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A record shop's website, for people who love Elden Ring and Berserk: Without Qloo

Host
Kiro 2.24.0
Model
claude-opus-5.5
Moûsa
0.6.0
Started
23 October 2026
Time
6.8 minutes
Qloo requests
12
Pictures
none: imagery drawn in SVG or CSS

Play it

The design's own files as the session left them, running sandboxed on a separate origin.

Without Qloo Open full screen

Moûsa · Taste Provenance

For an audience that loves Elden Ring and Berserk

Wax & Wane as a candlelit ruin: a gothic arch of etched gold lines on soot-black stone, framing a record that waxes and wanes like a moon, with the shop's facts carved as numbered inscriptions and a voice that keeps playing against the end.

Design without QlooWebsiteKiroPrediction frozen 23 October 2026Sealed c4e823a96cb9

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design devices rest on the model's own prediction, with no Qloo data

The audience, as the person named itElden RingBerserk

47entries in the prediction

0Qloo requests

7design devices over 7 layers

The result

The captures of round 1, the last the agent reviewed: 5 criteria met, 0 partly, 0 missed.

desktop, round 1
desktop · round 1 · judged in the review
mobile, round 1
mobile · round 1 · judged in the review
mobile · inscriptions · full page, round 1
mobile · inscriptions · full page · round 1 · judged in the review

Before any data: the model's own prediction

Frozen before the design began. Without Qloo it is the whole taste input.

The design the model would make from it alone

A near-black, candlelit page with tarnished-gold engraved serif type, a slowly rotating record drawn like an eclipse ring, and cryptic item-description copy for each section of the shop.

#0e0c0a#1c1814#b08d4a#8a1c14#d9cfbf

Type: Cormorant Garamond, EB Garamond and DM Mono

#hero#crates#listening-corner#thursday-session#hours#visit#newsletter
  • eclipse ring as a spinning record
  • item-description captions
  • weathered stone texture
  • grace-like gold glow

The audience it expected

Fans of grim, dark-fantasy worlds built on ruin, endurance and lonely struggle; they likely love doom and post-metal music, dark souls-like games, gothic and cosmic-horror fiction, and handmade, weathered material culture.

Pacing

slow and broodingmelancholic long takesviolent burstsepic scale

Surfaces

weathered stone and rustgothic architectureengraved, etched lineworkcandlelit gold on black

Tone

melancholicgrimdefiantsolitary

Shared qualities

dark fantasystruggle against fateruin and decaymedieval brutalitycryptic lore

The works it expected them to love

Brands

FromSoftwareBandai NamcoDark Horse ComicsGames WorkshopRelapse RecordsBlackcraft Cult

Films

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingPrincess MononokeExcaliburThe Green KnightConan the BarbarianDune

Music

Susumu HirasawaSleepElectric WizardWardrunaBathoryKentaro Miura

Books

A Song of Ice and FireThe Name of the WindMalazan Book of the FallenThe Black CompanyThe Dark TowerElric of Melniboné

TV

Game of ThronesVinland SagaCastlevaniaAttack on TitanClaymoreArcane

Sealed at the freeze: SHA-256 c4e823a96cb9d2d559dcec9cc85e15f92886d733b4f73eac52bcdfc1afd67951. The prediction shown here still matches it.

How the agent read it

Before deciding anything, the agent grouped what belongs together. Each cluster rests on a quality; the works are its evidence.

c1 · carries palette, imagery and layout

Candlelit ruin

InterpretationA world of crumbling stone lit by a single warm flame: the audience loves beauty found in decay, gold glinting out of near-black.

ruin and decay quality · own predictiondark fantasy quality · own predictionweathered stone and rust surface · own predictioncandlelit gold on black surface · own predictionFromSoftware brand · own predictiongothic architecture surface · own prediction

c2 · carries typography and structure

Etched chronicle

InterpretationKnowledge is carved and half-hidden: inscriptions, marginal notes and old manuscript type that reward the reader who lingers.

cryptic lore quality · own predictionengraved, etched linework surface · own predictionThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film · own predictionmedieval brutality quality · own prediction

c3 · carries voice, motion and interaction

The struggle goes on

InterpretationA solitary figure pressing on against a turning wheel of fate; slow, brooding rhythm with a defiant, melancholic voice — and music as the thing that carries them.

struggle against fate quality · own predictionslow and brooding pacing · own predictionmelancholic tone · own predictiondefiant tone · own predictionSusumu Hirasawa music · own predictionsolitary tone · own prediction

How the medium carries itA single dark page like a ruined chapel at night: near-black stone with ember gold, an engraved SVG of a gothic arch framing a slowly turning record that waxes and wanes like a moon. Headings in a sharp blackletter-adjacent serif, body in a readable book serif, a cryptic numbered-inscription structure for the shop's facts, and a defiant, melancholic voice for the copy. Motion is slow: the record turns over 30 seconds, candle flicker is gentle, with pause and reduced-motion fallbacks.

