Getting all SciFi

Now and again I have these "great" ideas that I end up regretting. I had one of those ideas today.

The 2015 SL SciFi Convention kicked off yesterday and, especially given that it includes a friendly mad scientist whose work we like, we resolved to try and get there today. I'm delighted to say that Mistress and I did get a bit of free time together to do this (although we didn't get to explore too much of it).

Meanwhile... my allowance payment list keeps getting longer and time and circumstance appear to be conspiring against me in terms of turning that around. So I had that great idea: it's a SciFi con; anything that looks spacey will work. Meanwhile, I've got a payment on my list of spending 5 days locked in the tkISO suit. It looks a bit like a spacesuit, right?

So before Mistress and I headed to the SciFi con I asked her if she was planning on collecting that one this week. Not only have I being dreading it (five days with a reduced screen size and a forced windlight is pretty hard going for me) and so wanted to just dive in and get it out of the way, there was also the issue that it was 5 days and if I went into it today I'd get out Friday. Any later in the week and I'd possibly end up bumping into the weekend and having to serve even longer (given that Mistress and I are unlikely to see each other over the course of next weekend).

She agreed that it would be a good look for our little date and that it made sense to kick it off today.

And the reason I ended up regretting it? It really did make seeing much of the con rather tricky. It didn't stop me, but it did make it difficult to really appreciate what was around me and how everything looked.

Much to Mistress' amusement.

Anyway, as best as I could, I took some photos during our wander. I have the full album up on imgur. Here's a few highlights:

Sadly though it was getting rather late for Mistress so we had to cut out trip short. I might try and get back there at some point this week end try and take more of it in. My main concern this week though is going to be getting used to the environment of the tkISO suit while trying to get on with working on Z&A things...

If past experience is anything to go by it'll take me a couple of days to really get used to it and, once I'm properly comfortable with it, it'll be time to be unlocked and that will be an even bigger shock.

This time should be an interesting experience in that it's the longest time yet. The longest I've done so far, I think, is 3 days. It should get even more interesting if (as I sort of hope she does otherwise it'll get even longer) Mistress layers other payments on top.

A bit of shopping, then back as a pony

It started with an off-hand suggestion that, perhaps, we might like to go to the VT dance on Friday. Sometimes, if the theme is one Mistress and I might especially enjoy, Miss Eve (who knows just how difficult it is for Mistress and I to get coinciding times that work for dances) lets us know a bit in advance what it'll be so we can make arrangements. This Friday's is one we think we'd have fun with and I made a suggestion for outfits to Mistress.

Which, of course, has turned into an epic (and still ongoing) shopping trip for the perfect skin.

Shops were visited. Groups were joined. Demos were demonstrated. And... nothing. While there were some lovely skins to be found none quite had the combination Mistress is looking for. I fear this will be our week this week.

Hopefully we'll find some time to make some more progress on the background project.

Before logging off for the day though Mistress collected on another allowance payment. Initially she was going to collect "Be hobbled by ankle cuffs and hands cuffed with thumbcuffs for 3 days" but we ran into a bit of a snag with that.

I'd recently updated the cuffs that she'd have used for that, the cuffs I almost always wear, and it seems there's been some radical changes to how they work and how the animations work. The heavily-hobbled animations were very different, rather unworkable and very unattractive. Doubtless something clever has been done to the cuffs, they've been upgraded in some clever way, and, sadly, left in a state where you appear to have to read the manual again just to learn how to do something very basic that you've being doing for years without a hitch.

Not really much of a step forward. Not even a hobbled hop forward. And very frustrating and disappointing.

So, that one's been put on hold until we can figure out what the hell is going on with those cuffs and, instead, Mistress decided to collect on me being her pony for 3 days.

Which, of course, had me so disappointed. ;)

So, as of now, for the next 3 days, I'm banned from the house and have to sleep in the stable.

Which also means that to get to and from the shop I have to walk across the sim rather than use our private transport pads. So that'll be more walk allowance used up too. Which means the list will get longer quicker...

It's almost as if Mistress never wants me to catch up!

A visit to C88

After a bit of a fractured week, timewise, Mistress and I get to spend some real quality time together today. After first spending a little bit of time dealing with Z&A business (taking some photos that will go on to be used in the poster for next weekend's dance -- which is Z&A's 5th birthday party!) we decided it was time for some retail therapy.

Although C88 itself was horribly slow for Mistress to load (I don't think she managed to rez it all, even after being there a good hour or so) plenty of demos were collected. Also, I even bought a couple of things too. There was a copy/mod blindfold that Mistress really liked the look of and told me I should buy (and which I'll script up with Z&A restraint scripts in the next day or so and add it to my blindfold collection in my #RLV folders) and also a pair of rolled down stockings/socks that looked like they might actually work with a dress or two I have.

Once done we headed back home and spent a good hour or so doing the demo swap thing in Mistress' studio skybox. As I've written a few times before, this is one of my absolute favourite things. It both reminds me of how similar our tastes are and how well we "work" together, but it's also a good time for me to learn plenty of other things about clothing and women's styling (SL and RL).

But, sadly, all good things must end.

