RR highbinder

  Well, I'm somewhat back, and going to try and get into the habit of writing again. The formatting may be a bit different to before, but.. eh. We'll go with it for now.

  Anyway! New armbinder from RR, dubbed the highbinder due to its longer length, which of course allows more tightness.

Review info

Highbinder was purchased from own pocket
Reviewed after first update, which fixes some rigged straps issues 

Whats in the box

  Inside the box you'll find three attachments, The Highbinder itself, and two sets of straps, the Front X Straps and the Belly Strap. You'll also find 6 poses inside, allowing you to bend forwards at 45 or 90 degrees, with three different stances for the legs.. Together, Parted and Spread. These can be used freely with anything, and work well for Strapaddos. (Which are also good for spanking, or anything else you may wish to do to  rear forced up and helpless by bondage!)

  You'll also find four textures. These are included so that if you try to alter a texture, and mess up, you have a replacement you can drop back in to fix it back to normal. There is an alpha, as well as a maitreya autohider, so if you use that mesh body, you can just use this to adjust what parts of the arms are visible instead of having to do it manually. Otherwise you'll just find the usual, a Readme on hwo to use your new binder, and a landmark for the store.

Appearance

   First and foremost, you should turn on advanced lighting system. Don't worry, you can disable shadows in most viewers via a dropdown menu. this kills most of the performance hits you may take, while retaining the materials effects.

  Contrary to what certain people may think, this armbinder is quite the new product. Compared to the old RR one, its longer, smoother, includes far more variety in its appearance, more straps, the pattern system from the RR harness and Deluxe gag, and is, y'know, mesh. This of course allows for much easier fitting, albeit it still annoying at times.

  It uses the same retexturing/appearance adjusting system that the recent RR devices do, allowing you to adjust specific sections and surfaces. Sections are entire areas, while surfaces are specific little bits, like the sides of straps. You can also add a verity of patterns, from things such as cowprint, to text, to symbols. There's four pages of these to choose from. And of course, you can adjust the tint.

  You also have materials. There are nine included in the menu, specifically Rubber, PVC, Latex, Leather, Patent Leather, Rough Leather, Jeans (denim), Cordura (some military fabric) and Spandex. Without materials enabled (see above), you won't be able to appreciate these properly. All in all, they are all pretty nice. There's two pages of Presets included for good measure, handy if you have a specific look in mind, like classic black leather, and want to get the whole binder done up quickly.

  There's two primary ways for the armbinder to be applied, with two higher settings one ach that add more straps. Plain, which is the (very) tightly laced up armbinder by itself, while tight slots in some built in straps to further secure it. From there you can apply Chest Straps, or escalate to strapping the entire torso to the binder. All of these of course use the RR anim hud, allowing you to angle your arms further or closer to your body.. and are key to the strappado poses mentioned earlier.

  Perhaps one of the most handy things is a new plugin called Mirror. It effectively mirrors the straps on one side to the other.. So you can adjust just the left sides of the straps to fit perfectly, then use this plugin to automatically adjust the straps squeezing you on the right to match,, or vice versa.

  Added in the first update, for those that bought before it was put up, adds a BreastSize plugin, which adjust the positions of some of the rigged straps that could be outright impossible to fit the rest of the straps to correctly without clipping beforehand, get the update if you have that issue. 

  Thoughts - I really like this binders looks, there's very few good armbinders in SL, I can name maybe two others off the top of my head, and one of them is also Marines. If I wanted to have stuff added? I think a style hud would be really good, rather than a menu.. And maybe add an even more severe strappado pose! Close enough to use a short leash to keep the head in place as well.


Function

  As this is the first review in a long time for RR gear, I'll be going somewhat indepth into each menu.

  You choose poses via the top six buttons of the primary menu. Theres no extras in the More.. menu this time. from there you get the usual Lock, Last Plug and Take/Return keys options you should be used to by now, if you've used any RR product, with the tools, plugins and more.. menu beneath that.

