RR Deluxe Gag

New item from marine, fresh on the grid.

Appearance

  Tight leather, lots of straps around the head, with options of a large ball, a tight panel or a ring for that mouth.. There's a ball/bit combo and just the bit by itself via a certain menu as well. You can also just have the harness, with no gag in your mouth.

  Comes with plenty of appearance options. A harness or simple for each type, which can then be further adjusted. The simple could have a chin strap added, or the aforementioned bit. For the full harness styles, you can remove the chin strap and just have the base and overhead straps. Both also have an invisible option..

  That option seems to be for use with hoods and other prop gags, as far as I can tell. You could theoretically use invisible on the RR, then put another gag on that say, has terrible garbling, or no scripts at all, to match the RP better. Its a nice idea.

  Colour and such wise well.. You have a ton of options. It uses the same system as the Pretty Mummy. You can pick an area, a surface, just about anything. You could do every individual strap a different colour if that took your fancy, or say, the front of a strap pink and the sides neon green if you wanted something bizarre. It doesn't have opacity however. (a missed opportunity? A transparent panel gag with the big ball below could be fun. Doesn't sub-shop do that kind of stuff?)

  It does have patterns, with plenty of options from stuff like camo, or a pattern of skulls to crueler things like barbed wire. You can apply each of these to surfaces or sections as well of course. There's also plenty of text options built in, and I believe you can make your own.

  The blindfold that comes with it is similar, although it has only one appearance. You can hit just lock if you want a nice blindfold without the restriction.. However if you have RLV 2.9 or higher, Marines new blindfold system is included, which is far superior to the old HUD one. I'll explain it more below. You can also hide the blindfold strap that goes around the head, or set it invisible.

  They are both all mesh, and very easy to fit, split into logical parts. There is an alpha included for those of us that use viewers like firestorm that no longer have functional invisiprims, so that we can use the panel gag without our lips clipping

  Function

  The gag has eight options to start with. A simple round the head Ball or Ring, that can be changed to bit via the style menu. Then you get the harness options, which include a panel, again with bit style via that menu. The harness gags are the equivalent of tighter settings on her other gags, garbling you more, with Panel being a full out mmph mode. You can also do total of any style, though it doesn't appear different from the harness version.

  The menu layout.. isn't fantastic. It may be to keep scripts low, but I feel each gag type (ball/ring/panel) could of benefited from being one option with a submenu to each for level.  As it is right now its not by any means bad, but the last two gag options are in the "More.." menu, rather than readily available or obvious.

  The rest of the options are laid out as follows - Lock/unlock. self explanatory. Locking it will rez the harness without a gag in your mouth, adjustable via style. Last Plug is not a plug, but a shortcut to the last plugin used. Take/Leave keys follows, fairly obvious what these do.

 Special has some useful commands. Allowing a chat command to access the gag, update, verbose, etc, as well as the ever important timer option. Plugins follows, but will get to that in a moment. More.. is the last option, and contains the last two Total gag options, a pair of timer options for quick use, and an option to access the full timer system again.

  Plugins top row contains the Realkey, which is a lock bypass system, RL time, which sets a timer based on the real world, not time logged in, and the Style menu, allowing you to adjust what parts of the gag are visible. The second row has Give Keys, an obvious one, HeadHarness, for adjusting the appearance of the gag (colour/texture/etc) and Leash.

  The Last row contains Wriggle, an odd one to see here as that's usually for changing pose I believe, Autolock, for setting a time in the future when the gag will lock in a specific style, and Gag.. which has all the RLV restrictions like IM block, emote blocking, etc in it.

  The blindfold is a similar layout. The first 6 options adjust the strictness, Lock/unlock puts the blindfold on and off without restriction, etc. The plugins contained are Realkey, RL Time, Style, Autolock, Give Keys and HeadHarness.

  The big thing about this blindfold is the new system is uses for blinding. I unfortunately don't have RLV 2.9 yet, so I'm including a link here to some pictures by someone on DA who kindly covers each level of the blindfold and how it works - CLICK HERE

  Long story short, it no longer uses a hud to hide you. In fact, you can always clearly see your avatar. What it does is put a range on how far you can see, as well as making things dark, black and greys, on the higher levels. It also removes floating text, names.. all the while letting you see yourself. If you are against a wall, you can see the wall as a grey surface, simulating what you'd feel when blindfolded normally, rather than just having you walk into it for ages because the HUD doesn't tell you its there.

  Its a very effective system, and I can't do it justice without pictures sadly, thankfully that link above shows it off quite nicely.

  Additional info

  Quick gag layout stuff. Ring > Plugins > Style > Bit if you want to use a bit gag.
                                        Ball > Plugins > Style > Bit if you want the combo gag.

  My thoughts

  A very good gag and blindfold combo. Very fair price, 450 linden. Some handy options for RP with the invisible options, and when Firestorm eventually updates to RLV 2.9 (rumours state late November/Early decemeber) I actually look forwards to using that blindfold system. It actually looks quite fun to use compared to those stupid huds. Letting you see things while keeping them blank and featureless is a great way to go.

  The only real fault I have is the menu isn't really that well laid out. I'd like to be able to save presets in the HeadHarness menu as well, for quick swaps.

  Its No Copy/Mod/Trans.

DSS Candlier

Silence for two months, then suddenly 4 things land on top of me at once, heres the first.

Appearance

  Its a chandelier of sorts, available in three sizes, in an X with candles on each point, held in a golden candlestick. Then someone gets chained with a limb pointing towards each candle, and a couple more placed carefully upon their back for good measure. The base is rather more worn looking, with the frame appearing to be made of thick metal with rather large rivets.

