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Updates!

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:23:00 +0000

Sorry for the delay, RL has being rather hectic this past month and has made getting posts out rather difficult.

So to start..

New Releases

There has been quite a few new products since my last post, so ordered by store..

Marines Goodies
- Cloak of the Initiate - A fancy cloak with lots of settings, some RLV, and compatible with most bondage poses included in RR restraints, to help you go out in public all trussed up with no one around you the wiser! Should fit most bodies without issue.

Get it from any of the Marine's Goodies vendors in-world for 600 linden!

Restrained Freedom

- Prayer Jacket - What appears to be a jacket using the subsuits mesh as a base, forcing the arms into a tight reverse prayer position! Otherwise standard RF fare, single pose. WARNING: Is not made for maitreya or any other mesh bodies, and will possibly have issues fitting them. No Demo exists either. (bad practise!)

Buyable online or in-world - 375 linden

- KDC Warden jacket converter - A kit that replaces the scripts in your KDC jacket to be compatible with the RF multicuffs. Costs 200 linden, at the above locations.

Kyrah Design Concept

- Ayumi Boots - The ballet boots I first posted about awhile back are out! Have been for awhile, apologies for not mentioning them sooner! They appear to fit maitreya, the base SL body and Avatar 2.0, and there is a demo for those that want to test first (sensible!)

Buyable online or in-world - 699 linden

New Gate Workshop

- Gimp Hood - A fancy hood of smooth latex with one defining feature, a mouth! Quite an interesting look. Its mod, so if you like it and dislike the base scripts, it is possible to put others in. WARNING: The pictures with the blue background used to advertise NGW products are NOT in world, they are taken from blender and as such might not be accurate to how they will look in secondlife itself. (bad practise there, very bad! That's why I'm not putting it on this post.)

Buyable online for 520 linden, or in-world for 490

Updates

RLV

RLV was updated to 2.9.21.3! Mostly bug fixes, it also changes the location of the cache to its own dedicated RLV one as opposed to sharing the base secondlife one.

Real Restraint

- Gag update - More fixes for the 1.30 gags, as well as a new silent feature to allow the gags to be worn with gags/garblers from other stores. It also fixed the openmouth plugin to be no copy instead of no transfer (which is why the gags need to be rezzed on the ground)

The deluxe gag had a bug with chin strap that required a fix. This requires the gag to be rezzed on the ground to fix, while the two overhauled gags (ball and ring) had an issue communicating with the Happy Spanker product.

IMPORTANT: These hotfixes are available at Dark Wishes only! Get the update sphere from the orb, rez it on the ground, rez your gag on the ground next to it (turn on show hidden as well, ctrl+alt+t), go into your gags menu as always and hit update. No need to replace.

Well, no need to replace unless we include the deluxe bridle into the equation. At that point you rather have to replace, or take the script Marine included in the update folder and place it in the chin strap of said bridle in place of the one already there. Down to you if you prefer swapping or resizing!

Maison De La Marquise

- Update to all clothing products - The bodysuits and catsuits got a new neck piece that better fits Lelutka bento heads! The glove/stocking sets got new boots to better swap between opaque and transparent modes.

Kyrah Design Concept

- Bento updates - Exactly what it sounds like! The stuffed ballgag and all ponyplay pieces now use bento animations, providing you have a compatible head.

Upcoming

Kyrah Design Concept

- Muzzle - A new product from KDC is in the works! It appears to be a dog muzzle with a latticework design, and could be quite fun for petplay users. KDC stuff tends to be mod, so it should also be resizable to fit over snouts and other such petplay gear.

Seen something missing from this post, be it upcoming products, updates or new releases? Let me know!

Artist Spotlight

The Spotlight this time is.. PogueInPink, Lana! Pogue is Lanas slave, and is averse to pink, hence the username, for those confused. Lana is also mostly a sub in her own right, so don't go chasing her expecting a domme, you won't find one!

Lana tends to focus on high quality pictures, and runs a group on DA - SL-bondage-art - That specifically caters to this. No low quality, badly lit heavily aliased pics allowed here, only quality, and it pays off with some delicious pieces.

Lanas art itself uses minimal editing beyond cropping or combining. The image included here is Lana herself as all four dolls! In fact shes so averse to editing that she actually made static chains in SL as she found that easier than editing some in via postwork.

Check out her other word over at her Deviantart Gallery!

ROMP fetish fair!

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Sun, 14 May 2017 10:02:00 +0000

I'm a little late reporting this one! Right now, the ROMP Elegant Kink fair is on! Quite a lot of toys and outfits up for sale from a large variety of stores!

Check it out over Here!

RR Vixen Cuffset major update!

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Thu, 11 May 2017 13:32:00 +0000

Probably one of the most popular cuffsets in SL by this point, you see them all over, which is impressive given that until now they were still sculptie and could be a nightmare to fit!

Well, that's not a problem anymore. Today, marine released an update to the cuffset and overhauled them into lovely meshy goodness! Each collar (simple, classy, post med and post high) are now one mesh object each, meaning resizing is a cinch, no needing to struggle to select every tiny little rivet and piece one by one.

But Marine is never one to just stop there. The cuffs now support materials textures, and go beyond leather, so you'll find the items themselves no longer have leather in the name, instead all now have vixen, which makes searching for them in the inventory much faster.

So now you can turn them into all sorts of things! Leather, latex, rubber, clear plastic, and more. There's also an experiment in there to adjust the materials shine colour to not just be white on everything and instead try for a more natural look. Marine is watching for feedback on this change, and will revert it if its disliked, or add it to other restraints if its received well, so make sure to experiment! Alongside this is also the option to use certain 'patterns' of sorts, which include dirty, which emphasises the shadows and makes the cuffs look a bit mucky, clean, which has shadows, plain which has none and the option to add writing.

Don't worry if you don't have materials though, there's options for baked textures in there still as well.

It also includes the upcoming 1.30 update, which has a variety of nice changes. In regards to the cuffs, some leash changes have been added that will be very useful. First and foremost, suspension is now possible without bouncing up and down like a yo yo on steroids! Also in regards to the leash, if you TP more than 96 meters away from your captive while in the same sim, they will no longer comically rocket through the air towards you, possibly getting trapped on the outside of skyboxes or on walls.

For the arms, they got several more poses for the hands back lock for use via the anim plugin or hud, always nice to have more options. The legs got some adjustments to the hogtie, using poses from the siren ropes, as well as an additional option, so we can now be hogtied with the spreader bar, simply hogtied, or put into the super tight hogtie as well. More options! For the collar, its now on the neck by default.

You can grab the update from any of the below locations

Marines Little Shop
Chorazin's Shop
Roper's Dark Playground
Dark Wishes

And can get more info on the update and other stuff at Marines blog Here!

In Other news

Events continue over at Estate Obscure, with the following (quoted!) coming this week

May 13th ~ Lady Sin aka Dr Philis! :) The Doctor will see you NOW! She's wise and endearing and she knows a thing or twenty about *coughs* blonde handfuls! She speaks the language of kink all Oxford dictionary in da streets and Urban Dictionary in the sheets :) , what you may not know is, EO used to have wonderful discussions with a Male Dom named Kwatsu, he taught and shared what is called "Sourcing" D/s can be very Spiritual! So Lady Sin will be Conjunction Junction, doin a discussion, I'll get more details, but maybe this opens the door to more discussions, be it kinky or deeper topics, wanna get involved , be a Teacher. share your experience, wisdom, pay it forward! Let's do it together, this is gonna be a great talk, trust me, Lady Sin is talented and really great at scolding and spanking! I know, so come and enjoy what I hope is the 1st of many great talks a comin.

If you're looking for something to do this Saturday, check it out over Here!

Restrained Freedom continues to be updated and built at its new location, with more stuff added seemingly every day, so that's worth checking out. the Asylum was looking pretty good last time I took a peek. You can find them in world Here

The new boots being worked on by Kyrah are coming along nicely, and have had some inworld tests, which you might have seen if you happened to be in Delust recently. As always you can find her store in world at Dead Realm or on her marketplace.

Artist Spotlight - Danna Pearl

This weeks spotlight is on the nommable Danna Pearl!

Danna has a gallery over on DA, where you'll find a variety of kinky pictures, animations and more. Her pictures nearly always have descriptions that really add to the image, giving her thoughts on it, the feelings that might have been felt at the time, and more. Well worth reading and thinking about!

However that's not all, she also has her own little store on the marketplace where you can buy something called Sublisten, a hud that works very well for petplay. It affects what the person can hear in local chat, as well as lets them learn words, as well as has a predefined list which comes as standard. The owner can affect the difficulty of learning, the word list and how much the sub can actually have learned at any one time as well!

See her at deviantart Here!
Check otu SubListen Here!

Image sources:
Cuff images taken from Marines blog.
Sublisten HUD image taken from Dannas store.
All other images taken by me using the updated cuffset.

Upcoming events at Estate Obscure

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Fri, 05 May 2017 12:23:00 +0000

Not as much news passing my desk as I had hoped, but the lovely Pet, who probably needs a good spanking right now passed this along to me earlier! Below is a schedule of upcoming events over at Estate Obscure.

Note: this is copy and pasted from a notecard given to me in world and is not my own writing, nor should be taken as such.Some minor editing is all I contributed.

"May 6th, at 1pm slt ~ The Pink "fuckin" Vampire! There's a lot of live performers in SL, amazing voices, and then there's Pink Vampire, trust me, she's Marylin Monroe meets naughty! The real Marylin, died from a drugged enema, the Pink Vampire will capture your heart with her sultry, sweet voice. "Smitten & bitten" Trust me, you do not wanna miss this, bring someone you love, a friend, Family and just enjoy.

May 13th ~ Lady Sin aka Dr Philis! :) The Doctor will see you NOW! She's wise and endearing and she knows a thing or twenty about *coughs* blonde handfuls! She speaks the language of kink all Oxford dictionary in da streets and Urban Dictionary in the sheets :) , what you may not know is, EO used to have wonderful discussions with a Male Dom named Kwatsu, he taught and shared what is called "Sourcing" D/s can be very Spiritual! So Lady Sin will be Conjunction Junction, doin a discussion, I'll get more details, but maybe this opens the door to more discussions, be it kinky or deeper topics, wanna get involved , be a Teacher. share your experience, wisdom, pay it forward! Let's do it together, this is gonna be a great talk, trust me, Lady Sin is talented and really great at scolding and spanking! I know, so come and enjoy what I hope is the 1st of many great talks a comin.

Game Night ~ May 20th "Cards against humanity" This is a rather dainty game, in a gasoline panties wearing xxxpressway do not pass go, collect punishment as you go down, for a Sunday walk in the park NOT! This is where we find out who's sick... Like an Asteroid collision course of kink landing on a Nun... It's a freaky game. It's okay... Cause the person next to you, is probable sicker and freakier then you :) Now, come and cleanse yur brain, and let's bleach brains and bleach eyeballs! on a sidenote, also my purrrrfect 10 rezzzzz day! spank me if ya dare.

May 27th! Summer is coming, it's getting so HOT! we gotta call out your DJ Lady Sin , She'll whip the music, She'll get the glory! WHOLE lotta shakin going on, She goes down, get's down , bring some friends, bring some Family :)

Any questions, comments, ideas, suggestions? IM or notecard them to me please Pet (diaperedpet.jewell) ...I do hope you read this, let me know if you did!!

Petalpuss ~~ "

So yeah, every saturday for the resy of the month theres something going on over at Estate Obscure. Check it out if you're free, or hell if you're trussed up tight, you can still hop over there I'm sure.

Highlights - 19/04/2017

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 06:29:00 +0000

I've not yet decided how frequently I'll do these, but here's the next post!

