RF SackBinder

No space between Sack and Binder is deliberate.

 Appearance

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

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

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

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

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

 Function

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

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

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

My thoughts

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

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

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

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

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

RR Pretty Mummy

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

Appearance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Function

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That about covers the arms..

 Legs

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

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


 Gag

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

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

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

 Blindfold

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

 My thoughts

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

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

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

RF 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 - Rope Coil

 New item from Katie, mummification as well, always nice

Appearance

  Lots and lots of rope is the easiest way to describe it.. From about the armpits, all the way to the ankles,you'll be encased in rope, with just your hands free. It fit me without much issue, but is rigged, and in only one size. I don't believe there is a demo available yet, so be cautious before buying if you have trouble with some rigged gear. There is, of course, alphas.

  The ropes have two textures, brown and white. The HuD however comes with a full RGB grid, for you to try and fine tune the colours. There's no where to input specific values however, so you'll just have to try and colour match as best you can with the grid. The hands have more textures, as well as a white setting, and what appear to be black latex. You can also adjust glow, which can be quite nice if done right.

  Its well sculpted, and doesn't distort when you move like some rigged mesh does. There's sadly no option to hide the hands, so you'll have them sticking out part way down the cocoon regardless. It has a fair few poses, 3 stands, 3 sits, 4 lays, 4 hogties, and a single immobile. Some poses are visually the same, but offer different restrictions. Like StandSh stops you turning outside of mouselook.

  It uses materials for shine, and if you want to adjust it via the HuD, need to do some extra steps. Edit the cocoon, click edit linked, select the cocoon itself, go to texture, select shininess (specular) from the drop down menu, and turn it off. This'll give normal SL shine options again. Also you can start a little struggly dance by typing /5 <intials>dance. (I.E /5 awdance for me). Only the keyholder and captive can do this command.

  I also found a rather large rigged mesh issue in some poses, and have included a pic of it to show what exactly it is. Lets hope that gets a quick fix. Its visible below.
 
 Function

  There's quite a lot in here, some of the usual RF stuff, some new. We have the style menu, which should really just be ignored, the HuD is far more effective to use. Leashing of course, with options for posts and holders, the many RF plugins and the fully functional RLV menu as well.

  Untie will show up if you are bound and have the keys. Timelock is there, with both the normal timelock and the timebound one. Timebound merely unties, but does not unlock the restraint, for those new to Katies gear (or my reviews of said gear.) In Settings you'll find a few things. The Crypto-lock, Expose, verbose, etc, and a new option, Fall down off/on.

  While hopping around, you can fall over, or be knocked down by someone. Hitting that will stop this happening. If you *are* knocked down, you can use the struggle system to assume a new pose. More on that below.

  Keys of course works as always. Be sure to take them before tying yourself up if you don't want to get stuck. In restraints, you'll fine the menu sub menus that lead to the poses mentioned above, as well as tightness adjustment, which works like Katies other recent gear, the tight, the more restrictions applied.

  When tied without the keys, you get a few menus. Style is there still, escape as well. Theres also restraints and struggle. Restraints works as normal.. But only if you go to a stricter pose, or tighter setting. You can't loosen it via this menu, just make it tougher.

  Struggle lets you switch to another pose by, yes, struggling. Depending on your current pose, the pose you want to go to, and the tightness, it'll adjust how difficult the struggle game is.

  My thoughts

 While I quite like it, and it had a larger variety of poses than expected, and struggling between them is a smart system. Only two base textures/colours, though the hud helps there I suppose. Including a latex texture for the hands was a very good idea as well of course. I'd like a couple more looks for it as well.. Say neck length, or the ability to hide the hands.

  It is 900 linden.. which is a lot. The biggest stumbling block may be that price for some people. And unfortunately textures aren't the best. Hard to say if I'd buy it normally. Some of it is really good, but some of it feels a bit less.. polished. The bug with the waist area of the rope doesn't help either.

  Also added here are a some points from other peoples opinions of the restraint, because mine alone is not always the one to go by, especially when the restraint is not rubbery. We'll call them the S and S opinions for now, until I am certain they are okay with name reveals.