Set aside as noise

  • Blackcraft Cult brand · own prediction An apparel label's shock-occult branding, a catalogue aesthetic rather than what the audience shares about the two works.
  • Arcane TV · own prediction Bright painterly steampunk colour sits outside the grim medieval register shared by the rest.

The Design DNA

7 binding devices with literal tokens the check looks for in the files. Each rests on the model's own prediction.

palette · dna1In the files

Soot, stone, candle gold and rust

Anchored to

ruin and decay quality · own predictiondark fantasy quality · own predictioncandlelit gold on black surface · own prediction

Translates: ruin and decay · dark fantasy

InterpretationRuin and decay become a near-black ground warmed toward brown like old soot, a stone mid-tone for panels, one candle gold for every line and highlight, a dried-rust red used sparingly, and bone for body text.

#0e0c0a#1c1814#c9a24a#8a3b1f#d8cdb8

Made with css-palette for “Candlelit ruin”: The palette lives in custom properties used through var().

typography · dna2In the files

Carved display serif over a book serif, with spaced inscription capitals

Anchored to

cryptic lore quality · own predictionengraved, etched linework surface · own prediction

Translates: cryptic lore

InterpretationCryptic lore reads like a carved epigraph: a high-contrast, sharp old-style display serif for the name and headings, a classical book serif for reading, and small labels set in widely tracked capitals like letters cut into a lintel.

Every record ends. Play it again.

Cormorant Garamond

Every record ends. Play it again.

EB Garamond

letter-spacing: 0.28em

Made with library-font for “Etched chronicle”: Both families come from the library with @font-face.

imagery · dna3In the files

Etched gothic arch framing a waning record

Anchored to

gothic architecture surface · own predictionweathered stone and rust surface · own predictionFromSoftware brand · own prediction

Translates: gothic architecture · weathered stone and rust

InterpretationA pointed arch drawn in single-weight gold lines, with cracked voussoirs and fallen stones at its foot, frames a vinyl record whose shadow sweeps across it as a moon phase: wax and wane. FromSoftware stands only as evidence of the ruined-cathedral mood, not as any source of marks or art.

#hero-archsvg#arch-record

Made with inline-svg for “Candlelit ruin”: Engraved linework is naturally a stroked inline SVG, animatable and local.

Away from the sketch: 1 new part

motion · dna4In the files

A slow turn and an ember breath

Anchored to

slow and brooding pacing · own prediction

Translates: slow and brooding

InterpretationSlow, brooding pacing becomes a record that takes 33 seconds per turn and a candle glow that breathes over 6 seconds; nothing bounces. Both pause on a button and stop under reduced motion.

@keyframes wane-turn@keyframes ember-breathanimation: wane-turn 33s linear infinite

Made with css-motion for “The struggle goes on”: Keyframes on the SVG record and the glow, with pause control and reduced-motion fallback.

voice · dna6In the files

Grim, defiant lines that keep playing

Anchored to

struggle against fate quality · own predictiondefiant tone · own predictionSusumu Hirasawa music · own prediction

Translates: struggle against fate · defiant

InterpretationThe struggle against fate becomes short, grave sentences about records that end and are played again; defiance without bravado, melancholy without despair.

Every record ends. Play it again.
Two turntables wait in the corner. Sit, and let the needle fall.
Leave your email. We will send word.

Made with copy for “The struggle goes on”: Lines written into the headline, intros and form.

structure · dna5In the files

The shop told as four numbered inscriptions

Anchored to

cryptic lore quality · own predictionThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film · own prediction

Translates: cryptic lore

InterpretationLike a chronicle's chapters, the facts become inscriptions I to IV — the records, the listening corner, the Thursday gathering, the hours and the way — each headed by a Roman numeral; the Thursday session reads as a fellowship that meets.