Restrained Freedom moves to a new sim

RF, run by Katie Paine, has now moved to a new sim. This of course means your old landmarks won't

work anymore, but I've linked to the location below for those that need to grab it! Otherwise, you can always find it in search, from the group notice for a limited time, or from the support group.

The new sim should be far less laggy, and a different build. Its still under construction, but some areas are functional, and the asylum, a highlight of the old location, is under construction with a new building and layout.

RFs new location

NGW releases

Naraya, owner of New Gate Workshop, recently put out a new posture collar, as well as a pair of 'gloves.' These gloves are a tad unusual, more like mittens, long mittens, with rather a wide ring the sub is forced to hold, for the enjoyment of those of the male persuasion, while the other option has the hand in a tight fist with a nice, large toy of an intimate nature for those that like the idea of been niiiiice and full.

To my knowledge, the NGW collar functions as you'd expect, and includes the options to hold the head stiffly. It has the NGW HUD, inspired by the one used by KaS, for recolouring and altering its appearance, but otherwise I believe uses Opencollar scripts, or derivatives of them. They're functional, but the selling point here is clearly the design. Naraya makes very nice looking gear!

Visit her store here

RR Gag Hotfixes

There was a couple bugs with the 1.30 update to the gags released last week. These updates affect all bar the hood. The mummy and tape had a visual issue when using total, and require you to rather edit the names of them (details here - https://realrestraint.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/another-hotfix-for-rr-mummy-and-tape.html ) or request a replacement from any of Marines updaters.

The other update affects the openmouth plugin. You can do a soft update for these (just clicking update, not replace) currently only at the Dark Wishes updater. Alternatively, you can go to your debug settings and locate "RevokePermsOnStopAnimations." This bug was caused by the gags only asking for permission to animate once, and would require a reset to animate again. Updating the gag is a good idea, but the debug option can be buggy and might be worth disabling anyway.

Get the updates at the following location
My Little Shop
Chorazin's Shop
Roper's Dark Playground
Dark Wishes

Artist Spotlight - Shay Finchy

Shay Finchy posts to a gallery over on Deviantart. Her updates are not too frequent, but tend to of high quality, making good use of lighting and effects. And yes, I quite often appear in her gallery, so this is a bit of a personal plug as well!

In her gallery you'll find primarily latex and bondage, as well as lots of mummification. The bondage is usually quite strict or all encompassing, and often with some context given to the image in its description. She does minimal editing, if any as well, so the majority are raws straight from secondlife.

She also contributed the pictures used for the RF section of this post!

Visit her here and leave her some comments and feedback!

See something wrong or incorrect, or just want to let me know about an event, release or something else, then contact me in world!

Picture sources -
RFs new sim in SL, taken by Shay Finchy
NGWs adverts on their marketplace store
"Big" Ring gag from Marines blog
Tunnel Wraps by Shay Finchy

BDSM Highlights - 12/04/2017

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:44:00 +0000

Yes! The blogs still getting a lot of views, so why leave them with nothing new? So as of today we are beginning something new - a news roundup of sorts. What all will be in these posts? Well, new releases, updates to RLV and products, spotlights, and all sorts of other stuff!

And so onto the news!

RR Gags updated for Bento!

Today, Marine Kelley updated all the RR gags to support bento heads! This is more than just a simple mouth opening though. Each lock of her gags has custom animations, and her old Ball gag and Ring

gag? They have been completely remade in mesh, with new settings. Want an apple sized ball gag? That exists now! It also adds bit gag and the ability to shove a nice far, extra large dildo in yours or others mouths.

It does require some setup through a plugin. To summarise, you need to select your head from the plugins menu, and whether you want wide, normal or narrow. There's a lot more to it than that of course, best read about over on Marines post about it - https://realrestraint.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/update-to-rr-gags.html

This update applies to the ball gag, ring gag, deluxe gag, isolation hood, mummy gag and tape gag. All require replacements, so I'm afraid you'll need to do some refitting.

I highly recommend getting this update, especially if you own a bento head! The bento animations are delicious, and the new ball and ring sizes, and now mesh, add a ton of value to those older gags! Gogo, update and nom those gags!

Visit here to purchase and update - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pak/76/61/105

Restrained Freedom Sock Legbinder

Another in Katies recent sock bondage line. Designed to match the gag and sock armbinder she released previously. Like Katies other leg bondage items, it has a variety of poses, as well as the ability to fall down if you hop around too much.

I've not personally used any of the sock products, so I can't attest to their quality, but if you have them and wanted more, here you go! Its not fitted to a particular body, so your milage may vary based on whetehr you use the base body or a mesh one.

You can get it in world at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/55/192/501
At this time, its not on the RF marketplace, but here is the link: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/21713

Note that RF is moving to a new sim soon!

KDC boot update

Over on Kyrahs blog - http://kdc.ethernia.net/ - we have been getting regular updates on her new product, a pair of thigh length boots! As of now, we know these will support the base SL avatar and Avatar 2.0, though hopefully they will still fit other mesh bodies as well.

The boots themselves look interesting, with a fancy quilted design. Definitely worth keeping an eye on if you're a fan of her work!

Read more at: http://kdc.ethernia.net/
Purchase KDC gear in world at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/dead%20realm/128/128/603
Or on the marketplace at: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/235

Spotlight

This section is still in the teething stage.. but todays Spotlight will be on a club - Delust!

This is a club dedicated to fetish, right down to its dress code. Casual wear won't pass here, its gotta
be full on fetish! Heavy rubber, leather, bondage.. You name it. But a warning, this code is strictly enforced. break it, and you are out!

And why would you want to break it? The club has a good atmosphere, and generally does have people talking. If its silent, don't hesitate to start chatting away, someone will join in! Get all dressed up nice and fetishy, and spend some time in lovely company.

The club itself is quite classy, well laid out, with dance tables, a table for greedy, side rooms and a basement for a little more privacy and plenty of cages and bondage equipment to help control squirmy submissives!

In Nicoles, the owners, words, she follows no particular style, as that would restrict her too much. She was however inspired by art deco, noveau, jugend and burlesque, to help give the club its own feel.

Visit the club in world at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pfeiffer/16/95/1197

If you have any events, know of any products been released or updated, or anything else you think should be included, send me the details in world!

Pictures from Marines blog, RFs store, Kyrahs blog and some original taken by me.

Final Post

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:08:00 +0000

So, this probably comes as no surprise, but there won't be any more updates here in future.

The intent of this blog was always to inform people of what a restraint could old, and if I felt it was well designed. I also wanted to get into communication with the creators/developers, be involved, etc.

Instead it did the opposite, making a wall between them and I, to the point certain creators started to majorly dislike me, even those I was already friends with. My attempts to stay unbiased only made that wall larger. I'm also more than a little fed up with the unpleasant messages sent my way in SL or on DA.

That's not to say its all been gloom, I've had fun writing, and apparently a lot of people liked it. Its just a shame they rarely spoke up unless I ran into them, and only the less than pleasant people bothered to give me any feedback. Messing with restraints was always fun, though self bondage was never my thing, it was good to really dig into them and find out what made them tick.

Naturally I'm not deleting this, my (badly typo'd) reviews will stay up, though no new ones will appear.

Hope you all enjoyed the reviews while they lasted.

Aria

RR highbinder

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:16:00 +0000

Well, I'm somewhat back, and going to try and get into the habit of writing again. The formatting may be a bit different to before, but.. eh. We'll go with it for now.

Anyway! New armbinder from RR, dubbed the highbinder due to its longer length, which of course allows more tightness.

Review info

Highbinder was purchased from own pocket
Reviewed after first update, which fixes some rigged straps issues

Whats in the box

Inside the box you'll find three attachments, The Highbinder itself, and two sets of straps, the Front X Straps and the Belly Strap. You'll also find 6 poses inside, allowing you to bend forwards at 45 or 90 degrees, with three different stances for the legs.. Together, Parted and Spread. These can be used freely with anything, and work well for Strapaddos. (Which are also good for spanking, or anything else you may wish to do to rear forced up and helpless by bondage!)

You'll also find four textures. These are included so that if you try to alter a texture, and mess up, you have a replacement you can drop back in to fix it back to normal. There is an alpha, as well as a maitreya autohider, so if you use that mesh body, you can just use this to adjust what parts of the arms are visible instead of having to do it manually. Otherwise you'll just find the usual, a Readme on hwo to use your new binder, and a landmark for the store.

Appearance

First and foremost, you should turn on advanced lighting system. Don't worry, you can disable shadows in most viewers via a dropdown menu. this kills most of the performance hits you may take, while retaining the materials effects.

Contrary to what certain people may think, this armbinder is quite the new product. Compared to the old RR one, its longer, smoother, includes far more variety in its appearance, more straps, the pattern system from the RR harness and Deluxe gag, and is, y'know, mesh. This of course allows for much easier fitting, albeit it still annoying at times.

It uses the same retexturing/appearance adjusting system that the recent RR devices do, allowing you to adjust specific sections and surfaces. Sections are entire areas, while surfaces are specific little bits, like the sides of straps. You can also add a verity of patterns, from things such as cowprint, to text, to symbols. There's four pages of these to choose from. And of course, you can adjust the tint.

You also have materials. There are nine included in the menu, specifically Rubber, PVC, Latex, Leather, Patent Leather, Rough Leather, Jeans (denim), Cordura (some military fabric) and Spandex. Without materials enabled (see above), you won't be able to appreciate these properly. All in all, they are all pretty nice. There's two pages of Presets included for good measure, handy if you have a specific look in mind, like classic black leather, and want to get the whole binder done up quickly.

There's two primary ways for the armbinder to be applied, with two higher settings one ach that add more straps. Plain, which is the (very) tightly laced up armbinder by itself, while tight slots in some built in straps to further secure it. From there you can apply Chest Straps, or escalate to strapping the entire torso to the binder. All of these of course use the RR anim hud, allowing you to angle your arms further or closer to your body.. and are key to the strappado poses mentioned earlier.

Perhaps one of the most handy things is a new plugin called Mirror. It effectively mirrors the straps on one side to the other.. So you can adjust just the left sides of the straps to fit perfectly, then use this plugin to automatically adjust the straps squeezing you on the right to match,, or vice versa.

Added in the first update, for those that bought before it was put up, adds a BreastSize plugin, which adjust the positions of some of the rigged straps that could be outright impossible to fit the rest of the straps to correctly without clipping beforehand, get the update if you have that issue.

Thoughts - I really like this binders looks, there's very few good armbinders in SL, I can name maybe two others off the top of my head, and one of them is also Marines. If I wanted to have stuff added? I think a style hud would be really good, rather than a menu.. And maybe add an even more severe strappado pose! Close enough to use a short leash to keep the head in place as well.

Function

As this is the first review in a long time for RR gear, I'll be going somewhat indepth into each menu.

You choose poses via the top six buttons of the primary menu. Theres no extras in the More.. menu this time. from there you get the usual Lock, Last Plug and Take/Return keys options you should be used to by now, if you've used any RR product, with the tools, plugins and more.. menu beneath that.

Tools contains Save and load. Hitting save will take your stats (best time, total time, etc) and save them for you, letting you put them into a notecard that you can then put into a replacement binder, say due to an update, were you then hit load ad get all your stats back. You'll also find the Reset button here, a sadly important one with the nature of SLs key grabbers at times. Further down you'll fine a toggle for Male settings, which adjusts some of the messages the armbinder sends, and verbose, which will turn on/off the binders ability to use local chat. The ever important Update button is here as well.

Next on the list is the Plugins menu. You'll find a lot of familiar ones in here, the Realkey of course (set the restraint password, get a key, set the key password to the same as your restraint, give the key to someone you trust, and you're home free. Unless they use it to bind you tighter, always a risk!). Then there's Outfit, which uses RLV folders to add, remove, or outright deny the use of certain things within them. It also has a devious unshare option, that doesn't allow the person to wear anything outside of the RLV folder. The RL time menu is here as well, useful when you want someone locked until a certain day, rather than setting a huge timelock and hoping they spent enough time logged in to get loose.

