MD Head Harness

Mesmerize dungeon item today, and a nice one at that.

Quality

Its. a head harness. Nice tight straps wrapped around the head, one coming down from the top of your head to your nose, then splitting off to either side of your mouth. Just as it should be, it looks very nice. It has a lot of accesories for those that enjoy Ponyplay, with otions like blinkers, ears and hair (which makes a plume of hair come out of the top of the harness). It also has nose hooks, which I've never used, nor plan to, so no pics of those I'm afraid.

One of the nice little additions is that small round metal plate on the forehead. When locked, the person who lock you has their initials inscribed on it. It also allows for some pretty heavy colour customization, allowing you to recolour any of the harness sections seperatly, a total of ten differant areas, with ten colour options, with the exception of the hair, which has 56. I recoloured mine to red for the purposes of this blog, so people can see it more clearly than my usual black.



Function

The head harness carriespretty much the 3 primary types of restraint a head can have, Blindfold, earplugs and of course gag. As always, will start from the top left of the menu. We have mouselook, a self explaintory option. Accessories, which lets you add or remove the hair, ears, blinkers, nose hooks or the face strap.

Then theres Gag. It has quite a few built in. A bite mask, ball, bit, ring, spider, panel and pony ball (bit and ball combined). The bitemask and panel gags can be applied over any of the other gags without removing them, meaning you can have the ball stuffed in, then a tight panel pulled over it. WIth the bit/pony ball the ends of the rod do stick out of the sides, though I think that is intentional. You can also adjust how severely the person drools, from none at all, to heavy, which seems ot be an almost constant stream. You can also turn emotes off, though I highly suggest not doing this. Hard to have fun when you can't emote how you feel or react.

Next menu is blindfold. Simple apply/remove option. Those that want a faux option may wish to contact me as I have aquired a certain hud that stops the MD harness blinding you. Only should be used with owners consent of course.. Theres Ear muffs next, which apply two small muffs over your ears as you;d expect. You can block chat here, or chat and IM. I don't recomend the latter, but I suppose it is a required option for the market.

Next we have timelock, then a leash, and then the plugins menu. First is the Signature option. This is pretty much a titler and renamer. You can have it show above your head if you or your captor wish. It'll rename you when you are gagged, so you could be named say, Lisa, and have the gag come otu saying Carol. Renamers are fairlyc ommon, so not gonna go in depth yet, will save that for my plugins post later in the month. You can also change the colour of the titles text.

You have the owners option, The primary can access the harness at anytime, keys or not. Sec owners I believe may be able to do this as well. You then have picklock, which lets you or a friend with the picklock tool to try and break the locks open. Its a very easy albeit somewhat time consuming mini-game. Siz cylinders, each with a number from 1-6 chosen randomly. The number does not change when the cylinders fall or you try to turn it, so its simple trial and error.

Theres the colour menu in here, and the groupkey. The groupkey as far as I can tell lets you sync it with a specfic group. That group can then, if given a group key, access the harness at anytime via the key, which is best attached to the HUD. Allows for good group play in places such as prisons without having to have the key passed around all over the place.

Back in the main menu we have 3 more options. Unlock, Public (Expose. Turn on and you are locked out of the menus) and RLV. It has all the usual RLV options in a simple menu system, as well as a folders button that lets you into the captives RLV folders. Pretty handy.

MD in world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/MD/128/180/1506

Scores

Quality - I can't fault this much, it looks great. - 8/10
Function - Probably the best harness in SL as of this time - 10/10
Price - 650 linden.. Its reasonable I suppose - 7/10
Average - 8.5

KaS Ballet Boots

Time to move on from the RF gear for awhile and onto something else.

KaS Ballet Boots

Quality

These are the best ballet boots in SL to my mind, appearance wise. Not just because they look amazing, but because of just how heavily you can customize them. With the boots comes a hud. attach it with the boots on, and you get well.. Millions of options. Each part of the boot can be done seperatly (see pics, one has every section a differant colour), and the colour choice is huge as its doen via a palette.

The boots themselves look great regardless however, well detailed, with an in-built shinyness adjuster.