• Well sculpted
• Texturework seems a little dated
• More poses than expected, though many are just rotations
• Wary of price
• Great for DiD play, uncertain for other forms
• Would like to hide hands

Amelie Barbour - Spider kit

Amelie Barbour released this quite a long time ago, but it fairly recently got updated to mesh, and latex, and the like. So here we go.

Appearance

Lets see.. You have quite a few options for looks here. The spider kit itself is 4 spider legs that you can optionally wear out of your back, and can be used as leash points. The captives however.. They can get cocooned in anything from black latex, to normal web, to bandages, to pink latex. There's quite a few options here.

Depending which option you choose, you'll end up with a full body and open face hooded captive. You can see quite quickly that the webbing or bandages are very thick.

Mostly its good. The gag and blindfold look a bit odd though, being very thick, and appearing almost like a medieval nights helmet once on. Similarly the jacket option is very bulky.

When you lift someone up without binding them firs,t they end up spread-eagled behind you, suspended between the four arms. You cannot however pick someone up if they are sacked, or have the leggings option on.

The bad? There's no way to remove the hood unfortunately, so people who like their captives cocooned to the neck, with their heads free are out of luck. Also the bandages setting can look like its just grey, unrezzed, if you aren't cammed in pretty close. Lastly the whole being unable to lift a fully cocoon captive is a pest.

Function

Its fairly simple to use. You wear the core, Scan for a victim, offer them a captive kit which they put on.. then you can secure them. There is also an In Spades option, which puts them in a full cocoon, blinded and gagged for good measure.

Once secured, you get a list of options. Gag, Sack, Blind, Jacket and Leggings all turn on or off the appropriate bondage. I will say this - it was VERY responsive when I was testing, far more so than expected.

The other options are Don't Free, Free, Lift/Drop (using the spider arms for best results) and Appearance. In Appearance you can adjust the material of the cocoon, mentioned above. Once freed, you can choose to resecure them at will.

Back at the original menu, you can adjust what webbing you'll be using, and it remembers your last ten victims

My thoughts

My take on this is - great for the most part. I love the idea behind it, and the latex added in adds a ton of RP potential. How fast it responds is amazing, to say the least, and it has a good variety of options.

But it has issues. First and foremost being the hooded bit. I get wanting to have their head wrapped, but a lot of people I know and have played with like to keep their captives heads relatively free. Similarly I;d like to lift up a fully cocoon victim, instead of freeing their limbs then lifting them up.

My only other major issue is the gag and blindfolds bulk seems a little extreme. An option for a more skintight one would be nice.. but that's fluff and a personal taste thing, unlike the other issues.

Scores

Appearance - 6/10
Function - 9/10
Price - 895 linden

AiTech - Shiniez mermaid suit

A tribute item tonight! Everyone should know Shiniez by now, his art and storyline is legendary.

Appearance

This is based on the mermaid seen HERE and in terms of design, is accurate. Rigged mesh, so very easy to fit, and of to be honest it looks damn good. If I was rating this on just the looks alone? Would be 10/10 in an instant. However I'm not..

In terms of recolouring, it has a good selection. 18 colours, with 3 different areas re colourable (base, trim and belts). My pics show the default and my usual combo of black/red as examples.

Then we get to the bad. It has NO built in AO and suggest using a normal mermaid AO. This strikes me as an issue for what is meant for a realistic bondage RP mermaid suit.. Int his suit, you should be forced to crawl along the floor for example, not float in the air. And it has a ton of issues with a few AOs as well, the lacing often getting messed up or the material stretching. At the very least it should force my feet together at all times.



So to put it quickly. It looks amazing, but the lack of built in AO (especially for the price) hurts it severely in my eyes, which is a shame. Shiniez designs deserve at least a basic bondagey mermaid AO.

Function

This thing is VERY basic. You can turn on/off RLV, turn on/off running, touching and flying, as well as enable a slow mo which as it suggest, makes you move much slower and set it to quiet, which just lets the bound one and her captor get the messages from the suit.

Otherwise you can toggle it between 3 locking types. Anyone, single key and no one.

This doesn't need fancy commands and such I admit, but again it just feels like something is missing.. Probably due to the lack of AO again. This review feels too short as well.

Closing thoughts

I think its obvious what I'm gonna say. Give it a built in AO! At the very least force the feet together, and give us RPers who want to be bondage mermaids the options for more realistic play such as well, being forced to crawl in it, not float using a third party AO.

