RF "Stealth gag" (Mouth corset)

Another new one from RF, and one that has being oddly missing until now

Appearance

In terms of design, its as expected for a mouth corset. A high long collar, extending down to the bottom of the neck, and up over the mouth, very snugly. It has a variety of latex and leather textures for the main panels, and some metal ones as well. Ten for latex and leather, four for metal.

You can hide the rivets at the front as well. Katie mentions her reasoning for this pretty well. With the rivets on, it pretty much states there's a pear gag attached to the covering. Without.. You can pretend its whatever you like. Ball. Panties, inflatable, etc.

One issue i had is with the alpha, and my camera at its typical angle, I can see a through myself due to the gag not being tight against my face enough. Fortunately the alpha is not required, and with it off the gag doesn't clip me at all. Hopefully this is the same for anyone else who has the alpha issue.

The style menu allows use to hide/show the metal, as well as adjust textures for Lacing, D-Rings, Chains, the Cover, the Gag Plug and the Rivets  The odd bit here is the gag plug isn't even visible unless you cam inside your head..

If/when you use the leash option, the leash comes out of the middle of the gag, right where your mouth should be.

On a side note and completely unimportant note, the gag seems to fit the KaS catsuit(size XS at least) near perfectly.



Function

This is pretty much identical to the Scolds Bridle, without the blindfold or earmuffs and of course the style options that go with them. Same gag levels, same gag options, same renamer, etc.

The only other option I could find that was different/new is the option to turn auto alpha usage (via RLV folder) on and off.

EDIT: I just discovered that this thing, like the AiTech gag, can muffle emotes using its built in renamer. I.E an emote that is Aria yells "Help!" would come out as  Aria yells "Wewk!" When set to Garble. This may sound familiar. The AiTech 'best gag in SL' has this system as well.. Making it no longer unique to them.

Scores

Appearance - Unique in SL.. bar maybe MBs, but that one is very bad in comparison - 9/10
Function - 9/10
Price - 275 linden

RF Scolds Bridle

Newish gag from RF!

Appearance

First off, its made of metal, so those wanting a nice skintight leather/latex/etc gag  will want to look at something more like Katies Mask gag instead.

So starting with the actual bridle.. With the gag, its a metal harness around your head, with the gag riveted via a plate to the harness in the front. A small d-ring hangs from the gag plug, presumably for leashing purposes the sub around. The plug cannot be removed, so no open mouth option.There's also another D-ring on top of the harness.

The blindfold can be worn separately from the harness/gag, though the rivets look a little odd on the front if the harness is not under them. You can also add metal earmuffs, to block out sound.

For customisation, you can freely recolour/texture five different parts, or the whole lot at once. There's four metal types, Iron, Rust, Silver and Gold, with varying degrees of shine you can apply. There's also a default button for changing back to normal

Function

To start with you have the Plugin menu, this contains Katies usual plugins. Next we have style, covered above. Then we have Sign. Sign I like. Its pretty much sign language, albeit very simple. You can choose from 17 different options and you will do a gesture depending. be it a wave, pointing to something, etc.

You can turn RLV off with the next button, and access the Settings via the following one. Settings is the usual. Expose/update/get items, etc. Following that is a leash which can be applied to either of the D-rings mentioned in the Appearance section

Next is Take Keys, which is obvious and moves some buttons around - will get back to that shortly. The following two menus are Restraints, and Lock/unlock. The latter is obvious and needs nothing mentioned. The restraints its split into three areas. Gag, blindfold and Earmuffs. The Gag has 6 settings for mumbling, as well as adjustable channel, various RLV restrictions you can adjust and a renamer for good measure.

The blindfold is simpler, three settings. Faux lets you see still, though does take away map privileges. Half makes the screen blurry, and full obviously blinds you. Earmuffs are in the same vein, faux, half and full. Half blocks names and I think distance, while full obviously makes it impossible to hear anything. Back in the main menu, below each of the submenus for adjusting the restraints is a Remove button for its respective piece (gag/blindfold/earmuffs) and lastly an option to UnAll.(actual spelling)

Once locked, the menus shift around. Sign becomes the first option, leash becomes second, etc, and Timelock appears. Timelock is split into your typical Timelock for releasing once it ends, and Timebound which merely removes the restrictions while leaving the device locked on.

Scores

Appearance - Metallic so not my area of expertise.. It looks good though - 7/10
Function - Plenty of options here - 9/10
Price -  400 Linden

Side note

Those curious about my outfit here that you can see the top of - KaS just released a new mesh catsuit. Go pick it up if you want mesh shiny goodness

AiTech - Shiniez mermaid suit

A tribute item tonight! Everyone should know Shiniez by now, his art and storyline is legendary.

Appearance

This is based on the mermaid seen HERE and in terms of design, is accurate. Rigged mesh, so very easy to fit, and of to be honest it looks damn good. If I was rating this on just the looks alone? Would be 10/10 in an instant. However I'm not..

In terms of recolouring, it has a good selection. 18 colours, with 3 different areas re colourable (base, trim and belts). My pics show the default and my usual combo of black/red as examples.

Then we get to the bad. It has NO built in AO and suggest using a normal mermaid AO. This strikes me as an issue for what is meant for a realistic bondage RP mermaid suit.. Int his suit, you should be forced to crawl along the floor for example, not float in the air. And it has a ton of issues with a few AOs as well, the lacing often getting messed up or the material stretching. At the very least it should force my feet together at all times.



So to put it quickly. It looks amazing, but the lack of built in AO (especially for the price) hurts it severely in my eyes, which is a shame. Shiniez designs deserve at least a basic bondagey mermaid AO.

Function

This thing is VERY basic. You can turn on/off RLV, turn on/off running, touching and flying, as well as enable a slow mo which as it suggest, makes you move much slower and set it to quiet, which just lets the bound one and her captor get the messages from the suit.