It was time to say goodnight to Mistress and head off into a weekend where we won't get to see each other. Before she went I requested a top-up for my TP allowance, which had got rather low after yesterday's trip as well as today's shopping trip. This got me a payment of a rather long period of being gagged (I'm sure the timers being selected are getting longer...).

Mistress decided that she wouldn't collect on any payments this weekend, not only will my in-world time be less than it otherwise normally is but she also doesn't get to enjoy the benefit of the restrictions.

Hopefully next week's payment collections will be for things that let me build while restricted; there's a couple of things need doing ready for the Z&A party.

That and... hopefully, we'll be getting back to working on our longer-term background project. I'm rather looking forward to that.

Flyabout

After a fairly busy couple of days Mistress "returned" today and we got to spend a little bit of time together in-world.

A priority was to work on knocking something off my allowance payment list. Given that things have being building up, especially given the rather interrupted week we've had this week, Mistress was spoilt for choice. Looking over the list she decided to go with "Wear a vehicle (and outfit) of your Domme’s choice for 7 hours".

Mistress decided on my fully clear latex catsuit and, initially, decided upon a hover bike that I've had in my inventory for a very long time (one with is a very firm favourite of hers). Sadly though we realised that it doesn't have a timer so locking it for just 7 hours of in-world time wouldn't be possible. So, instead, she swapped that for something we know does have a timer...

The Z&A Quadcopter.

At this point I did a rather foolish thing. While we were talking about the idea of wearable and lockable vehicles (I keep thinking I should look at making at least another one) I joked that it would be a good mix, one time, with the Z&A Walkabout, forcing a "flyabout". Not only did Mistress think this was a brilliant idea, she reminded me that I also had "Go walkabout, in an outfit of your Domme’s choice, for 2 hours". No sooner had she mentioned this than...

...I was dropped over on Zindra. Mistress set the Walkabout HUD to 2 hours, a short loitering time (I forget what now -- I think 2 minutes), a max of 30 minutes in one single region and a region memory of, I think she said, 30 regions. Technically I guess she cheated herself out of one of the "outfits of her choice" by combining the two like this (I did change into a thong so I wouldn't have been travelling around with manly parts showing) but she seemed happy enough with the outcome.

At which point she wished me a goodnight and headed home, leaving me to revisit places I have been before, but from a slightly different angle, with an extra degree or 2 of freedom of movement (and without the bane helmet windlight setting, which is normally how I've experienced this part of the grid).

I've saved some photos from the journey that followed in an album on imgur. Here's a few highlights from it:

All in all it was a fun couple of hours. Meanwhile, I'd knocked a couple of hours off the seven hours I'm to be locked on the quadcopter.

The downside about being locked like that for 7 hours is that Mistress has decided that, because it's one of my creations, I should "enjoy" the the restrictions that it comes out of the box with. Never mind that I make it so people can tweak and change the (always approriate) restrictions, no, Mistress has decided that because I made it she'll go with what I set as the default.

In this, for obvious reasons, I made it so that you can't touch objects more than 1.5m away from you. So no building for me tonight!

A brief top-up

Sadly this week is shaping up to be a week when Mistress and I won't see much of either either. Today we only had a short amount of in-world time to deal with some Z&A work and then to have her unlock the ballet boots I'd been left in since the dance on Saturday.

While we were in, given that tomorrow isn't looking promising either, Mistress asked if I needed a top-up for anything. I could see that I'd be asking for a top-up for walk allowance by tomorrow so...

...I got offered a cookie early. This earned me "be hobbled by ankle cuffs and hands cuffed with thumbcuffs for 3 days". It's not clear when Mistress will be in a position to collect on this, or other items on my list, in the next day or so. I fear that the progress that was made to get the list as short as possible has been lost to recent events.

I hope we'll be able to knock one or two items off before the end of the week.

Out of the butterfly, but it gets worse...

Today was the day Mistress was to let me out of the latex butterfly outfit. And, when we went in-world, she did.

Once I was unlocked I got changed into something a little more casual and put my cuffs back on so Mistress could lock them. It was rather nice to have the freedom to change and to walk around at a normal pace again.

It didn't last long though. As I was getting changed Mistress was looking over the payment list and deciding on what she'd collect on next. Soon she announced that she was collecting one I've being dreading ever since it came up: 5 hours of in-world time denied any form of touch!

So, off came my cuffs again and, as I did, I made a special request: if I was going to be denied touch for so long, which also means I'd be denied any ability to edit anything (and so no building), could I please be locked in my MD ballet boots so I could use the time to carry on training them? Mistress was more than happy to oblige. So, with her choice of mittens pulled out of inventory (in this case the MD ones which I bought the other week to complete the MD set) and with a catsuit that made sense too...

...I was all set. Given that I wouldn't be able to open doors, and given that sitting would be very tricky (I can, just, sit on objects if I'm really close to them and I sit from the object's context menu), Mistress then asked where I'd prefer to be left. Given that our garden gate can be nudged open I asked to be left in the front garden. That way I'd have the run of the region so I could totter around in my boots.

