I'm releasing an update that addresses the problem where users of the RLV relay's "Auto Mode" can be spirited away to arbitrary locations without their consent. Some people will moan about this and say, "then why not just use Ask Mode", but not everyone is knowledgeable about RLV. Most users just do what others tell them, and setting the relay to "Auto" mode is a very common bad advice.

In Build 301 the RLV relay will always ask for confirmation before processing a teleport command.

The only exception to this rule is when the command attempts to teleport the user within the same region (with the user having set the RLV relay to "Auto" mode). That is done so that RLV teleporters, such as portals or elevators, can continue to function like they used to, although it would be best if sim owners would transition to scripted experiences for this kind of use.

Because of the obvious importance of this update, I'm going to explain in some more detail how to acquire and install Peanut N°9 Build 301. Please concentrate for a couple minutes and read it carefully. If you have any questions, please join Discord, which is the best place to ask anything. ♥

If you already have the Peanut version you can either download the update from my marketplace store, or pick it up in the Arcadia region, or at the Archaic store from one of the Peanut N°9 boxes.
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• The updater listing on my marketplace store
• Archaic store in-world (find it to your left or straight ahead)
• Temple of the Collar™ (straight ahead right of the amp stack)
• Little Temple of the Collar™ (straight ahead opposite the oak tree)

If you have any of the premium apps, you can also use your update card in the Arcadia region to get the most recent version of your app bundled with the updater. The same is true for the Heartcore update which I have also refreshed with Build 301 source. Just use your update card.

Copyable premium collars from the virtualdisgrace.com store can be picked up from the redelivery terminal, or if you made your purchase online, then at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/orders

Enter VirtualDisgrace in the "Merchant/Store" field to get a list of your collar and app purchases.

Every collar that you can pick up directly in the Arcadia region for free has Peanut N°9 Build 301 pre-installed. The Heartcore version has the new relay included as well and ships out of the box as version HC-301 ➤ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Arcadia/86/211/21

All collars on the virtualdisgrace.com marketplace store come with the new version out of the box. The Chatiquette, Herzchen, Magic Leash, New Spy and Sobriquet premium apps also come bundled with an updater ➤ https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/178184

All of the collars that you can buy in my own marketplace store come with Peanut N°9 Build 301 pre-installed. You can also grab my free updater and load the new version on your collar, granted that your third party collar of choice is compatible - if you are unsure, just try it out, the updater will work in most cases ➤ https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/89143

You can use my collar updater to bring your existing stock up to speed with Build 301. For you that means having to re-box and re-list all of your collars, and while I usually say "only do it if you want", this time around I strongly suggest you do it. I did it for our own stores today and took 11 hours (outch!) but I also have to build the updaters, you don't have to do that, you only need to use it. ♥

For building new collars you will need a refreshed creator kit. You can either pick that up with your update card in Arcadia, or you get a redelivery at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/orders

Enter VirtualDisgrace in the "Merchant/Store" field and select the creator kit from the list.
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Depending on how many purchases you made on marketplace, loading things may take a while, especially if you are hailing from anywhere else than North America. For me that takes > 2 minutes.

If you are just getting into creating collars, it is a great time. Peanut N°9 is now more robust, secure than ever, and collars don't require anymore patching with Build 301. ♥

You can learn how to create on the workshop page of this website. It will require an average of 2 minutes reading time from top to bottom, so you will know everything you need. Note that the picture tutorial has little numbers on the side that you can click to cycle through the building steps!

I have been working on a next generation system that doesn't supersede Peanut collar, but is an alternative thing with a more modern approach. I enjoy working on it but, it is still in an alpha state, and I don't want to make any promises that I may not be able to keep any time soon. I'll try though!

If next gen won't happen for some reason, OpenCollar, and with that I mean Peanut N°9 Build 301, arrived very close to its final version. I might follow up with one more version in a couple months. ♥

As it turns out "RLV Relay griefing" is becoming a thing again.

Someone accesses a user's RLV relay and teleports them to a remote area without their consent, usually to lock them down with RLV restrictions, or in the worst case, to extort private information or money from them.

