darted behind a trunk,"
10	"She reached into the folds"
11	"She pressed the tip to"
12	"It welled dark, too dark,"
13	"She took a step forward."

ratio

0.175

16.25%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"The Heartstone Pendant pulsed against"
1	"She adjusted the strap of"
2	"The air smelled of damp"
3	"Nyx materialized beside her, their"
4	"Rory didn’t answer."
5	"She didn’t need to."
6	"The standing stones loomed ahead,"
7	"The bark shimmered, silvered under"
8	"Isolde stepped forward first, her"
9	"She didn’t look back."
10	"Rory exhaled through her nose"
11	"The moment she crossed the"
12	"It pressed against her skin,"
13	"The ground beneath her boots"
14	"Wildflowers burst from the earth"
15	"Nyx’s form solidified, their edges"
16	"Isolde’s laughter rang out, bright"
17	"A path wound ahead, lined"
18	"The sound vibrated up her"
19	"She flexed her fingers."

ratio

0.888

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	80
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

23.81%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The standing stones loomed ahead, their gnarled oaks twisted into arches that shouldn’t exist in Richmond Park."
1	"Between the trunks, the world blurred, a heat-haze mirage that made her stomach clench."
2	"The ground beneath her boots shifted—no longer dirt, but something softer, spongy, giving way with each step as if she walked on moss-covered bone."
3	"Wildflowers burst from the earth in impossible colors: indigo petals veined with gold, blooms that pulsed faintly, as if breathing."
4	"Leaves rustled without wind, whispering in a language that made her skull itch."
5	"The blades were too thick, too wet, glistening with something that wasn’t dew."

0.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags

uselessAdditionCount

matches

0	"Isolde said, crouching to touch one"

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	2
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	23
tagDensity	0.087
leniency	0.174
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

71.2155%