For those that want a quick and simpe colour change rather than the palette for fine tuning, there is a colour menu in the boots themselves that will chaneg the entire boot to one colour.

Function

Quite a lot in here, starting from the top left of the menu. There is a Game option, which requires you at attach the Balance game hud that comes with the boots. When turned on, it will occaionally cause a mini-game topop-up where you need to memorise an order and repeat it. I believe an owner can lock it on you and leave you with the game occasionally happening.

Second menu is Access. This lets the owners lock you out of certain menus. Owners comes after that, fairly obvious menu. Lock and timer come next, then chain. Under Chain you can find a walk AO, turn the chain on lightly or strict, as well a sdney flight. Chaining slows down walking speed to some extent, with strict causing you to go a ot slower and even hop a little.

Colour has allready been covered, and then there is size. Lot of resizing options in here, as well as a reset button to turn them all back to normal. Handy for precise fitting. Lastly there is the More menu. Under here you find a few handy things, such as a stand AO and an option to make the boots use corset compatible animations. You can also have the boot straps visible at all times. These are two thin little rings just above the ankle where the chain is attached to normally.

You can adjust the glow here, as well as turn Fullbright on and off. Lastly there is an update button and a help button.

KaS in world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Osbourne%20Beach/136/220/23/?title=KaS

Scores

Quality - These are of the highest quality, hands down - 10/10
Function - An awful lot built in, the game is a great addition, includes an AO, easy adjustment via a menu and. I could go on - 9/10
Price - 395 linden. Very cheap in comparison to most - 10/10
Average - 9.75/10



On another note, the last few post have all looked a bit differant as I'm sorting out a specific style. I'll be going back and adjusting the previous reviews to match this setup soon.

RF Dual SJ (latex) and Secure Boots

Last of the RF week reviews. I still have a few RF pieces left, but will leave them for a later time and get back to doing other creators.

 

The Dual Straitjacket

Two versions of this you can get, the more traditional one that you'd not be surprised to see in an Asylum, and the latex one which I own.
 

This is an old item, and isn't quite as customizable as a lot of the more recent devices are. For one its only collour is black. It ha stwo differant designs, one with a breatcutout (which has a lot more strap son the back) and one without. Thanks to the great thing known as ADD that was added sometime ago, we can wear the no cutout one under the cutout one to get the straps without putting ourselves on display. Or you can just wear another black shirt underneath of course.

It has two binding poistions, Forward Strap and Reverse. Forward is the typical SJ pose, arms strappe dsnuggly inf ront of you, whiel reverse is of course them bound behind you.

It has 7 plugins, Leashing, Give Keys, Invisi-cage, the RLV menu (and the typical restrictions contained within) Mannequin, A rleay and Keep Away. For more detail on these plugins I may do an extra post sometime to cover them more thoroughly than I have done so far in the reviews,

Thats really all it carries now.

The Secure Boots

First things first, these are compaible with the RF secure cuffs, which I will review at a later date.

Theres a couple of things to note here. The boots also have a seperate set of thigh cuffs which come with them. These are for all intent and purposes exactly the same as the secure cuffs from the other set, and designed to work with them seamlessly.

The boots themselves look good with 4 differant looks. You cna have them in ankle boot or knee length, and change the boot design to stiletto or ballet. You can also hide the boot altogether, which leaves the cuffs on them showing btu otherwise as if you had no shoes on. They are pretty highly detailed, been nice and shiny and detailed lacing. Thanks to the handy alphas, we don;t need those horrible invisi-prims messing things up either.. If you have an alpha. Its been awhiel since I bought these, so not sure if Katie has included one in the box.

They carry a lot of colour options, allowing you to fine tune the boot to how you want it to look, at least to some extent.

It has 5 plugins. A leash (which also gives out a leash post and handle). It has teh sounds menu ounfd in her other restraints. It also has Aux bound. With this turned on, the Phantom Binder found with some RF products and at the RF sim can bind you, so be careful if you turn it on!

It has cycle bound and future lock. The latter does as expected and locks you at some point in time to be specified in the menu. Cycle bound is, for people like myself who get bored of a single pose for too long, brilliant. It does as the name suggests, and after a preset time, will change what pose you are bound in. And this thing has a LOT of poses.