Scores

Appearance - Would be 10/10 but for the stretching issues caused by lack of AO - 8/10
Function - Extremely basic - 7/10
Price - 900 Linden. Now I;d say this is worth it for a shiniez lover. But for the love of god get a good AO first, else the stretching destroys the look.. - 5/10 (liable to change if the creator listens!)

Extra

Right now this review seems both short and harsh to me. But I love shiniez art, like many, and honestly was annoyed at how they felt just leaving out an AO seemed appropriate. I'll likely update this if/when an update to the restraint is released, if only cause I want this one to succeed so badly.

TL;DR

Amazing looks. basic function. Basic funciton I'm more than happy to live with. Lack of built in AO hurts it so badly that I almost didn't post this review.

RF - Mesh Wrap-o-matic

A new release! Yes I know its another product from RF, but what can I say? They do good stuff.

This one also conviently covers both types of restraint, worn and furniture.

Quality

The new design is quite streamlined. Been mesh it can look brilliant with a low prim count, which always helps. One siude has two small boxes, one been a control box the other containing scissors. The other has its name written in yellow letters going down it.

The machine itself is quite simple, but nice to look at. Its a darkish gray. with a red platform where the captive (or product if you prefer) stands during the wrapping procedure. The actual wrap comes off a small yellow roller that climbs up the machine as it cocoons its victim. The new animation for wrapping is much smoother than the original, and looks significantly better. Katie also informed me she had adjusted it to it will detect avatr height soemwhat, meaning we shouldn't get issues of the cocoon going half way up our heads, or ending down around our waist.

The animations are quite nice as well, Up to your waist or so you struggle to keep your balance, then yoru arms get pinned to your sides from then on up.

The cocoon itself is very nice. Katie called it "latex palletwrap", and it works well. Shiny, tight and in a literal ton of colours, you can't go wrong with it. Unlike the former cocoon that required an invisi prim (which don't work with lighting and shadows on), this one uses an alpha, and furthe rmore lets you hop around, whiel the other left you too rigid to move much. Been rigged mesh of course, it flexes with you as well, making it even better.

Oh and for those that want duct tape, try some of the gray colours, they come out *very* similar.

When fully wrapped, you get a male or female option, another nice addition for those male subs out there.

On one thing - Sometimes the unrigged collar will disapear below your neck. If this happens, in more recent viewers anyway, go into your inventory, right click the wrappings and hit edit. It will let you move it from there without issue.

The cocoon also works well as a trap for heroines for that kinda RP, thanks to Etherea for posing with me again for a pic (bottom left if it isn't obvious)

The good - Shiny, mesh rigged means tight, tons of colour, TAPE
The bad - the cocoon can seem a little bulky at times, you may need to edit the cocoon to see the collar.

Function
 
The main function of this device is obvious, wrap up someone before they know whats happening. It has two modes, Manual and auto. In manual mode you can freely choose to grab someone and force them on, strip them, wrap them and of course choose the colour. You can also change colour mid wrap, which is handy if you chose the wrong oen I suppose.

Once wrapped, if you change the colour of the wrappings on the machien and regrab the packaged captive, the wrappings will change colour without needing to cut them free or run them through the machine again.

Automatic is differant, it nabs the victim as they walk past, strips em and wraps em up all in one swift move. Unfortunatly you can't set it to auto and not strip, but at least we have manual for that.

You can change who can access the machine as well, whetehr just you, the owner, a group or anyone. You can also turn onr andom colour. When random is on, it will change colour when it nabs someone and wrap em up in it. While doing this, you cannot change the colour yourself however and must turn it off to change your snugly wrapped victims colours.

The escape mini-game is the same as it was before. Get some scissors, attach em and get to work. You have to touch the unrigged collar of the cocoon to access the menu. If the captive touches it, they get a message with a hint on the combo the person needs to do to free you. I won;t post the combinaton here. Watching in despair as you don't get freed is half the fun!

The owner also gets a pair of super scissors, which can function as normal ones or, by clicking the collar then the scissors, cut it off automatically without playing the game.


