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.

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.

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

Rf Mesh hood

A new hood on the market, always a nice change.

Appearance

  A pretty customisable hood all in all. Leather, latex and 'Others' textures, with a HUD for easy mixing up handily. It has all of Katies usual textures, as well as four especially for the optional hair. You can do some other minor edits to the appearance via the HUD, like changing it to close via laces, zipper, or none at all, add or remove cat ears, and the optional hair. You can of course adjust shine as well. (enable screen space reflections in your viewer for best results).

  The hood itself has a fair few different looks. Monk, which is open face, Maiden, which blinds, but leaves lower face free, Bane, which is smooth all over and a bit thicker, Full, which is like bane, but with the head harness still on, and less bulky, Gwen, the classic mouth covering style, and tattler, which is just your mouth, nothing else. It has a built in blindfold and gag that can be applied, and earmuffs, but they have nothing visible this time.

  The gag has two styles, Panel and Ball. Oddly the ball is displayed even if the hood is put on full or Gwen, making it clip badly. Panel is fine for that setting.. but ball? Bane hides it. The panel also must be very tight, as you can quite clearly see the impression of a ball, or something of similar shape, under the tight gag. Also when a gag is worn, the hood stretches a little to accommodate your widened mouth, a nice little touch, similar to one the KaS hood uses. Lastly you can hide or show the head harness and collar as you like, via the restraint menu.

  Unfortunately fitting this thing was a pest. The built in resizer is just no use if your head is not the exact shape of the hood. The only thing that I took longer fitting than this would be the siren ropes.

Function

  Without keys, you as the wearer will have access first to the Plugins Menu. In here you'll find all of the usual suspects, including the sadly not so great resizer,  the ever fun RF plugins (mannequin, catatonic, etc), a fully function RLV menu, sound adjustment, and can deny style change while locked.

  The Style menu si next, and is very bulky. Its far, far easier to use the HUD that comes with it, which I highly recommend. In the style menu, you can freely adjust any single piece of the hood, by going through submenu after submenu.. Or use the HUD to select and change that same piece in seconds.

  Sign is a staple of Katies now. A long list of gestures for your avatar to use to try and express themselves, presumably while gagged. RLV off follows this, with settings bringing up the middle option. Settings is the same as always, Verbose, Expose, update, etc.

  The following option is Leashing. This hood has two leash points, One on the collar, and one on the top. Next up is Take keys, which I'll get to in a minute, then restraints. Lock is the last option.

  If you lock it without keys, you can still unlock it this time. Not quite as cruel as some of Katies gear in that regard. The restraints menu is quite full. You can change the gag type, the hood type, alter the strictness of the gag, as well as what kind of garbling the Pet setting uses. (Mmphs as human, mewls as Kitty, etc). The blindfold has three settings, (faux, half, full).Curiously, you can hide the blindfold even when blinded, which makes sense for the eye covering hoods.. but makes me wonder if dark contacts are used for the open eye ones. Has RP potential for those that want to use blind effects, certainly. Earmuffs, is similar, three settings, all the same as blind.

  Once the keys are taken, the menus rearrange themselves a bit, and a new one appears, timelock. As usual, Katie has split this in two. One that fully releases the hood, and one that merely releases the restrictions, but leaves the hood snugly locked in place. You also get the keys menu. In here you can adjust various things like the master key, sec owners, etc

  Being awhile since I covered them, so adding them here. The crypto-lock, if you succeed in activating it after doing the mini-game, makes the hood inescapable. Katies good old system, the Ice Keys is here as well, always fun since she started using them ohh.. over a year ago? They are pretty much a temporary set of keys that last a set amount of time, before 'melting', and thus losing the holder access to the restraint.

My thoughts

  I like this hood in terms of looks. Plenty of variation. Fitting it was a real pest though, especially the ballgag, which was slightly too high for my mouth. I had to cam into my head to finally be able to edit it individually. Creators (not just Katie) seriously need to invest some time in letting us adjust stuff by X, Y and Z axis individually, not just all at once.

  I can see this getting a lot of use, simply because of all the variations, which is starting to feel like Katies speciality to me. Lots of different looks and types built into one product. Would be handy for kidnap like RP if you could hide it though.

  Price is 600 linden.