Under the Restraints menu, there are 4 options. Hobble and Hobble2, Immobile and Repose. Repose I covered in a previous blog, it helps if you get animation glitches. The other 3 all have poistions within. It can bind you in a total of 24 differant poses. That alone makes it one of the BEST restraints in SL for those that like variation.

Otherwise it has the rest of the basic stuff. Expose, Timelock, etc.

Restrained Freedom im world - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Xoliantha/58/191/501/?title=Restrainted%20Freedom


Scores!

Straitjacket
Quality - I'd say it looks pretty good, if a little dated. Not amazing, not bad. - 7/10
Function - 2 poses, few plugins.. Nothing too special - 6/10
Price - 350 linden. Its a good restraint, and thats a fair asking price - 8/10
Average - 7/10

Boots
Quality - These look good, and are heavily customizable. Go well with a lot of outfits - 9/10
Function - Ton of poses, work in tandem with the cuff set, decent plugins.. I can;t fault them - 10/10
Price -  500 Linden. You get your moneys worth here. - 9/10
Average - 9.5/10

RF week - Straitjacket + Check out KaS for freebie dress

On a complete unrelated note - Check out KaS today for a free corset dress! In Mesh! Even Salid Sewell is jumping on the mesh bandwagon now.  -  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sandor/96/187/36

Katies most recent straitjacket today. Once again I may be little bit biased due to my love of these things.


First up well.. You can decide from the pics for yourself, but I love this thing. Its tight, its shiyn and if you look at the back, its very secure. Plenty of locking straps to drive even the best lockpicker crazy. For most people it requires an alpha, but Katie has included one in the box which auto-attaches if you strap the SJ on providing its in your RLV folders.

It carries 9 latex colours and an alternate texture called institute, which is the kind you'd expect to find in an asylum. Unless thay make the patients wear latex ones nowadays anyway.. Anyway. The straps carry both latex and leather looks, as does the trim. The metal carries the normal three colours.

Moving on, on the functionality side.. It carries a lot of plugins. 13 to be exact, including the expected leash and RLV menu. It does include full RLV folder access with an excellent menu system, as well as the typical RLV options and a relay. It also carries some sounds, the same ones I covered in an earlier review.

Its blockable of course, and carries some over settings. Expose is as always dangerous to use, theres Verbose, and it also carries with it some items it hands out to the captor under Settings > Get items. A left or right hand leash holder, a leash post and the help notecard.

It has a key system, and also allows for a Master Key and sec owners. The masterkey is somewhat like the RR realkey, although more secure. The key can also be rezzed next to you when you're helpless and anyoen who clicks it will be able to access your restraints via it. Nasty.

It has two positions, Strapped front and strapped back. Not much else you can do with a straitjacket that that. Lastly is carries a load of sub anims to allow you to pose just right for whatever it is you may be doing.

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


Quality - I'm biased, the SJ to me is one of the best restraints in existance, and Katies made a great looking one - 10/10
Function - Does what it needs to, has some nice extras - 8/10
Price - 500 Linden. Not high, not low. Fairly reasonable - 8/10
Average - 8.5

RF week - Double review - Security Jacket and Legbinder

Continuing with my reviews of Katies gear! Today its her security jacket and her legbinder.

Now I may be a little biased here, as my love of straitjackets is nearly unparreled.. But I really quite like how this one looks. The no arm design straitjacket is very poorly represented in SL, so that instantly scores this one some points. Its of course nice and shiny, as latex gear should be. The straps, jacket and laces can all be set to one of nine colours, while the metal has the usual RF three.

Another good thing, it combos nicely with the legbinder I will be reviewing below.

I will say against it, I have to use an alpha to stop my body clipping it. Maybe include one in future updates Katie? (If this has been done, ignore this line and I'll delete it later) 

Functionality.. Well it only has one pose built in, but once again, its an armless SJ, what other pose can you really fit in? I can't fault it for not having something it shouldn't really have anyway. It has various plugins, the usual RF ones, the ever present leash and of course an RLV menu with the usual options. It has an escape mini-game (The usual RF one, 3 options, put in the right combination to get out). It can be hidden via the unstrap command, and then of course shown via strap. It can of course be locked.