Control follows that, which lets you put a variety of RLV restrictions on people (No IM block though, which is good. And logical.) Give Keys allows you to hand them to someone, or throw them away altogether, which is quite risky, as it then restricts the plugins menu nearly completely, and no one else can access it without a realkey. Its entirely possibly to completely trap yourself in the restraint by disabling the Realkey plugin, then throwing away the keys. If you dot hat, and lock it.. its not coming off without a reset.

The Leash is as simple as ever, and also allows you to anchor it to other restraints, say the vixen ankle cuffs, to further hobble you, or even to ones worn by other captives. Make a slave train! You can also get a couple of tools, a leash holder, and a leash anywhere HUD object. With this, while holding the leash, you can focus on a prim (alt+ left click), then click the button on your hud to leash the sub to that prim, regardless of what it is. Bed frame? Drainpipe? A galloping horse? Go for it.

The next row starts with Anim which is effectively the RR anim hud in menu form, which your captor can use. It has one advantage over the anim hud, in that if you know the pose in advance, you can go straight to it without flicking through others, but I'd generally recommend you use the Hud instead. Allow follows that, which is a simple one. In here, you can set it so that if the captive is IM or TP blocked, you can bypass it.

The Autolock plugin is there of course, were you can set up macros to well, lock the restraint holder up tight after a period of time. You can do a lot of customisation here, as well as have it only countdown when the person is bound, or online.

The next two are already covered above, HighBinderTex and Mirror, as is BreastSize on the row below. After that is Vulnerable, a newer plugin. It lets your keyholder give permissions to people to do certain things, specifically strip, put on outfits (in RLV folders), leash and forcesit the captive. If the captive is already on a piece of furniture, the latter two are unavailable. The wearer has to agree to this of course, and can block people who push their luck.

Wear allows the locking of specific body areas for clothing. If an option is turned off, the person cannot use wear to put something on that slow. AutoAlpha finally appears, and has an extra use if you use the Maitreya body. if you put the autohider/alpha mentioned in the Box Contents section in an RLV folder, path the autoalpha plugin to it, and let it do its job, then when you get bound, you won't need to do a thing to stop your arms clipping. There's also unwear which does the same thing, except prevents you taking things off of the slots.

Sit is one of the last plugins in the menu. Its effectively forcesit, and can also disable standing back up. Touch is also a fun one. You can have it do a blanket touch lock over all the restraint options (plain, tight, etc), or specific ones, with each touch option its own thing. Marines gear tends to lack an expose option, Vulnerable is the closet thing, so for those that want to leave their keys hanging, but have no way to get at them, get the armbinder locked on, leave the keys, then turn off touchself via this menu, You won't be able to get at any of your gear this way though, so make sure you're careful.

Back in the main menu, we only have More left. In here you have the usual stuff like AutoRef (autorefresh, keeps the arm bound anim playing I believe), some quick timer options, and the Timer itself. Nothing to really go into here. You have the specific times (+1, +10, etc), the variable times (+30m-2h, 2h-6h, etc), the option to disable the timer, and also to hide it.

Thoughts - I don't have too much to say here, its standard RR. There's a few changes since my last review, like the vulnerable plugin, some updates to older ones, etc. My biggest gripes are the layout of the restraint options, but that's more for ones that exceed 6, a lot of people I encounter don't realise the pretty mummy and such have a couple extra options in the more menu, but that's irrelevant here, and the fact that you can't go back to the plugins menu itself from a plugin, you have to go back to the main menu first, but that's just a quality of life thing.

The thoughts of S

The latest release of the High Binder shows that Marine Kelly is still pushing the bar! The new binder is not simply an update or redesign of the previous RR Armbinder. It is a new design with new features. Being a lover of armbinders I was very pleased at this, and the added strap and binding options are very nice! The design is very well done mesh, but what really struck me is that this is the first large size Mesh restraint that really tries to takes into account the need to be able to adjust it to fit individual avatars, as opposed to a "one-size fits everyone poorly" approach we have seen until now, forcing players to alter their avatars to make the item fit. I'd love to see Marine step back and revisit some of her earlier releases, like the Pretty Mummy, applying this same design philosophy

I like the expanded selection of material textures in the high High Binder. The new binder to uses the same style menu system as her other products, so while still in need for a more user friendly design, people already familiar with RR products shouldn't have any problems.

In closing

Its 700 linden, its easy to fit now that we have the breastsize plugin, its well made.. Menus may seem a little clustered, but anyone whos used RR gear will be used to that layout by now I imagine. I can find little fault with it really, I mean, it does mostly everything I wanted it to, and does it well.

Would I buy it? - Yes

Can be bought in world from Marines store at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pak/76/61/105 or from the little shop of kink at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lineside/102/146/77

pictures used show black latex in the Bend_90_tight pose, with RR anim hud used to maximize the strappado, blue leather from behind, and red Spandex in Bend_45_spread, with all the straps on. Additional pics can be found at aria-warden.deviantart.com

RR Deluxe Gag

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 21:32:00 +0000

New item from marine, fresh on the grid.

Appearance

Tight leather, lots of straps around the head, with options of a large ball, a tight panel or a ring for that mouth.. There's a ball/bit combo and just the bit by itself via a certain menu as well. You can also just have the harness, with no gag in your mouth.

Comes with plenty of appearance options. A harness or simple for each type, which can then be further adjusted. The simple could have a chin strap added, or the aforementioned bit. For the full harness styles, you can remove the chin strap and just have the base and overhead straps. Both also have an invisible option..

That option seems to be for use with hoods and other prop gags, as far as I can tell. You could theoretically use invisible on the RR, then put another gag on that say, has terrible garbling, or no scripts at all, to match the RP better. Its a nice idea.

Colour and such wise well.. You have a ton of options. It uses the same system as the Pretty Mummy. You can pick an area, a surface, just about anything. You could do every individual strap a different colour if that took your fancy, or say, the front of a strap pink and the sides neon green if you wanted something bizarre. It doesn't have opacity however. (a missed opportunity? A transparent panel gag with the big ball below could be fun. Doesn't sub-shop do that kind of stuff?)

It does have patterns, with plenty of options from stuff like camo, or a pattern of skulls to crueler things like barbed wire. You can apply each of these to surfaces or sections as well of course. There's also plenty of text options built in, and I believe you can make your own.

The blindfold that comes with it is similar, although it has only one appearance. You can hit just lock if you want a nice blindfold without the restriction.. However if you have RLV 2.9 or higher, Marines new blindfold system is included, which is far superior to the old HUD one. I'll explain it more below. You can also hide the blindfold strap that goes around the head, or set it invisible.

They are both all mesh, and very easy to fit, split into logical parts. There is an alpha included for those of us that use viewers like firestorm that no longer have functional invisiprims, so that we can use the panel gag without our lips clipping

Function

The gag has eight options to start with. A simple round the head Ball or Ring, that can be changed to bit via the style menu. Then you get the harness options, which include a panel, again with bit style via that menu. The harness gags are the equivalent of tighter settings on her other gags, garbling you more, with Panel being a full out mmph mode. You can also do total of any style, though it doesn't appear different from the harness version.

The menu layout.. isn't fantastic. It may be to keep scripts low, but I feel each gag type (ball/ring/panel) could of benefited from being one option with a submenu to each for level. As it is right now its not by any means bad, but the last two gag options are in the "More.." menu, rather than readily available or obvious.

The rest of the options are laid out as follows - Lock/unlock. self explanatory. Locking it will rez the harness without a gag in your mouth, adjustable via style. Last Plug is not a plug, but a shortcut to the last plugin used. Take/Leave keys follows, fairly obvious what these do.

Special has some useful commands. Allowing a chat command to access the gag, update, verbose, etc, as well as the ever important timer option. Plugins follows, but will get to that in a moment. More.. is the last option, and contains the last two Total gag options, a pair of timer options for quick use, and an option to access the full timer system again.

Plugins top row contains the Realkey, which is a lock bypass system, RL time, which sets a timer based on the real world, not time logged in, and the Style menu, allowing you to adjust what parts of the gag are visible. The second row has Give Keys, an obvious one, HeadHarness, for adjusting the appearance of the gag (colour/texture/etc) and Leash.

The Last row contains Wriggle, an odd one to see here as that's usually for changing pose I believe, Autolock, for setting a time in the future when the gag will lock in a specific style, and Gag.. which has all the RLV restrictions like IM block, emote blocking, etc in it.

The blindfold is a similar layout. The first 6 options adjust the strictness, Lock/unlock puts the blindfold on and off without restriction, etc. The plugins contained are Realkey, RL Time, Style, Autolock, Give Keys and HeadHarness.

The big thing about this blindfold is the new system is uses for blinding. I unfortunately don't have RLV 2.9 yet, so I'm including a link here to some pictures by someone on DA who kindly covers each level of the blindfold and how it works - CLICK HERE

Long story short, it no longer uses a hud to hide you. In fact, you can always clearly see your avatar. What it does is put a range on how far you can see, as well as making things dark, black and greys, on the higher levels. It also removes floating text, names.. all the while letting you see yourself. If you are against a wall, you can see the wall as a grey surface, simulating what you'd feel when blindfolded normally, rather than just having you walk into it for ages because the HUD doesn't tell you its there.

Its a very effective system, and I can't do it justice without pictures sadly, thankfully that link above shows it off quite nicely.

Additional info

Quick gag layout stuff. Ring > Plugins > Style > Bit if you want to use a bit gag.
Ball > Plugins > Style > Bit if you want the combo gag.

My thoughts

A very good gag and blindfold combo. Very fair price, 450 linden. Some handy options for RP with the invisible options, and when Firestorm eventually updates to RLV 2.9 (rumours state late November/Early decemeber) I actually look forwards to using that blindfold system. It actually looks quite fun to use compared to those stupid huds. Letting you see things while keeping them blank and featureless is a great way to go.

The only real fault I have is the menu isn't really that well laid out. I'd like to be able to save presets in the HeadHarness menu as well, for quick swaps.

Its No Copy/Mod/Trans.

DSS Candlier

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:32:00 +0000

Silence for two months, then suddenly 4 things land on top of me at once, heres the first.

Appearance

Its a chandelier of sorts, available in three sizes, in an X with candles on each point, held in a golden candlestick. Then someone gets chained with a limb pointing towards each candle, and a couple more placed carefully upon their back for good measure. The base is rather more worn looking, with the frame appearing to be made of thick metal with rather large rivets.

The four sizes should allow for people of most heights to fit onto it properly, or to have it fit into most rooms, though the back candles may require some adjusting to sit properly. You can also adjust how high or low you hang from the frame with the Page up and Page down keys. There are no colour options at this time, although it is full mod so you can adjust it somewhat that way. It does have a rather nice feature though, that may make the poor captives feel a little bit dizzy.. Covered further below,

Function

There's not too much in here. When you first rez the base and touch it, you'll get four buttons, Small, Medium or Large, as well as Help. The first three will rez the Candlier itself below the base, on a length of chain decided by the option chosen. Help will prompt you to open a webpage that is used instead of a notecard manual.

Once Rezzed, the base will give out 3 new options, keeping Help from the previous menu. Scan will, within a range specified in the settings menu, search for people with an RLV relay, and then give you the option to try and snag one of them. Self Bondage works in a similar way, except instead of searching for someone, it attempts to grab you, providing you have a relay on.

Settings gives a rather large submenu. The top two rows of options are split between Access, Friction and Range. Selecting the up or down Access option will cycle through Public, Group or Owner options, deciding who can use the menus. Friction relates to the Candliers party piece, and will be covered below. Range adjusts how far the scan option will search for people.

