Run: 2026-11-11-01M753NNNY9965GANJS3V2RN11

Run Details

Model:: Muse Ember (Reasoning, Max)
Test:: Bad Writing Habits
Scenario:: Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin
Duration:: 16.8s
Cost:: $0.003745
Provider:: Meta

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
100.00%	Adverbs in dialogue tags	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism adverb frequency	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism character names	(details)
100.00%	AI-ism location names	(details)
59.64%	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)
100.00%	Markdown formatting overuse	(details)
100.00%	Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)	(details)
66.67%	Name drop frequency	(details)
100.00%	Narrator intent-glossing	(details)
100.00%	"Not X but Y" pattern overuse	(details)
100.00%	Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)	(details)
100.00%	Paragraph length variance	(details)
100.00%	Passive voice overuse	(details)
100.00%	Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse	(details)
100.00%	Em-dash & semicolon overuse	(details)
100.00%	Purple prose (modifier overload)	(details)
100.00%	Repeated phrase echo	(details)
100.00%	Sentence length variance	(details)
75.46%	Sentence opener variety	(details)
0.00%	Adverb-first sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Pronoun-first sentence starts	(details)
26.67%	Subject-first sentence starts	(details)
0.00%	Subordinate conjunction sentence starts	(details)
100.00%	Technical jargon density	(details)
100.00%	Useless dialogue additions	(details)
100.00%	Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)	(details)
87.6146%	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

Nyx pushed a hand into shadow at the end of the alley and opened a tear that no daylight reached. The tear widened with a sound like cloth ripping inside a tunnel. Rory drew the leaf-shaped dagger from her coat and cut the shimmer at the edge. Moonsilver bit through the distortion and the opening parted. The blade stayed cold against her palm. The Heartstone thumped heat against her collarbone on its silver chain, a crimson stone the size of a thumbnail, and the pulse sped up with each step she took toward the tear.

"Move through before the edge seals behind us."

Rory stepped across the threshold and Dymas hit her in the chest. The sky burned amber overhead and a huge sun hung low enough to gild the clouds pink and gold. Warm air pressed against her skin with the smell of ripe fruit and hot earth and sugar. Red soil gave under her boots. Vine rows stretched ahead in lines that curved out of sight, trellises heavy with leaves and fruit, and somewhere in the distance metal clattered against metal and people shouted with open delight. Nyx unfolded to full height beside her, a humanoid silhouette of living shadow with violet eyes that glowed in the amber light, and the vine leaves brushed the top of their head.

"Sun's wrong," Rory said. "And the grapes are the size of plums."

Isolde came through the tear last with silver hair to her waist and pale lavender eyes fixed on the rows. She placed a boot on the red soil and the dirt showed no print from her sole. Rory looked down and saw her own prints and Nyx's prints already filling with dust. Isolde lifted her chin toward the vines.

"Plenty feeds the feeder."

Rory walked between the rows and ducked under a branch that sagged with black grapes. Each grape held a faint inner light and the leaves shone with a waxy green. A bee the size of her thumb crawled over a leaf and left a trail of gold dust. Rory reached out with her free hand and touched a leaf. The surface felt cool and damp and a drop of juice ran down her finger, sweet on the air. The crescent scar on her left wrist caught the amber light as she held the dagger clear of the fruit. Beyond the trellis, orchard trees bent under a weight of pears and plums and cherries, and the smell from that direction turned richer and thicker, like honey left in a hot kitchen.

"Don't eat from these rows," Rory said. "Not until we see who does."

Nyx thinned at the edges and slipped between two vines, their solid form turning to shadow and back again as they moved. Their voice reached Rory as wind through leaves, faint and close at once. "The trees change colour as we pass."

Rory watched one branch and picked out a cluster of green plums. She counted the turns of her head as she walked. Gold crept over the green skins where her gaze fell. A pear on the next tree swelled and yellowed and gave off a perfume so strong that her stomach clenched. She pressed her lips together and kept her hands full with the dagger and the pendant strap. The pendant pulsed faster now and heat spread down her sternum. In the garden beyond the orchard, long benches held bowls and kneading boards and steaming pots. Figures in stained aprons worked at the benches with ash-grey hands. One figure lifted a spoon, tasted, and nodded. Another shaped dough with hard slaps that echoed across the rows. They all faced the same direction, toward a pavilion hidden by trees, and their eyes shone with a hunger that no food reached.