The good - Options to do it manually or auto, simple to use.
The bad - auto always stripping without option to turn off

 
Scores

Quality - 9/10
Function - 7/10
Price - 1350 1000 linden

Katie lowered the price!

Again I refrain from scoring price and leave that open to you guys, as I just don't know.

P.S

Lately some people seem to think demanding I review things is good fun. I would love to review stuff that everyone wants me to, but that just can't happen as things stand. Yes I can ask for free copies, though it rubs me the wrong way to do that to sellers, but demanding I actually go out and spend thousands of linden to please you alone is not fair.

In short, stop it or rather send me the item or the money for it. In the meantime I'll continue to review stuff that I actually own or have been sent.

Skrylian Engineering - Bodysack

A new store that seems to have just started on the marketplace. And if their first item is any indication, one to watch.

Quality

First off, its mesh, but unrigged. This makes it very easyt o resize still, but does mean it doesn't flex with the body unfortunatly, which lets face it, a sleepsack/bodybinder/etc would do.. Unless its got boning anyway.

I get a more PVC than latex feel from this item,though its shiny all the same, and thats what counts. The texture is good for a first time, though it could use a little extra work, for example when you zoom in, it gets VERY blurry, which is normal for fairly lwo res textures. Still, quite nice. See the pic next to this for what I mean.

This one uses a hands bound to side style, which might make you think at first your hips and waist are a bit wider than they should be, but it works. It also seems to be quite baggy, as opposed to real tight. It has three poses built in; standing, face down and face up. Standing bugs me slightly, as the foot shape at the bottom is en pointe at all times.

You can adjust it to have a zip at front, back or not at all.

The good - Shiny, somewhat original (SL wise) design
The bad - Shape seems off, low res texture

Function

First option you get is Public, simple tick box. Pressing this will make anyone and everyone able to use the restraint. In the RLV menu you can enable or diasble some basic restrictions, specifically Touch, inventory and TP. No IM block, which is good.

You can lock next, self explanitory. When locked all three RLV options are automatically enabled, and cannot be disabled. Others can offer you TPs though. Next up is "About" which takes you to teh store page. Presumably this is more for other people as opposed to the girl wrapped up.

Pose is next. You can turn on standing, face down, face up or None. Regardless of which you choose, you CANNOT move, which is a bit of a shame. It doesn't look tight enough to stop wriggling.

Lastly is Zipper, which lets you put it on the back, front of none at all.

The good news is, according to the manual (I actually read one for a change!) that a timer is planned, btu sadly not yet included.

The good - Simple menus, does what it needs to
The bad - Not been able to move, no timer (yet)

Scores

Quality -6/10
Function - 5/10
Price - 350 linden - 6/10

See it here - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SE-Bodysack/3529120

Extra stuff

I'd like to see a rigged version of this sometime. It could really be great if it was skintight

Extra stuff 2

Had a few ask how I do scores. Long story short its how I feel the restraitn matches its price in the end. Function wise for example, no timer is an instant loss of 2 points. Figure the rest out for yourselves please.

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

Doll Life - Mummy Stand

 So! A new comer to the blog for me to review about. Another one I found via the little store of kink, great little place.

Quality

I have to say, I really like the textures this uses. The latex looks great, and the straps are nice, tight and well detailed. It is of course very shiny, which is always a plus. It is however a pain to fit, so I just use a bodyless alpha (Theres plenty of free ones on the marketplace, or feel free to prod me in world and I can send you some.)

The hood is optional. While I do like the skintight design, I kinda wish it had nostril holes instead of a breathing tube through the mouth, but thats personal preferance.

This thing has a half ton of colours, it would take ages to list them all. Lets just say you get a menu that lets you choose straps or body, Under body there are more menus for differant colours, then each one of those has a sub menu for more precise colouring. Only way it could be better is if it used a hud. The straps have less options, but still more than enough.

Function

Its.. Well the RLV menu is jam packed, having a total of 19 options for restricting the vicitm, ranging from basic stuff like touching, to the more annoying IM blocker. It has every restriction you could need really.

It has a bult in blindfold, which in my opinion should be part of the hood. Its wierd that we can't see if we don't have it on after all. It can also force mouselook.

Most importantly? It has a timer! I swear, I cannot understand why every restraint out there does not have one of these. Said timer has an anti-AFK setting as well, if you want to make absolutely sure they are there the whole duration of their helplessness.