Otherwise you can toggle it between 3 locking types. Anyone, single key and no one.

This doesn't need fancy commands and such I admit, but again it just feels like something is missing.. Probably due to the lack of AO again. This review feels too short as well.

Closing thoughts

I think its obvious what I'm gonna say. Give it a built in AO! At the very least force the feet together, and give us RPers who want to be bondage mermaids the options for more realistic play such as well, being forced to crawl in it, not float using a third party AO.

Scores

Appearance - Would be 10/10 but for the stretching issues caused by lack of AO - 8/10
Function - Extremely basic - 7/10
Price - 900 Linden. Now I;d say this is worth it for a shiniez lover. But for the love of god get a good AO first, else the stretching destroys the look.. - 5/10 (liable to change if the creator listens!)

Extra

Right now this review seems both short and harsh to me. But I love shiniez art, like many, and honestly was annoyed at how they felt just leaving out an AO seemed appropriate. I'll likely update this if/when an update to the restraint is released, if only cause I want this one to succeed so badly.

TL;DR

Amazing looks. basic function. Basic funciton I'm more than happy to live with. Lack of built in AO hurts it so badly that I almost didn't post this review.

RR - Siren Ropes

Finally got around to these. Reason it took me so long will be explained in post.

Appearance

Nice and snug ropes, as expected. Thin cord as opposed to the thicker used by her previous rope set which is a nice difference, and mesh of course that *should* make resizing easier. More on this later.

Its Marine, so you already know that the textures are gonna be good. 20 built in Textures, the ability to tint it as you see like and even adjust the material between 7 presets. Adjusting the material does not change the texture so much as it changes the colour and shine settings, so for the latex ropes to look best, you want some pretty high lighting settings and good windlight.

Now for the bad side. These ropes are the single hardest thing to fit in SL I have ever used. Take the leg ropes (noticeable in the hogtie one especially),there's a big gap between my legs and the rope at the bottom. However if I try to make it tighter at the bottom, it starts to clip at the top. And that's just the start. There is a pose in the arms, Over Head, that nearly everyone I know cannot get to fit right. Its mostly due to arm length being too long or short from what I can tell. This one is being fixed I believe, but then you come to straitjacket and well..

Lets just say fitting these takes time. Plus some viewers still have a bug that makes them crash to desktop when editing mesh occasionally to make it doubly annoying.

Function

Thankfully the frustration of fitting does pay off. 8 base poses as opposed to the usual 6 for both arms and legs, plus add in the anim hud (get it under plugins > anims) gives a ton of extra poses. Furthermore you can even adjust how your legs and arms are for sitting in the latest huds Marine has included a tutorial on how to do this on her own blog - read it here

The legs have quite a few less plugins than the arms, but include handy ones like RL time, autotie, leash, and a handy one for tying the subs shoes on via a rope that curls under the heels. Realkey is not included, but anyone can untie after awhile like the shibari ropes.

The style menu allows certain poses to change certain parts of the ropes. For example Style 1 of hobble has my knees tied and a rope going from ankle to ankle somewhat loosely to allow me to shuffle. Hit Style 2, and that ankle rope disappears. For the legs, you can also show/hide the crotchrope and a certain.. accessory that goes with it.

The Arms plugins are a bit more varied. Allowing touch restrictions, RLV folder access, unwearing, and so on.

Style for arms allows you to show a snug rope harness around your upper body. Like the leg ropes, some poses have multiple styles. Supertight for example hides some elbow ropes when on style 2, while style 1 has your arms even more cocooned.

Otherwise its similar to most of marines toys, a tried and tested setup that does the job.

Closing thoughts

These ropes are great, and new set is always nice. The resizing is a BITCH though. Usually I have no problem with mesh gear, but these were harder even than some of the gear that has about 30 prims per piece. I suppose my shape is a tad slim for these.

Functionally they work great. You Can find the two extra poses on the More.. page, as the first page has no room for extra buttons. Thanks to the style menu, there's plenty of variation as well.

Now if we just had tape restraints in this vein, my SL collection might finally be complete.

They cost 1000 Linden

Scores

Quality - 7/10
Function - 9/10
Price - 8/10

RF Mittens V2

New review.. Lot of RL stuff going on lately so had to slow down big time.

RF has released a new set of mittens, pure mesh this time. Being awhile since I did anything of theirs

Appearance

Now first off, my previous review still stands in many ways, but in terms of options? Lots more.

It has 10 different mitt styles this time, combined with wrist or sleeve/opera options that equal 20 different looks for the mittens, and of course recolouring is there as well. Some of the new mitts are a bit.. Well if you're not into Amputee, you may not want to use them.

The designs are as follows - Dildo, Doll, Hook, Nubby for the more.. amputee options, Then you have straight (the original look), ball, paw, hoof and fist, fist being the original folded over. Katie also said that this new setup allows her to add new designs of mittens very easily. Ball and hoof are featured in the pictures.

Its worth noting that the Doll Mittens are NOT inflatable/ball, but a sort of pouch with a hole going through it that shows no hand is within.. or a hole has being cut through the hand.

The cuff design has changed as well, to thinner more slender cuffs as opposed to the wide thicker looking ones the previous set used. These can also be shown or hidden as you like.

The sleeves this time are built into it completely, so just need to be hidden or shown instead of attaching a whole different set of restraints. All in all some nice changes, if questionable for some people.

The bad? Well they don;t seem as tight this time.. Before they seemed snug to my wrists/upper arms, now theres a noticeable gap which is annoying to say the least. Its somewhat visible in the two images showing the mitts off, and I posted another one specifically showing the issue. The recolouring is I believe the same as the originals, leather and latex textures in various colours. Otherwise everything else is the same.