  As of next review (or maybe edited into this one), I will be adding a "Would I buy it" bit at the end of the review, which will also have two other peoples input. Might help things along a bit.

TK lifestyles Colourable Panel gag

Okay, technically its colorable panel gag, but I'm British, we actually spell it properly over here.

Appearance

 So.. its made using normal prims, not Mesh. And there's a lot of them. This means if you need to resize it to fit, expect to have a lot of little fiddly prism to adjust. Fitting this to my head was rather difficult as a result.

 The design appears to be based on Dari's old panel gag, with some adjustments of course, and all new build. As the name suggests, you can change its colour. In the colour (color) menu, you can choose which part you want to adjust (of which there are either), or choose to do the whole lot. It has some unusual colour schemes, and has 34 colours built in for the bulk of the gag, while the metallic prims have 8. The prims are also mod, so you can freely recolour that way as well. Just make sure it set it to white first. You can also add shine this way.

Function

 This ones party piece is that it scans other RLV restrictions beforehand. So if you for whatever hand have two gags on, only one set of garble will appear. If you are stuck only able to whisper, the gag will also whisper, etc.
 
 As always, the top left to bottom right method. First option is lock, really self explanatory. Locking this one does not really change the menus from what I can see. Second option is the always useful timelock, which frankly should always be included in gear these days. there is no excuse not to. This timelock can be quite extreme, you can add a minimum of 5 minutes, and a max of 28 days at once.

 Hide gag is next, a handy one for people who like to play without their restraints always appearing. Very handy for RP and those that want more interaction I find (or just prefer to be subtle?). Expose follows, pretty much opening you up for kidnap by anyone. Be careful in public sims with it of course.

 Options.. In here we have two IM related options. Full out block, which should be banned, and Wait. Wait means others have to IM you first. While better, I have heard stories from friends who have fallen out over this one, each one thinking they are being ignored by the other, so be careful with it.

 Also in the options menu we have Severity (how strict the gag is), which has the four usual. each one stricter than the last, with the fourth completely silencing you. There's a penalty option, for speaking while gagged. Adds to the timelock, with a max of 60 minutes being penalised.

 The Drool menu is a bit different, giving you an input box to adjust how rapidly drool flows from the gag. 0 stops it. I'm not sure what the upper limit is, but I tried 99999 and it went a bit nuts. Lastly in this menu is colour (color), which is covered above.

 We have owner next, back in the main menu. Its fairly simple. Add one, remove one, and list em. You can adjust the text command prefix, (default is /61<initials>menu. I.E /61awmenu. You can also do /61*menu, which will make EVERY sub nearby wearing the gag have their menu pop up for you. Lastly is Name, what you put in here will be displayed when you try to talk while gagged.

Scores

NOTE - I may be dropping these soon, they feel kind of unneeded. The point of these reviews is to tell people what the gear can do and what it looks like, not put a static number to it. If you want me to keep them, then TELL ME. If no one protests, then the scores can go as far as I am concerned.

Appearance - 7/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 349 linden

Senastions - Mesh gag

Another sensations piece today, their gag this time.

Appearance

Lets see.. Its a harness gag by default, with, to be honest, a half ton of options built in. I count 20 primary gags, with sub options to most of them as well. Quite effective.

The add-ons menu and gags menu are both packed. You can adjust the gag to be a normal single strap, or with just a chin strap, to the full harness. You can add pony blinders, a plume, and so on

In terms of colouring, there's plenty of options as well, lots of colouring, with each part of the gag able to be retextured individually (so if you wanted neon green straps, with a pink ball, yellow metal and a purple plume, you could)

So yes, all in all a VERY customisable gag, so that's good.

The bad? This thing is a pest to fit, at least for my shape, so if you see any slight clipping or the something else that seems off in the pics, you know why.

Function

So a few things to note first before I do my usual method of top left to bottom right.

This thing is slow. When you hit an option to adjust how it looks, expect to wait a good 20 seconds or so for it to register. The other issue is that it seems to IM block by default. You need to manually set it to not IMmute. Bit of a pest, that option should NEVER be on by default.

Now to the normal reviewing.

The first menu is help. In here you can get a help NC, go to a help webpage, get an FAQ or get the Sensations HUD. The second is Touchable. This stops others touching it if turned off I believe. Lastly for the top row we have Update, self explanatory.