Below these options you'll find Self Bondage, in which you can adjust the timer at intervals of 10 minutes, an hour or 10 hours. After that, added in the most recent update, is an option to toggle the Start IM RLV restriction, previously on at all times and impossible to disable, so a welcome change. Lastly you have Reset, which will reset in the scripts in the base. This does not derez the Candlier itself, which must be rather deleted or taken when finished with, as it is a separate object.

When someone is captured, people can click on the base to do one of two things. Release, which is self explanatory, or set a Timer, also self explanatory. This timer works the same as the self bondage one.

This things party piece isn't in a menu, but in its use of SL physics. Once you or someone else is hanging from it, anyone can click on the chain and move you around, causing you to sway, swing or even spasm wildly through the air depending where and how they move it. The closer to the base, the better control you'll have over how they move. Unfortunately short of a video, I am currently unable to really show how this works.

Bug wise I only encountered one, when using the medium size of the 1.1.3 version where it literally just fell down, and me with it. The menu of the base changed back to asking you to rez a new one, and no release option or timer was available, forcing me to safeword. This happened twice, and I was unable to recreate it after that. May of just being SL going crazy.

Additional info

Not much to put here for this one. Its copy/mod, despite saying no mod. Thats just down to the scripts being locked down, not the object itself. The candles themselves aren't a very good lightsource if you use shadows and are in a sim where the sim builder has sensibly not put everything on full bright like an idiot, so if you use these, make sure to have other lightsources as well.

The images, in order from top to bottom, the default camera focus, a rear angle, and one in motion, shown as best I can.

My thoughts

I quite like it, especially the concept. My Mistress certainly had fun having ti swing around like a tornado with me on it at least. Its not got many options, and may seem a little barebones. There's not much it would need added though.

You could argue the need to add more RLV options but eh, there's plenty of other gear to add those, and as you should be using cuffs with it anyway, they generally will have the only logical restrictions in them if you wish to enable them.

You could also say more colour options, which I can't entirely disagree with. Silver and gold doesn't match everyones decor after all, and while you can adjust colour via edit, its not quite the same. Still, at least editing is allowed for it.

It costs 349 linden, for as many copies as you can fit in your sim.

tkISO

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:54:00 +0000

A new item, a collab between [H]arsh and the people over at Thinkkink tonight.

To be exact - Darien Caldwell did the mesh, the animations come form Daisy Creations, the hair from Damona Kanik, and the coding done by Ilana Debevec and Chloe1982 Constantine.

I've being asked not to call it a drone suit, but an ISO

Appearance

When you first put it on, you'll be smooth, shiny, and coated in white latex. You have a choice of 32 built in colours on top of that, and its mod, so you are free to recolour it to your hearts content using the RGB system.

On top of that, its in a series of parts, so you can recolour individual pieces, like the head, faceplate, hair, etc, or via mod even turn them invisible. You'll need another Alpha if you do that, but allows you to adjust it to fit a lot of other pieces of gear if you so wish.

However, you then have the option to switch to a materials textured outfit, by hitting the Seamed option. Aside from the faceplate, this then appears to be a nice, tight catsuit with attached openfaced hood, and is perhaps one of the best examples of how much a difference a materials texture makes. Seriously, people who leave materials off are missing out when it comes to stuff like this.

Its fitted mesh, which will generally stick to your shape, buts its far from a flawless system still, so the alpha will more than likely be needed.

Unlike most outfits of this type, this ones heels aren't ballet, and while still tall, and built into the suit, seem far more reasonable for the kind of long term wear you'd be forced to do in such an outfit. Quite a refreshing change. If you want ballets, well you can hide the boots via Edit, and adjusting transparency.

You can hide the faceplate via edit as well, if you find a face only alpha, you might be able to get it to look quite good, though I have a few issues with my headshape, its still worth a try.

Function

You need to wear both the suit and the hud that comes with it if you want to speak, a precaution to prevent issues such as the particle effect objects make when speaking. It also does not seem to block IM by default, as it should be. You'll also have a HUD pop up when locked in, to simulate the faceplate. It makes a not bad photoframe.

The first option is Style, which is where you cover the stuff mentioned above, such as switching between seamed and seamless modes. Following that is Locking. In here are three options. Lock does as it says, Unlock as well, and as for Public.. well, you'll be in danger unless you are very careful. You'll be locked out of the menu completely, and at the mercy of anyone nearby. There's also Privileged which only appears if/when you add someone to that system via the Operators menu, covered below. This also locks you out of the menu, but only allows people added to the suit to access it.

Restrict is a big menu. There are four submenus within, each related to a specific part of you. Talk lets you adjust how clearly you speak, as well as adjust the IM restrictions. It also adjusts emotes, but not by themselves, so sadly if you want to garble your speaking, your emotes will be garbled as well. This needs a fix

Move doesn't hobble, but adjusts things such as TP, flying, sit, etc, and also has another submenu, Freeze. In here you can set a distance, and whether they need to be within a certain range, or far enough away. You get a 30 second window to fulfill the requirements, with gradually more and more restrictions, the last two of which are IM block and being unable to move.

See adjusts things such as names, the map, etc, with a submenu for View which has a selection of windlight options that the captive will have to suffer through. Most are quite jarring, and make somethings harder to see, as you might expect. There doesn't appear to be a clear option.

Lastly we have Touch which has three different menus inside. As you might expect, it has options for stopping far touch, touch self, etc if you choose to do so, as well as allowing or preventing you from adding clothes and attachments, and inventory related restrictions. When you activate a touch restriction, the gloves change into snug little mitts.

As the wearer, your next menu is Timer, the classic, ever nice option. You can choose to add or remove via a couple of buttons at the bottom, anywhere from 5 minutes to.. 28 days. It has a second menu that allows you turn the timer on/off or pause it, as well as letting you swap between RL and SL time, and a restart option. Timer for 28 days.. 27 days and 23 hours later, your captor accidentally hits restart.. I'll leave your reaction up to your own imagination.

The final menu is Operators, mentioned above. This is where you can add or removed "privileged" people who can access the suit at any time, locked or not. There's also a Banned list, which stops them ever access it, even when on public, an extremely handy option as far as I am concerned, and one more restraints should use.

As another user, should the person be on public, you get two options when you first try to access it. Take over and Walk away. Both are self explanatory. You also have a Relinquish option in the locking menu, that leaves them stuck on public, but you no longer control them.

Once inside, you have access to the first four menus covered above, as well as two new ones, Punish and Rename. Punish lets you choose form three options, and torments the persons breasts, rear or "Da Monkey" as they call it. Its not a stretch to guess what area that is. They have some custom animations, of you clutching the afflicted area and rolling around, as well as some sound effects. Mostly zapping and muffled cries.

Rename opens an input box that you type a name you want in, which will then appear as "ISO/<your text>". If a timer is running, you can only add to it, or Punish the wearer while its on public.

As privileged, you can access at any time, as well as give more people access, ban people, change the lock type or relinquish it, freely adjust the timer, etc.

Other info

I've being informed that updates are planned, for free of course. If it lacks something now, don't worry as it may get it added in an update soon.

My thoughts

I like it. That's pretty much a given. Hopefully the updates will make the hood more functional with the faceplate hidden, to make it even more customizable than it is already. The *big* issue is that emote blocking when you garble. Lets hope that gets fixed quickly. Otherwise my only real gripes are the hair, when set to black, is more grayish, but is mod so not a major issue, and the IM block during freeze.

It costs 1199 Linden

Pic 1- A selection of reds, showing off various parts you can adjust, using Seamed

Pic 2 - As it is out of the box, white, with black hair. Seamless mode

Pic 3 - The hud, mitts, with hood hidden. Also Seamed (needs a different alpha to the included.) Sorry its a bit dark, the restrictions and all

RF SackBinder

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:43:00 +0000

No space between Sack and Binder is deliberate.

Appearance

Effectively, its a bodybinder that you are sitting in knees tight against you, with padding at the bottom for comfort, possibly due to long term storage. It certainly looks effective. It has a number of leash rings, presumably to hold you down even further, or drag you along. You can't move by yourself in this thing at all however. Once tied up, even on the lowest setting, you're stuck.

Texture wise you have the usual RF textures. Katies leather ones suit this far more than her latex ones I'll say. I'm not sure what it is, but her latex texture just seems a little.. off. You can of course always just colour it black and use shine/materials shine to make it gleam of course.

There's 10 latex textures and 10 leather, as usual, you can also retexture the padding at the bottom base, or choose from the 9 other textures down the bottom. Adjusting shine and such can be done via the HUD as well adjusting the closure, between lacing, zip or just none. Gotta love that look of having being stitched into it, with no way out possible.

Its moddable, so you can apply materials shine if you want. (Edit > Texture > Click the drop down menu with Texture (diffuse) in it > select Shininess (specular), > click the texture box > Apply one if you have it, or just use blank > Adjust Glossiness, environment and the colour of the shine to meet your needs)

Of import int he style menu, but no the HUD, is an option to adjust the height of the tied up anim, to prevent floating or sinking into the ground. Quite nice to have, and should be added to the HUD if possible. Lastly, you can hide the harness, making it smooth leather/latex from the neck to the padding at the base.

Function

Standard RF fare here. As the wearer, if you take the keys, you get the Style menu, followed by the Leashing menu, with Plugins to follow. No unique plugins to the Sack in here. With Keys, the next menu is just ... which does nothing, followed by the Timelock menu with both the Timelock, which returns Keys, and Timebound, which merely unties, options within.

The Settings menu follows that, with the handy options like Expose and Verbose within. Key menu after that, followed by the ever important Restraints menu. Three levels again, as is fast becoming the standard at RF. In this case, Tight restricts touching others, Tighter adds in no far touch, and Tightest removes touch world. You can use the RLV menu in Plugins to remove touch self. The last option is Unlock.

Without Keys, you have access to Style and Escape, whereas others will have access to Keys and Restraints. For other people who have your keys, the menu is identical to the captive holding the keys.

My thoughts

I like the concept, though I'm not sure I can call it a ball tie, it still comes under the same category I suppose. Its quite cheap, at 350 linden, though it is static. Truth be told you barely need the alpha included thanks to that. You don't move at all, bar your head, after all.

The leather looks great on it.. Latex, not as much. Not sure what it is about the latex textures form RF, but they don't seem to fit the bigger restraints, whereas on the armbinder and the like, they're fantastic. You can always do what I did in pic 3 of course, and colour it, then apply materials shine, but that takes a bit of extra work.

All in all a pretty good restraint, worth the 350 linden I'd say.

Pics - First is black leather, with red leather straps. Second is Purple latex with black latex straps and blue base. Last is white latex, coloured black via the HUD, with a blank materials texture shine applied.

No S&S this review again, time just isn't allowing all three of us on at the same time right now. May edit in later if we find time.

RR Pretty Mummy

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Thu, 22 May 2014 18:38:00 +0000

Many of you who actually know me, know my love for customisable restraints, mummification, tape and latex. And then Marine makes this. Be prepared for a LONG read, this may be the single most customisable restraint in SL.

Appearance

Where to begin? There are four materials in here, latex, shrink wrap, tape and bandage. And these can be made transparent, thanks to good design and fitted mesh. There are alphas included for those that need them, though naturally you won't be able to use transparent with them. There are four main pieces that must be worn, the rest can be any of the materials above.. mixed up as well. You can also do fancy things, like make the bandage wrap appear to be nylon with some transparency and colour changes.

They all have their own little quirks as well, the base bandage for example has a little bow just under the neck when your torso is snugly wrapped. The shrink wrap appears stretched, while the latex is perfectly smooth and seamless, sprayed on. They also have style menus, allowing for various changes to the restraint, such as uncovering the breasts or hands.

