Kcreations Bodybinder

As if to celebrate the offical release of Firestorm Mesh, Kcreations just released this binder tonight.. and it looks amazing.


It has two variants. Leather and rubber. I of course bought the shinier one, but if you want to see what the leather one looks like, check out Tess Paiges one - Click here for it. For the latex ones, well thats what the pics in this blog are for!

It looks nice and shiny of course, and the straps can be used to make a good contrast in colour. Been mesh, its of very high quality in shape, with none of that annoying resizing needed or any worries of prims clipping.. With the exception of the collar. Because Rigged mesh is like clothes, it can't be edited on the body, but the collar is unrigged, a smart move by Kat Fetisov. This allows the collar to work as a controller without needing an extra attachment, such as DXW uses instead. The design is very well done, a zip at the back, tight straps at key locations around the body.. If you zoom in close, you can even see the seams down the back. Its beautiful.

To top it off, occasionally you'll squirm in it a little. A nice little touch, I know how hard it can be to stay still in these things..

It carries two recolour plugins, one for the main bag and one for the straps. both can be changed to one of 10 colours.

Onto function. To start with you click the collar on this to make it work. First menu is plugins, the above line covers whats in that menu. Next is settings.. Which covers the struggling mini-game it carries. 5 buttons here, Easy, Medium, Hard and Impossible. Theres also RESET (its in all caps in the menu) which resets the captives progress, handy for evil dommes who want to let their sub get within reach of escape, just to knock them back down to helpless.

Next is the RLV menu, three options here, you can choose to block Activities. This stops stuff like inventory access. Location, which is of course the map, etc. Lastly there is Info, whichs stops you seeing names and hover text.

There is of course a leash and a timer. And the aforementioned struggle mini-game. Five options in it, Wriggle, Shimmy and Stretch are the primary escape ones, with examine which tells you what might work and Ask, which asks a nearby avatar to help you. They can choose to do so, which will greatly boost you towards escape.. Or they can choose to hinder, which does the opposite. Watch out for evil people who want you helpless and wriggling.

It also has a built in tiredness meter. The more you hop, the tireder you get, and as such you hop slower. I think it uses the same tiredness from the struggle mini-game, so doing either will tire you out. Staying still for awhile lets you rest and get back up to speed.

Scores!

Get it at Tess' little shop of kink in Lineside! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lineside/80/148/78/?title=Little%20Shop%20of%20Kink

Quality - I cannot get over how good this thing looks! 10/10 easy.
Function - Its got some nice stuff, the idea of hopping making you tired is very smart. 9/10
Price - 500 Linden for a set, rubber or leather. Compared to most mesh toys, thats very good. - 8/10
Average - 9/10

Firestorm Mesh official release

Just a heads up for those that read my blog but have not yet made the mvoe to mesh - The extremely buggy firestorm mesh beta is now over, the official release is out.

That means all those making the excuse of "Firestorms too buggy right now, blah blah blah" need to come up with a new one. Go upgrade allready you kainotophobics.

(..kainotophobia is fear of change for those that couldn't guess)

RR Straps (Arms and Legs)

Figured I'd just review all of my RR gear over the next little bit, then move onto mixing it up again.


So, the RR bondage straps. Like the Ropes, they come in two seperate equally priced packages.. With more content in one than the other. Oddly enough basic everyday straps like this are nearly impossible ot find in SL.

On looks, they are pretty goods. Another highly uncommon restraint thats common enough IRL. The basic bondage strap. These are leather, and pretty well done. Up close you can see the stitching and metalwork is quite detailed.

On to function.. The arms have one position. One. When I bought these and found this out I was quite disapointed. The legs fair better with 4. Tight, Sit, Lit and Hogtie. Plugin wise the arms carry more again, just like the ropes. They can touch restrict, Un/wear and give RLV folder access (Wear > outfit > root) It has force sit and an option to switch between RL and SL timers. You can of course do the general RLV options which I won;t relist here, autolock, Realkey, etc.

The legs have only 6 plugins in comparison. Leash and realkey are there of coruse, so is autoock and give keys and lastly RL time and wriggle. Wriggle lets the sub change pose by going through a little mini-game. You can go from stand to sit, sit can go to either standing or lying and lying can go back to sit. Hogite cannot change position.

Both carry a "Special..." menu, which in the arms case lets you block the restraint, force mouselook, auto refresh and turn on and off /77 menu access. Theres also silent (no chat spam) and an alarm for if the sub cheats and detatches the restraint. The legs lack the block and mouselook options, although thats no major thing.

Score time!

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Arms
Quality - Can't fault them, but not overly amazing either. 7/10
Funciton - RLV folder access is nice, but lack of positions hurts it, heavily - 5/10
Price - 180 linden. Not bad, but for a single pose.. 7/10
6.5/10

Legs
Quality - See above. 7/10
Function - More poses, less plugins - 6/10
Price - 180 again. The legs have a much better range of poses, a better price - 8/10
7/10

Please update these with more poses Marine (on the exceptional off-chance you read this), they could be so much better..