Function

Not a lot has changed here.  The escape mini-game is still there, similarly the mitts will lock you out if you mitten yourself without taking the keys first. Top left to bottom right menu wise you have style, done in the usual RF style, followed by the plugins page. Most of the plugins are RFs usual ones, and of course the RLV menu giving folder access, restrictions, etc is here as well.

The Touch Object menu is next. In it it lets you choose three options to try and touch an object near you (thats touchable of course.). You can change it to publicly announce your attempts, or be silent as well.

Following this is the RLV On/Off button, and then the settings menu, from which you can turn on Expose, Verbose, get the leash holders, help NC and update of course. The Keys menu is as expected, if keys are hanging, then you can just take them, then of course give them away if you so desire.. or give them to someone else if you are the captor.

Under restraints you can of course bind your captive, the same 6 poses as the previous set I believe. You can also hide or show the sleeves here, and change the mitten type. Makes sense really, its the captor who decides what to pull on you (or chop off you.. ). Lastly there is Sub Anims, which has 39 anims in it now, up from the previous 24 of the previous set.

Once the keys are taken, some menus change location and some new appear. Timelock for example shows up, and its self explanatory by now, lock appears, and the keys menu gets fleshed out to include the masterkey options, give keys, etc.

Closing thoughts

A nice update, new mitten types are nice, though some do both me and will be blacklisted. Katies explanation for releasing as a new product and not an update makes sense as well, and the original are now lowered to 200 linden in price, while these new ones are 500


Appearance - New looks are nice. Looser sleeves/mitts are not, score remains unchanged - 9/10
Function - Exactly the same as the previous set, and I gave them 10 so.. - 10/10
Price - 500, an increase over the previous set, though it does bring more looks to the table - 8/10

AiTech Universal Gag

This gag claims to be the best in SL.. Quite a statement.

Appearance

Now then.. lets see.  Its mesh, always a nice start. This one was a tad annoying to fit for me, possibly due to my head shape. I had to rotate and resize quite a bit to get it to fit right.which was somewhat of a pain.
This gag advertises as 6 different gags, but I only could find 3 with two appearance settings each. I'm not sure that counts as 6 different, but there we go.

You get Ball, Bit and Ring, in the normal single strap around head style, and the head harness style. The bit i had some issues getting to fit right, as the gag seems to open wide to fit the ball and ring, but stays that wide even when bit is selected, despite it not being large enough to force the jaw apart that far. Thankfully from afar this isn't too noticeable.

My primary gripe is the lack of colour options. You can't adjust any of them at all.

Function

Lets get started.. First up, if you want the gag to work You need to wear a HuD attachment. This attachment will garble you even if you take off the gag while the HuD is still on, which I hope is an unintended bug.

The first option takes you to an Owner menu. Inside you Can of course Add and list any owners you currently have, and remove if there is one currently set. The next options allow you to adjust how heavily you drool, and how heavy the garbling is. Garbling of course can be set to heavy and still not block chat without that HuD attachment.

The Next row has Exposed (obvious), the option to turn Drool on, and the option to turn Garbling on. On the bottom and last row of this page, we have Lock, which takes you to a submenu that lets you lock the gag, or setup the timer. Then you get the Settings menu

In here you can turn RLV on and off, and set the name the built in renamer uses for garbling. Last you can access another submenu to adjust gag type. Ball, bit and ring, plus the option to show a head harness.

This gags selling point, to me, is the emote garbler. With the HuD in place and garbling turned on, you can do a emote such as '/me wanders up to someone and says "Hello" to them' and it would garble the hello as if you were speaking normally instead of emoting. A very nice touch.

Verdict

My take on it? Its a good gag, it has a great emote system as well, allowing for the garbling of text in quotation marks.

However.. We need a hud for the gag to work, which I can't understand. It advertises 6 different gags, when its 3 in two styles each, which is not the same. And it claims to be the best in SL and it just.. isn't. Its good, but the best? Not a chance.

Scores

Appearance - It looks good, and does have a decent set of options, but lack of colours hurts it  - 7/10
Function - The emote altering is very well done. Otherwise? Nothing unusual - 8/10
Price - 600 linden for 3 gags in two styles. Not a bad deal - 7/10

DEM renamer

A simpler review than normal tonight, only one category to fill out due to this being well.. a renamer, not a visual piece.

Function

So.. lets get started. To access it you need to type your initials followed by menu in channel 19, I.E for me it is /19 awmenu. For newer avatars with only one name, its whatever your first initial is, say E, followed by R for resident, so /19 ermenu. This prefix CAN be changed.

The top left option is lock/unlock, as you'd expect. Only an owner can do this however. Then you have titler. When in this, hit Set title to open a small textbox which you type your floating text title into simply put. You can hit enter for multi-line ones. You can also adjust its colour using RGB values, or type in a pre-set colour name. A list of pre-sets should be included with the device. Then you have hide/show the title, Self hide, a handy little option to hide it on the wearer screen, also allowing for owners to title their captives/subs without letting them know what it is.

Evil/normal mode is next. Normal is just a static title, the kind you get from most titlers. Evil mode periodically announces to people nearby in local that your title needs changed and gives them the channel address to do it in. As far as I know, its based somewhat on an older titler, also made by the maker of this product. It also has the detach alarm, for people not using RLV I suppose. Should the alarm go off, a Clear option appears as well, which turns the alarm off.

Then we get to the namesake, the renamer. The first option, as expected, lets you set what name it uses, simple enough. The next one however allows you to change words, making it impossible for the wearer to use certain ones. For a simple example, you could change No to come out as Yes, and other such things that could lead to very awkward and/or evil situations for the poor sub.

Next option is merely on/off, simple enough. You can then hit Self Off/On. This one forces any I, myself, me, and other such things to come out as the chosen name from before. For example, in my case, "I am myself" became "Aria am Aria". This also affects emotes.

