Rf kNap HUD

A new item from RF, and a slightly different one.

Appearance

There's four items included here. You give them out to your captives via the hud, explanation below in the function area. All four are also mesh

The gag is a simple ballgag, red in colour, snug and tight. The wrist ropes have two poses, front and back, as well as a leash. The leg ropes have two poses as well, taut (hobble) and tight. Sadly no lay or hogtie.. But maybe later! The head sack works as a blindfold.. It doesn't use a hud though, so work arounds are very hard if you get stuck blind with no one to help you.

The gear is all no mod, including the rope cuffs, so you have to make do with adjusting them to fit with move alone. They should fit most wrists and ankles, but may not like being over boots or the like.

Function

Lets start with the hud. The first thing you will notice is four buttons up the top, each one with a pic of the restraint. Below this is a load of red circles with an X in them. This is for future restraints Katie will be releasing that you can drop in the hud to bind people with.

Below these are four more buttons. Help, Update, Strip and Reset. Of these Strip is the most notable as it does not actually just strip them naked. It gives you access to their RLV folders as well. In other words you could use the HUD merely to access any restraints they may already have, instead of the ones included. Very useful for kidnapping.

Onto the first four restraints included. All four can be accessed by anyone bar the captive themselves. That does mean however, if you have two subs bound, they can free each other, even if head sacked. They also do not restrict that much, only garbling, blinding and hobbling.

The gag has 3 levels of garble. the hood similarly has three levels of blind. The leg cuffs can hobble or force you to hop, and the arm ropes seem to have a force accept TP. This means ANYONE in SL can TP you to them, without you having a choice, when your wrists are bound.

Oh, and the restraints are all copy/trans, so spread them around!

My thoughts

 I like the idea a lot. And all in all its executed pretty well, and Katie has left it open for new restraints to be bought and dropped in (DLC if you will). I do have a few concerns, such as subs just untying each other. The force accept tp from anyone concerns me as well.. You;ve being taken captive, your captor is doing all sorts of evil things... And suddenly you're on a sunny beach with a highly embarrassed friend in the middle of a party.

The new restraints she releases for this could make or break it though, all depending on price. So far I like it though.

Things I'd like to see? Limiting far touch if a person has their wrists bound and being able to toggle that force TP.


Scores

Appearance - The hud is simple, the restraints look pretty nice - 7/10
Function - Minimalistic, simple, but some cases risky - 7/10
Price - 500 linden

Sunshine Technology - Leather Mittens

Another new (for me) store tonight, this time called Sunshine Technology

Appearance

These mitts have a fairly new design for SL, not quite like any others I know of on the market so far. They are made of leather, seem to be padded, and as expected, have a snug strap to ensure you can't slip them off.

They come with 9 base colours for the leather and strap, and 9 again for the metal parts, although with some variances (such as steel). You can also freely tint using the [custom] button and inputting the RGB value.

They also have the store logo on them for good measure, just so your sub knows who to chase whenever they finally get free of the confines of their mitts. It has some nice touches, like the padlock on the buckle actually closing when locked, but open when unlocked.

All in all, quite a nice look, nothing I can really complain about. They are mod as well, if you want to turn shiny on, and not too hard to fit either. There's a couple of alphas, one for hiding your entire hands, another for hiding half your hand, leaving the wrists available.

Function

First and foremost is the Timelock. In here you can set up a few things, such as Public mode and Wearer only. I believe when locked, only the keyholder can adjust it, and it you timelock yourself well.. I think you know by now what happens.

Colour is self explanatory. In here you can adjust the Leather (main part of the mitt), the strap, and the metal. You can also just use the three presets here which are Red/Black (default), Black/Red, and Pink/black.

The third button adjusts touch. It defaults to no far touch, when changed to World, you can;t touch anything, and no block is.. Self explanatory actually.

Finally there is the lock button. Pressing this will lock the mitts on the wearer, be it you or someone else, and take the key away. When you lock yourself, you get a little message informing you that you trapped yourself.. But thankfully it auto activates a half hour timelock as well for good measure. NOTE: if you disable the timelock, this timer will not activate. Similarly, if you disable it, adjust the time, then lock, it doesn't undisable. You'll need to find help if you do not re-enable it after adjusting.

When someone else locks your mittens, they get full access to the timelock, the touch restrictions and the colour changing, leaving them free to humiliate you with neon pink mitts against whatever outfit you are forced to wear by your captor.. Beware!

