Oh noooo!! Poor Alice has been captured by wicked Queen Melissa of Khabadami. She has the poor girl chained to The Beggars Steps and she will not release her until she has collected sufficient funds to pay for the running of CruxForums for January. Things are not looking good.
Oh noooo! The wicked Queen Melissa has told Alice that she is going to whip her to within 2.54 cm of her life because the thermometer is only up to 20% and she must try harder! Can anyone save our Alice?....wait....a carrier pigeon has just flown in from Moscow with news from ImageMaker that the thermometer has gone up by 10%. That was close....Alice has been let off her whipping for now.
Well, that was a close call on the whipping!
Meanwhile, the wicked Queen Melissa will not release Alice until she has collected sufficient funds to pay for the running of CruxForums for January 2021. Still chained to The Beggars Steps, Alice glances into her copper pot to observe how the level of donations is rising. Once January's funding is resolved, we are informed that Alice will be released to publish the first edition in PDF form of 'Alice Kiss - Crux Legend Vol 1', as a thank you gift to our generous members.
There have been PDFs and e-books before, which detail Alice's exploits as a character in a number of exciting crux stories, notably by Wragg. But this latest work is the first attempt to publish a volume about Alice as an erotic model, and as the inspiration for a large quantity of artwork and literature on this site. This is intended to be the first in a series of volumes compiled from the material presented in the 'Crux Legend' thread.
I am grateful to Melissa for her editorial accomplishment, wrestling my text and the illustrations into a presentation which is at once visually appealing and comprehensible. I know that she spent Christmas Day working on the project, because I persisted in making suggestions which she accommodated with considerable enthusiasm. Not only that, but she produced the cover design and the campaign poster.
Alice has featured regularly in Melissa's artwork over the past few years, and her inspiration remains effective, as can be seen in the new pictures. Melissa's latest manips present interpretations of the source material which are both original and familiar. No stranger to Khadabami, Alice appears again in the role of a slave girl, the source being derived from MPL's 'On The Edge', photographed by Alexander Lobanov.
A full review of Melissa's illustrations for the book cover and the campaign poster now appear in the 'Crux Legend' thread -
And if she does appear on this site, I hope the she understands that the work is an acknowledgement of her beauty and a fondness for her personality which shines through the camera lens. (Image hosted on external site)
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Melissa has undertaken a considerable quantity of work on this project, and in a short space of time, she has achieved results of consistently high quality. And now, even as I type this, she has just posted a new manip in this thread. Another review is pending, but suffice to say, Alice appears suitably imperilled, as a composite figure, the head deriving from a Valery Anzilov portrait, from the Crimean coastal series, 'Droplets on my Skin'. I will leave it to Melissa to identify the body double as well as the lovely actress portraying herself.
Well done, Melissa! I am confident that Alice fans will now be looking forward eagerly to the publication of the PDF!