Next we have owners, which is self explanatory, and lastly we have the prefix changer mentioned at the start. Hitting these makes a text box appear again, and merely type in what needs to be used on channel 19 to access your renamer. What you set is case sensitive, so be careful of capitals, and must be followed by menu. So for example if I change mine to Aria, it would be /19 Ariamenu. /19 ariamenu or /19 aria will NOT work.

Score

Function - This thing pretty interested, and the word changer could prove to have some really great utility for play, especially if you don't tell the sub a word has being changed. - 8/10
Price - 199 linden. Seems fair - 8/10

GL fetish - Vacbed

Back to furniture!

Quality

So.. looks. First up, it looks pretty shiny, quite nice. I admit I prefer those vacbeds without tubes in SL (I know, I know, they need them IRL to let us breath but sometimes..), but this one is not too obstructive at least.

You can recolour the base, but the latex stays shiny black, though seems to get a slight tint. Not a bad thing, but other colours might of being nice. It also comes with a load of animations built in. Don;t use these when the vac is off though, they are clearly not meant to be used in tandem with that option.

There's 5 Single anims (One person + victim), all of an intimate nature, and 6 for couples (2 people + victim). All work quite well, providing vac is on of course.

The actual vac animation works, latex slowly gets tighter, revealing the outline of the person. Its pretty well sculpted as well, though a little jagged at some angles.


Function

Lets start with the captors side..

On the bed, at the top and bottom, are two buttons. One for animations and one for RLV. RLV wise, the first 6 options are - Color, Vac on, Vac off, Take Key, RLV and Timer. When you take the key, Vac on/off disappear, and Change Pose appears. Change pose seems to do nothing though, nor can I find mention of it in the NC.

Color is self explanatory, as is Vac on and off. Take key is as well.. Then we get RLV. RLV with no one in the bed lets you turn on or off autolock, as well as attempt to capture someone if they have an active relay.

Once someone is in, you can choose to lock it, then from there you get some of the more expected RLV options, specifically, local chat Listen, Inventory/building, location, IM blocking and chat. You can also strip off someones clothes and attachments. (why you;d need to is beyond me.. they're encased in shiny black rubber and all). There's Unsit as well.

lastly we have timer. You can set it to turn on automatically when someone gets captured, adjust who can access it, show or hide it, and of course start or stop it.

The Anim menu.. You have Couple, Single, STOP and OPTIONS. Couple and single are simple, go in, click the anim you want, sit on the ball, and you're done. STOP turns the anim off.

Options lets you adjust who can use the poseballs and menus, adjust the pose, shutdown the bed, turn chat info on or off as well as save or dump props.. Not sure what the props are though, unless it means the poseballs again.

The victim has no access to the RLV menu, but CAN access the anim menu.

Scores

Quality - looks good, though lack of colours and some jaggies shows its age - 7/10
Function - Does what it needs to, no more, no less - 8/10
Price - 599 Linden. Pretty reasonable I think. No copy/mod though.

Other stuff


There's a male version of this bed as well, though for some reason its 100 linden more. This is quite an old one now, before his vaccube which I did ages ago as well.

[H]arsh Straitjacket

I think I'm in love.

Quality

Where do I even begin? This jacket is mesh, and comes in a large variety of sizes, so get the demo first and check which one fits you best.

Once you're fitted.. Well. You should get the jacket on. Its beautifully sculpted, its meshness means it fits out of the box. Even without the alpha, the XS one fitted me near perfectly. The first thing after that? attach the aspect hud so you can fiddle with looks. And it has a ton built in.

Depending on the texture you choose for each part, you can also adjust the colour. The latex texture can't really be adjusted, though I believe Dari plans on adding more as time comes. If you choose one of the white canvasy ones though, colour away to your hearts content. It has the full range of colours you can get in SL as well.

The main body parts have 4 textures to start. A plain black, a white canvas (default), a more grayish one, and black latex. All are stunning, and the latex looks amazing even without the shine option turned on.

The straps work a little differently. The built in collar and crotch strap can be hidden for example, via the aspect hud, as can the chest covering for those that want some exposure on your sub/victim/captive. The stomach is also hidable, as is the crotch covering altogether, allowing for just the very top and sleeves, bolero style.

If you choose the main straps point on the hud, you can recolour them all. They have three textures as well, plain black, and two canvas ones that can be recoloured. Coupled with shine, they can also compliment the latex even more.

Then we get onto poses. This thing comes with 14 different bind poses, and when you change to each one, you even do a little struggle anim, as if testing its strength. They work amazingly well. It also has another 8 poses built in under the animate menu. You can also choose to uncover/cover the hands.

I think the pictures sum up the rest better than I could ever describe.

Function

Obviously theres the aspect hud just mentioned for adjusting its colour/visibility/shinyness/texture. Then there's the flex hud for the actual control. Once activated and detected, you can click on the SJ icon on this hud, and you will come to a menu with 6 options. Owner controls (add/manage owners). The owners also needs a flex hud, though if you previously bought Dari's harness AND the SJ, you should have two anyway.

The next option is lock. Do I really need to explain..? Same for the next, leash. Though it has a few different options. You have the usual grab, post and length, but you also can link it to the various leash points on the SJ, and beckon.. Which I couldn't test alone, but it apparently summons the SJ wearer to your side. If I'm right, I think that force walks/TPs them to you, though they need to be on sim for the HUD to pick them up.

The timelock is pretty nice. You can adjust what stuff with unlock when it runs out. It allows you add to anything from a few seconds to well.. Months at a time. Though truth be told, under a good captor, I could wear this thing for months.

The next menu is animate, covered above, and the next is Bind, also covered somewhat. When bound, you get a few touch restrictions put on for fun, and can struggle by pressing Shift+A/D or Shift +left/right arrow

And one of the best bits? She uses an RLV alpha system. Just throw the alphas available on the marketplace (link included with the restraint) into the RLV folder, and bam, every time you change visibility of your restraint, it attaches the correct alpha.