  The four sizes should allow for people of most heights to fit onto it properly, or to have it fit into most rooms, though the back candles may require some adjusting to sit properly. You can also adjust how high or low you hang from the frame with the Page up and Page down keys. There are no colour options at this time, although it is full mod so you can adjust it somewhat that way. It does have a rather nice feature though, that may make the poor captives feel a little bit dizzy.. Covered further below,


Function

 There's not too much in here. When you first rez the base and touch it, you'll get four buttons, Small, Medium or Large, as well as Help. The first three will rez the Candlier itself below the base, on a length of chain decided by the option chosen. Help will prompt you to open a webpage that is used instead of a notecard manual.

   Once Rezzed, the base will give out 3 new options, keeping Help from the previous menu. Scan will, within a range specified in the settings menu, search for people with an RLV relay, and then give you the option to try and snag one of them. Self Bondage works in a similar way, except instead of searching for someone, it attempts to grab you, providing you have a relay on.

  Settings gives a rather large submenu. The top two rows of options are split between Access, Friction and Range. Selecting the up or down Access option will cycle through Public, Group or Owner options, deciding who can use the menus. Friction relates to the Candliers party piece, and will be covered below. Range adjusts how far the scan option will search for people.

 Below these options you'll find Self Bondage, in which you can adjust the timer at intervals of 10 minutes, an hour or 10 hours. After that, added in the most recent update, is an option to toggle the Start IM RLV restriction, previously on at all times and impossible to disable, so a welcome change. Lastly you have Reset, which will reset in the scripts in the base. This does not derez the Candlier itself, which must be rather deleted or taken when finished with, as it is a separate object.

  When someone is captured, people can click on the base to do one of two things. Release, which is self explanatory, or set a Timer, also self explanatory. This timer works the same as the self bondage one.

  This things party piece isn't in a menu, but in its use of SL physics. Once you or someone else is hanging from it, anyone can click on the chain and move you around, causing you to sway, swing or even spasm wildly through the air depending where and how they move it. The closer to the base, the better control you'll have over how they move. Unfortunately short of a video, I am currently unable to really show how this works.

  Bug wise I only encountered one, when using the medium size of the 1.1.3 version where it literally just fell down, and me with it. The menu of the base changed back to asking you to rez a new one, and no release option or timer was available, forcing me to safeword. This happened twice, and I was unable to recreate it after that. May of just being SL going crazy.

  Additional info

 Not much to put here for this one. Its copy/mod, despite saying no mod. Thats just down to the scripts being locked down, not the object itself. The candles themselves aren't a very good lightsource if you use shadows and are in a sim where the sim builder has sensibly not put everything on full bright like an idiot, so if you use these, make sure to have other lightsources as well.

  The images, in order from top to bottom, the default camera focus, a rear angle, and one in motion, shown as best I can.

 My thoughts

 I quite like it, especially the concept. My Mistress certainly had fun having ti swing around like a tornado with me on it at least. Its not got many options, and may seem a little barebones. There's not much it would need added though.

 You could argue the need to add more RLV options but eh, there's plenty of other gear to add those, and as you should be using cuffs with it anyway, they generally will have the only logical restrictions in them if you wish to enable them.

  You could also say more colour options, which I can't entirely disagree with. Silver and gold doesn't match everyones decor after all, and while you can adjust colour via edit, its not quite the same. Still, at least editing is allowed for it.

  It costs 349 linden, for as many copies as you can fit in your sim.

tkISO

 A new item, a collab between [H]arsh and the people over at Thinkkink tonight.

 To be exact - Darien Caldwell did the mesh, the animations come form Daisy Creations, the hair from Damona Kanik, and the coding done by Ilana Debevec and  Chloe1982 Constantine.

 I've being asked not to call it a drone suit, but an ISO

 Appearance


 When you first put it on, you'll be smooth, shiny, and coated in white latex. You have a choice of 32 built in colours on top of that, and its mod, so you are free to recolour it to your hearts content using the RGB system.

 On top of that, its in a series of parts, so you can recolour individual pieces, like the head, faceplate, hair, etc, or via mod even turn them invisible. You'll need another Alpha if you do that, but allows you to adjust it to fit a lot of other pieces of gear if you so wish.

 However, you then have the option to switch to a materials textured outfit, by hitting the Seamed option. Aside from the faceplate, this then appears to be a nice, tight catsuit with attached openfaced hood, and is perhaps one of the best examples of how much a difference a materials texture makes. Seriously, people who leave materials off are missing out when it comes to stuff like this.

 Its fitted mesh, which will generally stick to your shape, buts its far from a flawless system still, so the alpha will more than likely be needed.

 Unlike most outfits of this type, this ones heels aren't ballet, and while still tall, and built into the suit, seem far more reasonable for the kind of long term wear you'd be forced to do in such an outfit. Quite a refreshing change. If you want ballets, well you can hide the boots via Edit, and adjusting transparency.

 You can hide the faceplate via edit as well, if you find a face only alpha, you might be able to get it to look quite good, though I have a few issues with my headshape, its still worth a try.

Function

 You need to wear both the suit and the hud that comes with it if you want to speak, a precaution to prevent issues such as the particle effect objects make when speaking. It also does not seem to block IM by default, as it should be. You'll also have a HUD pop up when locked in, to simulate the faceplate. It makes a not bad photoframe.

 The first option is Style, which is where you cover the stuff mentioned above, such as switching between seamed and seamless modes. Following that is Locking. In here are three options. Lock does as it says, Unlock as well, and as for Public.. well, you'll be in danger unless you are very careful. You'll be locked out of the menu completely, and at the mercy of anyone nearby. There's also Privileged which only appears if/when you add someone to that system via the Operators menu, covered below. This also locks you out of the menu, but only allows people added to the suit to access it.