  Tools contains Save and load. Hitting save will take your stats (best time, total time, etc) and save them for you, letting you put them into a notecard that you can then put into a replacement binder, say due to an update, were you then hit load ad get all your stats back. You'll also find the Reset button here, a sadly important one with the nature of SLs key grabbers at times. Further down you'll fine a toggle for Male settings, which adjusts some of the messages the armbinder sends, and verbose, which will turn on/off the binders ability to use local chat. The ever important Update button is here as well.

   Next on the list is the Plugins menu. You'll find a lot of familiar ones in here, the Realkey of course (set the restraint password, get a key, set the key password to the same as your restraint, give the key to someone you trust, and you're home free. Unless they use it to bind you tighter, always a risk!). Then there's Outfit, which uses RLV folders to add, remove, or outright deny the use of certain things within them. It also has a devious unshare option, that doesn't allow the person to wear anything outside of the RLV folder. The RL time menu is here as well, useful when you want someone locked until a certain day, rather than setting a huge timelock and hoping they spent enough time logged in to get loose.

  Control follows that, which lets you put a variety of RLV restrictions on people (No IM block though, which is good. And logical.) Give Keys allows you to hand them to someone, or throw them away altogether, which is quite risky, as it then restricts the plugins menu nearly completely, and no one else can access it without a realkey. Its entirely possibly to completely trap yourself in the restraint by disabling the Realkey plugin, then throwing away the keys. If you dot hat, and lock it.. its not coming off without a reset.

  The Leash  is as simple as ever, and also allows you to anchor it to other restraints, say the vixen ankle cuffs, to further hobble you, or even to ones worn by other captives. Make a slave train! You can also get a couple of tools, a leash holder, and a leash anywhere HUD object. With this, while holding the leash, you can focus on a prim (alt+ left click), then click the button on your hud to leash the sub to that prim, regardless of what it is. Bed frame? Drainpipe? A galloping horse? Go for it.


  The next row starts with Anim which is effectively the RR anim hud in menu form, which your captor can use. It has one advantage over the anim hud, in that if you know the pose in advance, you can go straight to it without flicking through others, but I'd generally recommend you use the Hud instead. Allow follows that, which is a simple one. In here, you can set it so that if the captive is IM or TP blocked, you can bypass it.

  The Autolock plugin is there of course, were you can set up macros to well, lock the restraint holder up tight after a period of time. You can do a lot of customisation here, as well as have it only countdown when the person is bound, or online.

  The next two are already covered above, HighBinderTex and Mirror, as is BreastSize on the row below. After that is Vulnerable, a newer plugin. It lets your keyholder give permissions to people to do certain things, specifically strip, put on outfits (in RLV folders), leash and forcesit the captive. If the captive is already on a piece of furniture, the latter two are unavailable. The wearer has to agree to this of course, and can block people who push their luck.

  Wear allows the locking of specific body areas for clothing. If an option is turned off, the person cannot use wear to put something on that slow. AutoAlpha finally appears, and has an extra use if you use the Maitreya body. if you put the autohider/alpha mentioned in the Box Contents section in an RLV folder, path the autoalpha plugin to it, and let it do its job, then when you get bound, you won't need to do a thing to stop your arms clipping. There's also unwear which does the same thing, except prevents you taking things off of the slots.

  Sit is one of the last plugins in the menu. Its effectively forcesit, and can also disable standing back up. Touch is also a fun one. You can have it do a blanket touch lock over all the restraint options (plain, tight, etc), or specific ones, with each touch option its own thing. Marines gear tends to lack an expose option, Vulnerable is the closet thing, so for those that want to leave their keys hanging, but have no way to get at them, get the armbinder locked on, leave the keys, then turn off touchself via this menu, You won't be able to get at any of your gear this way though, so make sure you're careful.

  Back in the main menu, we only have More left. In here you have the usual stuff like AutoRef (autorefresh, keeps the arm bound anim playing I believe), some quick timer options, and the Timer itself. Nothing to really go into here. You have the specific times (+1, +10, etc), the variable times (+30m-2h, 2h-6h, etc), the option to disable the timer, and also to hide it.