The next is Deactivate/Activate. This pretty much is what makes the gag work. Restraint is your typical RLV menu.. With options for just about every possible thing, 6 pages worth. It can even stop you changing group. Lastly for row 2 is Add/Remove, a menu that lets you go into the RLV folder of the wearer, or your own, handy if inventory is blocked.)

Row 3 starts with gags, the main dish. As said above, there are 20 different gags, with suboptions for good measure. As also said above, albeit a bti lower down than the previous one, you need to manually unIMmute each one.

One gag is slightly different. table. When used, you can select something to be placed on it such as chocolate or a cigarette, and it will give it out to any who touch it.

Add-ons is mentioned above, you can also find an IM-Mute button in here (turn it off!), as well as blindfold. The blindfold blocks your vision using enviromental filters or the like, no HUD, and can't be bypassed without having RLV off if you want to see it in full. You can also adjust tightness in here, making the gag garble you more or less, or even not at all.

Lastly for row three is Appearance. In here you can change the sub-options for your gag (say ball by itself, or with a mask as well), as well as retexture it, and lastly resize it.

Last row is fairly simple. You can leash first and foremost.. Which has some interesting options. A public leash mode, the leashes texture, and so on. The owner button is simple, add an owner for the gag. Lastly is lock. In here you can set "Memory", which reminds you who locked it. Pickable, which lets you well, pick the locks, and leave/hide key for obvious usage. It would seem you cannot lock it yourself.

Perhaps the worst bit for me is the lack of a timelock. I mean I can live with the rest of the issues, as they are easily fixed.. but no timelock is always a bad thing. Another minor issue is the anim priority, when I used stuff like the bit gag, my lower jaw kept trying to close then open again, very slight, but noticeable when zoomed in for pic taking.

 My thoughts

I like this gag, despite its issues, but its very much one I'd say thats not for RP. Everytime I changed gag, I found myself having to adjust it again, which is not good when the emotes are flowing. For photoshoots though, I imagine it would be amazing. Add in a timelock, and this thing would be one of, if not the best, multi-gag in SL that I know of.


Scores

Appearance - Iffy fitting, otherwise very nice - 8/10
Function - Slowdown, no timelock, auto-IMblock.. - 7/10
Price - 950 linden

Sunshine Technology - Easter Egg basket gag

Another form Sunshine tech tonight, a gag specifically for the upcoming holiday

Appearance

The gag itself is a ballgag on a rod, somewhat like a bit and ballgag together (sometimes called ponyball I think?). Attached and hanging from the ball is a basket full of easter eggs.

Appearance wise you can adjust the colours of the gag itself, split between the strap, the rod, the ball and the metal rings. The basket can be adjusted as well, as can the bow hanging from it. The eggs stay the same, but you can change how many are in it via The Egg Lock Menu.

All pieces have 9 colours, with some variants for the metal pieces (steel instead of white, etc),  as well as the ability to custom colour it.

Via another menu, you can also adjust the shine, a nice little addition. You can adjust each of the six parts individually as well, for different effects.

Function

First up, if you lock yourself, you're stuck till it unlocks, rather by someone else or via a timelock or Egg lock (more on this one later)

In the first menu, we have the gag strictness, varying from None to Tight, each one of course garbling you more than the last. Following this is 'Egg Lock'. This is the gags primary purpose. In here you can adjust how many eggs you have to give away for the gag to unlock. Changing the target also changes the amount of visible eggs in the basket, as mentioned above. It has a maximum of eleven.

Next menu is timelock, this is fairly standard, but can be set to wearer only for added safety. After this is Colour, and the Options submenu for shine adjustment. Next up is About, in which you can get the store LM, marketplace link and instructions for use. Lastly there's lock and cancel. Lock is self explanatory, and cancel closes the menu so someone else can access it.

Scores

Appearance - 7/10
Function - 7/10

Price - 149 linden

RF "Stealth gag" (Mouth corset)

Another new one from RF, and one that has being oddly missing until now

Appearance

In terms of design, its as expected for a mouth corset. A high long collar, extending down to the bottom of the neck, and up over the mouth, very snugly. It has a variety of latex and leather textures for the main panels, and some metal ones as well. Ten for latex and leather, four for metal.