Extra - Flex hud mini tutorial for owners

As far as I know, it works like this for first time users.

1. Sub wears restraint(s) (harness and/or SJ), wears hud, waits for hud to detect restraints
2. Sub goes into restraint menu, goes to owner, adds the owners.
3. Sub repeats for other restraint if owning both
4. Sub detaches hud, sends hud to owner
5. Owners attaches hud. They should now have access.

That's for the owners without a hud of their own. I think if they already have a hud, its far simpler

1. Sub wears hud, add owner.
2. Owner uses own hud, has access.

If I am wrong about any of this, please let me know!

Scores
Quality - I don't need to explain it. - 10/10
Function - Everything it needs built in, I can think of nothing else it needs - 9/10
Price - 900 linden. I say worth it. - 9/10

RR Tape Gag and Blindfold set

Tape! And from Marine, we know its gonna be good. I so hope this means we're getting a tape bondage set to follow!

And yes, I have actually down two reviews in under a week again.

Quality

First up, its mesh. Instant plus there. Very easy to resize and fit is also a plus.

In terms of looks.. the gag has four, the blindfold one, both with 8 colours and 3 skin tones for 'clear' tape. The tape itself is very well textured, as expected, and looks pretty snug. Admittedly I had some minor issues getting all 4 combos to fit me at once without needing a small bit of fien tuning everytime I switch, but thats probably due to my head being not quite normal shaped.

The main hit of this tape gag is very well done though, and realistic for a change. Everytime you tighten the gag in the menu (more on this below), more tape appears on your the captives face, just like it should do. The final layer coats the entire lower face, and looks amazing.

Function

Gag

The first 4 options are simple. Total is at the top, with Loose, medium and tight just below it. Each one of these of course adjust how strict the gag is. I;ve covered this system before in previous reviews of Marines restraints.

Below that we have the Tie option, which 'locks' the tape, allowing only the person who Tied it to access it, barring realkeys of course. How you lock tape is beyond me, but it helps keep wandering fingers in check.

The second option is Last Plug, which merely takes you back into the last plugin you accessed. The next lets you Loosen or Tighten the restraint, which I believe makes the escape mini game harder or easier depending.

Next is the Special submenu. In here you can turn off the /77 channel access, adjust the alarm, access the Last Plugin again, make the gag silent in local, and adjust the timer. The timers has two ways you can adjust, add as set time (10 min, 1 hour, 12 hour, etc,), or choose a range and let it select a certain amount of time from within said range. (1/2 hour- 2 hours, 2hr-6hr, etc) The second option can be much more evil of course. You can hide the timer from the world here as well, leaving the sub to try and manually time it, or just wait it out with no idea how long there is to go.

The plugins menu has 6 built in, the Realkey, a RL timer you can sue instead of inworld timer, the menu to let you adjust which colour the gag is, the autolock menu (which lets you set up the gag to lock after a certain amoutn of time has passed). Theres also Give keys, and the sub sub menu for Gag..

The "gag.." menu is pretty uch RLV settings. You can disable or enable channel evaion, emtoe monitoring, whether the gag notifies the key owner, etc. Another handy bit is the owner of the restraint (the sub so to speak) can adjust whether IMs can be blocked or not by the keyholder.

Back on the main page, all thats lef tis the "more.." button, which just gives you a quick timer menu, as well as a button to access the more in depth timeroptions.

Blindfold

The blindfold has 6 options, each one making the vision blocking more severe. Below them is Tie again, except using this also rezzes the blindfold, a faux mode you could say, handy for RP. Next to that is Last Plug and Tighten/loosen again.

The Special menu is also identical, as is the More Menu. Plugins wise you have all the ones from the gag, with the exception of course of the "Gag.." menu. 

Scores

Quality - Best looking tape gag/blindfold in SL, which is oddly lacking in such things - 9/10
Function - The actual gagging functionality and blinding works well, lacks some plugins, but those are just extras - 8/10
Price - 350 linden. Thats cheap as hell - 9/10

DEM - The Goddess Set

I'm lazy, sue me. I know I should review more often, but hey, times are busy.

Quality

Soo.. We have  quite a fancy set of cuffs here. The collar and belt are golden rings, slightly tapered with a zigzag design splitting them into two golden sections. The cuffs themselves are more liek bangles and armbands. Personally I got a very anctient egyptian feel from them, and find they would work very well in tandem with an outfit based on that era.

They only have the on appearance, however for the most part the appearance suits what the item is intended to be, so I can't deduct from it too much there.

Also, its mesh.

Function

To start off, in the words of the person who made this set, the cuffset itself is more of a beta/freebie release, the meat of this is in the collar.

So we'll start with the cuffs. One most of the gear you'll get four menus, Lock, resize, cancel and owner. If you click on the wrist or ankle cuffs, you'll also get pose. The locking system is simple yet effective. If you get locked withotu all the gear on for example, then add another piece of the set, it will auto lock as well. Resize is simple enough that i needs no explanation, as is owner and cancel.

For pose, the arms have three built in. Front, back and head. These are all fairly normal poses, and the ankle ones merely have the option to shuffle walk, or hobble in other words. Clearly these cuffs are designed for dragging your sub around and showing them off, as opposed to doing heavy duty restraint on them.

The collar is pretty similar to my previously reviewed DEM collar ( link ). In fact is so similar, the only differant is that the Goddess set can be hidden, but lacks a bell, which makes sense given its design. It does mean it suffers from menu clutter however.

Scores
 
Quality - I'm quite taken with its looks, even if they can;t be altered - 7/10
Function - The cuffset is basic, but freebie/beta included with the collar. Otherwise same as other DEM collars, - 8/10
Price - 555, same as the collars by themselves, with the cuffs as well - 8/10

Tinkers Toys - Pet kennel

After my previous blog, a certain person who owns a little store of a kinky nature snet me this, as a sort of comparison to the previous review. So here we go.