  Thoughts - I don't have too much to say here, its standard RR. There's a few changes since my last review, like the vulnerable plugin, some updates to older ones, etc. My biggest gripes are the layout of the restraint options, but that's more for ones that exceed 6, a lot of people I encounter don't realise the pretty mummy and such have a couple extra options in the more menu, but that's irrelevant here, and the fact that you can't go back to the plugins menu itself from a plugin, you have to go back to the main menu first, but that's just a quality of life thing.


The thoughts of S
 
  The latest release of the High Binder shows that Marine Kelly is still pushing the bar! The new binder is not simply an update or redesign of the previous RR Armbinder. It is a new design with new features. Being a lover of armbinders I was very pleased at this, and the added strap and binding options are very nice! The design is very well done mesh, but what really struck me is that this is the first large size Mesh restraint that really tries to takes into account the need to be able to adjust it to fit individual avatars, as opposed to a "one-size fits everyone poorly" approach we have seen until now, forcing players to alter their avatars to make the item fit. I'd love to see Marine step back and revisit some of her earlier releases, like the Pretty Mummy, applying this same design philosophy

  I like the expanded selection of material textures in the high High Binder. The new binder to uses the same style menu system as her other products, so while still in need for a more user friendly design, people already familiar with RR products shouldn't have any problems.


In closing

  Its 700 linden, its easy to fit now that we have the breastsize plugin, its well made.. Menus may seem a little clustered, but anyone whos used RR gear will be used to that layout by now I imagine. I can find little fault with it really, I mean, it does mostly everything I wanted it to, and does it well.

Would I buy it? - Yes

Can be bought in world from Marines store at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pak/76/61/105 or from the little shop of kink at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lineside/102/146/77

pictures used show black latex in the Bend_90_tight pose, with RR anim hud used to maximize the strappado, blue leather from behind, and red Spandex in Bend_45_spread, with all the straps on. Additional pics can be found at aria-warden.deviantart.com

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.
 

RR Body Harness

Appearance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Function

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

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

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

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

Thoughts

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

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

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

S & S

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

Marines Goodies - Treadmill

Another one from Marine, intended to be reviewed much earlier. ah the joys of RL. This one is Gord inspired as well!

Appearance

  Its a nice little treadmill, and unlike the mousewheel, can be kept in open view without bringing suspicious glares down upon you. It has all five. walks from the mousewheel, plus a new one called Puppy, that has you crawling along on all fours. As you'd expect, all the animations are well done, and of course the actual treadmill itself is well made, right down to its anims.

  Like the mousewheel again, it has ten different colours, plus custom, to allow it to fit any theme you like. Certain poses also set up a frame around it, with a harness to help hold the sub up. Naturally. All of it is well put together.

  One issue - on the latest firestorm you can't use height offset anymore, and the hover option in edit shape is too clunky to adjust on the fly, so if you end up hovering above the tread, or somehow under it, then you can't do much. Marine will likely address this issue as and when we get a definite removal of height offset altogether, as other viewers sitll support it.

Function

  This thing works pretty much identically to the Mousewheel. Hitch and unhitch to force sit/stand, config to change which walk anim, Maintenance to do.. well maintenance, such as updates, adjusting access, etc.

  It also carries the zapper, which works the same. Captor sets up a speed the sub must go at, if they go too slow, then zap.Curiously, also like the mousewheel, you still need to manually walk. I know why you do, but on a treadmill, well those things usually move themselves do they not, forcing you along with them?

  On that subject. It, like the wheel again, can be used to power lights. An army of subs in wheels and on treadmills powering your household is of course possible. Whether they are willing or not is, of course, up to you.

  Lastly it has the distance counter, same as the wheel again, it tracks how far the sub has gone. Combine it with the zapper, and you can force them to go very long distances indeed.

Closing thoughts

 As promised, no scores. Whats the point after all, if people just stare at numbers without actually knowing what the item does?

 I like this, though it is very similar to the mousewheel. By no means a bad thing, and of course, its copy/mod, so you can lay plenty out, and its a good investment for sim owners, or people who have lots of sub friends they want to manipulate into powering their house.

 So.. the good? Simple to use, responsive. looks good, not that expensive
 The bad? If you're on firestorm, floating/sinking issues, if you have someone constantly changing config, then folder spam.
 The.. Neutral? Very similar to mousewheel, down to you if you want both, or one or the other.