 Restrict is a big menu. There are four submenus within, each related to a specific part of you. Talk lets you adjust how clearly you speak, as well as adjust the IM restrictions. It also adjusts emotes, but not by themselves, so sadly if you want to garble your speaking, your emotes will be garbled as well. This needs a fix

 Move doesn't hobble, but adjusts things such as TP, flying, sit, etc, and also has another submenu, Freeze. In here you can set a distance, and whether they need to be within a certain range, or far enough away. You get a 30 second window to fulfill the requirements, with gradually more and more restrictions, the last two of which are IM block and being unable to move.

 See adjusts things such as names, the map, etc, with a submenu for View which has a selection of windlight options that the captive will have to suffer through. Most are quite jarring, and make somethings harder to see, as you might expect. There doesn't appear to be a clear option.

 Lastly we have Touch which has three different menus inside. As you might expect, it has options for stopping far touch, touch self, etc if you choose to do so, as well as allowing or preventing you from adding clothes and attachments, and inventory related restrictions. When you activate a touch restriction, the gloves change into snug little mitts.

 As the wearer, your next menu is Timer, the classic, ever nice option. You can choose to add or remove via a couple of buttons at the bottom, anywhere from 5 minutes to.. 28 days. It has a second menu that allows you turn the timer on/off or pause it, as well as letting you swap between RL and SL time, and a restart option. Timer for 28 days.. 27 days and 23 hours later, your captor accidentally hits restart.. I'll leave your reaction up to your own imagination.

 The final menu is Operators, mentioned above. This is where you can add or removed "privileged" people who can access the suit at any time, locked or not. There's also a Banned list, which stops them ever access it, even when on public, an extremely handy option as far as I am concerned, and one more restraints should use.

 As another user, should the person be on public, you get two options when you first try to access it. Take over and Walk away. Both are self explanatory. You also have a Relinquish option in the locking menu, that leaves them stuck on public, but you no longer control them.

 Once inside, you have access to the first four menus covered above, as well as two new ones, Punish  and Rename. Punish lets you choose form three options, and torments the persons breasts, rear or "Da Monkey" as they call it. Its not a stretch to guess what area that is. They have some custom animations, of you clutching the afflicted area and rolling around, as well as some sound effects. Mostly zapping and muffled cries.

 Rename opens an input box that you type a name you want in, which will then appear as "ISO/<your text>". If a timer is running, you can only add to it, or Punish the wearer while its on public.

 As privileged, you can access at any time, as well as give more people access, ban people, change the lock type or relinquish it, freely adjust the timer, etc.

Other info

 I've being informed that updates are planned, for free of course. If it lacks something now, don't worry as it may get it added in an update soon.

My thoughts

 I like it. That's pretty much a given. Hopefully the updates will make the hood more functional with the faceplate hidden, to make it even more customizable than it is already. The *big* issue is that emote blocking when you garble. Lets hope that gets fixed quickly. Otherwise my only real gripes are the hair, when set to black, is more grayish, but is mod so not a major issue, and the IM block during freeze.

It costs 1199 Linden

Pic 1- A selection of reds, showing off  various parts you can adjust, using Seamed

Pic 2 - As it is out of the box, white, with black hair. Seamless mode

Pic 3 - The hud, mitts, with hood hidden. Also Seamed (needs a different alpha to the included.) Sorry its a bit dark, the restrictions and all

RF SackBinder

No space between Sack and Binder is deliberate.

 Appearance

 Effectively, its a bodybinder that you are sitting in knees tight against you, with padding at the bottom for comfort, possibly due to long term storage. It certainly looks effective. It has a number of leash rings, presumably to hold you down even further, or drag you along. You can't move by yourself in this thing at all however. Once tied up, even on the lowest setting, you're stuck.

 Texture wise you have the usual RF textures. Katies leather ones suit this far more than her latex ones I'll say. I'm not sure what it is, but her latex texture just seems a little.. off. You can of course always just colour it black and use shine/materials shine to make it gleam of course.

 There's 10 latex textures and 10 leather, as usual, you can also retexture the padding at the bottom base, or choose from the 9 other textures down the bottom. Adjusting shine and such can be done via the HUD as well adjusting the closure, between lacing, zip or just none. Gotta love that look of having being stitched into it, with no way out possible.

 Its moddable, so you can apply materials shine if you want. (Edit > Texture > Click the drop down menu with Texture (diffuse) in it > select Shininess (specular), > click the texture box > Apply one if you have it, or just use blank > Adjust Glossiness, environment and the colour of the shine to meet your needs)

 Of import int he style menu, but no the HUD, is an option to adjust the height of the tied up anim, to prevent floating or sinking into the ground. Quite nice to have, and should be added to the HUD if possible. Lastly, you can hide the harness, making it smooth leather/latex from the neck to the padding at the base.

 Function

Standard RF fare here. As the wearer, if you take the keys, you get the Style menu, followed by the Leashing menu, with Plugins to follow. No unique plugins to the Sack in here. With Keys, the next menu is just ... which does nothing, followed by the Timelock menu with both the Timelock, which returns Keys, and Timebound, which merely unties, options within.

 The Settings menu follows that, with the handy options like Expose and Verbose within. Key menu after that, followed by the ever important Restraints menu. Three levels again, as is fast becoming the standard at RF. In this case, Tight restricts touching others, Tighter adds in no far touch, and Tightest removes touch world. You can use the RLV menu in Plugins to remove touch self. The last option is Unlock.

