Free BDSM collar using Open Collar menus + RLV, Lockguard & LockMeister support
The Bright Collar is a symbol of BDM sexual identity, and can be used to animate your own body, or consensually give control over it to another. It supports four systems designed for Second Life BDSM lovers:
1. OPEN COLLAR: This superb open source menu system developed by Nandana Singh is quickly becoming a standard in Second Life, and is incorporated into the Bright Collar.
2. RESTRAINED LIFE: Marine Kelley's extraordinary alternative to the Second Life viewer allows BDSM toys to control your avatar in new ways: such as preventing you from standing, undressing you, or muting your speech. If you grant control of your Bright Collar to another avatar, they can use it to access these features, gaining intimate power over you.
3. LOCKGUARD & LOCKMEISTER: Developed by Lillani Lowell and Kyrah Abattoir respectively, these systems cause chains to appear between BDSM toys and your wrist and ankle cuffs. For some reason, though both are capable of requesting a chain to your neck too, few collars respond: but the Bright Collar will chain itself on request from either a Lockguard or a Lockmeister compliant toy.
4. BRIGHT CUFFS: Our own free cuffs not only chain themselves to Lockguard and LockMeister toys, but can also chain themselves to each other, to nearby objects, or even nearby avatars. They will also chain themselves to your Bright Collar: allowing you to chain any of its for loops (front, back, left, or right) to your wrists or ankles.
Find the "Bright Collar boxed" object in your Inventory and drag it to the ground. Right-click the box, click "Open...", and click "Copy To Inventory".
This will create a folder called "Bright Collar boxed" in your Inventory: and inside, you will find the a "Bright Collar" object. Right-click it, and click "Wear".
(If you are using the Restrained Life viewer, you may find "Wear" has been disabled, to prevent you using it to displace other attachments. In this case, you must click "Attach to", and attach it to your chest.)
Depending on the size of your avatar, the collar may not be perfectly positioned around your neck. Right-click it, and click "Edit...". Red, green and blue arrows will appear: drag these to move the collar into the right position. If it needs to be rotated, hold down your Control key and three circles will appear: drag these to turn the collar. Finally, if it is too large or too small, hold down your Control and Shift keys together, and six little white cubes will appear around the collar: drag these to make it larger or smaller.
When it is positioned and sized appropriately, right-click it and click "Detach", and then put it on again. This will cause Second Life to "remember" where you wore it, so you need not position it again.
To display the Open Collar menu, click the main body of the collar, or say "xxmenu" where xx are you initials. For instance, if your name is Philip Linden, say "plmenu".
The extraordinary Open Collar menu is described in detail online, at...
http://opencollar.wikidot.com/opencollar-user-guide
If you wish to grant control of your collar (and symbolically, "ownership" of yourself) to someone else, say "xxowner Owner Name". For instance, should Philip Linden wish to offer me himself (and there is a seldom a day he does not dream of it), he would say "plowner Shan Bright". Your owner will then be able to use your collar's menu to control you.
The Bright Collar will work happily in any Second Life viewer, but if you are a submissive using Marine Kelley's wonderful "Restrained Life" viewer, it will allow you (or more commonly your owner) to access further controls over your avatar.
For instance, by saying "plsendchat=n", Phil Linden's owner can prevent him speaking.
A list of the possible commands can be found in the "Restrained Life API". This lists each command with a preceding "@": simply replace this with your initials (or those of your collar-wearing submissive). For instance, "@sendchat=y/n" becomes "plsendchat=y/n". (If you don't wish your commands to be overheard by others, speak on channel 1: for instance, saying "/1 plsendchat=n".) The API is at...
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/RestrainedLifeAPI
Alternatively, you can access these RLV features via the Open Collar menu...
http://opencollar.wikidot.com/restrained-life-rlv-features
And To obtain the Restrained Life viewer itself, visit...
http://www.erestraint.com/realrestraint/
When you "sit" on a BDSM toy, if it is LockMeister or LockGuard aware, it will automatically try to chain itself to the appropriate parts of your body: your wrists, your ankles, your neck, or all of these. If you are wearing cuffs and a collar which are LockMeister or LockGuard compatible, chains will appear between them and the toy.
Most wrist and ankle cuffs respond to requests from both LockMeister and LockGuard toys: but for some reason, few collars do. The Bright Collar, however, does. You need do nothing to use this feature: if you climb onto a BDSM toy which wishes to chain you by the neck, the Bright Collar will so chain you.
However, you may chain your Bright Collar to *any* object, whether or not it is a BDSM toy, or to another avatar, or (if you are wearing them) to Bright Cuffs on your wrists or ankles. Simply click the loop you wish to chain (at the back, front, left, or right), to display the following menu below. (Please note that only you can call up this menu - not your owner.)
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Your collar front is currently unchained. To what
would you like it chained?
[collar right]
[right ankle] [collar back] [collar left]
[left wrist] [right wrist] [left ankle]
[avatar] [object] [nothing]
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If you click a button corresponding to a cuff, a chain will appear between your collar loop and that cuff.
If you click [object], a menu of nearby objects will appear. Click the numbered button corresponding to one of them, and your collar will be chained to it.
Similarly, if you click [avatar], a menu of nearby avatars will appear. Click the numbered button corresponding to one of them, and your collar will be chained to them.
Your collar has four loops, and so it can be simulatenously chained to four objects, avatars, or cuffs. However, sometimes, it can be difficult to see the loops: especially if you have long hair. In this case, begin by clicking the disc hanging from the front of the collar bearing the Bright Corporation "eye & hand" logo. The following menu will appear:
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Which loop do you wish to chain?
[Front] [Back]
[Left] [Right] [Unchain all]
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Please remember that you can only chain your collar to Bright Cuffs: other cuffs do not support this feature. However, they are free, and can be obtained from the same place you found the Bright Collar.
* The Open Collar menus allow you to change the colour and texture on every part of your Bright Collar: spend a little time creating the look you like! The emotional impact of the collar can be changed considerably: from the playful bright pink collar of a kittenish neko, to the dark, riveted steel collar of the downtrodden human slave.
* The Bright Collar allows you to enjoy the extra controls of Restrained Life in almost any situation, and even when using toys which aren't designed for it. For instance, even if a toy has no "lock", simply use the Bright Collar command "xxunsit=n" to prevent your slave from standing and escaping it.
* BDSM is an emotionally powerful passion, much misunderstood, and practised in Second Life by lovers of differing levels of experience. Make sure that you and your partner understand that it should be Safe, Sane and Consensual. Even in Second Life, we are only *physically* safe: and behind each avatar is a human being who is as emotionally vulnerable as they would be in real life. Remember: anything you can identify with enough to enjoy, you can identify with enough to be hurt by.
Shan Bright
Chief Executive Officer