Oh, and its 500 linden.

As a minor addon - those boots in the last pic are KDCs new pony boots. They don't have any locking or restraints, so naturally I can't review em, btu they look good, so mentioning them regardless.

Marines Goodies - Mouse Wheel

From marines *other* store, we have a very House of Gord like piece

Appearance

Its mesh, so its got a low prim count, 7 to be exact (yes, I do prim counts on furniture now), but that doesn't stop it being very detailed. The wheel has 3 speeds, plus an idle pose. There's 5 walks included. Normal, chained, hobbled, tight (hop) and Pony. Each one has its own anims for each level of speed as well.

It also has 10 built in  colours, with custom options as well.

The Distance Counter is also there, which shows some simple information, more on it below. Similarly there is the zapper. When worn and turned on, cables go to some VERY sensitive areas of the sub, clamped in place naturally. If the sub goes too slow, it mouthy, or the Domme is just feeling evil, they can send a nasty zap through the sub, with anims of course.

There's also 3 full perm lights included in the box, which can be placed near a wheel to be powered by it, more below.

Also to show the smoothness of the animation.. here -Vid

Function

So, to start.. There's some interesting bits.

The menus themselves are simple. The config menu lets you adjust how the person walks (or hops), the Sound menu button turns noises off and on. Maintenance is owner only, and lets you adjust owner, up date (via new version), and reset.

Hitch is force sit, unhitch is unsit, and color is as expected.

The Distance counter has its own menus, and is in someways the most important. Init you can set Goals, be it time, distance or both. It naturally records how far you have travelled, and for how long, and displays it for all to see.

Using the Goals menu, you can set a timer, a distance they must travel, or both, so that they may rest.

The Zapper is cruel. Using it you can give the captive a light or heavy shock.. or set it up so that if they go too slow, they get zapped every time. This one needs to be worn, and the menu is an invisi prim in your stomach. You may need to edit it out a bit for your captor to click it if you have another touch attachment on.

There are also the lights, which are fun and full of RP potential. When you rez one, the wheel nearest it powers it. The faster the wheel goes, the brighter the light is. Clicking the light turns it on or off.

My thoughts

I love the idea behind this thing, and being a Gord fan it appeals even more. It also has HUGE RP potential, with the lights alone..

Saying that we had quite a few anim bugs, with the initial sitting sometimes making our arms go into weird positions, or if we edit while in it, our arm getting stuck up above our head. Nothing major though.

Thanks to Immy (Black rubber doll), Arina (Running in ballet heels with harness gag, and Sarah (Pony) for helping out!


And if its not obvious by the pics, its copy/mod, so you can have an army of poor subs running along powering your house/dungeon/hidden base of evilness

Scores

Appearance - Simple, but lots of little details to make it great - 9/10
Function - Is great, the lights alone, lots of little extras like the lights make it even better - 9/10
Price - 400 Linden

RR - Siren Ropes

Finally got around to these. Reason it took me so long will be explained in post.

Appearance

Nice and snug ropes, as expected. Thin cord as opposed to the thicker used by her previous rope set which is a nice difference, and mesh of course that *should* make resizing easier. More on this later.

Its Marine, so you already know that the textures are gonna be good. 20 built in Textures, the ability to tint it as you see like and even adjust the material between 7 presets. Adjusting the material does not change the texture so much as it changes the colour and shine settings, so for the latex ropes to look best, you want some pretty high lighting settings and good windlight.

Now for the bad side. These ropes are the single hardest thing to fit in SL I have ever used. Take the leg ropes (noticeable in the hogtie one especially),there's a big gap between my legs and the rope at the bottom. However if I try to make it tighter at the bottom, it starts to clip at the top. And that's just the start. There is a pose in the arms, Over Head, that nearly everyone I know cannot get to fit right. Its mostly due to arm length being too long or short from what I can tell. This one is being fixed I believe, but then you come to straitjacket and well..

Lets just say fitting these takes time. Plus some viewers still have a bug that makes them crash to desktop when editing mesh occasionally to make it doubly annoying.

