Lexicon

Rope

Rope is bondage as craft. The catalogue calls it tying as craft and as intimacy, not only as restraint, and readers who tick it are asking for the craft to be on the page: which rope, how many wraps, where the tension sits, what a chest harness does to breathing, which hand goes numb first and how the person tying checks it. A rope scene that says only that he tied her up has skipped its own content.

It is also unusually intimate, because it is slow and because it is done with the hands, and because the person being tied is watching the person tying concentrate. Much of the charge of rope fiction is in the tying rather than in what happens after, and some rope scenes are entirely the tying.

How the engine handles it. With Rope ticked, the engine writes the equipment and the tie with technical precision, the wraps, the cinches, the checks, and tracks what the tied body does over the course of the scene, from the first wrap to the moment the rope comes off, which it writes. It keeps the rigger's attention on the page: checking circulation, watching the breathing, the two fingers under the band. The story state carries the fact of the tie across sections. If you set limits in the special instructions, no suspension, nothing above the collarbones, always a way out within reach, the engine writes inside them; the BDSM guide shows how. The bondage landing page has an example of the theme at work.

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