Not all of it is rigged, so you may need to make some adjustments. They for the most part seem easier than the siren ropes however, which many will be glad to hear. You can also toggle between rigged breasts wrappings and unrigged, for if you use tangos or the like.

In terms of poses.. You have eight for the upper body, and another eight for the lower. Pet, a leg based on, wil force your arms into Pony no matter what they may of been in originally.. and forces you to hobble along on elbows and knees, something SL hasn't had many options for in the past.

Many of the poses have a load of extra options in the Style menu, letting you change, for example, the elbow only pose to be a full wrap around your upper arms, 1 strip. 2 strips or 3 strips. Elbows Only, Arms Tight and Pony have 4 extra styles, While the other options do not for the arms.

Legs wise, you have Five styles for the hobble option (including a dress that can be worn without other bonds), tight, mummy, lie and mummy lie have four, Hogtie has six, frogtie and pet seven.

The gag comes next, and is quite similar to the RR tape gag, though the Total is a lot stricter this time, with a full wrap around. They are also all one solid prim, so resizing one, even via edit linked, resizes them all, with the exception of the stuffing, which you can of course make bigger, push deeper, or both! You can even wrap the ears, complete with extra restrictions. Throw in the blindfold, and your head will be so snugly wrapped..

The blindfold has a handy option that lets you cover the top of your head with it as well, for that full all over Mummy look.

Of all the parts that will take you time to fit, expect the head to be the longest. Getting all of the prims to sit flush with each other perfectly can be quite difficult.

There's also a pair of nipple pasties, and a crotch covering for good measure, both of unrigged mesh. You can also, if you tie without binding, get a dress like outfit, which is quite nice. Casual minidress.. turned into full out rubber cocoon. What more could you want?

The biggest issue with all this, due to an SL limitation, all the materials are in separate boxes, and their own prim sets. Meaning once one is fitted, you need to refit all the others. Marine does have an option to make this a lot less hassle, covered below, but you may find some fine tuning is still needed.

Due to SLs terrible wireskeleton, you may experience a few issues with the fitted mesh, especially on areas such as the breasts. Its unfortunate, but not something that can be fixed without a whole new avatar skeleton been made by SL.

Function

The top two rows are always related to the binding. All the poses are here, the strictness of the gag and blindfold, etc. In the case of the arms and legs, two more poses are also in the More.. menu.

Arms

The six bondage poses occupy the top, then you have Untie, Last Plug, which is a shortcut to the last plugin you selected, Loosen/Tighten, when loosened, anyone can access the menu, while tightened they have to do a minigame to try and get in. Think expose and steal keys. You then have Tools, or Special, depending on whether or not you are bound. Tools lets you save, load and reset the restraint, or change it to a Male setting if you happen to be of that persuasion.

In the Special submenu, you'll find Block, which stops the sub interacting with the environment, Mouselook to force them into first person, Autoref, which is auto refresh, helps to keep your poses from breaking. /77 allows you to turn on menu access via that channel. Alarm On/Off will turn on the domme alert should you cheat around the restraint in some way. Last plug appears again, as does Verbose, which if off, doesn't send messages to local chat. You can also find the Timer.. menu in here, as well as the Plugins button and Main to take you back to the menu.

Timer.. Will take you to a timelock menu with a variety of options. You can hide the timer from others, and turn it off here of course. Whats more curious is how its down. Used by Marine before, instead of a preset option, you have a range per button, I.E 2h-6h, which will add anywhere from 2 hours to 6 hours to the captives timer. You do have standard options like +10mn as well, but its nice to see those other ones still around.

Plugins.. has 3 pages for the Arms section of the restraint. The first is Control.. which has a ton of RLV related restrictions you can activate or deactivate. The follow up is Cover Hands.. which allows you to wrap the hands.Hitting wrap will apply all touch restrictions, if you then select one of the three other options in there, you'll remove that restriction. Keep touch self active if you don't want to get stuck.

MummyTex comes next. In here you can select the Section to edit, a surface to also edit and the opacity and tint. Anim follows that, which allows you to setup and adjust all the animations.. or you can use the HUD for a much smoother, easier experience. Allow lets the person who enters it to make themselves exempt from IM or TP blocks. I.E the domme restricts IMs and TP for the captive, but also turns the exempt on for themselves. They will be abel to TP or IM the sub, but no one else will be able to.. Unless also exempt from a previous session.

Marines usual Autolock follows that, with Style on the second page. There's another Touch restrictions menu next, separate from the hand wrappings. Unwear.. which lets you take their clothes or attachments off if you so wish, which Outfit lets you adjust what they have on, what they are allowed and not allowed to wear, etc, all done via RLV folders.

RL time lets you change the timer to use a constant timer, even when logged out, as opposed to the standard one that runs down only when the sub is in world. Sit.. is a force sit option, with unsit and No stand options as well. Lastly is Wear, which lets you decide where the sub can wear clothing, and where they can not. (I.E no tops, but underwear allowed)

That about covers the arms..

Legs

To save space I'll only cover those options that Arms don't have.

In Plugins.. You'll find a wriggle menu, to allow you to try and get into another pose. Then there's Cover Feet. This has.. a lot of options, regarding various heels you may have. Its actually a really nice system, allowing the wrapped to go over the heels without clipping. It has options specifically for SLink heels. You can have it wrap all the way to the toes, just over the ankles, or half way down your feet, with or without heels on.

Gag

The gag works quite a bit differently to the arms, as you might expect. The gag levels make the gag much stricter, in both appearance and function. The max silences you, while the one just below makes you Mmmmph, the other two garble you to various degrees.

Plugins has some differences again. The Gag RLV menu under it has a lot of options for punishing people who try to cheat, and a very handy option that stops the keyholder blocking your IMs if you dislike that kind of thing. It also has the Wriggle menu that arms lacks, allowing you to adjust your gag. Cover Ears is also here, which allows you to deny them local chat and IM hearing.. Lot of IM restrictions in this kit.

Very Funny.. Is also in here, which allows you to write on the gag to various degrees, or put an Anime like emote face on it. An example Marine gave was to wrap the person head to toe, with hair free. Colour some black, the legs and head flesh colour, then apply a face with a blank expression.. Anyone watching from a distance would be unable to tell it was a real person. Very handy RP options there.

Blindfold

Lastly we have the blindfold. It has Six options for vision blurring, however if you hit just Tie, you'll get a faux blindfold as well.It also contains the all important Shape plugins. This will, when used, save the current size, rotation and position of all the unrigged prims for all parts. You can then undo say, the bandages, and put on the nylons, then load, to save time. You may need to do some minor adjustments, but should save a lot of work.

My thoughts

For the most part? I love it. It has a few issues, such as the Shape plugin not woking right for me, and an issue with the SL skeleton causing some odd ridges in the mesh, particularly on the breasts.

But I love it still. It has so many options that SL bondage has lacked for so long, and the sheer variety of poses, looks and adjustablility this thing has cannot be overlooked. We even got transparent mummification as a possibility at last!

The price is 1250, I personally say thats worth it for the sheer volume inside.

RF Mesh Ballgag

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:14:00 +0000

A new "simple" (Katies words) ballgag from Restrained Freedom tonight

Appearance

Its in mesh, which is nice for fitting. 5 prims in total, the strap, both gag types and the three drool effects. None of that nonsense of needing to select every little eyelet on the strap thankfully. We need more mesh things like that.

You have two gag types, a solid ball of rubber/plastic or a wiffle version, a holey ball that usually makes for a lot more drool, and possibly noise as well. There's no HUD for recolouring this time, so its all via the style menu. Ball, strap, metal and locks can all be recoloured to match your needs.

There's also shine, which doesn't work unless you manually remove the Specular map (Materials) first, then it shines up as normal. Better to use the Materials stuff though, if you don't have lighting enabled chances are shine won't look good for you anyway. Glow is there as well.

Plenty of colour options as always, I'm not gonna list em all as there is a fair ton. You can also always colour it white and manually recolour it using the RGB grid in edit of course. There is one minor issue, though its true of probably every SL wiffle gag, where your teeth will clip through the ball and may be visible inside of the gag. If there's such a thing as a teeth alpha, it may be of use here.

Function

Rpers will be glad to know it retains the Smart Garbling system. For those that don't, this is a system that will garble speech in emotes that's between quotes. I.E /me tries to say "test" through the gag. The text in the " " will be garbled however severely you have the gag set to.

Its mostly standard RF from here on out. The Sign language system returns, (British sign language specifically, according to the box), followed by Leashing, then Plugins such as mannequin, catatonic, etc. You'll also be able to adjust how bad you Drool via an option under this menu as well, between three levels, or off. There's a random and auto mode for good measure. Auto increases how much you drool over time for those wondering, it doesn't adjust by the severity of it.

The Style menu has already been covered above, and Timelock follows with the usual Timelock and timebound options (bound only releases, doesn't return keys). RLV on/off is in the middle, followed by Settings which contains Expose, Verbose, update, reset and gives some leash related items. Keys will be next, unless its unlocked and no one else has them, in which case it'll be Take Keys. Standard stuff in there, with the crypto-lock (disables escape game) and of course give/leave keys.

Restraints is what most people really care about, you can swap between the Solid ball and the wiffle ball in here, adjust Drool again and of course decide how severely the gag garbles. If you use Pet, then the renamer lets you adjust whether it makes you Mmph (Human), Mewl (kitty) or Bark (puppy). There's also an option to hide the gag, which is nice. You can also block IMs and emotes in here, if you're into that. Last option on the menu is of course Lock/Unlock. Naturally hitting this without keys is a bad idea.

My thoughts

For the most part I like it, and I'd probably recommend it if someone wanted to pick up a new ballgag. Saying that I do prefer a wider strap, but that's just personal preference, in terms of design there's no fault with the narrow section. There's not too much to say, its a ballgag, one of the basic pieces of bondage gear. Its main selling point to me is the fact its mesh, and the Smart Garbling system Katie uses.

Its 225 linden, so a fair price, and due to being mesh, a lot less hassle than older prim ones that require a lot of adjustment for that perfect fit. I mean come on, its a gag, its hardly tight if there's a huge gap between the strap and your skin.

If you want a mesh ballgag, this is probably your best choice right now.

No S&S tonight I'm afraid, I might edit it in later if they feel like commenting though.

RR Body Harness

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:52:00 +0000

Appearance

So we have a new harness here, from Marine. A classic design, intended to be snug, shape defining, and a handy addition for holding parts of your body in check.

This one uses Both rigged and unrigged mesh, with the rigged straps using the new fittedmesh system, which makes them form to your shape even more than rigged mesh already did. It also has materials in use, so make sure to have advanced lighting on.

It is VERY customisable. Each strap can be its own individual colour, of which the harness contains many presets and tints to choose from. You can freely choose which part of the strap as well, be it just the fastener, the trim, or the entire strap. Heavy multi colour is an option.

It also has a lot of patterns to choose form, ranging from the simple leather, to leopard print, to commands been stitched into to make it a dominant option as well, such as "obey". Submissive options exist as well of course, such as "Owned" and of course "Slave".

Two sections are rigged, the crotchstrap and the belly/lowerback. Annoyingly for me at least, the belly/lowerback one is slightly too far forwards, so my back clips, and theres a noticable gap from the side between the strap and my stomach.. The rest are unrigged, which is both good and bad. The good? It allows you to adjust for say, Lolas tangos, or unusual shapes and accessories. The bad? Unrigged will never flow with the body as well, and I noticed that while it fits perfectly on the posestand, it doesn't like quite a few animations in my AO.

Ultimately its a very adjustable piece, with tons of different ways it could be used. Breast harness, chastity strap, etc.

It also includes two toys of an intimate nature that are quite.. large, and can also be recoloured freely. Some of the options are also animated in quite an.. over the top way.

