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

Simple note on updates

Sometimes after I review gear, it gets updated.

So far I have being very lazy and not updated ANY of my reviews to reflect the updates. Nor to switch the old ones up to my newer format.

Tonight, I'll change that and start updating some of the older reviews to reflect the newer versions that I have recieved. Which one I choose to do will be random, so it could be one from a month ago, or one from a year ago.

If there is any review in particular people want to see updated, sent me a message (here, DA or in world) and I'll look into it.

Enjoy!

(also new review coming tonight as well, maybe.)

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

Rf kNap HUD

A new item from RF, and a slightly different one.

Appearance

There's four items included here. You give them out to your captives via the hud, explanation below in the function area. All four are also mesh

The gag is a simple ballgag, red in colour, snug and tight. The wrist ropes have two poses, front and back, as well as a leash. The leg ropes have two poses as well, taut (hobble) and tight. Sadly no lay or hogtie.. But maybe later! The head sack works as a blindfold.. It doesn't use a hud though, so work arounds are very hard if you get stuck blind with no one to help you.

The gear is all no mod, including the rope cuffs, so you have to make do with adjusting them to fit with move alone. They should fit most wrists and ankles, but may not like being over boots or the like.

Function

Lets start with the hud. The first thing you will notice is four buttons up the top, each one with a pic of the restraint. Below this is a load of red circles with an X in them. This is for future restraints Katie will be releasing that you can drop in the hud to bind people with.

Below these are four more buttons. Help, Update, Strip and Reset. Of these Strip is the most notable as it does not actually just strip them naked. It gives you access to their RLV folders as well. In other words you could use the HUD merely to access any restraints they may already have, instead of the ones included. Very useful for kidnapping.

Onto the first four restraints included. All four can be accessed by anyone bar the captive themselves. That does mean however, if you have two subs bound, they can free each other, even if head sacked. They also do not restrict that much, only garbling, blinding and hobbling.

The gag has 3 levels of garble. the hood similarly has three levels of blind. The leg cuffs can hobble or force you to hop, and the arm ropes seem to have a force accept TP. This means ANYONE in SL can TP you to them, without you having a choice, when your wrists are bound.

Oh, and the restraints are all copy/trans, so spread them around!

My thoughts

 I like the idea a lot. And all in all its executed pretty well, and Katie has left it open for new restraints to be bought and dropped in (DLC if you will). I do have a few concerns, such as subs just untying each other. The force accept tp from anyone concerns me as well.. You;ve being taken captive, your captor is doing all sorts of evil things... And suddenly you're on a sunny beach with a highly embarrassed friend in the middle of a party.

The new restraints she releases for this could make or break it though, all depending on price. So far I like it though.

Things I'd like to see? Limiting far touch if a person has their wrists bound and being able to toggle that force TP.


Scores

Appearance - The hud is simple, the restraints look pretty nice - 7/10
Function - Minimalistic, simple, but some cases risky - 7/10
Price - 500 linden

Sunshine Technology - Leather Mittens

Another new (for me) store tonight, this time called Sunshine Technology

Appearance

These mitts have a fairly new design for SL, not quite like any others I know of on the market so far. They are made of leather, seem to be padded, and as expected, have a snug strap to ensure you can't slip them off.

They come with 9 base colours for the leather and strap, and 9 again for the metal parts, although with some variances (such as steel). You can also freely tint using the [custom] button and inputting the RGB value.

They also have the store logo on them for good measure, just so your sub knows who to chase whenever they finally get free of the confines of their mitts. It has some nice touches, like the padlock on the buckle actually closing when locked, but open when unlocked.

All in all, quite a nice look, nothing I can really complain about. They are mod as well, if you want to turn shiny on, and not too hard to fit either. There's a couple of alphas, one for hiding your entire hands, another for hiding half your hand, leaving the wrists available.

Function

First and foremost is the Timelock. In here you can set up a few things, such as Public mode and Wearer only. I believe when locked, only the keyholder can adjust it, and it you timelock yourself well.. I think you know by now what happens.

Colour is self explanatory. In here you can adjust the Leather (main part of the mitt), the strap, and the metal. You can also just use the three presets here which are Red/Black (default), Black/Red, and Pink/black.

The third button adjusts touch. It defaults to no far touch, when changed to World, you can;t touch anything, and no block is.. Self explanatory actually.

Finally there is the lock button. Pressing this will lock the mitts on the wearer, be it you or someone else, and take the key away. When you lock yourself, you get a little message informing you that you trapped yourself.. But thankfully it auto activates a half hour timelock as well for good measure. NOTE: if you disable the timelock, this timer will not activate. Similarly, if you disable it, adjust the time, then lock, it doesn't undisable. You'll need to find help if you do not re-enable it after adjusting.