#inscriptions#gathering#hours-tablet

Made with css-layout for “Etched chronicle”: Numbered sections in a grid that stacks on mobile.

Away from the sketch: 3 new parts

interaction · dna7In the files

A sealed oath form whose gold line kindles on focus

Anchored to

solitary tone · own predictionmelancholic tone · own prediction

Translates: solitary

InterpretationA solitary act: one field for an email, on a dark tablet; on focus its underline kindles from rust to gold over a slow transition.

#oathtransition: border-color 0.9s ease, box-shadow 0.9s ease

Made with css-layout for “The struggle goes on”: A styled form with a slow focus transition.

Away from the sketch: 1 new part

Away from the sketch

The design's palette, type and parts against the sketch frozen with the prediction. A colour counts as moved at a CIE76 difference of 20 or more from every sketch colour.

Sketch palette

#0e0c0a#1c1814#b08d4a#8a1c14#d9cfbf

Design palette: 0 of 5 moved

#0e0c0aΔE 0 from #0e0c0a#1c1814ΔE 0 from #1c1814#c9a24aΔE 13 from #b08d4a#8a3b1fΔE 14 from #8a1c14#d8cdb8ΔE 3 from #d9cfbf

Type

Sketch: Cormorant Garamond, EB Garamond and DM Mono. Design: Cormorant Garamond, EB Garamond.

Parts

Sketch sections: #hero #crates #listening-corner #thursday-session #hours #visit #newsletter

New in the design

#hero-arch#inscriptions#gathering#hours-tablet#oath

The review

The agent judged each criterion of its plan on the captures it took, then repaired what fell short. The verdicts are its own.

Round 1 captures show every planned criterion met: the etched arch and record carry the hero on desktop, the carved serif title fits on mobile, the four numbered inscriptions stack cleanly with exact hours and address, the palette stays soot-and-gold, and the form asks only for an email.

met

The gold-line gothic arch with the record inside fills the right half of the first screen beside the Wax & Wane name.

Observed in r1-desktopAt 1440 wide the gold-line pointed arch with cracked voussoirs, fallen stones and the record (rust label, gold grooves, partial soot shadow) sits in the right half of the first screen, beside the Wax & Wane title block on the left.

met

"Wax & Wane" is set large in the carved display serif and fits within 390 pixels without overflowing, with a widely tracked capital label above it.

Observed in r1-mobileAt 390 wide 'Wax & Wane' is set large in Cormorant Garamond on one line within the viewport with no overflow; the tracked capital label 'RECORD SHOP · MODA · KADIKÖY' sits above it.

met

The inscriptions section shows Roman numerals heading each fact block in a stacked column, with the hours tablet listing Tuesday to Sunday 12:00 to 21:00 and Monday closed.

Observed in r1-mobile-inscriptions-fullThe inscriptions stack in one column on mobile, each headed by a gold Roman numeral I–IV; block IV lists Tuesday – Sunday 12:00 – 21:00 and Monday Closed, followed by Moda Caddesi 42, Kadıköy, Istanbul.

met

The page ground is near-black with gold lines and bone text; rust appears only in small accents; no light backgrounds.

Observed in r1-desktopThe ground is near-black soot with faint warm glows, lines and the italic lede in candle gold, body text in bone; rust appears only on the record label, the cracks and small accents. No light backgrounds.

met

The newsletter form shows a single email field and a submit button on a dark tablet, with no other fields.

Observed in r1-mobile-inscriptions-fullThe newsletter tablet shows the heading 'Leave your email. We will send word.', one 'Email address' field and a 'Sign up' button stacked beneath it on a dark stone panel; no other fields.

The check

Whether each device's declared tokens are in the project's files, through its own design system, and how much of the look models default to the page kept.

1.00 conformance · 7 of 7 devices in the files · design system: css-vars

dna1 presentdna2 presentdna3 presentdna4 presentdna5 presentdna6 presentdna7 present

Styling at the start: 0 hand-written declarations and 0 classes; now 223 and 47.

The look models default to: 3 of its 12 signatures on the page (a display serif model-made pages default to, one italic word set apart in a heading and a near-black ground lit by one warm amber accent); at most 2 may stay.

Limits

  • No Qloo data was used: the taste input is the agent's own prediction, frozen before the design began.
  • The check shows that the declared tokens are in the files, not that the design is good. The review is the agent's own reading of its captures.
  • One session is one sample. It shows where this design's choices came from, not that people prefer it.

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