When unlocked you can access the Settings menu. You can update from here, adjust the colouring and add or remove owners.

What it lacks is an expose option. A friend and I where testing it, and she couldn't access it at all unless I added her as an owner.

Scores

Quality - I really like this thing, the latex textures just come out so well, at least on my graphical settings. Hoods a nice addition as well. Needs an alpha or two in the box - 9/10
Function - Its good. It has a lot in it, but it needs expose or public. - 7/10
Price - 500 linden. Can't complain much - 7/10

RF Mummy Brace

Here we go, a little review tonight of something new by Katie.

Quality


This thing is pretty nice, its a solid body brace, made of leather. No latex textures that I cna find, but thats okay. It looks pretty good regardless. Up close its detailed as expected of katie, with a nice long zipper going down the back and plenty of straps over the stiff restraint to ensure totla helplessness. 10 leatehr colours to choose from, straps and brace can be coloured seperatly.

Function

It can bind in 4 positions, on your lef tor right sid,e on yoru stomach or one your back, as well as unbound to hide it. It can be exposed to the public, have the keys taken away as normal and carries a fully functioning RLV menu. You can adjust how loud the straps are when applied, and how loud the click is when locked, and theres a resizer inside which you will need to use I think, it looked absolutely hug eon me when I first put it on, and may even be a bit too big still.

Has the RF masterkey and can have sec owners added.

Scores

Quality - Not the best looking, bu tby no means bad - 7/10
Function - Not much, nice stuff, but not much of it. Decent though - 7/10
Price - Free! Get it at the Adult Hub freebie store which Katie donated some toys to - 10/10

Get it at - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Adult%20Hub/128/306/30/?title=Adult%20Hub%20Freebies
Stop by RF in world at - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom

Kcreations Bodybinder

As if to celebrate the offical release of Firestorm Mesh, Kcreations just released this binder tonight.. and it looks amazing.


It has two variants. Leather and rubber. I of course bought the shinier one, but if you want to see what the leather one looks like, check out Tess Paiges one - Click here for it. For the latex ones, well thats what the pics in this blog are for!

It looks nice and shiny of course, and the straps can be used to make a good contrast in colour. Been mesh, its of very high quality in shape, with none of that annoying resizing needed or any worries of prims clipping.. With the exception of the collar. Because Rigged mesh is like clothes, it can't be edited on the body, but the collar is unrigged, a smart move by Kat Fetisov. This allows the collar to work as a controller without needing an extra attachment, such as DXW uses instead. The design is very well done, a zip at the back, tight straps at key locations around the body.. If you zoom in close, you can even see the seams down the back. Its beautiful.

To top it off, occasionally you'll squirm in it a little. A nice little touch, I know how hard it can be to stay still in these things..

It carries two recolour plugins, one for the main bag and one for the straps. both can be changed to one of 10 colours.

Onto function. To start with you click the collar on this to make it work. First menu is plugins, the above line covers whats in that menu. Next is settings.. Which covers the struggling mini-game it carries. 5 buttons here, Easy, Medium, Hard and Impossible. Theres also RESET (its in all caps in the menu) which resets the captives progress, handy for evil dommes who want to let their sub get within reach of escape, just to knock them back down to helpless.

Next is the RLV menu, three options here, you can choose to block Activities. This stops stuff like inventory access. Location, which is of course the map, etc. Lastly there is Info, whichs stops you seeing names and hover text.

There is of course a leash and a timer. And the aforementioned struggle mini-game. Five options in it, Wriggle, Shimmy and Stretch are the primary escape ones, with examine which tells you what might work and Ask, which asks a nearby avatar to help you. They can choose to do so, which will greatly boost you towards escape.. Or they can choose to hinder, which does the opposite. Watch out for evil people who want you helpless and wriggling.

It also has a built in tiredness meter. The more you hop, the tireder you get, and as such you hop slower. I think it uses the same tiredness from the struggle mini-game, so doing either will tire you out. Staying still for awhile lets you rest and get back up to speed.

Scores!

