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

BWP Triple review!

I'm doing the Bondage Witch Projects Enchantress Muzzle, Magic Cuffs and Magic Yoke tonight. Of them all, the gag surprised me the most.

Enchantress Muzzle

Quality
 
So we start with the gag. First up, it has a LOT of customization. Using the pretty well buitl menu system, you can get a ton of differant looks from this thing, and its copy/mod to boot, so you can keep several copies to save changing the settings around if you have a favorite look(s)

One combo I found was to turn the framework and color to black, and use the solid texture. It looks like a nice tight tape gag, or a panel gag of sorts if you adjust it a little. All in all very nice.

It has 24 buitl in textures, each one with a differant visual effect on the main part of the gag. Ih has some accesories as well, such as some framework around teh face, a rune on the forehead and the option to put ribs over the gag to further secure it. You can also adjust how strong the glow effect of the gag is

The good: Ton of customization, some nice basic gag looks cna be made as wlel as fancy ones
The bad: With frills on, it looks like you have nosehooks.

Function

Right, we do the ever usual system of top left to bottom right for the menu buttons.

First option lets you secure the gag in place, making it unremovable. It also (at least for me) glowed green when I locked it, before turning back to the red/black combo I had settled on a couple of seconds later.

Next is Operators, whichw ill spam you with a few lines of text in local. You can add temp operators using a chat command (/70 tmadd <name> to add, /70 tmremove <name> to get rid of). You can add permanent operators via the NC in the gag itself (Right click > edit > Contents > double click Operators NC)

Next up is a readme, then Garbling. Theres six levels of garbling, from Lightest to Total. Total is quite fun, making you completely unintelligible. You can also set it up so the person has to use a channel as well. Next is Restrictions. In here is the ever annoying IM block and the option to allow long or short emotes (both should be switched to unblock really, but i guess the choice is nice.)

You then have Zap, a nasty little option that shocks the wearer. Then theres style. Under here is mostly optiosn for appearance, but a few for functionality as well. You can adjust who gets zapped by the gag, so if the general public touch it, they get shocked, as well as whether or not the wearer gets zapped. I'm guessing if wearer is set to on, you can't use your own gag, so I avoided that during the review due to lack of available ways to fix it at the time.

You can adjust the sound effects the gag makes, as well as which messages appear in local chat. You get color next in the main menu, which is the same as the one in Style, lets you adjust the gags appearance. Remote is next, which lets you decide if a set of BWP cuffs affect the gags locking, or colouring. Finally there is hidden, an option I always love, which lets you wear the gag in public without it always been on.

If you are not the wearer, then "Secure" becomes "Lock". Should you be blacklisted in the gags banlist, or public access is off.. Then you get a nasty zap if you touch it.

You can make/restrict public access to teh gag by going into the operators NC and adding/removing the "*" (yes, the little star from pressing shift+8)

Good - Lot of garbling, plenty of extras
Bad - lack of general RLV options (bad in the sense of lacking, not personal views), somewhat annoying public/expose system

Magic Cuffs + Yoke

For the most part these two function the same, so will cover the qualities seperatly and teh function together

Quality - Cuffs

Like the gag, theres quite a bit of customizaiton here, though you can't make them look almost like tape this time. You can adjust the colour of the mainc uffs, the glowing ruins, the sparkles that appear when clicked and the chains. Theres a collar, fore and upper arm cuffs, and ankle cuffs. They all seem to be quite high quality in texturing, once again like the gag.

Theres 7 poses for the arm, 4 for the legs. You can also choose to suspend, either from the legs or the arms. You need ot choose an obecjt to suspend yourself from as well. Once suspended, you can

Good - Quite a bit of customization, decent amount of poses
Bad - Not as customizable as the gag, lacking some basic poses

Quality - Yoke

Similar to the cuffs, only this time instead of wrist cuffs and a collar, you have a solid bar going from your neck to either wrist. Otherwise same customization options as the Magic Cuffs.

There are 6 arm poses this time, legs are the same as before. Also has the suspend option. Once suspended you can go in and using the Up and Down commands, lower or raise how high you are in the air.