 Without Keys, you have access to Style and Escape, whereas others will have access to Keys and Restraints. For other people who have your keys, the menu is identical to the captive holding the keys.

My thoughts

 I like the concept, though I'm not sure I can call it a ball tie, it still comes under the same category I suppose. Its quite cheap, at 350 linden, though it is static. Truth be told you barely need the alpha included thanks to that. You don't move at all, bar your head, after all.

 The leather looks great on it.. Latex, not as much. Not sure what it is about the latex textures form RF, but they don't seem to fit the bigger restraints, whereas on the armbinder and the like, they're fantastic. You can always do what I did in pic 3 of course, and colour it, then apply materials shine, but that takes a bit of extra work.

 All in all a pretty good restraint, worth the 350 linden I'd say.

 Pics - First is black leather, with red leather straps. Second is Purple latex with black latex straps and blue base. Last is white latex, coloured black via the HUD, with a blank materials texture shine applied.

 No S&S this review again, time just isn't allowing all three of us on at the same time right now. May edit in later if we find time.

RR Pretty Mummy

Many of you who actually know me, know my love for customisable restraints, mummification, tape and latex. And then Marine makes this. Be prepared for a LONG read, this may be the single most customisable restraint in SL.

Appearance

  Where to begin? There are four materials in here, latex, shrink wrap, tape and bandage. And these can be made transparent, thanks to good design and fitted mesh. There are alphas included for those that need them, though naturally you won't be able to use transparent with them. There are four main pieces that must be worn, the rest can be any of the materials above.. mixed up as well. You can also do fancy things, like make the bandage wrap appear to be nylon with some transparency and colour changes.

  They all have their own little quirks as well, the base bandage for example has a little bow just under the neck when your torso is snugly wrapped. The shrink wrap appears stretched, while the latex is perfectly smooth and seamless, sprayed on. They also have style menus, allowing for various changes to the restraint, such as uncovering the breasts or hands.

  Not all of it is rigged, so you may need to make some adjustments. They for the most part seem easier than the siren ropes however, which many will be glad to hear. You can also toggle between rigged breasts wrappings and unrigged, for if you use tangos or the like.

  In terms of poses.. You have eight for the upper body, and another eight for the lower. Pet, a leg based on, wil force your arms into Pony no matter what they may of been in originally.. and forces you to hobble along on elbows and knees, something SL hasn't had many options for in the past.

 Many of the poses have a load of extra options in the Style menu, letting you change, for example, the elbow only pose to be a full wrap around your upper arms, 1 strip. 2 strips or 3 strips. Elbows Only, Arms Tight and Pony have 4 extra styles, While the other options do not for the arms.

 Legs wise, you have Five styles for the hobble option (including a dress that can be worn without other bonds), tight, mummy, lie and mummy lie have four, Hogtie has six, frogtie and pet seven.

  The gag comes next, and is quite similar to the RR tape gag, though the Total is a lot stricter this time, with a full wrap around. They are also all one solid prim, so resizing one, even via edit linked, resizes them all, with the exception of the stuffing, which you can of course make bigger, push deeper, or both! You can even wrap the ears, complete with extra restrictions. Throw in the blindfold, and your head will be so snugly wrapped..

  The blindfold has a handy option that lets you cover the top of your head with it as well, for that full all over Mummy look.

 Of all the parts that will take you time to fit, expect the head to be the longest. Getting all of the prims to sit flush with each other perfectly can be quite difficult.

 There's also a pair of nipple pasties, and a crotch covering for good measure, both of unrigged mesh. You can also, if you tie without binding, get a dress like outfit, which is quite nice. Casual minidress.. turned into full out rubber cocoon. What more could you want?

 The biggest issue with all this, due to an SL limitation, all the materials are in separate boxes, and their own prim sets. Meaning once one is fitted, you need to refit all the others. Marine does have an option to make this a lot less hassle, covered below, but you may find some fine tuning is still needed.

 Due to SLs terrible wireskeleton, you may experience a few issues with the fitted mesh, especially on areas such as the breasts. Its unfortunate, but not something that can be fixed without a whole new avatar skeleton been made by SL.

Function

 The top two rows are always related to the binding. All the poses are here, the strictness of the gag and blindfold, etc. In the case of the arms and legs, two more poses are also in the More.. menu.
 
 Arms

  The six bondage poses occupy the top, then you have Untie, Last Plug, which is a shortcut to the last plugin you selected, Loosen/Tighten, when loosened, anyone can access the menu, while tightened they have to do a minigame to try and get in. Think expose and steal keys. You then have Tools, or Special, depending on whether or not you are bound. Tools lets you save, load and reset the restraint, or change it to a Male setting if you happen to be of that persuasion.

 In the Special submenu, you'll find Block, which stops the sub interacting with the environment, Mouselook to force them into first person, Autoref, which is auto refresh, helps to keep your poses from breaking. /77 allows you to turn on menu access via that channel. Alarm On/Off will turn on the domme alert should you cheat around the restraint in some way. Last plug appears again, as does Verbose, which if off, doesn't send messages to local chat. You can also find the Timer.. menu in here, as well as the Plugins button and Main to take you back to the menu.

  Timer.. Will take you to a timelock menu with a variety of options. You can hide the timer from others, and turn it off here of course. Whats more curious is how its down. Used by Marine before, instead of a preset option, you have a range per button, I.E 2h-6h, which will add anywhere from 2 hours to 6 hours to the captives timer. You do have standard options like +10mn as well, but its nice to see those other ones still around.