Function

Thankfully the frustration of fitting does pay off. 8 base poses as opposed to the usual 6 for both arms and legs, plus add in the anim hud (get it under plugins > anims) gives a ton of extra poses. Furthermore you can even adjust how your legs and arms are for sitting in the latest huds Marine has included a tutorial on how to do this on her own blog - read it here

The legs have quite a few less plugins than the arms, but include handy ones like RL time, autotie, leash, and a handy one for tying the subs shoes on via a rope that curls under the heels. Realkey is not included, but anyone can untie after awhile like the shibari ropes.

The style menu allows certain poses to change certain parts of the ropes. For example Style 1 of hobble has my knees tied and a rope going from ankle to ankle somewhat loosely to allow me to shuffle. Hit Style 2, and that ankle rope disappears. For the legs, you can also show/hide the crotchrope and a certain.. accessory that goes with it.

The Arms plugins are a bit more varied. Allowing touch restrictions, RLV folder access, unwearing, and so on.

Style for arms allows you to show a snug rope harness around your upper body. Like the leg ropes, some poses have multiple styles. Supertight for example hides some elbow ropes when on style 2, while style 1 has your arms even more cocooned.

Otherwise its similar to most of marines toys, a tried and tested setup that does the job.

Closing thoughts

These ropes are great, and new set is always nice. The resizing is a BITCH though. Usually I have no problem with mesh gear, but these were harder even than some of the gear that has about 30 prims per piece. I suppose my shape is a tad slim for these.

Functionally they work great. You Can find the two extra poses on the More.. page, as the first page has no room for extra buttons. Thanks to the style menu, there's plenty of variation as well.

Now if we just had tape restraints in this vein, my SL collection might finally be complete.

They cost 1000 Linden

Scores

Quality - 7/10
Function - 9/10
Price - 8/10

So, the new RR stuff

Or at least, the new hud.

The ropes, straps, vixen cuffs and I believe elegance set all have new poses buitl in, and via this new hud (get ti via plugins > anims. Seperate one for each locking part, I.E legs, hands, etc)

Using this hud, or even the anims menum you cna later the pose you are in to soem extent. Hogties for example will now be able to cycle through you lieing on your front, then one of your sides and in the case of the cuffs, even on your back. It adds a lot of new poses to the basic bondage as well, even to the point you can get a hands above head pose as if you are suspended by your wrists or chained to the ceiling. The impact that the literally ton of new variants that these items now have will make them amazing for RP, allowingf or much more precise bondage.

So far I have yet to find anything else majorly changed from my review, but this Hud system is still huge. Going from about 6 poses max per item to having 6 poses that then can be alter into as many as 30 differant in some cases is a big update.

Oh, and you can set it up to cycle on a timer as well, just to keep the bondage interesting instead of static.

This post will be updated as and when I test any other changes they may or may not have.

RR Isolation Hood and Blindfold

Well here it is, the RR hood, and some people have told me its about time I did this one.



Quality

As you'd expect of Marine, it looks great. Its a tight, thick leather hood, with tight lacing on the back in what is often called the Gwen Style. The open upper face and covered mouth work really well with it.

It has three hair options as well. Up, which is the ponytail, Down, which has hair come out the bottom of the bakc of thood as if it was been pressed down, and none, which of course means you're rather bald, short haired or have it tucked into the hood. You can change which option you use via the Hood Texture plugin

The hood has 9 colours, and can have the laces or skin (the main part) coloured seperately. The hair has 10 colours, and can have the sides, or three seperate middle sections seperatly recoloured to allow for streaks in your hair if you like.

The Blindfold (comes with the hood) matches the hood perfectly, and can be recoloured as well, allowing you to make it the same as the hood, or contrast it to stand out more.

Function

The hood can be locked in four ways, loose, medium, tight and total. Each garbles your messages more, with total just silencing you altogether. It carries alarms should you log in withotu RLV or remove it without permission (I.E when locked), and comes with 8 plugins built in. Two of these plugins are the recolours for the hair and hood. Theres also of course the Realkey.

Theres Autolock, which locks the hood at a later time. It can be set to lock for a certain amount of time, or just indefinatly till the locker releases it. The timer (both autolack and normal) can also be set to RL time if you so wish.

