Well shit!

So, earlier this evening, Mistress and I attended a dance at VT. As usual the set was built by Miss Eve and, as usual, it was a vision of perfection. Every prim in its proper place. Every bit of mesh carefully chosen. Every texture and material layer carefully considered. No changes needed. No additions requires.

Mistress, against my advice, decided that it needed a little... something.

Fast forward an hour and, just after the dance, we're out shopping when it becomes very clear that Miss Eve had noticed Mistress' "enhancement". The order that came though was very clear: we had to both get home and get into our cells (as I've mentioned on this blog before, we built custom ones for our house and we have one each).

Mistress sent me home to mine right away (thanks to the wonders of the Z&A Sub HUD) but she.... was slow to get to hers. So, trying to follow Miss Eve's orders, I sent Mistress a force TP to to my cell.

Sadly that didn't go down so well with Miss Eve either. And because the cell is a Z&A cell it does the right thing and stops you from TPing someone out of it. So now I couldn't send Mistress to hers, she couldn't open the door (obviously -- we were both inside it). We were....stuck and unable to follow Miss Eve's very clear order.

Thankfully, again down to the brilliant design of Z&A cells, Miss Eve is on the whitelist and can always operate our cells (in case we both get stuck in them). So we had to ask her to come over and rescue us.

Which she did.

Miss Eve was then kind enough to open the doors, drag Mistress out and into her own cell, then close the doors and lock them both; leaving us with strict instructions to write two blog posts each. This being the first of them, this one being the one to describe the "clusterfuck" (as Miss Eve so delightfully put it) that was us trying to follow a simple order.

The second is to come...

Parcel Settings Checker

This is something I wrote earlier this year, and which I wish I'd thought to write a lot sooner. On Raven Park there's a handful of plots that are for rent and, as part of those rentals, there's a few rules to keep things safe and clean. Two big ones are that you don't have public build turned on, and that you also don't have ban lines (security tools are fine -- but no ban lines please, they're ugly!). So, of course, every so often, I had to fly around the region and check settings.

Which was a silly thing to do when I could have a script do the job for me! It was quick and easy to write and I thought I should finally publish it here in case it was useful to someone:

Of course, what you should do is change the value of EMAIL_REPORT_TO so that it points to an email address you want the report sent to (or leave it empty if you'd prefer it to be sent via IM). If you want to check other settings on a plot you can modify the code of ReportOnParcelAt. As it's written it does a check every six hours. If you want to change that just modify the value passed to llSetTimerEvent.

Hope it's helpful to someone else.

A day of bondage. And shoes

Today has been a day of bondage, mostly. Okay, there was other stuff too, all Z&A (and Femdom Hunt) business, but with lots of bondage involved as well. It started with being locked in ballet boots and a corset, from yesterday's dance.

To start with, I needed to make up all the hunt objects for The Femdom Hunt. This meant working on 71 different objects, twice over, doing different things to them. Mistress helpfully had me rez a leash post in the TFH office and leashed me to it -- no timer.

She then alternated between going about her own business and coming back and checking up on me, and also being my second pair of eyes to check that everything I'd done was correct.

Once everything was done she released me and let me get about other business. I think I was leashed in the TFH office for a good 3 or 4 hours of in-world time. It was the perfect way to work, feeling secure and focused.

The next job, after dealing with RL things, was to sort rent for the region. The region that Z&A and Raven Park are in is rented from RGF. The tier boxes for the region have been on the region for a rather long time -- rezzed in the sky next to a little platform I built. As normal I headed up there and.... no tier boxes.

They'd gone.

Just... not there.

Given that RGF had long given up on support via an in-world group I headed to their website at http://www.rgfestates.com/. It wasn't there either! At this point I started to panic.

Quite a bit.

If the news was as bad as I thought it might be this could mean having to move Z&A, and Raven Park, and the people who have homes on Raven Park, at short notice, while also organising the hunt!

Then I remembered something: RGF used HippoRent and Hippo was closing down. That had to be it! So I looked up where RGF's home sim was, headed over there and had a chat with a member of staff. In the space of about 20 minutes I got it all sorted, found that it was the Hippo issue, and learnt about their new tier system.

All done.

But I was still shaken by the while thing. Very shaken.

So Mistress did the one thing that's guaranteed to calm me down...

...lock me up in some pretty heavy bondage. Or, in this case, lock me in the Raven Park POD prison for an hour.

Thank you Mistress. Thank you so much! <3

Caught out

I'm sure it's got something to do with wearing a dress. I seems to happen most often when I'm wearing a dress.

Last night, after the Raven Park Wizard of Oz dance, I had to do the usual mad dash to get down to ground level as quickly after Mistress as I could so that the curfew module of my SubHUD didn't catch me out. It was well past my curfew time (6pm SL time) so I had to stay close to Mistress (she always keeps the "safe when I'm near" distance very small) or be dropped in my cell.