  Plugins.. has 3 pages for the Arms section of the restraint. The first is Control.. which has a ton of RLV related restrictions you can activate or deactivate. The follow up is Cover Hands.. which allows you to wrap the hands.Hitting wrap will apply all touch restrictions, if you then select one of the three other options in there, you'll remove that restriction. Keep touch self active if you don't want to get stuck.

  MummyTex comes next. In here you can select the Section to edit, a surface to also edit and the opacity and tint. Anim follows that, which allows you to setup and adjust all the animations.. or you can use the HUD for a much smoother, easier experience. Allow lets the person who enters it to make themselves exempt from IM or TP blocks. I.E the domme restricts IMs and TP for the captive, but also turns the exempt on for themselves. They will be abel to TP or IM the sub, but no one else will be able to.. Unless also exempt from a previous session.

 Marines usual Autolock follows that, with Style on the second page. There's another Touch restrictions menu next, separate from the hand wrappings. Unwear.. which lets you take their clothes or attachments off if you so wish, which Outfit lets you adjust what they have on, what they are allowed and not allowed to wear, etc, all done via RLV folders.

 RL time lets you change the timer to use a constant timer, even when logged out, as opposed to the standard one that runs down only when the sub is in world. Sit.. is a force sit option, with unsit and No stand options as well. Lastly is Wear, which lets you decide where the sub can wear clothing, and where they can not. (I.E no tops, but underwear allowed)

That about covers the arms..

 Legs

 To save space I'll only cover those options that Arms don't have.

 In Plugins.. You'll find a wriggle menu, to allow you to try and get into another pose. Then there's Cover Feet. This has.. a lot of options, regarding various heels you may have. Its actually a really nice system, allowing the wrapped to go over the heels without clipping. It has options specifically for SLink heels. You can have it wrap all the way to the toes, just over the ankles, or half way down your feet, with or without heels on.


 Gag

The gag works quite a bit differently to the arms, as you might expect. The gag levels make the gag much stricter, in both appearance and function. The max silences you, while the one just below makes you Mmmmph, the other two garble you to various degrees.

 Plugins has some differences again. The Gag RLV menu under it has a lot of options for punishing people who try to cheat, and a very handy option that stops the keyholder blocking your IMs if you dislike that kind of thing. It also has the Wriggle menu that arms lacks, allowing you to adjust your gag. Cover Ears is also here, which allows you to deny them local chat and IM hearing.. Lot of IM restrictions in this kit.

 Very Funny.. Is also in here, which allows you to write on the gag to various degrees, or put an Anime like emote face on it. An example Marine gave was to wrap the person head to toe, with hair free. Colour some black, the legs and head flesh colour, then apply a face with a blank expression.. Anyone watching from a distance would be unable to tell it was a real person. Very handy RP options there.

 Blindfold

  Lastly we have the blindfold. It has Six options for vision blurring, however if you hit just Tie, you'll get a faux blindfold as well.It also contains the all important Shape plugins. This will, when used, save the current size, rotation and position of all the unrigged prims for all parts. You can then undo say, the bandages, and put on the nylons, then load, to save time. You may need to do some minor adjustments, but should save a lot of work.

 My thoughts

 For the most part? I love it. It has a few issues, such as the Shape plugin not woking right for me, and an issue with the SL skeleton causing some odd ridges in the mesh, particularly on the breasts.

 But I love it still. It has so many options that SL bondage has lacked for so long, and the sheer variety of poses, looks and adjustablility this thing has cannot be overlooked. We even got transparent mummification as a possibility at last!

 The price is 1250, I personally say thats worth it for the sheer volume inside.
 

RF Mesh Ballgag

A new "simple" (Katies words) ballgag from Restrained Freedom tonight

Appearance

  Its in mesh, which is nice for fitting. 5 prims in total, the strap, both gag types and the three drool effects. None of that nonsense of needing to select every little eyelet on the strap thankfully. We need more mesh things like that.

 You have two gag types, a solid ball of rubber/plastic or a wiffle version, a holey ball that usually makes for a lot more drool, and possibly noise as well. There's no HUD for recolouring this time, so its all via the style menu. Ball, strap, metal and locks can all be recoloured to match your needs.

  There's also shine, which doesn't work unless you manually remove the Specular map (Materials) first, then it shines up as normal. Better to use the Materials stuff though, if you don't have lighting enabled chances are shine won't look good for you anyway. Glow is there as well.

 Plenty of colour options as always, I'm not gonna list em all as there is a fair ton. You can also always colour it white and manually recolour it using the RGB grid in edit of course. There is one minor issue, though its true of probably every SL wiffle gag, where your teeth will clip through the ball and may be visible inside of the gag. If there's such a thing as a teeth alpha, it may be of use here.

Function

  Rpers will be glad to know it retains the Smart Garbling system. For those that don't, this is a system that will garble speech in emotes that's between quotes. I.E /me tries to say "test" through the gag. The text in the " " will be garbled however severely you have the gag set to.

  Its mostly standard RF from here on out. The Sign language system returns, (British sign language specifically, according to the box), followed by Leashing, then Plugins such as mannequin, catatonic, etc. You'll also be able to adjust how bad you Drool via an option under this menu as well, between three levels, or off. There's a random and auto mode for good measure. Auto increases how much you drool over time for those wondering, it doesn't adjust by the severity of it.

  The Style menu has already been covered above, and Timelock follows with the usual Timelock and timebound options (bound only releases, doesn't return keys). RLV on/off is in the middle, followed by Settings which contains Expose, Verbose, update, reset and gives some leash related items. Keys will be next, unless its unlocked and no one else has them, in which case it'll be Take Keys. Standard stuff in there, with the crypto-lock (disables escape game) and of course give/leave keys.