While a fringe group of players in our kinky community might be fine with that, and enjoy this interaction as a part of their role play, most people are usually not OK with stuff happening to them out of the blue, followed by creepy extortion "role play".

Some people get really scared and upset. It gives RLV a bad rap, and ultimately ruins it for all of us.

​Let's not do that.

I will keep this dry and to the point, so you can fix yourself quickly and stay safe in the future. Once you are done, please be smart and read my post to the end to de-sheep and educate yourself. ♥

If you are wearing a Peanut N°9 or Heartcore collar proceed as follows:

• Open your collar's menu, then go to RLV > Relay
• Click the button that has a ☒ next to it
• Make sure your collar said: Relay offline.
• Click the SAFEWORD button
• Get the hell out of there​

If you can't open your menu by touching the collar:

• Use your Personal Remote's relay button
• Or type: *relay (including the asterisk)
• Or type: /1*relay (including slash, number and asterisk)

If your collar is set to Helpless mode and you don't have a SAFEWORD button:

• Type in the Nearby Chat: ((Taxi!)) (including the parenthesis)
• Or type in the Nearby Chat: ((RED)) (including the parenthesis)
• Or type: /1 Taxi!
• Or type: /1 RED​

Keep in mind that on Heartcore your safeword is only "informal". That means your Owner will receive a notification that they should check on you, and this notification will lead them to where you are, but you will not be able to get away without their help. If it is urgent, please read further.

If your Heartcore collar was set to Helpless mode or if you are using the Legacy RLV Relay:

• Open your viewer's Preferences
• Find the setting to disable "Remote scripted viewer controls"
• Disable the "Remote scripted viewer controls"
• Restart your viewer and teleport away
• Go back to Preferences and re-enable "Remote scripted viewer controls"

NOTE: In the Firestorm viewer this setting can be found in Preferences > Firestorm > Extras

To stay safe in the future:

• Stop using Auto mode in your relay unless you are an advanced RLV user
• Stop using the Legacy RLV Relay - you can override it with my updater
• Or uninstall the RLV relay from your collar with <yourprefix> rm relay
• Start using your collar's internal force-sit feature

Most of the time the biggest worry is losing the avatar or having to start over.

Once someone invested in a body and head, along with a bunch of compatible skins, clothing and animations, abandoning an avatar isn't really a good option anymore. Players usually spend as much money on these avatar basics alone as they would when buying a brand new AAA game.

You love your avatar, you spent a lot of time, money and effort to make the avi look nice. She or he is finally how you wanted. Now you can go out and play, and have all the fun you were looking forward to... and then some RLV edge-lord comes along, dick in hand, and just ruins it. Great. >:(

The purpose of this add-on was to allow your playmates to do something to you that would limit or restrict your Second Life®​ experience, like preventing you from detaching something, or forcefully sitting you somewhere. For bondage enthusiasts that obviously would make a dream come true.

​Finally you could be tied up in a role play, without being able to get out anymore on your own. Nice!

As you can see, the "RLV" was quickly adapted by viewer developers and players alike. It is a cool idea because it really enhances the experience for one of the largest player bases on Second Life®.

There is nothing inherently bad about RLV, none of it is made with malicious intent, and when we talk about RLV Relay griefing, we aren't referring to flaws in RLV itself that make it prone to abuse.

​RLV is technically safe. There are no back doors, exploits or hacks.

Now that you know what RLV is, I want to tell you how RLV works.

Did you ever create a box and then click New Script in the contents tab?

RLV hears all the llOwnerSay messages. Starts a message with an @ character, RLV will treat it as a command. If I add this line of code llOwnerSay("@detach=n"); to my New Script, and attach the plywood box with the script inside to my avi's head, I won't be able to detach it anymore. Awesome!

The thing is this: llOwnerSay can only be seen by the owner of the item that uses it, and RLV can only hear the llOwnerSay messages, therefor RLV commands can only work with items that belong to you, such as a set of cuffs, a fetish hood, or a collar for example.

​If I wanted to, say, have a cage that belongs to someone else, trap me with RLV, I need a RLV relay.

Everything-RLV can be done through my collars, by avatars that you authorized knowingly.