And.. Thats all for this one. Legbinder next

Theres quite a lot of variance in looks for this one. It has leather or latex textures for one, although when you fit the Binder option, there seems to be only one latex option. The rest cover leather. You can change the latex to some extent via the colours menu, but not much. The same goes for belts, one latex colour, rest leather.

On the above, if I have somehow missed the latex options, please let me know!

It carries the struggle mini-game, and some of the usual plugins, some differant ones. Theres a relay in it, as well as Ice Keys (temporary access) and of course the RLV menu. It doesn't have a leash, though I suppose it doesn't quite fit the restraint to have one. It can be unstrapped to hide it, and strapped back on to bind you back up. When unstrapped, you can turn the chaps on, showing off the binder without restraining you, more like a pair of very loose/bulky trousers. There is of course a timelock.

It has a built in sit AO, to allow you sit on objects without issue. There is also a Re -> option. In here it lets you relace the legbinder, which re-renders the laces on the back incase they aren't showing, and repose, which helps sort out sitting and any possible glithcing.

It has 6 poses. Standing, Hogtie, Kneeling, Lay Belly, Sitting and Lay back. There is also Dance, which makes you stop hopping around on the spot if standing, a fun little extra.

Thats them both done!

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

Security Jacket
Quality - Pretty high, unique look in SL again. Could use an alpha in the box - 8/10
Function - It has what it needs, no more, no less.. -7/10
Price - 350 is a resonable asking price - 8/10
Average - 7.5

Legbinder
Quality - Will appeal more to leather users than latex, but its still good - 7/10
Function - Plenty to go around and keep you entertained - 8/10
Price - 625 linden.. Decent enough I suppose - 6/10
Average - 7

Double Review - RF Mask Gag and Chastity skirt

Continuing with the Restrained Freedom gear today, we have the mask gag and the chastity skirt!

Starting with the gag.

It looks great, quite a unique design for SL. Nice tight mask over your moth and nose, straps going around your head, with added blindfold and earmuffs optional. As expected of Katie, the textures are well done, and it comes with plenty of colour options. 9 for the latex,  3 for the metal. You can also have it add a funnel if you want..

On function, this has a fair bit stuffed into it. It has basic RLV options, such as restrict IM (Something that should never be done), shortening emotes, etc. The eyepad of course works as blindfold and the earmuffs can half or fully deafen the sub. It can be exposed, which takes away nearly all control from you if you get the gag put on while its turned on. When ungaged you can switch back quite easily. It also has a gag evasion system, and can alter your camera allowances, from mouselook up 25 meters if turned on.

Theres also the gagging type. There is human, the normal everyday gagging, but also Kitty and Puppy. Using these changes your name in chat to ^Kitty <name>^ or *Puppy <name>*. On the next menu we have some of the more basic options. A key menu (take/leave and give), timelock and the style menu. Its worth nothing that the gag has a timelock that can be put on for as long as a week, which personally would make me murder the gagger, but some like that length.

Theres then a mumbler, which adjust how badly garbled yoru speech is. Mumble, Garble, Incoherant and silence are there as expected (mumble been lightest, silent doing as name suggests). Then there is Pet and Thinking. Pet make syou come wiht nothing but Mmphs, while thinking. For me when testing this, I would get my message come up, and on the next line "Aria thinks ...". Also on this line is Lock, and channel which adjust which channel you are garbled on. The line below handles the blindfold (Faux, half and full) ,earmuffs (partial, full), and the gag/ungag option.

Thats it for the gag, onto the skirt!

It looks pretty good. The skirt is nice and latexy, while the belt itself has some fancy metalwork along the belt itself. It also comes with a pair of cuffs that lock your wrisst to the belt, a nice little addition. As far as I know, this was somewhat designed so that back when it was first made, you could wear a skirt and a belt. As this was before the add command came in, it was a great idea, as you had to wear one or the other, not both back then.