Function

Standard RR here. Lock as the first option, with Last Plug to follow, which opens the last plugin menu you were in. Take/leave Keys comes after that, with Tools.. on the next row down. In here you have the usual options, including a male setting, the ever handy verbose, etc. Plugins follows this, with 6 plugins within.

Those plugins are Leash, Marines Realkey system for overwriting the lock, Rl time, that makes the timelock go by what the real time is, not hours logged into SL. Autolock is next, which allows you to have the restraint lock in future, with specific restrictions and options in place. Give keys follows, and doesn't need explained, and finally is HarnessTex, which lets you adjust the appearance.

Back on the main menu, we finish up with More.. where you will find the usual RR options again, specifically the options to shut off the cheating alarm, and hide the timer. The other options are already on the main menu.

The toys have their own menu, with the majority of the options related to how they act, with how much speed. Could be quite evil

Thoughts

I quite like it, and the price is quite fair. It has very little up-to-date competition right now, though its primary one is major. The price is quite fair, and the customisation is *excellent*. Plenty of options to make it match a hell of a lot of outfits and ideas. The toys seem a little over the top at times, but still could be fun if used at the right time.

Also, Marine *really* needs to invest in a customisation HUD. When we have this many options, a HUD is just far, far more convient and effiecient to use.

Aside from the belly/lower back strap issue, I'd say it would be a pretty good buy all in all. 450 linden for this harness.

S & S

Good Variety of features
Quality is what they would expect
Not a must buy, but is nice, classic and very customisable.
Doesn't distinguish itself well outside of its customisation

Fedotia's Drone suit

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:38:00 +0000

So.. a Drone suit.

Appearance

Its an all encompassing rubber suit, head to toe, with optional very long ponytails. Can have up to three tails coming form your head, or none at all. These tails are also how you access the menu. It also has built in ballet boots.. It might be because of where they are located, but they seem lower quality than the rest, but that may just be the lighting not reaching them.

In terms of customization, you have a few options. The three hair styles mentioned above, the option to switch between gloves and mitts, and 11 colours options for the body and hair. For the most part the shine isn't too strong, but it is not adjustable, so your mileage will heavily vary depending on your lighting settings.

Function

To begin.. Be careful. If you lock this on yourself, anyone else in the world can still lock it as well. And if someone claims you, then leaves? Well you're screwed and have to do a hard reset. (Log without RLV, reset scripts). So yeah. best not to go out in this without an owner you trust. Also when its locked, you get a randomly assigned drone name to replace your normal.

As the wearer, when you first click it, you can choose to lock it, or leave it be. The first thing that happens when you lock is you get a HUD that limits you to the center of your screen for vision. The KaS hood uses a similar system. I've included an extra pic of this at the bottom of the review.

A massive black mark - It blocks IM by default. This should ALWAYS be an option, and off to begin with. The second black mark? Emote blocking, with NO way to turn it off. Any long messages simply become something like "A-660 squeals"

Now then.. Menus. RLV is first, in which you'll find two pages worth of various RLV restrictions. Nothing out of the ordinary in here. Release is next, and is fairly obvious in what it does. Self Lock

Done is next, which closes the menu for other people to use without interference. IM follows that, with all of the IM restriction options inside it. As mentioned before, this should be off by default, but isn't, so this may be the first stop for many if you buy it. Outfit follows, which is another RLV restriction menu, which lets you adjust whether you can attach or remove clothes and attachments.

Gag is next. It has only one level open to the wearer, which means everything you try to say come out in Mms and mmphs, with Mute following that, which stops you talking at all. Lastly is Appearance, where you can adjust the options mentioned above.

When locked by someone else, you'll just get a message saying "You're locked by <name>, Be a good drone". If locked, but no one has claimed you, it states "You are free but locked. You have to wait for an owner that claims you."

Thoughts

I have to be honest, I got a really bad first impression of this item. When I put something on, and instantly find my IMs not working? I get annoyed. Even more so when I can't emote properly.

Been objective. Its not badly built, though I did notice some odd lines showing up under some lighting, uncertain if that was intended or not. I also would of liked adjustable shine.The impact that setting has depending on your actual graphical settings should not be understated, and always adjustable.

I did like the gag and mittens at least, and the colour options weren't bad. But would I buy it for 800 linden..? Thats a tough one. In its current state, especially with that permanent emote blocker? I'd not buy it. Emotes are too important to RP to allow for such a thing.

You can pick this up from Tai Yong Labs on the Doll Works sim

S & S thoughts below

S one

"It doesn't really do anything better than what you could do before, and for people who like interaction and emoting rather than public restrictions, does things worse"

S two

"This item seems to be targeted for those who get their enjoyment from RLV enabled toys rather than the interaction and roleplay with others. "

RF Bandage Wrap

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 03:55:00 +0000

New product in RFs mummification line, and yes, it includes a tape option.

Appearance

Now after the rope coil, which while not bad, weren't Katies best. I was a little wary, but I'd say right off the bat the textures here are much better, as are the options.

You get a HUD, as is standard now (and should be for all stores!), and includes 1 tape texture, and 10 bandage, as well as the RGB grid, shine, etc options.

Note - to change between tape and bandage, press the Tape On/Bandage On buttons, not just the tape/bandage texture.

In terms of poses, it has a fair few. 3 standing, including a knee knocked that reduce unwraps your lower legs, a nice touch. 3 sits, 4 lays, an immobile and 4 hogties. All of these work well, although the hogties aren't quite what I expected (legs tight, extra wrappings over.) The single strip looks a little weird, but is functional.

You can also choose to wrap the head, which includes blindfold, gag and ear plugging options, and the feet. Whats more, the gag and blindfold, and even the tape earmuffs, can be used without the rest of the wrapping, a very nice touch. They are unrigged for easier fitting.

Also? I kinda love that little walk we use in the Standsh pose instead of hopping

All in all, very well made.

Function

As always, take the keys before wrapping yourself, lest you get taped/bandaged up and unable to free yourself. Unless you want that anyway. While holing the keys, the first menu is the Style menu, which can be ignored really thanks to the HUD. Other people can of course use it, but in the long run, easier to just ask the actual wearer to HUD it.

You then have Leashing, which has the standard options (givepost/leashto/etc), followed by Plugins, With the usual suspects. If you still have the keys, the next option is Untie, a self explanitory thing. Under Timelock, you'll find the usual timelock and timebound option (Lock is normal, bound merely unties, doesn't return key). In Settings, you'll find the usual again, as well Fall Down on/off, which stops you falling from people walking into you or you overbalancing while hopping. Keys is next, give, ice keys, etc, all in there as usual.

Restraints follows this, and is pretty packed. You have 5 menus for accessing the poses mentioned before, 3 options for tightness, Katies rather nice system of adding restrictions, then you have Extra Wraps>, in which you'll find options such as Head, Feet (which wrap or unwrap the selected option), the gag, blindfold and earmuffs. The gag has Katies usual options, and is in truth a complete product in itself. Back int he main menu, you finally have Unlock, which I doubt i need to explain.

If you are the sub, and don't have the keys, you get 4 options. Escape, which brings you to the standard RF minigame for wriggling free. (Select one of 6 options, get so many right until you get out, must rest every 6 or so. Struggle, which lets you try to wriggle into another pose, or tighten the restraints. Style, same as before, and Restraints. In this menu, you can freely go into a stricter pose, but must struggle to get into a looser one. This system was added with the rope coil I believe.

My thoughts

A HUGE improvement over the rope coil, and an obvious evolution of it to my eye. This product is just more polished, more options, cheaper and is just better in every way. I'm glad to see a return to form, as while the rope coil was by no means bad, it wasn't Katies usual level of quality. This? Far better.

Including a gag, blindfold and earmuffs, separate to the actual cocoon (thought requiring it to be worn) is a very nice touch, and greatly increases the usage of the cocoon, plus the options such as headwrap and feetwrap also add that little bit extra customisation that helps so much.

You may of noticed that we compare this a fair bit to the rope coil.. Which is not entirely intentional, but is similar in concept, if not execution.

Its 750 Linden

S & S thoughts below as normal these days

S one

Could see herself buying this product
Fills a void in the market
All features she'd need
Wishes it had wrapping progression
Hogtie poses are a bit lacking

S two

Dislike menu system (and RFs menus as a whole)
Scripts and plugins are as solid as ever, but also share same weaknesses as before
Hogties aren't bad
Look is excellent, what would be expected for a 2014 product
Price is steep, but better

Sensations - Bondage Table with Cage

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:49:00 +0000

Another item from Sensations tonight

Appearance

So.. Its a cage, with a bondage bench on top, with a hole in it for good measure. Inside the cage is a bowl, and straps are handily available if you want to strap someone down on top. The bowl inside can be hidden as well, or filled with a variety of fluids, from milk and water to.. some less sanitary fluids.

Poses wise, we have a fair few. Starting with the in cage one, the first "In Cage D/S" has 6, with a 7th been a gender variant. The second has 4, 8 for the third, and then you get solo, which has some repeats, just without the dominant person attached. 15 to be exact.

The table poses are similarly done, though with more sex based ones. You first have two Chain menus, Sex and D/s. Sex has 11 poses, D/S the same. Belts follows this, 9 for D/S, 10 for Sex, and a belt resizer option in both. Solo Table is below these, and like Cage solo, has repeated poses, but with just the sub, not the domme. 9 poses here.

Some of the poses are.. interesting. They made my assistant look like a contortionist, or just plain weird. Rather meant for a bigger avi, extreme yoga practitioners, or dislocated bones. Others, like the Tantrum one, has the captive kicking the door, which makes the doors push out a little and the padlock move, and apparently has a good sound effect as well. The animation of the kicking and the door moving sometimes go out of sync though.

In terms of textures, there's quite a few. 37 for the padding inside and on top, 20 for the cage, metal and wood textures for a change, 8 for the padlock, and 17 for the bowl. Oh and while the captive is in the bowl licking position, someone can go into the menu, and press the lick button to make them drink.

The included cuffs had an odd attach point on the legs, the anklecuffs were below the ankle ones, and the thigh seemed barely above the knee. They also are no mod.. which makes fitting impossible, which seems redundant, and thus we didn't use them for the pics.

You can also add your own animations, which is explained in an the help NC. I wont; cover that here.

Function

First things first, much like her couch before it, this for some reasons pings your relay every time the poses changes, whether you be the sub or domme, which can be a real pest if you are on Ask.

Now menus.. You first get Help, which has a variety of options. FAQ, Web help, a help NC and a Sensations HUD. Settings has a load of toggable options. Reset, touchable, update, Sensations - this adjusts whether it interacts with sensations plugins like arousal, Up and down.. - this lets you move the poseballs, autosync on sit, lockmesiter - turns the chains on or off, the Timer.. menu, Announce - this shows the current pose info, Public - this adjust access to the settings menu, NOT the device as a whole, and Adjust which does the same as public, except for poseball movement.

None is the next option on the main menu, which turns off all poseballs, etc and sets it back to doing nothing. Look.. follows, letting you adjust the textures mentioned above. Options lets you turn on Public Use, Sound and "Green text" which is messages to local chat.

In cage follows this, with access to all of the poses mentioned above, as does On table, the menu that comes after wards. Lock is next, and lets you lock and unlock the padlock, and adjust how hard it is for the sub to pick the lock. Get Cuffs will give you the sadly unmoddable cuffs, so if they don't fit.. Use your own. The table uses upper arm and thigh cuffs, as well as ankle and wrist, so best have a full set.

RLV is the last menu. Capture comes first, which lets you nab anyone with an open relay, with RLV following as a toggle, and RLV Menu at the end, which toggles public access to this menu as a whole.