Quality

So, first up, its a hexagon that appears to be made of what might be marble. Would certainly look good in a stately home. When someone climbs in, some metal bars appear to seal the person in and make sure they behave. Lastly theres a small grey hexagon at the back of it on the inside, and a grey border on the outside.

And.. That appears to be it. You can't change the pose, the colour of the kennel or bars.. You get the sub locked in, and they stay there in that hands and knees pose till you decide to let them out.

Function

If no ones inside, you get two options. Capture or Get In. Both require RLV to work, or you can merely right click and go to sit to Get In without force sit.

One someone is on, the captor gets a few menu options. First is Eject, which does as the naem suggests, then theres Take key, the RLV menu, and the Timer.

The timer is simple, turn it on, add or remove time, it runs down, they get out.

The RLV menu, once you turn RLV on, has the basics. You can stop them seeing location, accessing inventory, etc, the usual options. Somehow this broke my normal relay, so had to switch to a differant one for tests. Otherwise works as expected.

And.. again, thats it

Scores

Quality - No customization, one pose. Looks fancy, but lack of options hurts it - 6/10
Function - Lock it, maybe RLV restrict. Thats it. - 5/10
Price - Its 125 linden. Cheap I suppose, but not much to it either. 6/10


This is by no means a bad device, its mod/copy at least, so plenty can be lain around and you can retexture it if you know how and want a differant look. You can recolour it but.. that doesn't look so good. In comparison, the THinkKink one (copy), is 299 linden, gives a lot of colour options, some poses, has a more detailed look (and is mesh).. Its worth the extra bit.

And now I may actually have a store blacklist me, yay!

ThinkKink Pet pod

I'm not dead! Just sometimes feels like it. RL is a bitch.

Quality

First up - Its MESH! Don't buy if you're old fashioned and are on those crappy non-mesh enabled viewers.

Its.. a pet carrycage, the type you'd keep a dog in I feel. Although a great deal larger, with nice little windows cut out so the sub gets some light and of course the wire mesh locking door.

In terms of appearance editing, you start with beige. Moving in via the >Devie then Chameleon menu however lets you choose between a grand total of 9 colours. Baby Blue, Baby Pink, Banana, Beige, Grape, Grey, Lime, Melon and Orange.

There are 5 poses built in, Attract, Feed, Lay, Panic, and Snooze. Each one has a little message that accompanies it, and Feed also rezzes a good bowl in the cage. When locked, two padlocks also appear.

Function

Your very first option is Open Door. When you do this, a new option also appears, graboid, with Close Door appearing where Open was before. The graboid has soem fancy settings.. You can set its range of course, and try to have it grab someone,b ut you can also set its Accuracy. Turn this down and it seems the victim can 'dodge' the grab.

Under >Device you get the meat of the pod. first up, in caps, is >TRAPMODE, in here you can obviously turn on whether or not it grabs people by itself. You can also adjust what RLV settings are applied, including chat muting and deafening (Stopping you speak, and stopping you hear), IM blocking (NO!), whether it auto locks or not, and Forceview, which forces your camera to a specific place.

Next in the device menu is options. Some basic stuff, turn RLV on or off, adjust language, etc. theres Hide button, which hides the TK logo above the cages door, Chameleon, mentioned above in Quality,  Access, again self explainitory, lets you adjust who can access the toy.

Then theres Clr Wanted, which clears all 'outstanding warrents' as the machine puts it. From how I understood it, if you hit this while someone is logged off, it will nto regrab them when they log back in, and other such things.

Back on the Main Menu, we have timer next. In here you can of course adjust how long the person inside is locked for. You can also adjust the penalty (which increases the timer if the captive touches the pod or leaves mouselook when its forced), or turn it off, as well. Under settings you can put on some fancy timer things. P. Normal is your basic timer, tells you how long is left. P. Excluded shows the original timer, then the penalty time seperatly. Count Up reverses teh way the timer works, starting from 0 and going up to whatever the duration the timer is set for. Random does any of the above.

You can also set E.Eject, which boots the captive out when the timer is done. Handy for traps.

Lastly on the Main Menu is >>> Get, which gives you some items. You can get the TK manual, some help NCs, a paddle, some cuffs, a whip, the store LM and of coruse a toy of an intimate nature.

On all menus is -Cancel-, which closes the menu.

Once your victim climbs in, a lot mor emenus appear, first of which is pose, covered above. Both the victim and the captor get access to the Perfect Pose menu, something covered in a previous blog, that ultimately lets you adjust wher eyou are int he pod, and affects all the pods in SL for your avatar. Saves your Avatars data server side.

Theres also >Avatar. In here you can adjust the RLV settings, strip your captive, force them into mouselook and mess with the arousal menu, which lets you sexually toy with them. Tad explicit for me to go into too much detail, I want to keep a G rating, but I will say it supports Xcite.

Other stuff

Like all TKs toys now, its copy! So you can put up an entire kennels worth if you like.

I was wearing the DStech latex puppy gear along with the MB latex surrender catsuit in this shoot. The other model was Lyra, a friend of mine whos also on DA.

Scores
Quality -  Looks pretty nice, some decent poses and colour options - 7/10
Function - Does a lot, everything it needs to and then a little - 9/10
Price - 299 linden - 8/10

Smooching Serpents Caged Fetish

This is a new bed just recently created by Eve Light of Smooching serpents Its pretty.. big.

Quality

First up the bed seems to be made of latex, a plus right off the bat.  It also has a built in vacbed however.. All but two of the vacbed settings have a gasmask latched on, that cannot be removed by any means bar the two poses mentioned before. From the people I've shown it to and my own opinion, this is kinda not good. An option to remove would be amazing.