You can hide the rivets at the front as well. Katie mentions her reasoning for this pretty well. With the rivets on, it pretty much states there's a pear gag attached to the covering. Without.. You can pretend its whatever you like. Ball. Panties, inflatable, etc.

One issue i had is with the alpha, and my camera at its typical angle, I can see a through myself due to the gag not being tight against my face enough. Fortunately the alpha is not required, and with it off the gag doesn't clip me at all. Hopefully this is the same for anyone else who has the alpha issue.

The style menu allows use to hide/show the metal, as well as adjust textures for Lacing, D-Rings, Chains, the Cover, the Gag Plug and the Rivets  The odd bit here is the gag plug isn't even visible unless you cam inside your head..

If/when you use the leash option, the leash comes out of the middle of the gag, right where your mouth should be.

On a side note and completely unimportant note, the gag seems to fit the KaS catsuit(size XS at least) near perfectly.



Function

This is pretty much identical to the Scolds Bridle, without the blindfold or earmuffs and of course the style options that go with them. Same gag levels, same gag options, same renamer, etc.

The only other option I could find that was different/new is the option to turn auto alpha usage (via RLV folder) on and off.

EDIT: I just discovered that this thing, like the AiTech gag, can muffle emotes using its built in renamer. I.E an emote that is Aria yells "Help!" would come out as  Aria yells "Wewk!" When set to Garble. This may sound familiar. The AiTech 'best gag in SL' has this system as well.. Making it no longer unique to them.

Scores

Appearance - Unique in SL.. bar maybe MBs, but that one is very bad in comparison - 9/10
Function - 9/10
Price - 275 linden

RF Scolds Bridle

Newish gag from RF!

Appearance

First off, its made of metal, so those wanting a nice skintight leather/latex/etc gag  will want to look at something more like Katies Mask gag instead.

So starting with the actual bridle.. With the gag, its a metal harness around your head, with the gag riveted via a plate to the harness in the front. A small d-ring hangs from the gag plug, presumably for leashing purposes the sub around. The plug cannot be removed, so no open mouth option.There's also another D-ring on top of the harness.

The blindfold can be worn separately from the harness/gag, though the rivets look a little odd on the front if the harness is not under them. You can also add metal earmuffs, to block out sound.

For customisation, you can freely recolour/texture five different parts, or the whole lot at once. There's four metal types, Iron, Rust, Silver and Gold, with varying degrees of shine you can apply. There's also a default button for changing back to normal

Function

To start with you have the Plugin menu, this contains Katies usual plugins. Next we have style, covered above. Then we have Sign. Sign I like. Its pretty much sign language, albeit very simple. You can choose from 17 different options and you will do a gesture depending. be it a wave, pointing to something, etc.

You can turn RLV off with the next button, and access the Settings via the following one. Settings is the usual. Expose/update/get items, etc. Following that is a leash which can be applied to either of the D-rings mentioned in the Appearance section

Next is Take Keys, which is obvious and moves some buttons around - will get back to that shortly. The following two menus are Restraints, and Lock/unlock. The latter is obvious and needs nothing mentioned. The restraints its split into three areas. Gag, blindfold and Earmuffs. The Gag has 6 settings for mumbling, as well as adjustable channel, various RLV restrictions you can adjust and a renamer for good measure.

The blindfold is simpler, three settings. Faux lets you see still, though does take away map privileges. Half makes the screen blurry, and full obviously blinds you. Earmuffs are in the same vein, faux, half and full. Half blocks names and I think distance, while full obviously makes it impossible to hear anything. Back in the main menu, below each of the submenus for adjusting the restraints is a Remove button for its respective piece (gag/blindfold/earmuffs) and lastly an option to UnAll.(actual spelling)

Once locked, the menus shift around. Sign becomes the first option, leash becomes second, etc, and Timelock appears. Timelock is split into your typical Timelock for releasing once it ends, and Timebound which merely removes the restrictions while leaving the device locked on.

Scores

Appearance - Metallic so not my area of expertise.. It looks good though - 7/10
Function - Plenty of options here - 9/10
Price -  400 Linden

Side note

Those curious about my outfit here that you can see the top of - KaS just released a new mesh catsuit. Go pick it up if you want mesh shiny goodness

AiTech Universal Gag

This gag claims to be the best in SL.. Quite a statement.

