Slick! Isolation hood and Mittens

Onto gear only available via the marketplace! The slick hood and mittens.

Hood

Appearance

Its unique, somewhat like an aviator helmet meets a hood. In terms of look choices you have - 6 rubber textures, 6 leather and 6 metal.Its also mod, so you can freely adjust stuff like shine if you so wished.

The nose holes can be toggled. The gags don't visually change anything, nor does the blindfold. Adjusting whether the hood is in plain locked, unlocked or public modes does change the light on the back of the collar however. Similarly using the earmuffs changes those glowing rings on the side of your hood.

Function


The hood has quite a lot. When you first click, you get the option to lock. From there you get the meat of the options. The first 3 options are tickboxes. Lock, No Touch and Public. If you use public? Yeah, you're stuck unless some kind person turns it off. Or takes you home and plays with you. Either could be fun.

Next up is gags. there are a few options in here, which stack actually. The muffler makes you whisper, the mouth gag option, which is standard gagging really, garbling. Expand is fun, making you very hard to understand . The last one is throat gag.. and this is nasty. It blocks emotes and chat, sending out messages of its own instead of just '...' at least. Also in this menu is Deny emote and Deny IM

The blindfold is next. It uses windlight/environmental settings to blind instead of a HuD, so effective at keeping you blind no matter what. Three levels of blinding. Tint Glass is faint, blur is pretty effective, and blind is.. blind. There's also mouselook here.


The earmuffs are simple enough, three options. Deaf turns the hoods glowing rings red, and makes chat not work. No Emotes apparently fills your ears with white noise, making it hard to concentrate enough to see what people are doing, and No IMs does not need an explanation.

the leash is next, simple to use. Timelock as well, just make sure to turn it on after setting the time up. Appearance lets you adjust the texture to the rubber, leather or metal ones, and turn the nose holes on/off.

In the bottom row there is one option, Advanced. You can make the hood be quiet in local. get you the hood NCs, update it and lastly turn on hardcore mode. Hardcore disables the reset option, and can't be turned off once its on. Use at your own discretion. The reset button turns up if you have RLV off.

Mittens

Appearance

Padded, with a zip running down the back of the mitten and a white pad over your palm. They have the same amount of textures and colours as the hood. The white wristband and pad cannot be adjusted via the appearance menu however, so you'll need to manually use mod to change that. Can also add shine this way.

Function

Functionally, this thing is quite similar to the hood. There's the Public plugin again, same case as the hoods. Turn ti on and you can only hope someone is kind enough to help and/or kidnap you.

Touch is next, it lets you adjust the restrictions on, you guessed it, touching. Near touch, or in other words disabling far touch, is self explanatory. No Objects means you can't touch stuff lying around, not self means nothing you have on, and lastly Not Others doesn't let you mess with others stuff. There's also Not Mittens, meaning you can touch your own mitts.

The inventory menu is a bit different, letting you restrict Images, Notecards, edit or your entire inventory. Those first two especially aren't common to see. After this you get timelock and Appearance, both the same as the hoods. Likewise for Advanced.

My thoughts on both

I like these items, though I admit I don't use em much. They are both good and bad for RP, depending on your captor, and as usual, deny IM makes me go ugh. I suppose for Sci Fi RP though, the hood would be very good.



Slicks! store - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/54397

Hood score
Quality - 8/10
Function  - 9/10
Price - 550 linden.


Mitten Score.
Quality -  9/10
Function -  9/10
Price - 250 linden.
Average - 9