I failed.

Mistress joined me in the cell room to say goodnight, after cleaning up the dance items on the ground for me.

The cell's random timer had set itself to around 50 minutes so there was no way I was getting out before we had to log off. Instead we had a little chat about things and then I asked Mistress for a favour. Given that I'd used my MD ballet boots, set to red, as my "ruby slippers" for my outfit...

...and given that there was a very good chance I wouldn't see Mistress today (I didn't), I was hoping she might at least set them back to black so that I could wear something a little more "me" once I got out of the cell in the morning. Mistress was very kind and decided that, yes, she would set them to black.

I woke up the following morning still in the costume and still in the cell, unable to access my inventory to change clothing until the cell unlocked. Once I did I did a bit more experimenting with outfits that, to me anyway, look good with the boots. I came up with this:

I think I might have to save this one as an outfit. If Mistress approves of it anyway.

Before I was unlocked...

I think I got use to the environment of the tkISO suit much quicker this time when compared to last time. Although I did feel rather restrained by it last night I did manage to get a fair bit of building and scripting done on a (non-RLV) pet project that I'm working on at the moment. I had to leave some final texture decisions until I was unlocked, but I got things done.

Waking up in-world this morning was actually rather enjoyable though. There's something about the combination of ALM and the environment of the suit that makes SL look kind of awesome.

As of the time of writing though I'm out of the suit.

Mistress and I got to spend quite a bit of time together today, working on our background join pet project. It's coming along really nicely and, as normally happens, is heading off in a totally different direction than we'd first planned. Which is what makes it all the more fun. There's nothing I enjoy more, nothing that makes me feel more proud to be hers, than when we both riff off each other and see where our heads take us.

A quick shop and then a payment

Given the Christmas theme of this weekend's Raven Park dance Mistress and I have been wanting to get into C88 a lot earlier than we normally would to see if anything takes our fancy in terms of outfits for her and props for whatever we make as the venue for the dance. We did have a quick go at getting in yesterday but utterly failed.

Today, however, we were rather lucky. When we checked there were only (!) 20 or so people there, so we got in real quick.

Avoiding the floating heads and backsides we had a good wander around looking for anything that'd work for us. In the end I picked up three different items that should work as props for the dance. We also checked out a couple of the buildings, one of us utterly confusing us with the huge gaps in the upper floor that, apparently, you could stand on!

Mistress didn't mange to find anything in terms of outfits. She did, however, find a bookcase that was very her and would look perfect in the house.

Once we got home she rezzed out the bookcase and, while we discussed it, Catastrophe, her cat, demanded attention...

Not for the first time either. He kept poofing hearts and butterflies just to make sure he was noticed. Got to hand it to the makers of these cats, they know how to code up a very cat-like cat. He did, of course, get the attention he demanded.

Once he was satisfied it was my turn again... I'd run out of teleports during our trip to C88 so I needed to request a top-up.

That earned me a payment of a day as the "Skater Bane" (much to Mistress' annoyance -- not at the what (she's rather fond of that outfit), but at it only being for a single day). We then retired to the doll room (as it's now called because that's where she keeps the doll collection I helped her complete back in May) so she could have a look over the allowance payment list and decide what to collect next.

In the end she decided to collect the payment of "Blindfolded for 2 hours and gagged for 6". Mistress applied the lace blindfold (setting it on the darkest-but-not-totally-black level and denying names, maps and hover text, meaning I can't easily see who's around me or on the region) and, given all the other piercings I'm wearing right now, she used the Safety Pin Gag. The gag, as is normal, is configured to deny outgoing IMs while also garbing local chat. The hardest part here, as usual, is that I get to spend six hours in-world completely unable to take part in any group chats.

She then finished this off by cuffing my hands behind my back. While this doesn't apply any sort of restriction (not in the way she does it anyway) it does please her that it makes more sense. If this were in RL it would stop any fiddling with gags and blindfolds.

With all that done Mistress and I wished each other a goodnight and dropped back to RL. I should be out of everything by the time we meet to work on the dance.

Out of the boots

Earlier today Mistress and I met up in-world so that she could unlock my corset and boots.

After a good few days locked in them, and especially with the game HUD popping up very frequently, not having them on has felt rather odd. Although I do welcome the ability to get around at a normal pace.

Once unlocked I got changed into something a little more "normal" and we made a brief return visit to the Geeks'n'Nerds fair. There was a particular item Mistress had seen there during our last visit that she was adamant I have as my outfit for this weekend's Raven Park dance (the theme should be announced on the Z&A blog tomorrow).

While over there, after the little bit of shopping had been taken care of, she was very distracted by something that was very her...

