[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