So, after talking with Earalia, we came to the folowing conclusion. If you are the owner of the table, you will retainf ull menu rights, even when the captive. This hasn't occured before, as apparently only dommes have bought it. So the below bolded text still applies..

If you are a sub, and buy this for your domme to use on you, chances are, it won't work right and leave you with more freedom than it should. If the domme buys it, this issue will not occur. Gifting might be a better idea than outright buying as a sub

For clarificaiton, its like this. I get captured via the RLV menu, or even sit on it. Someone locks it. I can go into menu, unlock, change pose, change anything I want really. the "None" option dispapears, but thats not really an issue.

The sub can change some poses while inside the cage, as well as attempt to pick the lock.. This is all second hand from here on, as I had to be told how it works due to the whole not losing menu access thing. this is taken direct from chat.

"It has ACSII style representation of 5 pin/tumblers of a lock
and then a button to attempt, which will try and lock that tumbler down, but if it is wrong you reset the whole thing
you adjust the force number with -- - ++ + buttons from 1 to 100
and speed in the same way but I don't know why
then press jiggle and it will say a high pitched click or a low pitched click
you try and get to the specific number it is looking for, going down from high and up from low until you feel it set, then attempt
and you have a limited number of jiggles, 50
if you run out of jiggles, you need to reset"

Thoughts

It seems a nice table, albeit pricey. Quite a few of the poses seemed.. odd though. The person helping me had her body twisted about in ways that in at least one case, seemed unnatural. The constant pinging my relay is also annoying, and an issue that was in the couch as well.

While its mostly good, the absolute worst bit for me was the fact that I can't actually be a captive on it. We're not sure why, I tried with more than one relay, but I always retained menu access, couldn't lockpick, could change all poses, regardless of what I was in, etc. This to me was a major issue. I mean, I couldn't even test the lock pick.

The price is 2900

The S and S thoughts return. First S thought that..

Lot of poses, but some need work, strange contortions are off putting
Textures are really good
Lockpicking is good, better than struggle games, but speed mechanic is hard to understand

Second S thought that..

ASCII layout was nice for lockpicks
Feels unfinished, needs to be done better
Textures are well done!
Poses amount and variety is good, but some are simply bad and need replaced with improved ones

RF - Rope Coil

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 06:22:00 +0000

New item from Katie, mummification as well, always nice

Appearance

Lots and lots of rope is the easiest way to describe it.. From about the armpits, all the way to the ankles,you'll be encased in rope, with just your hands free. It fit me without much issue, but is rigged, and in only one size. I don't believe there is a demo available yet, so be cautious before buying if you have trouble with some rigged gear. There is, of course, alphas.

The ropes have two textures, brown and white. The HuD however comes with a full RGB grid, for you to try and fine tune the colours. There's no where to input specific values however, so you'll just have to try and colour match as best you can with the grid. The hands have more textures, as well as a white setting, and what appear to be black latex. You can also adjust glow, which can be quite nice if done right.

Its well sculpted, and doesn't distort when you move like some rigged mesh does. There's sadly no option to hide the hands, so you'll have them sticking out part way down the cocoon regardless. It has a fair few poses, 3 stands, 3 sits, 4 lays, 4 hogties, and a single immobile. Some poses are visually the same, but offer different restrictions. Like StandSh stops you turning outside of mouselook.

It uses materials for shine, and if you want to adjust it via the HuD, need to do some extra steps. Edit the cocoon, click edit linked, select the cocoon itself, go to texture, select shininess (specular) from the drop down menu, and turn it off. This'll give normal SL shine options again. Also you can start a little struggly dance by typing /5 <intials>dance. (I.E /5 awdance for me). Only the keyholder and captive can do this command.

I also found a rather large rigged mesh issue in some poses, and have included a pic of it to show what exactly it is. Lets hope that gets a quick fix. Its visible below.

Function

There's quite a lot in here, some of the usual RF stuff, some new. We have the style menu, which should really just be ignored, the HuD is far more effective to use. Leashing of course, with options for posts and holders, the many RF plugins and the fully functional RLV menu as well.

Untie will show up if you are bound and have the keys. Timelock is there, with both the normal timelock and the timebound one. Timebound merely unties, but does not unlock the restraint, for those new to Katies gear (or my reviews of said gear.) In Settings you'll find a few things. The Crypto-lock, Expose, verbose, etc, and a new option, Fall down off/on.

While hopping around, you can fall over, or be knocked down by someone. Hitting that will stop this happening. If you *are* knocked down, you can use the struggle system to assume a new pose. More on that below.

Keys of course works as always. Be sure to take them before tying yourself up if you don't want to get stuck. In restraints, you'll fine the menu sub menus that lead to the poses mentioned above, as well as tightness adjustment, which works like Katies other recent gear, the tight, the more restrictions applied.

When tied without the keys, you get a few menus. Style is there still, escape as well. Theres also restraints and struggle. Restraints works as normal.. But only if you go to a stricter pose, or tighter setting. You can't loosen it via this menu, just make it tougher.

Struggle lets you switch to another pose by, yes, struggling. Depending on your current pose, the pose you want to go to, and the tightness, it'll adjust how difficult the struggle game is.

My thoughts

While I quite like it, and it had a larger variety of poses than expected, and struggling between them is a smart system. Only two base textures/colours, though the hud helps there I suppose. Including a latex texture for the hands was a very good idea as well of course. I'd like a couple more looks for it as well.. Say neck length, or the ability to hide the hands.

It is 900 linden.. which is a lot. The biggest stumbling block may be that price for some people. And unfortunately textures aren't the best. Hard to say if I'd buy it normally. Some of it is really good, but some of it feels a bit less.. polished. The bug with the waist area of the rope doesn't help either.

Also added here are a some points from other peoples opinions of the restraint, because mine alone is not always the one to go by, especially when the restraint is not rubbery. We'll call them the S and S opinions for now, until I am certain they are okay with name reveals.

Well sculpted
Texturework seems a little dated
More poses than expected, though many are just rotations
Wary of price
Great for DiD play, uncertain for other forms
Would like to hide hands

KaS Hobbledress

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 03:52:00 +0000

Salid delivers on Christmas. And its 60% off, so get it quick!

Appearance

Amazing, is the words I will use for this. Some of the best mesh clothing I've seen. Amazing detail, lots of options, colour hud, plenty of sizes, and is structured properly. When the mittens are on, you can see them layered and buckled in place to the dresses shoulders for example. And I'm 99% sure it uses materials to add a gloss effect without even needing Shine on.

I recommend anyone on the base SL viewer, RLV or Firestorm (and any other viewer with recent updates to materials ready) get on the bandwagon, cause this looks its best with it. Motion adds a lot of course, which I can't show here, but still.

Its Hud allows you to adjust a lot of options.Various covers, the mittens, the sleeves when mittens are off, pretty much everything it could need.

You have three skirts, short, knee and long. Two sleeves, long and short, and I think can go with none. Mittens as well. Its comes in six sizes, the base one in the box, and five (XXS-L) in boxes should you need to fine tune it more.

The only bad part? The long skirt currently clips with her ballet boots, for those that like the idea of making your captive (or self) barely able to take a step with even more difficulty than just one or the other. No doubt this will be sorted soon.

Whats more, the Short and knee length ones could be used as just a normal rubber dress, they look great alone, without RLV needed.

I'll leave the pictures to show off the best parts, because I'm not sure I'm the best to describe them. So much so that I am putting four instead of my usual three. Top right shows the long dress, with mittens. Top left shows the knee with short sleeves, bottom right shows the short and long sleeves, and last one shows the back of the dress, the white areas are removabled.

Function

The other important thing of course. This uses a similar touch system to the corset, a hidden box around your waist for ease of access. The first menu allows you to lock it, lock its current style (colour, etc), lock the AO, set a timer, etc. Everything you need to keep yourself or captive tottering around. The second is the owners menu, which is standard KaS fair. Add, emergency, and current if you have any.

The next is mittens, for when you strap that extra layer over your arms (or the captives!). They allow five separate options for touching. Close touch, no world touch, others attachments, own attachments (bar dress), and self touch dress. Allows for some customising of your (subs) dexterity.

Openings is a rather nice set of options. It lets you hide the undersuit in various areas. You can hide the torso, butt and legs, so yes you can have them fully covered in two layers of rubber, with their rear exposed for whatever evil things you wish to do.

In the next menu, you adjust the hobble, the key part of the dress. You can turn on the walk AO, the walk type, which has three kinds, and a random option to change as you go. Slow Walk, which does what it says on the tin, and lastly Stand AO, for when stationary, which your probably will be a lot in this outfit.

Lastly we come to options. You can adjust the chat command for the menu here (default is /7dress) for use when the following option Use Chat, is enabled. Its off by default. The ever important update button is there, for when Salid decides to make this thing even better. The reset option and the very handy auto-alpha system. Once enabled, and if you have the alphas from the marketplace in your RLV folder (see below), then you can alter the dress style with much less hassle, no alpha juggling needed.

My thoughts

Right now, until the 29th I think it is, its 60% off. Buy it. Tell your friends to buy it. Tell strangers to buy it. This is the only hobble dress in SL currently worth owning. Do I need to say more? Its currently 335 linden.

Link for the alphas - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/KaSHobbleDressAutoAlphaLayers/5614534 Just drop em in the RLV folder as they are, and away you go.

Rf Mesh hood

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:20:00 +0000

A new hood on the market, always a nice change.

Appearance

A pretty customisable hood all in all. Leather, latex and 'Others' textures, with a HUD for easy mixing up handily. It has all of Katies usual textures, as well as four especially for the optional hair. You can do some other minor edits to the appearance via the HUD, like changing it to close via laces, zipper, or none at all, add or remove cat ears, and the optional hair. You can of course adjust shine as well. (enable screen space reflections in your viewer for best results).

The hood itself has a fair few different looks. Monk, which is open face, Maiden, which blinds, but leaves lower face free, Bane, which is smooth all over and a bit thicker, Full, which is like bane, but with the head harness still on, and less bulky, Gwen, the classic mouth covering style, and tattler, which is just your mouth, nothing else. It has a built in blindfold and gag that can be applied, and earmuffs, but they have nothing visible this time.

The gag has two styles, Panel and Ball. Oddly the ball is displayed even if the hood is put on full or Gwen, making it clip badly. Panel is fine for that setting.. but ball? Bane hides it. The panel also must be very tight, as you can quite clearly see the impression of a ball, or something of similar shape, under the tight gag. Also when a gag is worn, the hood stretches a little to accommodate your widened mouth, a nice little touch, similar to one the KaS hood uses. Lastly you can hide or show the head harness and collar as you like, via the restraint menu.

Unfortunately fitting this thing was a pest. The built in resizer is just no use if your head is not the exact shape of the hood. The only thing that I took longer fitting than this would be the siren ropes.

Function

Without keys, you as the wearer will have access first to the Plugins Menu. In here you'll find all of the usual suspects, including the sadly not so great resizer, the ever fun RF plugins (mannequin, catatonic, etc), a fully function RLV menu, sound adjustment, and can deny style change while locked.

The Style menu si next, and is very bulky. Its far, far easier to use the HUD that comes with it, which I highly recommend. In the style menu, you can freely adjust any single piece of the hood, by going through submenu after submenu.. Or use the HUD to select and change that same piece in seconds.

Sign is a staple of Katies now. A long list of gestures for your avatar to use to try and express themselves, presumably while gagged. RLV off follows this, with settings bringing up the middle option. Settings is the same as always, Verbose, Expose, update, etc.

The following option is Leashing. This hood has two leash points, One on the collar, and one on the top. Next up is Take keys, which I'll get to in a minute, then restraints. Lock is the last option.