Get it at Tess' little shop of kink in Lineside! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lineside/80/148/78/?title=Little%20Shop%20of%20Kink

Quality - I cannot get over how good this thing looks! 10/10 easy.
Function - Its got some nice stuff, the idea of hopping making you tired is very smart. 9/10
Price - 500 Linden for a set, rubber or leather. Compared to most mesh toys, thats very good. - 8/10
Average - 9/10

RF Discipline suit

Another great latexy piece from RF. In many ways this seems to have been the foundation for the body corset, they have a fair few similarities.


Looks.. For an older item now, its pretty good still. The mittens and straps all work well, but unfortunatly I just cannot bring myself to like that hood. If a padded hood is to your taste though, you will love it. Down the back you can see a lot of straps and holes for lacing. All in all it looks liek what it is, very tight, and perhaps one of the ultimate bondage items.

Function - There is a ton, this will be a long section. First up is a HUD that is active at all times. This makes your screen appear as if you are actually looking through the hold in the hood. Quite nice, but can be a pain for those of us with other HUD attachments.

Continuing with the hoods function - It has quite a few things. The gag has 4 levels (mumble, garble, incoherant and thinking). Being an older item it doesn't force channel you but instead punishes you if you try to chat around it. The blindfold has 3 levels, veil which merely puts a transparent cover over you eyes without actually stripping you of your vision, cover which does restrict you. You can see, but with difficulty, and blind which.. blinds you. Theres also a deafen command that blocks out all words, only one level.

I believe it comes packaged with a script you put in you hair, which hides your hair while the hood is showing. Hit hide in the hoods options, and the hood vanishes and your hair reappeares. I never used this script and its been a very long time since I bought the suit, so if I'm mistaken, please let me know

It has a built in relay, and some of Katies own plugins such as keep away and invisi cage. It also has a bell, probably to alert anyone to a sub trying to wriggle away.

The arms can be bound in five positions. Mummify which wraps them tight in against your body under the latex suit, prayer which does a reverse prayer position, cross heart, cross back and straitjacket. It also has a User Anim option, presumably for your own positions that you can drop in.

The Legbinder can be used completely seperatly from the hood and arms. It has 7 positions. Standing, hogtie, kneel, lay belly, sit, lay back and.. Dance. Dance makes you start hopping about on the spot and can only be used while bound in the standing position. It also has a sit AO, letting you settle down on a chair or the like while still bound.

Visit RF in Sl! -  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom

Quality - Its looking a bit old now, and that hood just makes me sigh.. Sorry Katie - 6/10
Function - This thing carries a metric ton of stuff, its amazing - 9/10
Price - 1000 linden. With all it carries, I can't really complain, though the body corset is better value - 7/10
Average - 7.5/10

GL Vacuum Cube

Not a worn restraint this time, but one that deserves a review for been so shiny.

This is a new release from GL and works similar to their vacuum beds. The victim gets dragged into it, the air gets sucked out leaving a silihoute of shiny latex in the middle where the poor sub is, trapped in nice thick latex. In terms of looks its really quite nice, its shiny, has a lot of differant colours (22!) and even the tubes at the edge look like you'd expect from a real vacuum product. It also has a nice topside view for those that like to see just how well it forms to the female shape.


In terms of function, it has a key option which lets the keyholder keep the person trapped. If the key holder is not the owner of the device however, the key is returned automatically after 24 hours, a very nice addition for when the subs get stuck due to a domme with RL issues or who is merely an ass.




It can be switched between male and female settings, has an autolock feature (if someone sits in it, it immediatly locks and starts the timer), the timer can have time added and taken away, and have access to it removed from the general public. You can also turn off the auto timer, meaning the sub is stuck until its rather activated and runs through, or till they are released. You can hide the timer as well, if you want to make the poor sub sweat.. Metaphorically of course, trust me when I say been stuck in between sheets of tight latex gets very hot. It doesn't gag you though, unfortunatly, and its hard to put a gag in once the sub is contained.

Once the sub is contained, you can remove her clothes and attachments via the RLV menu, or use the menu to use the other typical RLV restrictions (Location, chat, IM, etc)

All in all, a very nice little toy.

Visit GL here! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Qoga/204/69/2867/

Quality - The textures looks like latex, especially when a sub is inside and the vacuum on.. It looks great - 8/10
Function - Turns a sub into a mere latex statue quite easily, has some fun little additions, but nothing ground breaking - 7/10
Price - 499 linden. Considering how much most vendors charge, thats cheap as chips - 8/10
Average - 8.5

Aria

P.S Thanks to Etherea (the one in the red vac cube) for helping with the testing!