RR Shibari Ropes. Arms + legs.

Ropes. Possibly the most used bondage restraint in the world. SL does nto seem to have many, at least many worth speaking of.. Though I would greatly apprciate been proven wrong here! Let me know of any other decent sets out there.

First up - The legs and arms are seperate packages, though the arms are a better deal.

So. Looks. These looks pretty good, like.. Well ropes. They can be recoloured, although that only works if you use the lighter of the built in textures of which there are 9. Light leather, dark leather, black leather, white leather, black nylon, dark hemp, white poly, synth hemp and light hemp. You can also sue custom textures if you find some or have the know-how to make your own. The detail of the ties is brilliant though, and looks very much liek shibari should do.

Function.. Well to start, the arms have 6 differant poistions, as do the legs. Theres a tighten/loosen button which I believe makes the escape mini-game harder or easier depending. Under plugins there is quite a bit on the upper body ropes. Theres the everyday RLV options under the Control.. Button, allowing you to restrict stuff like Names, Locations, Tping, etc. a leash, a fully functioning Outfit option, with access to teh RLV folders and the option to detatch or attach their toys and clothes.

You can deny touch, set the timer to be RL or SL and force sit via the ropes as well. They also have a male option for those of you of the other gender.

The leg ropes have only 4 plugins. 3 of which the arms have. The only unique one here is the crotchrope option, which merely makes the crotch rope pirm rez or derez.

They do NOT have a realkey plugin, but anyone can untie you after a short time passes.

So! Scores.

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Arms
Quality - Looks good, decent textures and custom texture is always nice for those that can use it - 8
Function - The arms carry a good amount, a fair deal I'd say - 8
Price - 400 linden.. Not bad I suppose. 7
Average - 7.5

Legs
Quality - Same as arms - 8
Function - A lot less. If they came as one product fine, by as they are seperate.. 4/10
Price - 400 linden again, for a lot less built in, terrible really. 5/10
Average - 5.5

I'm forced to ask, why not just sell them as one product? The only reason to get legs is to compliment the looks of the torso in many ways with the lack of plugins. I'd say combine them or do legs for less myself. If they were as one..

Quality - 8
Function - 8
Price - 8
Average - 8

Aria

RF Mittens

I'm back from London! Time for a review of an item that was released while I was down south.. A very nice item indeed.


The RF bondage mittens. First off - they look GREAT. No more need be said. The design is very good, close up you can see all the stitches, the latex is nice and shiny.. the cuffs look good, and they even include a first for SL - opera glove length versions. For those of us that use mesh anyway (Why doesn't everyone for gods sake? its brillaint!)

You can also unmitten, which leaves a cuff around your wrists, but otherwise no restrictions.

For altering the appearance, theres quite a few options. You cna adjust the shine (off, low, medium, high) and choose from a variety of rather latex or leather textures to colour it as you see fit. You can adjust the strap, mitten, metal, the pad and the cuff seperatly. It also comes with 24 sub anims built in.

It includes an escape game, which you most likely will end up doing at least once. These mittens carry a very large risk. If you bind yourself without taking the keys first? You're stuck unless some nicer person comes and frees you, or you complete the mini-game. Similary if someone activates teh timelock, then frees you and you take the keys? Stuck. Very evil device. They can of course be exposed to the public at the great risk of removing any chance of freeing yourself unless you do. Make sure to have them proteced if you are messing around and testing.

They include an interesting little mini-game as well. When next to an object, you can try to interact with it via the "touch object" option. This brings up a mini-game with 3 options and you can attempt to put in the right sequence to touch something.

A first for mittens, at least those that I have used - These include binding positions. 6 to be exact, as well as just having the mittens out. Good on Katie for saving us putting cuffs on over the mittens.

They include the typical RF plugins such as mannequin, future bind, etc. and of course a leash. They also include a fully functioning RLV relay, folder access and the other usual RLV options, such as restrictions and auto TP. Lastly they have some sounds built in as well (locking, belt and bell.. Not entirely sure about what the second two do with the mittens not found an option to add a bell to them.)

Theres the masterkey plugin as well as sec owners for those that prefare to give more private access.

In the box you'll find a lot of objects. It boils down to the prim used to activate the mittens, used regardless of mesh or not, a sculpty version and two sets of mesh mittens (basic and opera).

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Scores

Quality - VERY high. I love how these look.. especially the mesh opera gloves - 9/10
Function - I gave the slick mittens 9/10. These mittens do all they do and more. Only one option - 10/10
Price - 400 linden. More than slick, but with more built in. A good price for what you get. 9/10
Average - 9.5