Appearance

Now then.. lets see.  Its mesh, always a nice start. This one was a tad annoying to fit for me, possibly due to my head shape. I had to rotate and resize quite a bit to get it to fit right.which was somewhat of a pain.
This gag advertises as 6 different gags, but I only could find 3 with two appearance settings each. I'm not sure that counts as 6 different, but there we go.

You get Ball, Bit and Ring, in the normal single strap around head style, and the head harness style. The bit i had some issues getting to fit right, as the gag seems to open wide to fit the ball and ring, but stays that wide even when bit is selected, despite it not being large enough to force the jaw apart that far. Thankfully from afar this isn't too noticeable.

My primary gripe is the lack of colour options. You can't adjust any of them at all.

Function

Lets get started.. First up, if you want the gag to work You need to wear a HuD attachment. This attachment will garble you even if you take off the gag while the HuD is still on, which I hope is an unintended bug.

The first option takes you to an Owner menu. Inside you Can of course Add and list any owners you currently have, and remove if there is one currently set. The next options allow you to adjust how heavily you drool, and how heavy the garbling is. Garbling of course can be set to heavy and still not block chat without that HuD attachment.

The Next row has Exposed (obvious), the option to turn Drool on, and the option to turn Garbling on. On the bottom and last row of this page, we have Lock, which takes you to a submenu that lets you lock the gag, or setup the timer. Then you get the Settings menu

In here you can turn RLV on and off, and set the name the built in renamer uses for garbling. Last you can access another submenu to adjust gag type. Ball, bit and ring, plus the option to show a head harness.

This gags selling point, to me, is the emote garbler. With the HuD in place and garbling turned on, you can do a emote such as '/me wanders up to someone and says "Hello" to them' and it would garble the hello as if you were speaking normally instead of emoting. A very nice touch.

Verdict

My take on it? Its a good gag, it has a great emote system as well, allowing for the garbling of text in quotation marks.

However.. We need a hud for the gag to work, which I can't understand. It advertises 6 different gags, when its 3 in two styles each, which is not the same. And it claims to be the best in SL and it just.. isn't. Its good, but the best? Not a chance.

Scores

Appearance - It looks good, and does have a decent set of options, but lack of colours hurts it  - 7/10
Function - The emote altering is very well done. Otherwise? Nothing unusual - 8/10
Price - 600 linden for 3 gags in two styles. Not a bad deal - 7/10

RR Tape Gag and Blindfold set

Tape! And from Marine, we know its gonna be good. I so hope this means we're getting a tape bondage set to follow!

And yes, I have actually down two reviews in under a week again.

Quality

First up, its mesh. Instant plus there. Very easy to resize and fit is also a plus.

In terms of looks.. the gag has four, the blindfold one, both with 8 colours and 3 skin tones for 'clear' tape. The tape itself is very well textured, as expected, and looks pretty snug. Admittedly I had some minor issues getting all 4 combos to fit me at once without needing a small bit of fien tuning everytime I switch, but thats probably due to my head being not quite normal shaped.

The main hit of this tape gag is very well done though, and realistic for a change. Everytime you tighten the gag in the menu (more on this below), more tape appears on your the captives face, just like it should do. The final layer coats the entire lower face, and looks amazing.

Function

Gag

The first 4 options are simple. Total is at the top, with Loose, medium and tight just below it. Each one of these of course adjust how strict the gag is. I;ve covered this system before in previous reviews of Marines restraints.

Below that we have the Tie option, which 'locks' the tape, allowing only the person who Tied it to access it, barring realkeys of course. How you lock tape is beyond me, but it helps keep wandering fingers in check.

The second option is Last Plug, which merely takes you back into the last plugin you accessed. The next lets you Loosen or Tighten the restraint, which I believe makes the escape mini game harder or easier depending.

Next is the Special submenu. In here you can turn off the /77 channel access, adjust the alarm, access the Last Plugin again, make the gag silent in local, and adjust the timer. The timers has two ways you can adjust, add as set time (10 min, 1 hour, 12 hour, etc,), or choose a range and let it select a certain amount of time from within said range. (1/2 hour- 2 hours, 2hr-6hr, etc) The second option can be much more evil of course. You can hide the timer from the world here as well, leaving the sub to try and manually time it, or just wait it out with no idea how long there is to go.