  Restraints is what most people really care about, you can swap between the Solid ball and the wiffle ball in here, adjust Drool again and of course decide how severely the gag garbles. If you use Pet, then the renamer lets you adjust whether it makes you Mmph (Human), Mewl (kitty) or Bark (puppy). There's also an option to hide the gag, which is nice. You can also block IMs and emotes in here, if you're into that. Last option on the menu is of course Lock/Unlock. Naturally hitting this without keys is a bad idea.

My thoughts

 For the most part I like it, and I'd probably recommend it if someone wanted to pick up a new ballgag. Saying that I do prefer a wider strap, but that's just personal preference, in terms of design there's no fault with the narrow section. There's not too much to say, its a ballgag, one of the basic pieces of bondage gear. Its main selling point to me is the fact its mesh, and the Smart Garbling system Katie uses.

   Its 225 linden, so a fair price, and due to being mesh, a lot less hassle than older prim ones that require a lot of adjustment for that perfect fit. I mean come on, its a gag, its hardly tight if there's a huge gap between the strap and your skin.

  If you want a mesh ballgag, this is probably your best choice right now.

 No S&S tonight I'm afraid, I might edit it in later if they feel like commenting though.

RR Body Harness

Appearance

 So we have a new harness here, from Marine. A classic design, intended to be snug, shape defining, and a handy addition for holding parts of your body in check.

 This one uses Both rigged and unrigged mesh, with the rigged straps using the new fittedmesh system, which makes them form to your shape even more than rigged mesh already did. It also has materials in use, so make sure to have advanced lighting on.

 It is VERY customisable. Each strap can be its own individual colour, of which the harness contains many presets and tints to choose from. You can freely choose which part of the strap as well, be it just the fastener, the trim, or the entire strap. Heavy multi colour is an option.

 It also has a lot of patterns to choose form, ranging from the simple leather, to leopard print, to commands been stitched into to make it a dominant option as well, such as "obey". Submissive options exist as well of course, such as "Owned" and of course "Slave".

 Two sections are rigged, the crotchstrap and the belly/lowerback. Annoyingly for me at least, the belly/lowerback one is slightly too far forwards, so my back clips, and theres a noticable gap from the side between the strap and my stomach.. The rest are unrigged, which is both good and bad. The good? It allows you to adjust for say, Lolas tangos, or unusual shapes and accessories. The bad? Unrigged will never flow with the body as well, and I noticed that while it fits perfectly on the posestand, it doesn't like quite a few animations in my AO.

 Ultimately its a very adjustable piece, with tons of different ways it could be used. Breast harness, chastity strap, etc.

  It also includes two toys of an intimate nature that are quite.. large, and can also be recoloured freely. Some of the options are also animated in quite an.. over the top way.

Function

 Standard RR here. Lock as the first option, with Last Plug to follow, which opens the last plugin menu you were in. Take/leave Keys comes after that, with Tools.. on the next row down. In here you have the usual options, including a male setting, the ever handy verbose, etc. Plugins follows this, with 6 plugins within.

 Those plugins are Leash, Marines Realkey system for overwriting the lock, Rl time, that makes the timelock go by what the real time is, not hours logged into SL. Autolock is next, which allows you to have the restraint lock in future,  with specific restrictions and options in place. Give keys follows, and doesn't need explained, and finally is HarnessTex, which lets you adjust the appearance.

 Back on the main menu, we finish up with More.. where you will find the usual RR options again, specifically the options to shut off the cheating alarm, and hide the timer. The other options are already on the main menu.

 The toys have their own menu, with the majority of the options related to how they act, with how much speed. Could be quite evil
 

Thoughts

 I quite like it, and the price is quite fair. It has very little up-to-date competition right now, though its primary one is major. The price is quite fair, and the customisation is *excellent*. Plenty of options to make it match a hell of a lot of outfits and ideas. The toys seem a little over the top at times, but still could be fun if used at the right time.

 Also, Marine *really* needs to invest in a customisation HUD. When we have this many options, a HUD is just far, far more convient and effiecient to use.

 Aside from the belly/lower back strap issue, I'd say it would be a pretty good buy all in all. 450 linden for this harness.

S & S

• Good Variety of features
• Quality is what they would expect
• Not a must buy, but is nice, classic and very customisable.
• Doesn't distinguish itself well outside of its customisation

Fedotia's Drone suit

So.. a Drone suit.

Appearance

 Its an all encompassing rubber suit, head to toe, with optional very long ponytails. Can have up to three tails coming form your head, or none at all. These tails are also how you access the menu. It also has built in ballet boots.. It might be because of where they are located, but they seem lower quality than the rest, but that may just be the lighting not reaching them.

 In terms of customization, you have a few options. The three hair styles mentioned above, the option to switch between gloves and mitts, and 11 colours options for the body and hair. For the most part the shine isn't too strong, but it is not adjustable, so your mileage will heavily vary depending on your lighting settings.

Function

To begin.. Be careful. If you lock this on yourself, anyone else in the world can still lock it as well. And if someone claims you, then leaves? Well you're screwed and have to do a hard reset. (Log without RLV, reset scripts). So yeah. best not to go out in this without an owner you trust. Also when its locked, you get a randomly assigned drone name to replace your normal.

As the wearer, when you first click it, you can choose to lock it, or leave it be. The first thing that happens when you lock is you get a HUD that limits you to the center of your screen for vision. The KaS hood uses a similar system. I've included an extra pic of this at the bottom of the review.