The skirt has 9 colour options, one of which is schoolgirl. I don't think I need to detail that. The belt cvan also eb adjusted with a ton of colours, to the poiint that there are 11 menus underr belt, each with several shades of a colour inside. My only complaint is that we can't recolour the metal rim via this menu, and have to do so via mod, if you know how to anyway.

It has all of katies usualy plugins, the mannequin mode, invisi-cage, etc. and the general RLV plugins (No TP, Inv, etc). There is of course a timelock as well.

There is the accesories menu as well. Under this you can cuff or uncuff the sub as well as use some of the more.. Interesting toys the belt has included. To be exact there is a vibe and anal plug, as well as a strapon for those that really fancy that. The longer the vibe is in, the more powerful it gets it seems. Nasty.

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

Scores!

Gag
Quality - Very high, another unique look form Katie as well - 8/10
Function - This has a ton of stuff crammed in, I can;t fault it at all - 10/10
Price - 400 linden for an excellent gag - 9/10


Average -  9/10

Skirt
Quality - Its quite high, back when it was first made it would of been great, but its a little dated now - 7/10
Function - It does what a belt should do, with some extra stuff thrown in as Katie seems to always do - 8/10
Price - 400 linden, pretty sure thats cheaper than most belts in SL. - 8/10
Average - 7.5

RF corset

Felt it was time to do something a little differant tonight. Time for a corset!

So on looks.. Its very nice, as exoected of RF. The detail is very high, showing off teh stitching along the seams, the laces actually been tied, the straps at the front look great, and of coure its shiny.

I will say however, I had to heavily edit to fit my shape, and the inbuilt resizer rather made it too short or too wide for me. This isn;t that bad though, considering my shape seems to be a bit taller and more slender than a lot of gear is designed for. Thankfully its full mod and editting prims is easy enough. Katie mentions this in the products NC and on the sign you buy it form, so theres no excuse to go ranting at her for it, she did warn us.


On colours - First up choos eone of the sections (Metal, Strap, Corset or lacing) to get into the menu for that part. Metal has 3 colours, Bronze, silver and gold. The straps can be made either latex or leather, with 10 leather and 9 latex colours. The lacing has 9 colours and then theres the main corset.

It has all the options of the leather and latex ones, same as teh straps, then anothe rmenu marked as Others. In here are 9 other looks for it. Tie-Dyed, Steel, Wood, Floral, Argyle, Denim, Plaid, Lace and Brocade.

Now onto function. One major warning, do NOT remove yourself from owners unless you really want to be in bad situations. The NC warns of this as well.

The leveling is not unlike the KaS corset (to be covered later by me). You go to the highest level you can, and eventually it will open up a tighter option. However it has a few extras to make it more interesting.

The corset has a built in breath meter hidden away, and if you have the corset set higher than your comfort level, you may faint. When you faint, you lose some progress towards the next comfort level. On top of this, there is a machine included in the box. Sitting on this machine will tighten the corset by two levels instead of one, putting you past what the options allow. Doing this allows for faster training, but also makes you faint faster.

If you remove yourself from owner and teh corset gets locked well.. You're not in for a good time.Theres no way to loosen the corset if its locked and you are not set as an owner. This is epescially bad if you are on the machine setting, and have it tightened by two levels. I'm pretty sure you faint often enough that you can't level without loosening it.

There are a total of 6 levels, getting steadily tighter.

Unlike other RF items, these have no keys, just an owner system. The corset can be hidden, to allow for the sub to wander without her waist been crushed. As of this moment in time, I have yet to find an expose command, so its unlikely some random person can click it and force it on you. The boning can be removed or added. When removed, it can be a little.. Iffy with a lot of AOs, and when on, may make you sway from side to side rather like you're drunk. This is mentioned in the products NC, and has a recomended walk anim to use mentioned along side it.

Scores!

Quality - Very high. Can be a bit iffy with some shapes, but Katie does put a disclaimer in the NC and on the products sign. - 8/10
Funciton - Quite a lot. An expose command would be nice, but not necessary. - 8/10
Price - 500 linden. Like most of her items, this is reasonable - 8/10
average - 8/10