The v1.0 ending (spoilers for a two-decade-old art project) reveals that O-Suzu was never saving her son. Actaeon had died on the first night. The entire ninja scroll chronicling her journey was her own invention—a narrative she wove from indigo and blood to cope. The final screen: Autonoe weeps, but the scroll keeps turning. Despite the official-sounding version number, Maman-s Ninja Scroll -v1.0- -Autonoe- has never been sold commercially. It exists as a freely distributed .zip file (size: 247 MB) on a now-defunct Geocities archive, mirrored on the Internet Archive as of 2019.
The scroll is incomplete. It contains only three techniques, each named after childhood memories: The Lullaby Reversal , The Indigo Veil , and The First Cut is the Deepest (Maternal) . Maman-s Ninja Scroll -v1.0- -Autonoe-
However, after her son—a low-level shinobi named Actaeon (the Autonoe reference made literal)—is sent to infiltrate the fortress of the shadowy “Kimura Devils” and fails to return, O-Suzu takes up his broken short sword and a one-page, half-burned ninja scroll he left behind. The v1
