Story Reader / Main Story / 31 Shaper's Ripples

All of the stories in Punishing: Gray Raven, for your reading pleasure. Will contain all the stories that can be found in the archive in-game, together with all affection stories.

31-1 Echoes of Nightmare

To them, the worst outcome of this battle would be no more than a hero's burial. Some would not walk alongside them into a world reborn from the ashes. It would be a victory paid for with sacrifice.

31-2 Caged Bird in the Court of Time

For the agent, is this where the final battle will unfold?

31-3 Golden Time Court

Like a jeweled palace in the clouds, majestic and radiant, it stands also as a tombstone for a glorious age, vast and desolate.

31-4 The Loom of Calamity

People who bear different burdens converge, stepping toward the tempest, one stride at a time.

31-5 Oblivion Butterfly

As comfort and promises turn to lies, embrace and touch become the sole means to comfort one another.

31-6 The Sunken City

She is the first Agent Zero, named by Dominik, who descended upon our time.

31-7 The Ark of Decay

All paths to resolution crumble, like drifting on an ark built of rotting wood amidst the flood of annihilation.

31-8 How can you "transform into a butterfly"?

By me.

31-9 Record: Descend

This is the birth record of another future Agent Zero and this world's Cradle.

31-10 Record: Rotting Wood

Unlike the other future, she has realized the value of the rotting wood and wields its fire to burn away her obstructions.

31-11 Record: Hero

The hero finds a raw, primal joy in their own destruction.

31-12 Record: Widower

The one who craved sacrifice most lived on—severed from the chains of time, a widower of an entire era, mourning countless unfulfilled ideals.

31-13 Record: Harvest

...Do not die.

31-14 Why do you "transform into a butterfly"?

For I am but decaying wood, yet I refuse to simply rot.

31-15 Lost in an Endless Dream

The Commandant of the Gray Raven dreamed of his own death.

31-16 Death Loop

It's nothing—just another tragedy like the one that befell Constellia.

31-17 Birth of Planets

In the eyes of the 'Gate,' Earth's civilization is but a flawed system ready to be reaped and reclaimed.

31-18 Until the sun rises.

Please... call my name, as I once did, over and over again.

31-19 Froggie and the Four-leaf Clover

The four-leaf clover may not bring miracles, but the quest to find it will surely lead to one.

31-20 A canal that leads to the Galaxy

How many more of these righteous deaths will it take before our wounds carve a canal to the Galaxy?

31-21 The Search for Tomorrow

If only one of us is destined to find tomorrow, I hope it is you.

31-22 Pyroath of the Long Night

For this alone, I will not yield!

31-23 What's "Transform into a Butterfly"?

You shall be cut and carved... until only life remains.

31-24 Slaughterhouse #5

Listen to me—Billy Pilgrim has broken free from the chains of time.

31-25 The Final Interview

I think the greatest, most frightening, and tragic form of hypocrisy in life is the truth that no one dares face—that humanity does not cherish life.

31-26 The Bridge Across Dreams

She came upon the bridge they had left behind.

31-27 Homecoming Butterfly

Before everything faded, she thought back to the beginning once more—not that of Agent Zero, but the one that belonged to Cradle.

31-28 Victim of Suicide Epidermic

The primary goal now is to sacrifice oneself for the sake of survival.

31-29 Shaper's Ripples

We have found the seed of miracles.

31-30 In the first light...

We'll let it end here.