Restrained Freedoms Body Corset

What better way to keep someone helpless than to encase them from head to toe in thick latex?

RFs Body Corset created by Katie Paine is one of the best encasement/mummification restraints in SL, and she seems to be the queen of this area. I know of few others who have branched into this niche of bondage.

Lets start with looks again. The textures are nicely done and look shiny. Up very close the quality seems a little lower, but still very nice. It has two seperate types of texture, Leather and Latex. Each part can be done individually with a fair few colours options. You can also switch the corsets closure appearance between a zip and lacing.

My biggest complaint about this restraint is the legbinder. Not its looks or its functions, but its positioning.. I don't know if its the same for everyone, but no matter how many fresh copies I pulled out, I always had the same issue. It would be perfectly straight in the standing poistion, but when I kneel, lay down or generally any poistion bar straight, the prims would appear to be out of line. its a nuisance to have to make minor adjustments everytime my captor changes how I am bound.. But aside from that, no real complaints to make.

On positions, it comes with plenty.  The corset jacket has 5 differant styles. Mummify is the default, and leaves you with your arms folded away under it and no arm holes. It has an armbinder, an arm sack and two SJ positions (reverse and normal). It also has a boning option which makes your torso rigid.

The legbinder has a few 7 positions, with an extra been a duplicate but differant functioning. You have the basic standing postion, a kneeling, laying down on yoru stomach, another on your back, sitting, hogtied and knee knocked. It also has the option to display only the skirt and a boned postion, identical to the standing, but with your legs rigid, making you unable to hop or move at all.

The hood of course has a built in gag, with various settings. It also has a blindfold that can be applied as faux (only shows the blindfold, no real blinding), half, which blurs your vision and full, which blinds you. It also has earplugs. Partial lets you hear somethings, and full completely blocks any words spoken, but not emotes. It also has accesories in the form of cat ears, twin pigtails and a small ponytail. It can also have boning applied.

It uses a simple key system, allowing anyone to nab the key and bind you if its left hanging. You can also expose it to the public and be at the mercy of anyone whos path you cross. It also has a lot of unique plugins that Katie developed, such as mannequin mode, which makes you freeze if anyone comes close. a future lock, a restraint rotater and so on.

Oh and Katie, if you happen to read this.. Please add a darker red colouring to the latex for future restraints!

Visit RF in Sl! -  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom

Quality - If only it wasn't for that leg corset giving me issues, this woulda been a 10.. 9/10
Function - One of the best and most varied restraints in SL. Easily deserving the 10/10
Price - 1250.. Expensive, but with all it contains, reasonable, 8/10

Overall - 9/10

Amelie Barbours Mesh rubber sleepsack

This one is from the Stuck store at DXW, made by one Amelie Barbour.

Its a fun little piece. It contains two settings. Single Key and Anyone. Single key works like any restraint with keys. You take em and you can free yourself, or let someoene lse take em and leave you helpless unless tehy free you. It also has the Anyone setting. If you use this and zip yourself up well.. You better hope someone nearby is friendly and wants to help a poor little latex girl. You can be bound on your front or on your back, and the can be flipped at anytime. A captor can also pick you up and carry you around.

On the looks.. This one is interesting and varies heavily based on your viewer settings. With all settings on max and shadows on, the restraint looks best if you edit it and put on max shinyness. Wereas if you use lower settings with shadows and lighting off, low shiny looks better. Compare screenshots below. Ultra up top, lower settings below.

What this means is simple. The quality of the top image will vary very heavily on location, while the lower one will always look like that no matter where you are. Ultiamtely you're better with the lower setting as most people don't run on Ultra.

Visit in world! - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Henterman/16/35/40

Qualioty - Varies heavily depending on graphical settings. Anywhere from 6/10 to 8/10 depending.
Function - It has some nice little bits, and really, with a sleepsack theres not over much you can do - 6/10
Price - at 899 linden its quite pricey.. On the other hand it is unique, and fun for us encasement lovers - 7/10
Average - 6.5 to 7 depending on graphics