Nice, finally some action pics for the summer camp! We are starting with one of my least favorite girls (i actually made a list and Mercedes is on 37th place out of 37 girls, mostly because she indeed looked very stupid), but she's still very pretty and seeing such a dumb bitch tortured is also quite satisfying. It's not exactly a crucification, but that's a good start! Looks like you have a lot of tools prepared for her and maybe the other girls from this hut.

I get why you don't want to make an alternate ending to the CDL story. Maybe i can change your mind, since i'm apparently not the only one who would like to see that i'll give it at least this one try.

Why do i want it? You have always ended your stories with snuff, no girl has ever survived your stories. I remember when i discovered your first thread, i read the first story, and my reaction was pretty much "nice, he actually followed through and killed a girl, that almost never happens". And then i read the 2nd story and the girl died again when i didn't even expect it. And when that happened for the third time i was finally ready to give up my caution and really expect the girls to die and to look forward to it, and you always delivered, some of it with great torture scenes! To change that in the one story that has been going on far longer than any other story and had the best torture scenes was something i didn't see coming, i had fantasized about how they might die pretty much from the beginning of that story, and my desire to see that happening is what made me comment on your thread in the first place when the old gurochan went to shit and you thought about giving up.

You bring up other authors. I might be wrong here, but i think famous authors are usually consistent about their endings: Either they have always happy endings, or they have always tragic endings, and a few authors do both. But i don't think there are many authors who did happy endings all the time and then made a tragic ending out of nowhere, especially not with their most anticipated work. When you read a story by an author you know, you always have an idea how it will end. If you don't like tragic endings, you only read authors who always have a happy ending, and the other way around.
There are some 3D artists i like who i would never ask to do a snuff ending, simply because they don't do that stuff. And if they ever changed that, i imagine some of their fans would be upset because most people don't like snuff.

I've seen other artists post different versions of their stories before, so it's not like nobody has ever done it. I've seen some hobby authors do "what if?" stories to make one or more alternate versions of their first story, and often that happened because somebody else commented with an interesting idea. And i'm pretty sure even some famous authors had different versions of their stories, they just usually don't publish them. And i don't think we need a version where the girls never try to escape, we just need Malcolm to get away and catch them again. What i would like to see would be an ending with just one final torture scene with Malcolm and all three girls, where he goes all out and does all the nasty stuff he didn't try before because it would kill them, and that can go on however long you like it until they finally die. I think you would enjoy doing such a scene, where the torturer is angry at the girls because they screwed up his plan and really just wants to see how much of his torture their bodies can take. I get that you don't want to do that right now when you just finished the story, and i'm really looking forward to the summer camp anyway, but i think doing such a scene eventually might be interesting for you too. And if you think about the girls in the way that they don't deserve such a fate: They are still fictional characters, and i think those great characters deserve that their story gets completed in the most satisfying way possible, and that means they get tortured to death.