You can adjust some gag options via plugins as well. You can have it monitor and shorten emotes, have it restrict slashes.. Uncertain of how or what it does. Block or restrict IMs (DON'T!) and also affect typing. Lastly there is give keys and "hood.." which just has IM blocking again and can block chat

The blindfold has 6 levels of blinding, each one making it harder to see through the HUD than the last, bar the small hole in the middle. It has RL time, Give keys, Autolock, realkey and the recolour plugins.

The and hood blindfold can be set to silent and/or male via the "tools.." menu, and the "More.." menu has a few more handy things such as allowing you to turn the alarm on and off and lets you choose to hide or show the timers.

When locked, a "Special" menu that has Alarm and Verbose stuff in it comes up, while tools disapears. The "more.." menu gets some timer settings and a button to take you into the full timer menu as well.

Score

As this is technically one restraint in two pieces, on set of scores will do.

Quality - Very high, and quite unique, I know of no other locking hood in this style, most these days are tattoo layer only and have no function at all - 9/10
Function - Carries a lot between the two pieces, does what a hood needs to, all ina ll has plenty built in with a couple of nice extras - 8/10
Price - 450 linden. For what it has, thats very reasonable. - 8/10
Average - 8.5

RR Straps (Arms and Legs)

Figured I'd just review all of my RR gear over the next little bit, then move onto mixing it up again.


So, the RR bondage straps. Like the Ropes, they come in two seperate equally priced packages.. With more content in one than the other. Oddly enough basic everyday straps like this are nearly impossible ot find in SL.

On looks, they are pretty goods. Another highly uncommon restraint thats common enough IRL. The basic bondage strap. These are leather, and pretty well done. Up close you can see the stitching and metalwork is quite detailed.

On to function.. The arms have one position. One. When I bought these and found this out I was quite disapointed. The legs fair better with 4. Tight, Sit, Lit and Hogtie. Plugin wise the arms carry more again, just like the ropes. They can touch restrict, Un/wear and give RLV folder access (Wear > outfit > root) It has force sit and an option to switch between RL and SL timers. You can of course do the general RLV options which I won;t relist here, autolock, Realkey, etc.

The legs have only 6 plugins in comparison. Leash and realkey are there of coruse, so is autoock and give keys and lastly RL time and wriggle. Wriggle lets the sub change pose by going through a little mini-game. You can go from stand to sit, sit can go to either standing or lying and lying can go back to sit. Hogite cannot change position.

Both carry a "Special..." menu, which in the arms case lets you block the restraint, force mouselook, auto refresh and turn on and off /77 menu access. Theres also silent (no chat spam) and an alarm for if the sub cheats and detatches the restraint. The legs lack the block and mouselook options, although thats no major thing.

Score time!

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Arms
Quality - Can't fault them, but not overly amazing either. 7/10
Funciton - RLV folder access is nice, but lack of positions hurts it, heavily - 5/10
Price - 180 linden. Not bad, but for a single pose.. 7/10
6.5/10

Legs
Quality - See above. 7/10
Function - More poses, less plugins - 6/10
Price - 180 again. The legs have a much better range of poses, a better price - 8/10
7/10

Please update these with more poses Marine (on the exceptional off-chance you read this), they could be so much better..

RR Shibari Ropes. Arms + legs.

Ropes. Possibly the most used bondage restraint in the world. SL does nto seem to have many, at least many worth speaking of.. Though I would greatly apprciate been proven wrong here! Let me know of any other decent sets out there.

First up - The legs and arms are seperate packages, though the arms are a better deal.

So. Looks. These looks pretty good, like.. Well ropes. They can be recoloured, although that only works if you use the lighter of the built in textures of which there are 9. Light leather, dark leather, black leather, white leather, black nylon, dark hemp, white poly, synth hemp and light hemp. You can also sue custom textures if you find some or have the know-how to make your own. The detail of the ties is brilliant though, and looks very much liek shibari should do.

