RANDOMWARE KEEPER SPEC
Creation: creation_5aa2b2618605243642ddc50095bc7f7b
Name: The Lost Rental
Premise: An artwork becomes a forbidden VHS cover, a historical event supplies its backstory, and a Japanese holiday determines the rental penalty stamped onto the sleeve.
Player action: Press REWIND THE ARCHIVE, then adjust the tracking slider to reveal the reconstructed cassette jacket and its final rental verdict.
Style cartridge: 📼 VHS Jacket (vhs-jacket)
Style palette: sun-faded cyan, rental red, tracking white, magnetic-tape black
Style typography: oversized video-box display, catalog monospace, sticker labels
Style motion: tracking jitter, pause stripe, sleeve slide, rewind counter
Style era: 1980s–90s rental cassette package and worn playback deck
Style caution: Noise must be decorative only; never obscure content, controls, attribution, or errors.

Causal chain:
1. artic: The artwork supplies the cassette cover image, title, artist credit, and visual identity.
2. wiki-onthisday: The historical event becomes the film synopsis and determines the tape's dramatic classification.
3. nager-date: The holiday list selects the due-date stamp and computes the fictional late-fee rule.

API roles:
- artic: Provides the indispensable cover art and catalog identity for the recovered rental cassette. [artwork]
- wiki-onthisday: Provides the indispensable historical incident used as the tape's plot and content warning. [events]
- nager-date: Provides the indispensable Japanese holiday stamp that governs the rental due date and penalty. [holidays]

Dependency:
wiki-onthisday -> rules -> nager-date: The event year changes the tape's genre rating, which changes which holiday in the list is chosen as the stamped return date.

Interaction:
Controls: REWIND THE ARCHIVE button, tracking range slider, eject jacket button
Outcome: The sleeve slides open, the signed artwork appears, the synopsis locks in, and a holiday-based rental verdict is stamped across the jacket.

Visual direction:
Style: worn VHS rental jacket and playback deck
Palette: sun-faded cyan, rental red, tracking white, magnetic-tape black
Typography: oversized video-box lettering with catalog monospace labels
Motion: tracking jitter, sleeve slide, rewind counter, and stamp impact

Novelty delta: The APIs do not merely decorate a result; they sequentially construct the cover, narrative, and rental law of one impossible cassette.