Good - Quite a bit of customization, decent amount of poses
Bad - Not as customizable as the gag, lacking some basic poses

Funcion - both

The binding process is a little differant here. This time you select a pose for legs and arms, then can toggle arm and or leg bondage on or off. You can change pose while bound or unbound, good for setting up a specific pose for once the binding begins.

Now then, from top left of page 1. You have secure again, which locks the cuffs/yoke. Hitting commands gives a very long local chat message about the various things it can do, such as safeword or stripping. followed by the help button.

Theres then the leash, which works in the same way as all leashes. If bound, the next button is Release All., otherwise its blank. Then you have locking. Under this menu you can adjust whether its public or not a plus, as well as the option to leave the key hanging, adjust how long the timnelock is (toggable, like the arm/leg poses) and adjust what colour the ruins are if you set it up to be affecte dby the locking system. Theres also a get key option and the choice to turn safeword on or off.

Settings is next, letting you block the gag, secure it (again), get help (again), refresh the restraint, or access operators in the same style as the gag. Theres a fully functional RLV menu as well, and the option to lock certain clothes and attachments on to avoid nasty stripping attempts.

If you also have the gag on, the next button with give you the gag menus. Then we're onto the second page! On this page is the aforementioned posing system, Option to turn arm and leg bondage on or off, get help (again), suspend the sub, force sit, turn on sit pose, adjust the poses used and an options menu in which you will find the Appearance, hide the restraint and turn bling on or off. Oh and you can find help (AGAIN) and refresh(again) in here as well

Major issue I found was that the anims seem to be somewhat low prio. my AO caused my arms to often come out of the restraints for a few moments.

Like above, Secure becomes lock when you are not the wearer.

The good - Lot of stuff to use, full RLV access
The bad - over-saturated menus (help), AO prio is too low

Scores

Gag
Quality - I have to admit to loving this gags looks. so many options! - 9/10
Function - a good amount. Public mode is annoying to get into - 7/10
Price - 120 linden is a steal for a gag this customizable - 9/10

Cuffs
Quality - Pretty nice, not as customizable as I had hoped. - 7/10
Function - Quite good. Tripping AO in the arm poses though, not high prio enough. - 7/10
Price - 400 linden - Seems fair - 7/10

Yoke
Quality - see above - 7/10
Function - above - 7/10
Price - 300 linden - also fair - 8/10

Restrained Freedom Multi-cuffs

Yes I know I keep doing RF gear, I have so much of it.. I'll add more shops to the mix later.

Quality

So we start with looks. Theres quite a bit to cover. 4 differant designs for each part, the cuffs, the gag and the blindfold. You have Humane (default), BDSM, Handcuff and rope for the cuffs, the Gag has panel (default), ball, ring and rope. The blindfold has a Panel (default), Scarf, pads and rope. Theres also a built in straitjacket.

All of the designs are well detailed, the straitjacket seems to be canvas, but I hold out hope for a latex one in future (I know what I like, sue me). It has nine arm positions, nine legs positions with an extra position been "Faux Taut", which gets you the chain without the actual hobble I believe. The gag, blindfold and earmuffs all have a faux option as well.

Function

Sit back, this will take awhile.

To start with, we have to decide who we let in. Nealry all access requires a multi-key (comes in the box, or can be bought for 99 linden). Anyone, Land Group, Whitelist, Self and Expose.

Anyone lets anyone with a key into your cuffs, land group lets anyoen with a key and in yoir group in. Whitelist and self let anyone on the whitelist in as well as yourself. Then theres Expose. When in this mode, anyone can get access to the cuffs, IF they do a little mini-game with you. You can;t move while the game is going on, each round has three options for both the victim and captor to choose, and they need to win a certain amount of times to rather force the assaulter out, or to be caught. The captor also has Give up, does as the name suggests, and the victim has surrender, again obvious.

Theres an escape minigame. six options, one is correct per round. hit it and you get one step closer to escape. Hit 3 wrong in a row, you get knocked back one. Both take away from an energy meter, which when empty stops you struggling while it slowly refills.