If you lock it without keys, you can still unlock it this time. Not quite as cruel as some of Katies gear in that regard. The restraints menu is quite full. You can change the gag type, the hood type, alter the strictness of the gag, as well as what kind of garbling the Pet setting uses. (Mmphs as human, mewls as Kitty, etc). The blindfold has three settings, (faux, half, full).Curiously, you can hide the blindfold even when blinded, which makes sense for the eye covering hoods.. but makes me wonder if dark contacts are used for the open eye ones. Has RP potential for those that want to use blind effects, certainly. Earmuffs, is similar, three settings, all the same as blind.

Once the keys are taken, the menus rearrange themselves a bit, and a new one appears, timelock. As usual, Katie has split this in two. One that fully releases the hood, and one that merely releases the restrictions, but leaves the hood snugly locked in place. You also get the keys menu. In here you can adjust various things like the master key, sec owners, etc

Being awhile since I covered them, so adding them here. The crypto-lock, if you succeed in activating it after doing the mini-game, makes the hood inescapable. Katies good old system, the Ice Keys is here as well, always fun since she started using them ohh.. over a year ago? They are pretty much a temporary set of keys that last a set amount of time, before 'melting', and thus losing the holder access to the restraint.

My thoughts

I like this hood in terms of looks. Plenty of variation. Fitting it was a real pest though, especially the ballgag, which was slightly too high for my mouth. I had to cam into my head to finally be able to edit it individually. Creators (not just Katie) seriously need to invest some time in letting us adjust stuff by X, Y and Z axis individually, not just all at once.

I can see this getting a lot of use, simply because of all the variations, which is starting to feel like Katies speciality to me. Lots of different looks and types built into one product. Would be handy for kidnap like RP if you could hide it though.

Price is 600 linden.

As of next review (or maybe edited into this one), I will be adding a "Would I buy it" bit at the end of the review, which will also have two other peoples input. Might help things along a bit.

D&B glass cage

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:08:00 +0000

A remake of a very old cage that used to be at the Bondage Playground, pre-RLV tonight, done by Mija Perfferle, who collabed with Dari on the TeasingTUBE.

Appearance

Its well.. a large glass box, held together with metal supports, with a cutout on two sides showing the letters BP. Appearance wise, it can be adjusted to 70 different colours, which can have various effects added (6 to be exact). Isolation makes it a solid black box.. with the BP still cutout, allowing light and sound in, and letting them see out.. Not very isolated?

You can also change the colour of the leash holder, or hide it completely. The frame has five colours to choose from. Adjust pos is also there, and can save up to ten different peoples poses inside it. Maybe not so good for a prison like sim with lots of prisoners, but quite nice just to have that option in the first place. You can also add your own poses to it.

Also you can send Mija a request to get other letters cut out instead, at a possible extra cost

Function

If you touch an empty cage, two menus appear. Options, and open/close door. In options you can adjust the intial timer, update it, adjust who can access it, change the appearance, reset it, and turn on the trap.

The trap is simple, someone walks in, cage closes, sub is caught. Dommes can of course abuse this qute easily.

Once someone is trapped, a third option appears, which is take control. This adds a fair few extra options. Open door reappears, which pauses the timer, but doesn't release the captive, allowing the domme to make some.. personal adjustments. Options is the second button, but already covered.

Third is timer, which lets you add or remove as low as 1 minute, or as much as 1 day at a time. The next is called AFK test, and I kinda like this. It lets you choose a punishment, then displays an option for the captive, who then needs to press the right button. If she fails, the time is added. Whats more fun? The tease option, which does the same as above.. except doesn't give an option that is correct, so the sub always fails.

Following this is Release, which does what it says on the tin, followed by the poses menu already covered. Adjust pos is next, also covered above. Last is an RLV folder browser.. than doesn't work if a folder has more than 24 characters.

The captive themselves can access the adjust pos menu as well, which is handy.

RLV wise, it enforces no Unsit, no TP, no Map, and no fartouch (1.5 meter and more away)

For prisons, it has a staff list NC inside that you Can add an avatars UUID to, which will give them access to the menus regardless of setting I believe.

My thoughts

Its quite a nice idea, and it is well made. Uncertain if it has materials stuff like the TeaseingTUBE Mija worked on previously (no materials in firestorm yet, forgot to ask when speaking to her). Its well made certainly, and has plenty of customising.

The tease option is fun, but as my helpers pointed out, if you are left alone locked in this cage and its on? Yeah, not nearly as much fun. We also found that after the first few times, it might wear a bit, so should be used sparingly lest it become boring.

The prices are.. 999 for the trans version, which does not have guaranteed updates for life, and 2499 for the copy version. I'll refrain from commenting on the price myself.

Click here for the marketplace store

DSS Saddletree

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:01:00 +0000

New store tonight

Appearance

Its a wood post, with a fancy, metallic bump section conveniently located just where a captives crotch would lie. The textures pretty good, and it is mesh, which helps. There's a handy shock wand hanging on the front as well.

Adjustment wise.. There's nothing. You can't changes its looks via any menu. You can via edit, but that would require custom textures, unless you just want to add shine or recolour it.

Function

Lets begin. We have three options, Scan, which searches for people to capture, Self bondage, which tries to nab the person that clicks it, and settings. Settings lets you adjust who can access, the range of the scanner, the volume, and the self bondage timer. You can also hit help for access to a web page explaining how to use it (as opposed to an NC).

Now scan/self bondage are important. You can't sit on this thing, you have to be captured. Which of course means you must have a relay, but those are easy to get. It also only allows one person in its menus at once, not that unusual.

Once captured, the menus fairly simple. volume controls, release the victim, and timer adjustment. That's all.

Now then, this things party piece is the shock wand. You click it, hold your mouse down, move to the targeted area, then click again. the wand will zoom up and zap them, right where you click. Anywhere on their body. You can even chain zap with it, if you click fast enough.

My Thoughts

Its a fun toy, and very good for a first release I'd say. I'd like appearance options, and maybe some RLV options would be a good addition. Its not that the menus lack anything its just that they seem.. Well bare, very few options. Using a web page instead of an NC is fine, but like

I've said with KDC stuff, you do get people who can't be bothered with that. That's of course not the creators fault, but still, and this thing has nothing too difficult to figure out. Though I say that, no doubt many will struggle with the shock wand, but that's just the way people in SL are I suppose.

All in all, a pretty good device, especially for a first one.

You can find DSS on the marketplace - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/64862

[h]arsh - Teasing TUBE

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:43:00 +0000

The tube is meant to be in all caps. Anyway! New piece from [H]arsh, uses material viewer stuff as well to make the textures have more depth. Right now I have no idea if Firestorms latest (4.4.2) has materials or not, so I can't compare it with and without.. but regardless.

Appearance

So.. Its a glass box held up by four legs, with a metallic frame holding it all together. The large opening at the front happily lines up with your captives assets. I think you can tell the intent of this glass cage without much effort!

In terms of adjustment, you can retexture the metal, as well as adjust how bright it is and its colouring. The glass can also be recoloured, have its shine and glow settings changed, and its transparency. You can set this last one to 0 to leave the captive unable to look out, with only the hole for light.

It also has six poses, all of which can be adjusted, position wise, separately via the options menu, covered below.

Function

So lets begin.. When you first access it with no one in, you'll have three menus. Scan, which will look for relays to nab people with. Door, that opens the back pane for people to walk into it, and options. Inside options you can set up an auto trap, which will scan (within the range you set) and nab anyone it can.

There's also Release time, that's the initial timer, you can adjust it after capturing as well. Set to 0 for normal locking. The next option is scan range, mentioned above.. Then appearance, covered above

Last two options are Update and access rights, letting you choose between the owner, group or public.

When someone is inside it, the first option is release... Then you have timer adjust. You can add up to 60 minutes at a time with it, or take away 20 at most. If you set it to 0, it will count as normal lock, and will stay locked till someone releases. The third allows you to remove clothing on all layers, little by little. The fourth option is a fully functioning RLV folder menu, always a nice touch.

Anims is next, covered above in the appearance section. The options menu allows you to adjust both avatar position, and where those all-important holes are, a very nice feature. Saves resizing the box for different size avis. Each pose has to be done individually, which can be a little annoying. The holes can be moved by a large amount at once, whereas the captive can only be done a tiny notch per press. Whats missing? the option to adjust appearance. Seems to only be doable while unlocked.

You can also set a secret word here, which is sort of a safeword. If someone enters the word on channel 33, it releases the captive. Anyone can say it. Its a nice failsafe. For those wondering, the device is copy/no mod/no trans. So throw them out all over! Though it says no mod, you can adjust the size axis as you need to.

Lastly above the front pane of glass is the victims name, while below is how long they have left till freedom.

My thoughts

Its a Dari product, done in conjunction with Mija Perfferle, so quality is expected, and it is received. Its design is nice, simple to adjust, has plenty of options, and allows for groping. Whats not to like?

The only issues I have is the pose adjustment, options to adjust by a larger amount per click would be nice, similar to how the holes have two options for smaller or larger adjustment. I also wish I could change the appearance of the box while a captive is within it.

Also some chains might be nice, forcing the captive against the glass, and naturally putting them in a more vulnerable pose for whomever is doing the teasing! That's not a major thing though.

All in all? I like it. Its copy as well, which helps.

Price is 499 linden.

RF Mesh Kneeler

noreply@blogger.com (Aria) — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:00:00 +0000

I'm not dead! Yet. Being a busy month and a half, and not that many releases to cover. I do have a couple of items I was sent that I need to do, sorry to the person who sent me them for not having them done yet.
Anyway! Lets get on with it.

Appearance

     A kneeler, another strict restraint that works great when done right. This one appears to be done very much right. Its unrigged mesh, so easy to fit if you need to make adjustments. You climb into it, legs folded up, then the zip/laces are done up, sealing you in from the waist done. You can also apply a harness of straps over the top if you just want to make them feel completely helpless.

     The style menu has the usual half ton of options that we expect from Katie. It also includes her style hud, to make life much easier and quicker. You can also adjust the closure type. Zip, laces and.. none. None almost makes it look like you may of being sewn into it, which is evil (and fun.) Oddly the hud started way off screen for me, but that's an easy fix.

     Much like her armbinder, the textures seem to look much better than they did before, which is always good. The same ones as usual are available, with some extras for the soles. Lastly there is a crawl animation if you try to move. Going by it, the restraint is very strict!

Function

     Lets get onto the meat of this thing then. The first menu is Style, which doesn't need covering, bar for the Use Alpha button. Turn this on, and if you have the folders setup right in RLV, it will auto attach/detach the alpha for you. Saves time, hassle, and helps if inventory blocked.

     Leashing is next. You can get posts, handles, etc from here, adjust length, etc, as well as choose to leash it to the front of back of the restraint. (or both). Following this is the plugins menu, with the usual suspects from RF, including an RLV menu, a resizer, and of course the RF specific scripts like Catatonic and Mannequin.

     If you have the keys, the timelock menu is next. The usual options in here, timelock and timebound, etc. Following that, in the Settings menu is the usual stuff, Verbose, update, etc, and the Crypto-lock which makes the restraint inescapable.. If the person can do the mini-game that is.

     The keys menu is the same as always, and after that is Restraints. Like the armbinder, it has three settings. Tight, Tighter and Tightest. Tight and Tighter let you crawl around slowly, while Tightest immobilizes you. You can also add or remove the harness straps. The last button is lock, or unlock, depending.

Closing Thoughts

     I quite like this, its one of those things you don't see very often, and coupled with a straitjacket or armbinder, it can look very effective at holding you (or your captive) securely. Have to admit to hoping this might mean there's a full out legbinder on the way as well though.

     The good? Well its got plenty of customisation, looks good, and compliments the other RF mesh pieces quite well.
     The bad? The crawling anim could use some work, the inbuilt resizer only allows straight scaling, not axis resizes.

Price is 350 linden, seems reasonable to me.