A massive black mark - It blocks IM by default. This should ALWAYS be an option, and off to begin with. The second black mark? Emote blocking, with NO way to turn it off. Any long messages simply become something like "A-660 squeals"

Now then.. Menus. RLV is first, in which you'll find two pages worth of various RLV restrictions. Nothing out of the ordinary in here. Release is next, and is fairly obvious in what it does. Self Lock

Done is next, which closes the menu for other people to use without interference. IM follows that, with all of the IM restriction options inside it. As mentioned before, this should be off by default, but isn't, so this may be the first stop for many if you buy it. Outfit follows, which is another RLV restriction menu, which lets you adjust whether you can attach or remove clothes and attachments.

Gag is next. It has only one level open to the wearer, which means everything you try to say come out in Mms and mmphs, with Mute following that, which stops you talking at all. Lastly is Appearance, where you can adjust the options mentioned above.

When locked by someone else, you'll just get a message saying "You're locked by <name>, Be a good drone". If locked, but no one has claimed you, it states "You are free but locked. You have to wait for an owner that claims you."

Thoughts

 I have to be honest, I got a really bad first impression of this item. When I put something on, and instantly find my IMs not working? I get annoyed. Even more so when I can't emote properly.

  Been objective. Its not badly built, though I did notice some odd lines showing up under some lighting, uncertain if that was intended or not. I also would of liked adjustable shine.The impact that setting has depending on your actual graphical settings should not be understated, and always adjustable.

  I did like the gag and mittens at least, and the colour options weren't bad. But would I buy it for 800 linden..? Thats a tough one. In its current state, especially with that permanent emote blocker? I'd not buy it. Emotes are too important to RP to allow for such a thing.

You can pick this up from Tai Yong Labs on the Doll Works sim

S & S thoughts below

S one

"It doesn't really do anything better than what you could do before, and for people who like interaction and emoting rather than public restrictions, does things worse"

S two

 "This item seems to be targeted for those who get their enjoyment from RLV enabled toys rather than the interaction and roleplay with others. "

RF Bandage Wrap

New product in RFs mummification line, and yes, it includes a tape option.

Appearance

Now after the rope coil, which while not bad, weren't Katies best. I was a little wary, but I'd say right off the bat the textures here are much better, as are the options.

You get a HUD, as is standard now (and should be for all stores!), and includes 1 tape texture, and 10 bandage, as well as the RGB grid, shine, etc options.

Note - to change between tape and bandage, press the Tape On/Bandage On buttons, not just the tape/bandage texture.

In terms of poses, it has a fair few. 3 standing, including a knee knocked that reduce unwraps your lower legs, a nice touch. 3 sits, 4 lays, an immobile and 4 hogties. All of these work well, although the hogties aren't quite what I expected (legs tight, extra wrappings over.) The single strip looks a little weird, but is functional.

You can also choose to wrap the head, which includes blindfold, gag and ear plugging options, and the feet. Whats more, the gag and blindfold, and even the tape earmuffs, can be used without the rest of the wrapping, a very nice touch. They are unrigged for easier fitting.

Also? I kinda love that little walk we use in the Standsh pose instead of hopping

All in all, very well made.

Function

As always, take the keys before wrapping yourself, lest you get taped/bandaged up and unable to free yourself. Unless you want that anyway. While holing the keys, the first menu is the Style menu, which can be ignored really thanks to the HUD. Other people can of course use it, but in the long run, easier to just ask the actual wearer to HUD it.

You then have Leashing, which has the standard options (givepost/leashto/etc), followed by Plugins, With the usual suspects. If you still have the keys, the next option is Untie, a self explanitory thing. Under Timelock, you'll find the usual timelock and timebound option (Lock is normal, bound merely unties, doesn't return key). In Settings, you'll find the usual again, as well Fall Down on/off, which stops you falling from people walking into you or you overbalancing while hopping. Keys is next, give, ice keys, etc, all in there as usual.

Restraints follows this, and is pretty packed. You have 5 menus for accessing the poses mentioned before, 3 options for tightness, Katies rather nice system of adding restrictions, then you have Extra Wraps>, in which you'll find options such as Head, Feet (which wrap or unwrap the selected option), the gag, blindfold and earmuffs. The gag has Katies usual options, and is in truth a complete product in itself. Back int he main menu, you finally have  Unlock, which I doubt i need to explain.

If you are the sub, and don't have the keys, you get 4 options. Escape, which brings you to the standard RF minigame for wriggling free. (Select one of 6 options, get so many right until you get out, must rest every 6 or so. Struggle, which lets you try to wriggle into another pose, or tighten the restraints. Style, same as before, and Restraints. In this menu, you can freely go into a stricter pose, but must struggle to get into a looser one. This system was added with the rope coil I believe.

My thoughts

A HUGE improvement over the rope coil, and an obvious evolution of it to my eye. This product is just more polished, more options, cheaper and is just better in every way. I'm glad to see a return to form, as while the rope coil was by no means bad, it wasn't Katies usual level of quality. This? Far better.

Including a gag, blindfold and earmuffs, separate to the actual cocoon (thought requiring it to be worn) is a very nice touch, and greatly increases the usage of the cocoon, plus the options such as headwrap and feetwrap also add that little bit extra customisation that helps so much.

You may of noticed that we compare this a fair bit to the rope coil.. Which is not entirely intentional, but is similar in concept, if not execution.