The gag has 7 settings, including the aforementioned faux. You have thinking, which makes your messages come out as "<name> thinks:...". You have mmph, a fun little one for short term play that makes eveyrthing you say come out as Mmphs and Mms., and silence which does as the name suggests (and is kinda boring, but required I suppose). It has 3 levels of standard gagspeak. Mumble, which is fairly clear, Garble which is somewhat and Incoherant that.. Does as the name suggests.

Three settings for the blindfold. Faux, half and full. Ears have Faux, partial and full. Theres an Accessories menu which has RLV folder access and the typical RLV menu, as well as a relay. Under plugins you can find things such as timelock, and options to lock out style change, verbose and escape. As well as teh PA plugin.. More on this later.

It also has a leash and a load of sub anims built in.

PA plugin

Yep, this funtion is getting a bit to itself.

The PA plugin in your cuffs works with the Paine Asylum at RF. Turn it on and go into the asylum. You can commit yourself by putting on the cuffs and sitting in a wheelchair by following the brightly coloured lines on the floor. When you sit down, you'll instantly be gagged, put in the SJ pose, hobbled and have some settings changed, such as the RLV relay been set to auto and access been set to Anyone.

You'll be TPed upstairs to the daytime room, a sort of common room with soem games, a TV, etc. You are then free to leave this room, but you can't open any other doors without a multi-key.. And to use the key, you need to be untied.

Then theres the Fairies. If you have the PA plugin turned on, they will sometimes pop out and do things to you. There seem to be six in all. three patients (Blue, Green and Pink) which adjust your bondage, sometimes tickle you, then leave you where they found you. Theres then three nurses (Yellow, Orange and Red). I've not met the orange myself, but have sene it on someone else. Red seems to send you to the bedrooms and bind you to a bed quite often, while yellow favours the shock therapy room. Orange.. Who knows?

These fairies can cause you a lot of issues. They don't timelock you, so you rather need to get lucky and have one of them free you, or have a handy staff member around to untie you. From what I;ve seen in there, the staff act as if teh fairies don't exist for RP purposes, so be careful.

From some questioniong, I was able to find out a bit on the fairies. They will grab a patient within 20 meters of themselves, providing theres no nurse also in this 20 meter radius. What this means is a nurse cna be 5 meters from the captive, and a fairy could pop out and nab the patient right there in front of them. I believe the staff need to have the key on to be detected however.

Scores

Quality - Pretty high, good options, fair bit of customization and more ropes. - 9/10
Funciton - I can;t give this less than 10/10. It does so much!
Price - 1000 linden.. Toughy. Expensive yes, but so much inside.. and that PA plugin alone.. 8/10
Average 9/10

The MD cuff review

Just a quick one. Someone pointed out a mistake in my review regarding the owner system of the cuffs. I had been locked out of this menu by a former Mistress sometime ago and had no idea it even existed anymore (we're talking a long time ago now).

Due to this, I have went back over my review and made soem changes, as wlel as increasing the score as it seems better value for money with this owner system I had accidently overlooked.

I apologise for the mistake! I'll try and make it up to any readers who moved away from buying it possibly due to my review.. Though I doubt theres any who did right enough.

Aria

Double review - RR Leather Vixen restraints and the RR Ballgag

To make up for my lack of reviews the last two days, heres two in one.

RR is probably the one of the most well known restraint makers, not least because of Marine, the builder, been the person who created RLV.

Lets start with the gag.

In terms of looks its.. A ball on a strap. However the detail is still quite high and realistcally built with the rivets and buckles in all the right places, It also makes you drool. In term sof usage, it has 4 levels. Loose, Medium, Tight and Total. Each one garbles your text, groiwng more severe as its tightened, with total been silenced.

It carries a fair few plugins, including basics like a leash and a give key option, to more interesting and complex stuff like the realkey and autolock. In the gag menu under plugins, you can change restrictions such as restrcting emotes and IM blocking (which is a horrible thing). Theres also a color plugin that lets you adjust the colour of the ball, but not the strap unfortunatly.

Thats it for the gag, onto the cuffs!

First thinsg first, the detail here is amazinly good. The collar and cuffs, as wlel as the yoke and u-binder are all of very high quality.