Black cupcakes! Anyone who read my post about our visit to Sad November will know how much of a thing Mistress has for cupcakes and these.... Goth cupcakes! Much to her disappointment though they didn't give out a cupcake to eat.

I don't know if missing out on a cupcake set the tone for what came next, but something unexpected happened when we got home. After getting home Mistress sat in her chair by the fire and motioned me to kneel for her.

She then informed me which item off my allowance payment list was coming next. She'd finally decided to collect one that's been on the list longest, and which I've not been looking forward to at all.

No amount of begging got her to change her mind.

She matter-of-factly attached my leash and marched me to the Pod Prison in the Mansion.

...ordered me into my prison suit...

...and locked me in one of the pods in the main Pod Prison room.

And that was me for the next 5 hours, on display yet totally isolated from the rest of the world. No access to inventory or anything like that and denied incoming and outgoing IMs.

Eventually though I did my 5 hours and the pod set me free again.

...and, after that, for this evening at least, I'm free of anything other than my usual restrictions.

I also need to give some thought to my wildcard payments. Mistress suggested that it was time to collect on at least one of them and that I need to think about my suggestion for it.

All the best parties...

...end up with you locked in a cell in a dress. Right?

This was after Saturday's Raven Park dance. As sometimes happens, depending on the exact timing, I got caught out by the curfew system in my SubHUD. It was after my curfew time and, while I was very near Mistress, I was safe. But because we normally have the dance on a special platform in the sky, and because Mistress has the "safety" setting on the SubHUD set to just a few meters (it can be set as far as 500m but Mistress much prefers it to be set to, I think, 5), I can sometimes get caught out in the window of time between her TPing to the ground and me following. Sometimes I'm fast enough, others...

...I get home before her.

So that's how I went to bed on Saturday night. In my cell. The random timer came in at about 45 minutes if I remember correctly. We sat and chatted for about 15 minutes before logging out and saying goodnight properly. So when I logged in yesterday morning I had to patiently wait, "enjoying" my work, for about 1/2 hour.

As of today I'm also still locked in the dress.

Back in a dress

My quiet week is over.

Today Mistress and I got together, after sorting the perms on and packing a new product range that'll be going in the shop in the next day or so, and she decided it was time to start chipping away at the current allowance backlog.

Noting that there was a "Outfit of your Domme's choice" item (which lasts for 3 days) Mistress decided it was high time I tried out the third dress I bought a short while ago...

On top of that I've got a couple of fairly long gag sessions on the list so Mistress decided to use up one of them. And she knew just the gag to use too...

It's locked so that my local chat is very garbled and so that I can't start IM sessions. In the other hand I can have an IM conversation if someone IMs me. Mistress decided to do it this way given we're getting to the next busy period in The Femdom Hunt.

It was decided that that was enough for now. Many of the other items on the list either make it too difficult for me to carry out the work I've got to do this week or Mistress has other plans for them. Instead we went and did a little bit of tinkering in the Raven Park mansion, putting out a copy of the Dutchie Femdom Chaise in a couple of the rooms. While giving it a test, of course...

Turns out the dress I'm wearing isn't a great match for most of the sub's poses in it. Hardly a surprise there. Didn't stop Mistress from finding one that more or less worked, of course.

Finally we had a sit out the back of the Mansion (well, Mistress sat, I stood around and held a flower, sort of) and had a general chat about things and a good catchup.

It's interesting to note that I'm getting more and more used to the dresses. I'm pretty sure that, at this point, I have a favourite. And while I doubt I'll be adding them to my self-chosen wardrobe any time soon I think it's fair to say I sort of look forward to them coming up as an allowance payment.

And Mistress seems to like me in them, which is the really important part for me.

Rezday

Mistress and I had a pretty busy couple or so hours together today. First off we had a trip over to Fameshed so I could buy her a gift for her rezday (which is tomorrow). After that we had a trip to the main store of the maker of the gift, before heading back to the Z&A workshop so we could have a bit of a testing session for a product range that'll be coming soon (not sure when soon yet, some time between now and the start of The Femdom Hunt V). After that Mistresses decided that it was time to knock a few things off my allowance payment list.

First off she decided that I should spend the next 3 days naked, with a day cuffed on my knees, and with a blindfold for 3 hours (the type that makes the world very dark but still lets me see, while removing names and hover text and the like).

She then decided that the "be leashed naked in public for 2 hours" payment should happen too...

But it seems that wasn't enough. So, there I am, naked, blindfolded and leashed to a leash post rezzed at the Raven Park landing point and Mistress then adds...

...balloons. But that wasn't enough, apparently I needed a cake too...

...which was very sweet of her.

So, this has been me for the couple of hours after I said goodnight to Mistress. Her little rezday gift to me.

I'm doing my best to stay away from the sparkler.