Its 750 Linden

S & S thoughts below as normal these days

S one

• Could see herself buying this product
• Fills a void in the market
• All features she'd need
• Wishes it had wrapping progression
• Hogtie poses are a bit lacking 

S two

• Dislike menu system (and RFs menus as a whole)
• Scripts and plugins are as solid as ever, but also share same weaknesses as before
• Hogties aren't bad
• Look is excellent, what would be expected for a 2014 product
• Price is steep, but better

Sensations - Bondage Table with Cage

Another item from Sensations tonight

Appearance

 So.. Its a cage, with a bondage bench on top, with a hole in it for good measure. Inside the cage is a bowl, and straps are handily available if you want to strap someone down on top. The bowl inside can be hidden as well, or filled with a variety of fluids, from milk and water to.. some less sanitary fluids.

 Poses wise, we have a fair few. Starting with the in cage one, the first "In Cage D/S" has 6, with a 7th been a gender variant. The second has 4,  8 for the third, and then you get solo, which has some repeats, just without the dominant person attached. 15 to be exact.

 The table poses are similarly done, though with more sex based ones. You first have two Chain menus, Sex and D/s. Sex has 11 poses, D/S the same. Belts follows this, 9 for D/S, 10 for Sex, and a belt resizer option in both. Solo Table is below these, and like Cage solo, has repeated poses, but with just the sub, not the domme. 9 poses here.

 Some of the poses are.. interesting. They made my assistant look like a contortionist, or just plain weird. Rather meant for a bigger avi, extreme yoga practitioners, or dislocated bones. Others, like the Tantrum one, has the captive kicking the door, which makes the doors push out a little and the padlock move, and apparently has a good sound effect as well. The animation of the kicking and the door moving sometimes go out of sync though.

 In terms of textures, there's quite a few. 37 for the padding inside and on top, 20 for the cage, metal and wood textures for a change, 8 for the padlock, and 17 for the bowl. Oh and while the captive is in the bowl licking position, someone can go into the menu, and press the lick button to make them drink.

 The included cuffs had an odd attach point on the legs, the anklecuffs were below the ankle ones, and the thigh seemed barely above the knee. They also are no mod.. which makes fitting impossible, which seems redundant, and thus we didn't use them for the pics.

 You can also add your own animations, which is explained in an the help NC. I wont; cover that here.

Function

 First things first, much like her couch before it, this for some reasons pings your relay every time the poses changes, whether you be the sub or domme, which can be a real pest if you are on Ask.

 Now menus.. You first get Help, which has a variety of options. FAQ, Web help, a help NC and a Sensations HUD. Settings has a load of toggable options. Reset, touchable, update, Sensations - this adjusts whether it interacts with sensations plugins like arousal, Up and down.. - this lets you move the poseballs, autosync on sit, lockmesiter - turns the chains on or off, the Timer.. menu, Announce - this shows the current pose info, Public - this adjust access to the settings menu, NOT the device as a whole, and Adjust which does the same as public, except for poseball movement.

 None is the next option on the main menu, which turns off all poseballs, etc and sets it back to doing nothing. Look.. follows, letting you adjust the textures mentioned above. Options lets you turn on Public Use, Sound and "Green text" which is messages to local chat.

 In cage follows this, with access to all of the poses mentioned above, as does On table, the menu that comes after wards. Lock is next, and lets you lock and unlock the padlock, and adjust how hard it is for the sub to pick the lock. Get Cuffs will give you the sadly unmoddable cuffs, so if they don't fit.. Use your own. The table uses upper arm and thigh cuffs, as well as ankle and wrist, so best have a full set.

 RLV is the last menu. Capture comes first, which lets you nab anyone with an open relay, with RLV following as a toggle, and RLV Menu at the end, which toggles public access to this menu as a whole.

 So, after talking with Earalia, we came to the folowing conclusion. If you are the owner of the table, you will retainf ull menu rights, even when the captive. This hasn't occured before, as apparently only dommes have bought it. So the below bolded text still applies..

  If you are a sub, and buy this for your domme to use on you, chances are, it won't work right and leave you with more freedom than it should. If the domme buys it, this issue will not occur. Gifting might be a better idea than outright buying as a sub

 For clarificaiton, its like this. I get captured via the RLV menu, or even sit on it. Someone locks it. I can go into menu, unlock, change pose, change anything I want really. the "None" option dispapears, but thats not really an issue.

 The sub can change some poses while inside the cage, as well as attempt to pick the lock.. This is all second hand from here on, as I had to be told how it works due to the whole not losing menu access thing. this is taken direct from chat.

"It has ACSII style representation of 5 pin/tumblers of a lock
and then a button to attempt, which will try and lock that tumbler down, but if it is wrong you reset the whole thing
you adjust the force number with -- - ++ + buttons from 1 to 100
and speed in the same way but I don't know why
then press jiggle and it will say a high pitched click or a low pitched click
you try and get to the specific number it is looking for, going down from high and up from  low until you feel it set, then attempt
and you have a limited number of jiggles, 50
if you run out of jiggles, you need to reset"


Thoughts

 It seems a nice table, albeit pricey. Quite a few of the poses seemed.. odd though. The person helping me had her body twisted about in ways that in at least one case, seemed unnatural. The constant pinging my relay is also annoying, and an issue that was in the couch as well. 

 While its mostly good, the absolute worst bit for me was the fact that I can't actually be a captive on it. We're not sure why, I tried with more than one relay, but I always retained menu access, couldn't lockpick, could change all poses, regardless of what I was in, etc. This to me was a major issue. I mean, I couldn't even test the lock pick.

The price is 2900

 The S and S thoughts return. First S thought that..

• Lot of poses, but some need work, strange contortions are off putting
• Textures are really good
• Lockpicking is good, better than struggle games, but speed mechanic is hard to understand

Second S thought that..

• ASCII layout was nice for lockpicks
• Feels unfinished, needs to be done better
• Textures are well done!
• Poses amount and variety is good, but some are simply bad and need replaced with improved ones