The collar has 4 settings, a simple everyday choker, a "classy" style, then a smallish posture collar and finally a tall posture collar. It allows for all sorts of things in its plugin menus, such as forceTP, force sit, spy (more on this shortly), the realkey, RLV folder access, a titler and more. It cna also be recoloured via the Vixen texture plugin on page 4 of the plugins

The Spy plugin is a nasty little thing in some cases. It lets the owner hear what you and htose around you are syaing, no matter where you are. It tells you where they are, all the avatars around them, going so far as to record it all even when the domme is offline. Quite evil and very privacy invading.

The cuffs have 6 poistions. Front low, Back low, front tight, back tight, a yoke and a u-binder. Plugin wise it carries some of the basics and the collar ones, as well as one called "wriggle" (which is always empty for me, would need to see what happens if a domme had control). It also has a resizer for the yoke bars to make them properly fit your shape.

The leg bindings seems to be all about spreader bars. It has the Taut poistion, which is a short hobble chain. Then a spreader bar, sitting with said bar, lieing with it, hogtied with it, then a hogtie on your side without it. It has an interesting plugin called "lock shoes". As far as I know, this makes a strap appear and go under your heel, and pretty much stops you changing your shoes. Otherwise it has just some of the same plugins as above.

Now to the rating.




You can find Marines vendor at a lot of sims, or can visit her own little store at - http://slurl.com/secondlife/pak/81/61/104/?title=Marines%20Little%20Store

Ballgag
Quality - Its a ballgag, it looks quite real, although it is an older item now with the textures not quite as high detail as some, still a nice piece - 6/10
Function - Its got what you need from a gag, does what you want it to and garbles the poor subs voice - 8/10
Price - 200 linden is a fair price for this, I have no complaints - 8/10
Avergae - 7.5

Vixen Leather
Quality - The quality of this restraint is very high. In terms of looks, few have the detail to match this - 10/10
Function - The lack of arm and leg positions hurts it, but you can't really complain about lack of plugins.. 8/10
Price - Ouch. 1200 linden is a LOT to ask here. 5/10
Average - 7.5

MD Rubber Cuffs

The rubber cuff set from Mesmerize Dungeon. A well known store for latex lovers and bondage goods.


The quality is quite high, you can even see the stiching if you zoom in close enough. All in all they look very good. For those of us that hate having to buy multible copies of things to get more colours, this set is very nice. It has a built in recolour system that lets you edit the ring, the buckle, the border, the main strap, back strap and buckle strap. That allows for a fair bit of customization.

These cuffs have quite a lot of functionality. Plenty of positions for either the legs or arms, and also a fair few combined ones. They are fairly easy to get out of if you have a friend with some spare time. They have quite a few features such as exposing to public, which lets anyone touch them, No Touch, which stops you touching things when bound, the ever popular timelock and quite a bit more.

The owner system (previously missed due to a certain event, see news post) is pretty good. You can set a primary owner who can always access the cuffs, as well as some secondary owners. You can remove secondary, but not primary. To my knowledge you have to reset the cuffs (login withotu RLV, go into plugins and hit reset) to remove the primary owner, or you can possibly get them to remove themselves.

On the escaping. You have two ways. You can use the struggle plugin, or have a friend come over and use the picklock function. For those desperate, you can also log into a non-RLV viewer and use reset.

They are pretty simple to use in comparison to most. I can't speak as a binder, but I've never had anyone grumble when binding me with them about it been difficult.

All in all a very nice set of cuffs.


Vists them! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/MD/128/180/1506

Quality: Looks good, is quite customizable. - 7/10
Function: Lot of stuff built in, escapable for emergancies and fun positions - 9/10
Price: 900 linden.. In some cases reasonable, in some others not so much. 8/10
Average: 8

Aria

EDIT: Appraently these cuffs do have an owner system outside of just having somneone lock them. I'll need to invesitgate this. Possible updates coming to this review.

EDIT 2: Apparently there is this system, which I found after a fiar bit of work invlovling finding out my previous Mistress had locked me out of the menu a long time ago and is still counted as primary owner. Will need to fix this before I can continue.

EDIT 3: All sorted, review updated to reflect my mistake. Thanks Tess for pointing it out!