When someone else locks your mittens, they get full access to the timelock, the touch restrictions and the colour changing, leaving them free to humiliate you with neon pink mitts against whatever outfit you are forced to wear by your captor.. Beware!

My thoughts

These mitts are very nice. Yes they might seem basic, but they do what they need to, they look pretty good, and are the cheapest on the market at 149 linden.

Oh and my pics all ahd the mitts edited to have shiny on low, force of habit, forgot to turn off before taking them and I'm WAY too lazy to fix that.

Scores

Appearance - 7/10 - Unique for SL look, always nice.
Function - 7/10 - Does exactly what it needs to, no more, no less (yet! they will be updated based on feedback)
Price - 149 linden

MP store - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/110735

Corset Sophie - Venus Corset

A new (to me) store, a piece of gear that's incredibly rare IRL.. Lets get to work

Appearance

It looks like it is, incredibly tight and restrictive, pinning your arms away so snugly you almost appear not to have any. Venus corsets aren't well known, nor do they appear often, but damn are they nice.

This one is quite customisable. You can recolour the corset, its boning, its lacing, etc. It also comes with a variety of skirts, ruffs a catsuit, ballet boots and more. It also has two different versions when you buy it, Closed top and open top.

The closed is smooth, tight, shiny latex (or maybe patent leather) all the way from top to bottom, as inescapable as it looks. The Open uses fake breasts instead, which is a little disappointing, though you can also recolour those to match your skin at least. It also has an AO of sorts built in, that occasionally makes you rock back and forth a little as if taking a deep breath, or trying to.

When locked, padlocks appear on the clasps, and around the boots if you use them. Big ornate locks around your ankles.

It comes with a full colour hud,which is frankly terrible, and involves extremely slowly recolouring it by using arrows to alter the value by 1 or 10 at a time. Slowly. Unresponsively.

The extras include a pair of ankle boots, and some very ornate ballet boots as well. It includes two skirts that hobble your legs, pressing them tight together and making you walk differently, though they do not seem to slow you down unless locked. Oddly the ankle boots are rigged mesh, but the ballet are individual boots.

If its not clear already, I'm pretty sure Sophie has a thing for Victorian style dress

Lastly the closed version has a sort of hypnotism hud in it. The open.. lacks it for some reason.

Sadly it has a couple of issues. For some reason the closed top one has fake thighs if you use the short skirt, though the topless one doesn't. The closed one has no way to hide them, so they may clash with a lot of avis, and those that like to wear long stockings or a catsuit underneath will see issues. Furthermore the open top one includes a pair of mesh ballet boots, which the closed doesn't have.

You also can't recolour the clasps holding the front closed, nor the rings on the back that hold the laces in place, at least from what I could see

All in all it looks good, but the fake body parts are unfortunate.

Function

In the box are two corset types. Trained and training. Trained instantly unlocks everything, no need to wait to get it tighter. With training, you need to be patient and tighten the corset over time. Too tight and you may faint.

The menu is fairly simple. Top left is Tighten, next to it is loosen. Top right lets you turn the AO off. Then you have the constraints menu. In here you can adjust what people can do to you, set up a timelock.. And expose it. If you expose it, say bye to this menu, you're stuck unless someone disables the expose for you. Truly evil. Oh, and did I mention that your owner can punish you by exposing it as well?

In the next menu (setup), you can do a few things. Add an owner for example. When an owner is added, the sub can lock herself.. but not unlock, so be careful. You can also get the help NC, change the language, adjust if it sends messages to chat or not, etc.. and RAZ. Which resets the restraint.. including training. Very useful to torment a poor sub who just finished her training.

Lastly there is Skirt Short and Skirt mid. the Short option on the closed corset rezzes those fake thighs mentioned before, while the mid thankfully hides them. Next to these is EXIT, to close the menu and such.

My thoughts

I love the concept of a Venus corset, so this one is really appealing to me. The odd appearances quirks confuse me though. The fake thighs especially, not being able to recolour the clasps or lacing rings is odd, the fake breasts I can live with, but would love the option to hide and put my own assets on display. Oh well. All in all its looks pretty good, functions well, and is the perfect way to contain a kidnapped sub you want to train.

There's a few typos here and there in the English text, but Sophie is French, so perfect English is not expected.

The issues with items in both boxes being different, the fake thighs, etc, I think are simple oversights, and may even be fixed by the time I post this.

So I stress this, these issues are likely simple mistakes, not deliberate. Keep an eye out for updates or the like that fixes some of them.

All images show only gear from the box, including the catsuit leggings, skirts, boots, etc, bar for my collar.

I sadly cannot recommend this restraint.


Price - 699 linden for one set, open or closed.

RF "Stealth gag" (Mouth corset)

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

Appearance

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

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

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

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

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

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



Function

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

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

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

Scores

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