Isolde stopped at the edge of the garden and raised a hand to halt them. The figures at the benches kept working and never looked at the newcomers.

"Guests taste first. Masters eat last. The price sits between."

A vine curled from the trellis and wrapped around Rory's ankle. The tendril tightened as she stepped. She pivoted and cut at it with the dagger, and the blade sliced through the stem with no resistance. Sap sprayed her boot and the vine recoiled. Nyx dropped lower and slid an arm of shadow under the next tendril that reached for Rory's wrist. The shadow arm held the vine back while Rory freed her ankle with a hard pull. The cut stem dripped juice onto the red soil and new shoots pushed out from the trellis within heartbeats, pale green and reaching.

"Right," Rory said. "We stay on the path we make."

She tore a strip from the hem of her delivery jacket, the Golden Empress logo still stitched at the pocket, and tied the strip to a low branch. She marked the turn where the row opened toward the garden. The knot held against the wind that moved through the leaves and carried the clatter of plates and a burst of laughter from the pavilion. Nyx watched the strip with violet eyes and then stretched a shadow across the soil behind them, a dark line that marked their trail in a place where the red earth swallowed footprints and gave them back changed.

A stream cut across the garden path, wide and fast, and the water ran the colour of dark wine. Small fish with silver scales leapt from the surface and fell back with soft splashes. A bridge of bound roots crossed the stream and the roots pulsed with sap under Rory's gaze. On the far bank, fruit trees stood in a tight grove and each tree bore three kinds of fruit at once, snow-white pears beside black cherries beside gold plums, and the branches shone under the amber sun. White flowers opened on the lilac bushes and closed again in the same breath. Birds with iridescent feathers circled the grove and dropped notes that sounded like spoons tapped on bowls.

"Roots grip stone where the water runs shallow," Nyx said.

Isolde pointed a finger at the bridge and the root bridge dipped and rose under the current.

"Cross hungry and arrive fed."

Rory pulled the jacket strip tighter around the branch and checked the knot twice. She shifted the dagger to her right hand and flexed the fingers of her left hand against the chill that still clung to the moonsilver. The pendant beat against her throat in time with her pulse and the heat of it warmed the silver chain. She stepped onto the first root of the bridge and pressed her boot down, and the living wood dipped under her weight and held.

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

100.00%

Adverbs in dialogue tags

Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs

totalTags	4
adverbTagCount	0
adverbTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	12
tagDensity	0.333
leniency	0.667
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

100.00%

AI-ism adverb frequency

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

wordCount	1115
totalAiIsmAdverbs	0
found	(empty)
highlights	(empty)

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)

59.64%

AI-ism word frequency

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

wordCount

1115

totalAiIsms

found

word	"pulse"
count	2

word	"weight"
count	2

word	"stomach"
count	1

word	"pulsed"
count	2

word	"echoed"
count	1

word	"chill"
count	1

highlights

0	"pulse"
1	"weight"
2	"stomach"
3	"pulsed"
4	"echoed"
5	"chill"

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	64
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Filter word density

Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words

filterCount	0
hedgeCount	0
narrationSentences	64
filterMatches	(empty)
hedgeMatches	(empty)

100.00%

Gibberish response detection

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

analyzedSentences	72
gibberishSentences	0
adjustedGibberishSentences	0
longSentenceCount	0
runOnParagraphCount	0
giantParagraphCount	0
wordSaladCount	0
repetitionLoopCount	0
controlTokenCount	0
repeatedSegmentCount	0
maxSentenceWordsSeen	38
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Markdown formatting overuse

Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting

markdownSpans	0
markdownWords	0
totalWords	1115
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks)

Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks

totalAttributions	4
unquotedAttributions	0
matches	(empty)