The RLV Relay is used when your playmate accesses a furniture's menu, to scan for you, and uses this menu to grab you onto the furniture. (Please, stop rolling your eyes if you are a more tecchy type. I'm really trying to explain this for everyone to understand.) Instead of using the collar's force-sit feature, the furniture is sending the RLV command to your collar. The collar forwards this command to a script, and that script says it as a llOwnerSay message, because as you now know, RLV commands can only work if they are spoken with llOwnerSay by an item that belongs to you.

If the item belongs to somebody else, then the command needs to be relayed to your viewer by something that does belong to you (such as even your collar, or some RLV Relay HUD).

Most RLV related features are more robust in my collars than they ever were in any of the "RLV scripted furniture" that is floating around out there. You don't need a RLV relay to be sat and locked on a bondage contraption, cage or bed. My collars have a sophisticated force-sit feature already.

Sadly though, there used to be much misinformation in the SL kink scene, where players and creators had it thumped into their heads that a RLV relay had to be an integral part of a collar.

I really wanted to not include a RLV relay script out of the box already since OpenCollar 4.0, so players who consciously wanted it, would have to look for it first, and in this process hopefully learn what a RLV relay even is.

Most submissives don't love the idea that the whole Second Life® world can restrict and control them. Unfortunately though, that is exactly what happens when the RLV relay is set to Auto mode.

You get told to set your relay to Auto mode instead of Ask mode because "that's how it works". >:(

With peanut collars' force-sit feature you can be sat on an ordinary plywood cube that you just rezzed from the build menu, without it requiring to have a single script inside. You can be locked on that cube with "strict sit". You can't relog into a different region, and you will be sat back until your Owner frees you. You don't need RLV furniture or a relay in the collar for any of that at all.

The relevant point here is your Owner doing all this, not our random RLV edge-lord with dick in hand from earlier, your Owner, your Trusted, who you actually gave your consent to kinky-play with you.

Finally we can talk about the griefing so that it makes sense. Now, what exactly is going on there?

The griefer is using an object that can send RLV commands to everyone who is using a RLV Relay, no matter if that's a individual RLV Relay HUD or the relay in the collar, that is set to Auto mode.

In this case, the griefer uses a command, @tpto, that teleports the victim to a different region. This is particularly effective in areas, such as Arcadia and the Temple of the Collar™, where we have many avatars wearing collars or other bondage toys that may react to these commands.

​You can literally observe people being teleported out in bulk.

See, when I'm around at that time, I will usually let the griefer linger for a moment so I can make my screenshots for the abuse report and bust them red-handed. Then I bitch-ban them, and soon after, usually half a dozen or so guests come at me and accuse me of teleporting them out of the sim. I calm down as many as I can before losing my patience and bitch-ban some of them too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

​It's a bad situation, toxic and unnecessary. But it is also a great example of the self-destructive nostalgia that is often going around on Second Life®. Some individuals want to go back as far as they can... Even if it's only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards.

A real solution to this (and to many other problems) would be if more people were willing to adapt to new design ideas. I'm really trying to move things forward, I always have. I want to make our toys more secure, less laggy, more fun and more accessible to a broader audience, and I want to include other designers and coders in this, rather than compete with them over pennies and pixels.

Go ahead, get rid of the silly relay, you don't need it. Come on and give the new folders a serious chance, and wrap your head around the idea that the cuffs I'm sharing are for light use.

I would like see people who really want a relay, to opt for a dedicated RLV Relay HUD. I'd like to see people use collar folders in a relaxed and easy manner, and rather go with CTS Wardrobe if they need something more involved, and I don't want to compete with Kyrah Abattoir or Marine Kelley in the cuffs department, because their cuffs already kick ass and look great.

I want to create a collar that is open minded and flexible, so it can co-exist with other great products, rather than trying to do everything a bit, and "rule them all". This ambitious bullshit was never my style. Observing the RLV relay griefing is a great example of how all this is getting way too much for people. Nobody needs that many knobs and dials in one interface if the outcome is that users get so stressed out during a bad situation that they can't find the "CANCEL" button anymore.