It also has 11 different colours for the bed frame, a stand off to the side of the bed with a selection of some "toys". It has a large selection of poses, with several for solo (separated into boy and girl menus) and a half ton of couples ones, and even a selection for a party of three. Been a bed, and this been SL, most of the poses are sex based of course.

In the couples menu, certain other props become available, including a Throne, a Cross, pillory, bench and a throne, pretty much a complete dungeon.

It also has Ambiance, which well.. Lets say it needs some work for people on the highest settings, especially for the HotWinter option (See the bright white picture).

The Good - Customisable, lots of poses, latex
The bad - Unremovable Gasmask, ambiance on high settings is glaring

Function

As always, top left to bottom right. Very First option is "START" Hitting this pulls the sheet off the bed, resses the stand with the toys to the side and as it suggests, gets everything started. Two poseballs also rez next to the stand, from which you can click the toys to receive a copy to use.

The next option is ".VACUUM", in here you of course access the Vacbed. You can select one of 6 poses for solo, as well as adjust the breath coming out of that gasmask. Couples has another 6, alongside the breath ones.

Following this is "SOLO", in here you can choose from the poses mentioned earlier. After that is "COUPLES". In this menu you can find the most poses overall, as well as the bondage furniture such as the Cross and Throne. Then there is "3 SOME", which is more limited unfortunately.. Then we come to "RLV". In here you can capture up to 3 victims, as well as get a relay out of it, and of course a help NC.

Next up is "CAGE", which of course has a few RLV restrictions of its own, including no touch. The cage is actually separate to the bed, with its own menus. You can of course open and close the door, have the cage go away and adjust who can access the cage (Owner, group, public).

Then we have the sadly high graphic unfriendly "Ambiance", followed by "*DESIGN", both of which I covered earlier. Then we have "*STOP", which puts the bed back to its default state, puts away all the props and I believe unlocks anyone on it.

Lastly there is Options. In here we have "ResetChains" which does as the name suggests, resetting the chains going from a victims cuffs to the bed. Hitting "BallUsers" changes who can use the poseballs, specifically between ALL and GROUP. "MenuUsers" does the same, only it also includes an OWNER only option. You can adjust the, dump and save the position of some of the poseballs I believe with the next three options, then adjust the Height with the next. You can also Dump and/or Save the beds props (such as the toy stand I think) with the next two options.

Lastly you can turn Chat info on or off and Shut down the bed. Shut down brings you to another menu that lets you Reset the positions and menus, Restart the bed and also check the config card. Otherwise you can just hit the shut down option within this menu which turns all the scripts and such off. You can turn it back on by touching it again.

Other Info

Its copyable , No mod or trans.


Scores

Quality - 7/10, would be higher but.. For the price most would pay for this, letting us remove the gasmask is not much to ask
Function - 8/10, Can't complaint much, letting 3 people on the extra furniture might be nice.

Price

5999 linden. High? Low? That's down to you.

Inactivty + Reason (Auction)

So yeah, I have been working on a few things to review (To the people who sent me things, please be patient!)

To help my blog in part though, mostly the money side, I'll be well.. Aucitoning myself off as a sub for a currently undecided period of time. Obviously limits will need to be taken into account.

So if you're interested in owned a latex loving, struggling nutjob for a period of time, contact me in world and I'll send you any information you may need.

The auction should be sometime in the near future, and will most likely be at HBC.

Aria.

Ame's BDSM toys - Resin Box

New review, new store.


Qualty

It starts out as a glass box, with a black rusted frame around it. Above and below are rusted metal boords held in place. Theres also a small rubbery lined hole up there for attachments, specifcally a funnel and/or breathing tube.

Inside the box itself are some more of these rubber line holes for certain.. Other things that would aid in keeping the victim alive. I think your imaginations can guess what. Theres also an option to add a certain toy for even more fun. Lastly theres a small leash ring set at the back, and a small red button on the bottom of the outer frame.

The box is called the resin box however, and the main part for the RP of it all comes from there. Put a sub in, make sure shes held tightly in her bonds, then fill it up with the greenish resin to keep her preserved.. The breathing tueb and other attachments are optional, but a suffocating sub is only fun to people into breathplay and snuff.

Function

Quite a ot of options are within it.. the first is "Piss!". It works with the funnel attachment and well.. I'll let you figure it out. It has a timer, which is something I still say should be mandatory these days. Under presevre there are a few options.. Funnel pulls out a funnel and the breathing tube as well. You can also choose Breath to just get the tube. Theres a pump for feeding your victim with what we'll call Watersports and a little extra for those that like it. Turning this one also makes teh funnel and tube appear.

You can also turn on the Resin here, having ti slowly fill the box. You cna freely stop it at any point in its filling, or choose to reverse the flow and have it pour out, again with you able to stop it at any level.

Next theres a vibrator. Self explainitory again. Quite a lot of options in the menu for tormenting your victim with though. "Find Victim" comes up next, which searches for people with open relays. Release and lock do as you;d expect, as does strip. Lastly there is the Owners menu and help. Help giving an NC of course.

In the owner menu you can adjust the position of the person inside, turn on auto capture, auto strip and auto lock and adjust the range it seeks people out within.

Extra stuff

When I bought this, it had no scatology stuff in it, its developed since then into one. Still getting a fair review, just don't wnat people suddenly thinking I'm into that stuff!

Also I did this review in public, partially out of boredom, partially for something differant to do. The place was HBC on myanimo if anyoen wants to check it out.

Scores

Quality - 6/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 300 linden - 6/10

RF - Mesh Wrap-o-matic

A new release! Yes I know its another product from RF, but what can I say? They do good stuff.

This one also conviently covers both types of restraint, worn and furniture.

Quality

The new design is quite streamlined. Been mesh it can look brilliant with a low prim count, which always helps. One siude has two small boxes, one been a control box the other containing scissors. The other has its name written in yellow letters going down it.