66.67%

Name drop frequency

Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words

totalMentions

wordCount

1044

uniqueNames

maxNameDensity

1.44

worstName

"Rory"

maxWindowNameDensity

worstWindowName

"Rory"

discoveredNames

Heartstone	1
Dymas	1
Isolde	4
Nyx	7
Rory	15
Golden	1
Empress	1

persons

0	"Heartstone"
1	"Dymas"
2	"Isolde"
3	"Nyx"
4	"Rory"

places

(empty)

globalScore

0.782

windowScore

0.667

100.00%

Narrator intent-glossing

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

analyzedSentences

glossingSentenceCount

matches

0	"sounded like spoons tapped on bowls"

100.00%

"Not X but Y" pattern overuse

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

totalMatches	0
per1kWords	0
wordCount	1115
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding)

Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses

thatCount	0
totalSentences	72
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Paragraph length variance

Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts

totalParagraphs

mean

55.75

std

49.28

0.884

sampleLengths

0	95
1	8
2	118
3	12
4	59
5	4
6	130
7	13
8	42
9	149
10	28
11	10
12	101
13	10
14	102
15	119
16	10
17	17
18	5
19	83

100.00%

Passive voice overuse

Target: ≤2% passive sentences

passiveCount	0
totalSentences	64
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse

Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs

pastProgressiveCount	0
totalVerbs	156
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Em-dash & semicolon overuse

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

emDashCount	0
semicolonCount	0
flaggedSentences	0
totalSentences	72
ratio	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Purple prose (modifier overload)

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

wordCount	1047
adjectiveStacks	0
stackExamples	(empty)
adverbCount	15
adverbRatio	0.014326647564469915
lyAdverbCount	0
lyAdverbRatio	0

100.00%

Repeated phrase echo

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

totalSentences	72
echoCount	0
echoWords	(empty)

100.00%

Sentence length variance

Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts

totalSentences

mean

15.49

std

7.93

0.512

sampleLengths

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

75.46%

Sentence opener variety

Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers

consecutiveRepeats	4
diversityRatio	0.4861111111111111
totalSentences	72
uniqueOpeners	35

0.00%

Adverb-first sentence starts

Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb

adverbCount	0
totalSentences	60
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

100.00%

Pronoun-first sentence starts

Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun

pronounCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"She placed a boot on"
1	"Their voice reached Rory as"
2	"She counted the turns of"
3	"She pressed her lips together"
4	"They all faced the same"
5	"She pivoted and cut at"
6	"She tore a strip from"
7	"She marked the turn where"
8	"She shifted the dagger to"
9	"She stepped onto the first"

ratio

0.167

26.67%

Subject-first sentence starts

Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject

subjectCount

totalSentences

matches

0	"Nyx pushed a hand into"
1	"The tear widened with a"
2	"Rory drew the leaf-shaped dagger"
3	"Moonsilver bit through the distortion"
4	"The blade stayed cold against"
5	"The Heartstone thumped heat against"
6	"Rory stepped across the threshold"
7	"The sky burned amber overhead"
8	"Vine rows stretched ahead in"
9	"Nyx unfolded to full height"
10	"Isolde came through the tear"
11	"She placed a boot on"
12	"Rory looked down and saw"
13	"Isolde lifted her chin toward"
14	"Rory walked between the rows"
15	"Each grape held a faint"
16	"A bee the size of"
17	"Rory reached out with her"
18	"The surface felt cool and"
19	"The crescent scar on her"

ratio

0.867

0.00%

Subordinate conjunction sentence starts

Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction

subConjCount	0
totalSentences	60
matches	(empty)
ratio	0

100.00%

Technical jargon density

Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns

analyzedSentences

technicalSentenceCount

matches

0	"The knot held against the wind that moved through the leaves and carried the clatter of plates and a burst of laughter from the pavilion."
1	"Nyx watched the strip with violet eyes and then stretched a shadow across the soil behind them, a dark line that marked their trail in a place where the red ear…"

100.00%

Useless dialogue additions

Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments

totalTags	4
uselessAdditionCount	0
matches	(empty)

100.00%

Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy)

Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags

totalTags	4
fancyCount	0
fancyTags	(empty)
dialogueSentences	12
tagDensity	0.333
leniency	0.667
rawRatio	0
effectiveRatio	0

87.6146%