So, this is me for the next 5 hours (I'm about 1/2 way through as of the time of writing), locked up so all I can do is wander around the region, levelling up my boots.

Thing is, Mistress as locked me such that I can't touch my own attachments. Because of this I have no way of knowing exactly how much time I have left, or how the training is going in my boots! When I pointed this out to her she just gave that laugh.

The list has grown

Sadly Mistress and I aren't getting much time together in-world so far this week, which means that we're not getting time to work together on the background project. But we have been in. Today we dropped in briefly so I could get a top-of of fly allowance. Normally it's not one I use much or often -- I tend to walk most places or use the TP pads on the region. But given my current outfit flying actually makes sense when I'm in the butterfly mode.

The payment for that top-up ended up being 3 days as Mistress' pony boy (and, of course, banned from the house for the duration). Honestly I think we were both equally as disappointed at how short a time got picked!

Tomorrow is un-butterfly day!

Back as a butterfly

Mistress and I didn't get to spend too much time in-world today, so sadly no time to work on our background project, but she did have time to drop in and collect on another allowance payment. Personally I was expecting and fearing either the 5 hours without touch, or 5 hours in a cell, but it turns out Mistress just can't resist her absolute favourite.

So, for the next 3 days, I'm her latex butterfly again. Well, latex caterpillar and butterfly, depending on how it's switched, because she set it to auto-switch as time goes on.

For now at least I can work just fine, I'm just stuck in a fairly humiliating outfit that, at times, has be crawling around on the floor...

...or having to hop or fly...

I'm obviously denied the ability to remove this, or change any aspect of my clothing, and I'm also denied fly when I'm in the caterpillar phase. The gag is also garbling my local chat and I'm denied any ability to emote. Mistress also set the gag such that I can't start IM sessions, although I can chat via IM if someone IMs me first.

Until Thursday...

A day in the iso suit

Sadly, due to RL issues, I didn't get to see Mistress yesterday but we got to catch up today. We met up at home and had a chat about my little adventure during banishment while Mistress also looked over the list with a few to knocking something else off.

Before that though I needed to request a couple more top-ups; one for TPs (I was down to just the one) and one for chat (not something I use that much, but I only had a handful of lines left and sometimes I need them when testing things).

Using the book to pick the two payments I got "Be a butterfly/caterpillar for 3 days" (much to Mistress' very obvious delight -- it's her very favourite item on the list) and "Go walkabout, in an outfit of your Domme’s choice, for 2 hours" (although she was rather disappointed that it was only for 2 hours, this one delighted Mistress too).

After this Mistress announced that she was going to collect on the payment of me spending a (RL) day in the tkISO suit. I was sort of looking forward to this one too as I will admit to liking the very anonymous and objectified look.

Thing is though, I'd sort of forgotten about the HUD and the forced windlight setting.

Hearing me exclaim my surprise when it all got put on amused Mistress no end. The worst part about it is that I've recently improved things in my machine such that I can run with advanced lighting on all the time now. This means that I can get the most out of the look of the suit. Except... with the forced darkness, it's really hard to see much. Mistress did jokingly suggest that I needed a facelight so I could see the suit better...

...but she soon used her veto when I put mine on.

So this is me until I see Mistress tomorrow. While I can work, and while I'm not totally isolated (I'm denied the ability to start IM sessions, but I can IM if someone contacts me first), it's hard not to feel constrained by the smaller workable screen area and the view of the world.

Still, there's this box I'm working on...

Banished for an hour

There's not been much to write about the allowance list the past few days because various things have conspired such that Mistress hasn't been in a position to collect on the payments. As well as it having being a Raven Park dance weekend (which generally does make it tricky) we've also started work on the new build project so quite a bit of time has being going into that.

As it did today. But that didn't stop Mistress from collecting on one of the payments before she headed to bed. The one she decided to collect was an hour locked in the bane helmet and left to wander somewhere on the mainland (yes, she was rather offended that it was only an hour).

After locking the helmet (and having to set a couple of things up again -- I'd just recently updated the helmet; the first time since I purchased it in early 2010!) Mistress teleported me to.... somewhere. I had no clue as to where it was.

We said our goodnights and she made it clear that I needed to follow the path, and that it would end pretty quickly but that I should look around and I'd see that it would carry on. Which all sounded rather interesting; it sounded like she had a destination in mind for me. So, off I went.

A chance to leave the path, but this wasn't the end of it.

Unlike previous banishments, I couldn't stop for a sit down.
Mistress had added "sitting" as a protocol violation!

The path ended, but there was a dirt track
heading up. So I walked up.

And up...

And up...

At the top: a building!

With something glowing inside.

Some sort of shrine to the cube!

A very old map on the wall.

Back outside I tried to get a feel for where I was.
Couldn't work it out.

After exploring the building and the surrounding area for a while I decided to retrace my steps. The hour was almost up so I thought I'd fill what remained with a bit more wandering. Once the timer ran out on the helmet I headed back home again, and didn't think to actually have a look at where I'd been. While I could look in my TP history I'm going to wait until I see Mistress tomorrow and find out from her.

I think I'll have to pay it a return visit. It's a very curious place.