The plugins menu has 6 built in, the Realkey, a RL timer you can sue instead of inworld timer, the menu to let you adjust which colour the gag is, the autolock menu (which lets you set up the gag to lock after a certain amoutn of time has passed). Theres also Give keys, and the sub sub menu for Gag..

The "gag.." menu is pretty uch RLV settings. You can disable or enable channel evaion, emtoe monitoring, whether the gag notifies the key owner, etc. Another handy bit is the owner of the restraint (the sub so to speak) can adjust whether IMs can be blocked or not by the keyholder.

Back on the main page, all thats lef tis the "more.." button, which just gives you a quick timer menu, as well as a button to access the more in depth timeroptions.

Blindfold

The blindfold has 6 options, each one making the vision blocking more severe. Below them is Tie again, except using this also rezzes the blindfold, a faux mode you could say, handy for RP. Next to that is Last Plug and Tighten/loosen again.

The Special menu is also identical, as is the More Menu. Plugins wise you have all the ones from the gag, with the exception of course of the "Gag.." menu. 

Scores

Quality - Best looking tape gag/blindfold in SL, which is oddly lacking in such things - 9/10
Function - The actual gagging functionality and blinding works well, lacks some plugins, but those are just extras - 8/10
Price - 350 linden. Thats cheap as hell - 9/10

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

RF Scavengers Daughter and Ultra-brace

Yeah.. Wierd name. Anyway! Katies been chugging out gear lately, the yoke, and now these two restraints, the Scavengers Daughter and Ultra-brace/ The ultra brace and scavengers thingy seem to have exactly teh same functionality, so that saves me time.

Quality

Scavengers Daughter

This is quite hard to describe. Its all metal, and it does look well detailed as expected. To my surprise it fit perfectly out of the box, nearly making me think it was mesh. The metal looks like well.. Metal. Every rivet is in place, every bar connected properly as you'd expect, small padlocks on the cuffs.. What more is there to say than it looks really good?

You can freely recolour every section as well, each colour keeping the metallic look you'd expect. There is literally so many colour options in thsi that I'm not even gonna count em, it would take forever.

Theres also a resizer in here should it need some simple adjustment. Height can be adjusted seperatly as well.

The good - Well detailed, unique in SL, ton of customizaiton options
The bad - Will likely be difficult to fit for many people

Ultra Brace

This one I;m obviously biased about. Encasement and latex shinyness?  Yes please. 

Unlike teh daughter, I ahd to adjusta nd shrink this one down a bit to fit right. Its heavy duty. Thick rubber covering you from your neck down, tight straps running down your form, a strong metal frame holding you up.. All this of course leads to total immobilization.

Theres a small frame coming up from the top of the brace that has a small ball on it between two prongs, which conviently fits just where your mouth will be when locked inside as well. Like the Daughter, it has a half ton of colourization options. Same ones as the aforementioned restraint, just differant parts to be coloured.

My only complaints? It looks like a piece of bondage furniture, and may of worked better as one.. And the gags permanent.


The good - Very well detailed, shiny, looks as restrictive as it is
The bad - perma-gag, looks like furniture instead of worn restraint

Function

Going over it, its nto got much new to say for an RF restraint. The usual RF plugins for those little fun moments, leashing, RLV menu, and option to turn off style change.. An RLV relay and full RLV folder access as well.

You can get items out of it, Leash holders to be exact as normal. Post and one for each hand, and a help NC. Its exposable, blockable, has Verbose. Can be unbound to let you walk around freely with it hidden, always a handy thing and of course theres the ever important timelock.

Both restraints immobilize you, and the ultra brace gags you as well. No option to ungag sadly.. The ultra brace also is setup for alpha usage. Merely make a folder in yoru inventory called RF ultra-brace alpha, drop it in the RLV folder, and drop the alpha inside it.

The good - Simple menus, has everything they need in it.
The bad - Braces no ungag option (same as above)

Scores

Quality - Daughter - 7/10. Brace - 8/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 250 linden each - 9/10

Maison Broceliande - The Corrector

Quality

Straight up, I love how this looks. Plenty of colour options, able to change the appearance by removing the boning, the bar and the cover.. And of course each section has access to the aforementioned colour options. It of course forces your head up like a posture collar.