My thoughts

These mitts are very nice. Yes they might seem basic, but they do what they need to, they look pretty good, and are the cheapest on the market at 149 linden.

Oh and my pics all ahd the mitts edited to have shiny on low, force of habit, forgot to turn off before taking them and I'm WAY too lazy to fix that.

Scores

Appearance - 7/10 - Unique for SL look, always nice.
Function - 7/10 - Does exactly what it needs to, no more, no less (yet! they will be updated based on feedback)
Price - 149 linden

MP store - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/110735

Corset Sophie - Venus Corset

A new (to me) store, a piece of gear that's incredibly rare IRL.. Lets get to work

Appearance

It looks like it is, incredibly tight and restrictive, pinning your arms away so snugly you almost appear not to have any. Venus corsets aren't well known, nor do they appear often, but damn are they nice.

This one is quite customisable. You can recolour the corset, its boning, its lacing, etc. It also comes with a variety of skirts, ruffs a catsuit, ballet boots and more. It also has two different versions when you buy it, Closed top and open top.

The closed is smooth, tight, shiny latex (or maybe patent leather) all the way from top to bottom, as inescapable as it looks. The Open uses fake breasts instead, which is a little disappointing, though you can also recolour those to match your skin at least. It also has an AO of sorts built in, that occasionally makes you rock back and forth a little as if taking a deep breath, or trying to.

When locked, padlocks appear on the clasps, and around the boots if you use them. Big ornate locks around your ankles.

It comes with a full colour hud,which is frankly terrible, and involves extremely slowly recolouring it by using arrows to alter the value by 1 or 10 at a time. Slowly. Unresponsively.

The extras include a pair of ankle boots, and some very ornate ballet boots as well. It includes two skirts that hobble your legs, pressing them tight together and making you walk differently, though they do not seem to slow you down unless locked. Oddly the ankle boots are rigged mesh, but the ballet are individual boots.

If its not clear already, I'm pretty sure Sophie has a thing for Victorian style dress

Lastly the closed version has a sort of hypnotism hud in it. The open.. lacks it for some reason.

Sadly it has a couple of issues. For some reason the closed top one has fake thighs if you use the short skirt, though the topless one doesn't. The closed one has no way to hide them, so they may clash with a lot of avis, and those that like to wear long stockings or a catsuit underneath will see issues. Furthermore the open top one includes a pair of mesh ballet boots, which the closed doesn't have.

You also can't recolour the clasps holding the front closed, nor the rings on the back that hold the laces in place, at least from what I could see

All in all it looks good, but the fake body parts are unfortunate.

Function

In the box are two corset types. Trained and training. Trained instantly unlocks everything, no need to wait to get it tighter. With training, you need to be patient and tighten the corset over time. Too tight and you may faint.

The menu is fairly simple. Top left is Tighten, next to it is loosen. Top right lets you turn the AO off. Then you have the constraints menu. In here you can adjust what people can do to you, set up a timelock.. And expose it. If you expose it, say bye to this menu, you're stuck unless someone disables the expose for you. Truly evil. Oh, and did I mention that your owner can punish you by exposing it as well?

In the next menu (setup), you can do a few things. Add an owner for example. When an owner is added, the sub can lock herself.. but not unlock, so be careful. You can also get the help NC, change the language, adjust if it sends messages to chat or not, etc.. and RAZ. Which resets the restraint.. including training. Very useful to torment a poor sub who just finished her training.

Lastly there is Skirt Short and Skirt mid. the Short option on the closed corset rezzes those fake thighs mentioned before, while the mid thankfully hides them. Next to these is EXIT, to close the menu and such.

My thoughts

I love the concept of a Venus corset, so this one is really appealing to me. The odd appearances quirks confuse me though. The fake thighs especially, not being able to recolour the clasps or lacing rings is odd, the fake breasts I can live with, but would love the option to hide and put my own assets on display. Oh well. All in all its looks pretty good, functions well, and is the perfect way to contain a kidnapped sub you want to train.

There's a few typos here and there in the English text, but Sophie is French, so perfect English is not expected.

The issues with items in both boxes being different, the fake thighs, etc, I think are simple oversights, and may even be fixed by the time I post this.

So I stress this, these issues are likely simple mistakes, not deliberate. Keep an eye out for updates or the like that fixes some of them.

All images show only gear from the box, including the catsuit leggings, skirts, boots, etc, bar for my collar.

I sadly cannot recommend this restraint.


Price - 699 linden for one set, open or closed.