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