The machine itself is quite simple, but nice to look at. Its a darkish gray. with a red platform where the captive (or product if you prefer) stands during the wrapping procedure. The actual wrap comes off a small yellow roller that climbs up the machine as it cocoons its victim. The new animation for wrapping is much smoother than the original, and looks significantly better. Katie also informed me she had adjusted it to it will detect avatr height soemwhat, meaning we shouldn't get issues of the cocoon going half way up our heads, or ending down around our waist.

The animations are quite nice as well, Up to your waist or so you struggle to keep your balance, then yoru arms get pinned to your sides from then on up.

The cocoon itself is very nice. Katie called it "latex palletwrap", and it works well. Shiny, tight and in a literal ton of colours, you can't go wrong with it. Unlike the former cocoon that required an invisi prim (which don't work with lighting and shadows on), this one uses an alpha, and furthe rmore lets you hop around, whiel the other left you too rigid to move much. Been rigged mesh of course, it flexes with you as well, making it even better.

Oh and for those that want duct tape, try some of the gray colours, they come out *very* similar.

When fully wrapped, you get a male or female option, another nice addition for those male subs out there.

On one thing - Sometimes the unrigged collar will disapear below your neck. If this happens, in more recent viewers anyway, go into your inventory, right click the wrappings and hit edit. It will let you move it from there without issue.

The cocoon also works well as a trap for heroines for that kinda RP, thanks to Etherea for posing with me again for a pic (bottom left if it isn't obvious)

The good - Shiny, mesh rigged means tight, tons of colour, TAPE
The bad - the cocoon can seem a little bulky at times, you may need to edit the cocoon to see the collar.

Function
 
The main function of this device is obvious, wrap up someone before they know whats happening. It has two modes, Manual and auto. In manual mode you can freely choose to grab someone and force them on, strip them, wrap them and of course choose the colour. You can also change colour mid wrap, which is handy if you chose the wrong oen I suppose.

Once wrapped, if you change the colour of the wrappings on the machien and regrab the packaged captive, the wrappings will change colour without needing to cut them free or run them through the machine again.

Automatic is differant, it nabs the victim as they walk past, strips em and wraps em up all in one swift move. Unfortunatly you can't set it to auto and not strip, but at least we have manual for that.

You can change who can access the machine as well, whetehr just you, the owner, a group or anyone. You can also turn onr andom colour. When random is on, it will change colour when it nabs someone and wrap em up in it. While doing this, you cannot change the colour yourself however and must turn it off to change your snugly wrapped victims colours.

The escape mini-game is the same as it was before. Get some scissors, attach em and get to work. You have to touch the unrigged collar of the cocoon to access the menu. If the captive touches it, they get a message with a hint on the combo the person needs to do to free you. I won;t post the combinaton here. Watching in despair as you don't get freed is half the fun!

The owner also gets a pair of super scissors, which can function as normal ones or, by clicking the collar then the scissors, cut it off automatically without playing the game.


The good - Options to do it manually or auto, simple to use.
The bad - auto always stripping without option to turn off

 
Scores

Quality - 9/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 1350 1000 linden

Katie lowered the price!

Again I refrain from scoring price and leave that open to you guys, as I just don't know.

P.S

Lately some people seem to think demanding I review things is good fun. I would love to review stuff that everyone wants me to, but that just can't happen as things stand. Yes I can ask for free copies, though it rubs me the wrong way to do that to sellers, but demanding I actually go out and spend thousands of linden to please you alone is not fair.

In short, stop it or rather send me the item or the money for it. In the meantime I'll continue to review stuff that I actually own or have been sent.

Skrylian Engineering - Bodysack

A new store that seems to have just started on the marketplace. And if their first item is any indication, one to watch.

Quality

First off, its mesh, but unrigged. This makes it very easyt o resize still, but does mean it doesn't flex with the body unfortunatly, which lets face it, a sleepsack/bodybinder/etc would do.. Unless its got boning anyway.

I get a more PVC than latex feel from this item,though its shiny all the same, and thats what counts. The texture is good for a first time, though it could use a little extra work, for example when you zoom in, it gets VERY blurry, which is normal for fairly lwo res textures. Still, quite nice. See the pic next to this for what I mean.

This one uses a hands bound to side style, which might make you think at first your hips and waist are a bit wider than they should be, but it works. It also seems to be quite baggy, as opposed to real tight. It has three poses built in; standing, face down and face up. Standing bugs me slightly, as the foot shape at the bottom is en pointe at all times.

You can adjust it to have a zip at front, back or not at all.

The good - Shiny, somewhat original (SL wise) design
The bad - Shape seems off, low res texture

Function

First option you get is Public, simple tick box. Pressing this will make anyone and everyone able to use the restraint. In the RLV menu you can enable or diasble some basic restrictions, specifically Touch, inventory and TP. No IM block, which is good.

You can lock next, self explanitory. When locked all three RLV options are automatically enabled, and cannot be disabled. Others can offer you TPs though. Next up is "About" which takes you to teh store page. Presumably this is more for other people as opposed to the girl wrapped up.

Pose is next. You can turn on standing, face down, face up or None. Regardless of which you choose, you CANNOT move, which is a bit of a shame. It doesn't look tight enough to stop wriggling.

Lastly is Zipper, which lets you put it on the back, front of none at all.

The good news is, according to the manual (I actually read one for a change!) that a timer is planned, btu sadly not yet included.

The good - Simple menus, does what it needs to
The bad - Not been able to move, no timer (yet)

Scores

Quality -6/10
Function - 5/10
Price - 350 linden - 6/10

See it here - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SE-Bodysack/3529120

Extra stuff

I'd like to see a rigged version of this sometime. It could really be great if it was skintight

Extra stuff 2

Had a few ask how I do scores. Long story short its how I feel the restraitn matches its price in the end. Function wise for example, no timer is an instant loss of 2 points. Figure the rest out for yourselves please.