Function.. Well to start, the arms have 6 differant poistions, as do the legs. Theres a tighten/loosen button which I believe makes the escape mini-game harder or easier depending. Under plugins there is quite a bit on the upper body ropes. Theres the everyday RLV options under the Control.. Button, allowing you to restrict stuff like Names, Locations, Tping, etc. a leash, a fully functioning Outfit option, with access to teh RLV folders and the option to detatch or attach their toys and clothes.

You can deny touch, set the timer to be RL or SL and force sit via the ropes as well. They also have a male option for those of you of the other gender.

The leg ropes have only 4 plugins. 3 of which the arms have. The only unique one here is the crotchrope option, which merely makes the crotch rope pirm rez or derez.

They do NOT have a realkey plugin, but anyone can untie you after a short time passes.

So! Scores.

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Arms
Quality - Looks good, decent textures and custom texture is always nice for those that can use it - 8
Function - The arms carry a good amount, a fair deal I'd say - 8
Price - 400 linden.. Not bad I suppose. 7
Average - 7.5

Legs
Quality - Same as arms - 8
Function - A lot less. If they came as one product fine, by as they are seperate.. 4/10
Price - 400 linden again, for a lot less built in, terrible really. 5/10
Average - 5.5

I'm forced to ask, why not just sell them as one product? The only reason to get legs is to compliment the looks of the torso in many ways with the lack of plugins. I'd say combine them or do legs for less myself. If they were as one..

Quality - 8
Function - 8
Price - 8
Average - 8

Aria

the RR realkey system explained

I don't have time to do a proper review tonight (plus I'm a little.. tied up) so I thought I'd do this instead.

You've bought a nice new restraint from Marine, but don't want to get permanently stuck, or want to give cartain people full access at all times. This is what the realkey is for.

First up, get your restraint, put it on (and lock it to be safe if you are in a public area)

Go to plugins, then to the realkey menu. Its generally on the first page of the plugins.
Inside the Realkey menu, you then have 4 options. Mode (Turns it off, on, or on touch), Get Realkey, set pwd and new pwd.
First up, rather use new pwd or set pwd to get a password you like, then nab the key.
If you use set, you will get a message in local telling you to use a certain channel (/662 for example) to set the password. In this case you would do /662 123456. It mustbe 6 digits long.
Attatch the key, and in chat will again appear a message asking you to set the password via a channel (such as 662 again)
Do this and set it to the same password as your restraint.
Hand it out to friends/alts/whomever
They can now access your restraint providing the plugin is not turned off.

So you then buy ANOTHER restraint from RR. This time you don't need to follow all the steps above.
Go to the realkey menu in the new toy, hit set pwd and set it to the same as your other restraint and realkey.
There you go, the one key can now free you from both restraints.

I hope I explained this well enough for people who find the system confusing. Realkeys can be a real life saver at times.

RealRestraint Armbinder

Probably the best armbinder in SL (sorry Katie at RF) in terms of apperance and function. Lets get it reviewed.



To start, it looks great. Go in close and you cna make out every stitch in the leather, the buckles and studs, it all looks very good. It has 6 differant looks and binding types. The first 3 are more classic armbinders. The first is a sort of armsack that puits you in reverse prayer, the second is classic lace up, while the third is laceup with extra straps to ensure theres no chance of escape.

The second set of options are more.. Strict. The first is the armsack again, only this time it covers the shoulders as well, leaving your arms and hands completely trapped. The second is a smooth binder covering your shoulders down to your hands, no laces, nos traps, just one solid piece of leather. The final is similar, but with straps to make sure its nice and snug.

In terms of function, it carries many of the expected RR plugins. Leash, realkey, colour changer, autolock, etc. It also carries a touch restriction that can be activated for certain poistions, so you cna sitll touch objects in option 2, but not in option 3 for example. It also carries force sit.

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Quality - Very high, in looks great, the detail is very high - 9/10
Function - It works well, alternate poisitons is nice for an armbinde,r but nothing amazing - 7/10
Price -  600 linden seems fair, if not cheap for possibly the best armbinder in SL - 8/10
Average - 8/10

Double review - RR Leather Vixen restraints and the RR Ballgag

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

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

Lets start with the gag.

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

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

Thats it for the gag, onto the cuffs!

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

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

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

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

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

Now to the rating.




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

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