It can take a little effort ot fit, but once its on, it looks really nice for the most part, and is of course suitably shiny and detailed. A few people may know what I mean when I say Mouth corset,a nd thats pretty much what this thing is.

There are 7 parts that can be retextured seperately, each with a fair few options, some more than others.

The bones can be hidden via the texture menu and hitting transparent, as opposed to show/hide which the bar and cover use.

If only I could wear this more often, but it has a major issue which will be covered in..

Function

I'll start with the good. It uses a basic menu system for changing which parts of the restraitn are shown. The bar, the boning and the cover. You can switch which channel is needed to garble when teh cover is up outside of RLV, and thankfully is has force/auto garble in RLV.  You cna of course set an owner, and they cna in turn set secowners.

You cna block it, to sotp random peopel accessing it, as well as drop poses in it for general use. Ther eis also a button for chekcing how much memory it has left. And of coruse it can be locked.

The owner can also multi leash a string of subs together, which seems fun and handy for those that have multiple subs/captives. More neat than having them clustering and getting stuck against each other certainly.

And the bad.. The thing that stops it been usable for general fun. The cover when shown gags you. This is good. It also has autp IM block, which cannot be turned off. This may nto be a big deal to some, but to me its a major issue thats losing functionality 2 points straight away. I don;t think I need to explain why, in a social networking "game" like program, I find this atrocious.

Now its possible I've msised something and there was an update to remove it, but hitting the update button does nothing for me, whetehr at their store or not. Nor do I get an error message or it telling me I have the current version, it just seems to sit there searching, another strike against it.

Scores

Quality - Like I said, I love this things looks - 9/10
Function - I like the leashing system, it has some good, but the IM block and lack of working updater is a severe strike against it - 5/10
Price - 650 linden. I'd give this 8 if it wasn;t for the messy functionality driving the value down. - 6/10

Maison Broceliande Latex Surrender

Another from MB

Quality

This box comes with a halfton of skin layer hoods, a latex catsuit, mittens, posture collar and "Isolation panels" that have two gags and a blindfold built in. All of them are very well detailed. The mittens are the hand sack style, just two bags over the hand and buckled in place so the finegrs scratch uselessly at the material. The gag has a panel style, and a breather gag style (more on this in function). Breather has a pump added, otherwise no changes.

I love the catsuit you get with it though. Since I bought this gear nearly 2 years ago now, its been one of my most used outfits. Shiny in the right places, very well designed and generally looks great.

The skin layer hoods use a similar style, but the ones that cover mouth suffer from the same issue as all Skin/Tattoo layer hoods, the lips seem just too clear. I'm all for tight hoods that you can see an impression of the lips through, but this just does noy look right. Thankfully when gagged you can't see them, and to be honest they do look better with the gag active. All the more reason to keep your sub quiet.

I (as usual) recomend using an alpha to hide your hands as opposed to resizing the mittens, far easier and better solution.

They can have their textures changed by saying paneltex, mittentex or collartex in open chat. I had an issue where only the left mitten changed colour however.

There is also a rubber labia and prim nipples in the box.


 Function
 
Starting with the Isolation Panels. You lock them merely by clicking the wearers face. Inside are 3 options. Gag, breathgag and unblindfold. The gag requries you to manually use a channel, else all messages come out as "...". The blindfold of course has a hud that it sends you should you have your eyes covered, but it seems ot only send once per blinding, so if refused, you don;t get spammed by it constantly.

The breath gag has its own quirk. When inflated, you will periodically be required to put a code into a specific channel (a window pops upt o tell you as opposed to a chat message). If you miss it, you faint.

The posture collar does nothing specific, no menus bar collartex, it just holds your head up.

The mittens seem to carry a little bit. Owners, poses and two binding options. The binding positions are simple enough, lock front and lock back. It comes with kneel and nadu built into it for psoes, but you can drop others in. They can then be used via chat commands.

Ultimately this restraint show its age with far too many chat commands and not enough buttons.

Scores

Quality - I can;t fault it much, it looks really good, especially for such an old item now - 9/10
Function - it does do a fair bit, but its quite clunky and needs some optimizing/updating - 6/10
Price - 680 linden. Most outfits of this quality cost more, so thats a plus, especially when combined with decent restraints - 8/10