1: Last fall you mentioned having to move your studio (i.e.. dungeon). Could you tell us about your new dungeon?
My new dungeon is at Safe Haven, a private venue that also regularly hosts play parties. I am currently using the garage as my play space, which in all honesty is a bit rougher around the edges than Mistress is accustomed to. My first dungeon set-up me up for disappointment for all spaces that would come after. When I was just a baby domme getting started, I had half of a raised ranch in a very nice neighborhood for my use. The primary room was huge, but I barely had any gear then to fill it. What I miss the most though, is that there was a sauna. I fantasize about the warmth of that sauna on days like today more often than I think of my out-of-state playmates I don't see nearly often enough. Oh, Mistress got distracted, you asked about my current play space. My dungeon currently has a cross, a web that needs repairs, a spanking bench, assorted overhead hooks and most of my gear. Now that I have space for one again, Mister Pain is building a rotating cross. A stockade will likely be the next big piece once the cross is completed. The space still desperately needs a woman's touch. An artist I love from England has extended an offer to turn several of his pieces into tapestries for me, which will go a long way towards giving my dungeon a personality that reflects my own. If the weather ever eases up, I have a love seat that I will be bringing over and I plan on picking up some beanbag chairs to add to the seating options. All in all, it is adequate, has potential to be more than adequate, but isn't quite the perfect space for me.
2: Recently I heard a term that I like to hear more about. Could you Mistress explain to us what a High Protocol Slave is, and have you ever owned one.
You have access to google, don't you? In the future you need to put more thought into the questions you come up with slave. I enjoy sharing information and my experiences with my audience, but have you ever seen me mention High Protocol in any way? While it is a personal interest of mine, it is also a level of commitment and dedication that I do not offer submissive clients.
3: Mistress, do you feel any different when you have a session with a sub in your dungeon. Compare to having a submissive serving you at a fetish party.
I feel different in every manifestation of scenes that I experience. There are many differences between a one-on-one session, and playing at a party. The differences are what make each amazing for me. In a private scene, I am able to spend a lot of time getting to know my clients, both in arranging the session and face to face at the time of the session. I require a very clear picture of what a client enjoys, their experience level, their limits etc. I feel completely confident that I will meet my sub's expectations and often it will be within a sub's comfort zone that I may push their limits. In private sessions, I can play right to and push against my own limits too, ever expanding my own experience. Parties, on the other hand, bring me continuously changing faces. Now I won't really out anyone I play with, so I will take a little artistic liberty with my descriptions here. This past Friday Mistress started her night dancing with Mistress Nightshade. (There will be an entry introducing Mistress Nightshade soon, hold your breath & watch for it). She's a stunning woman, and her outfit for the evening included a skirt with duel splits up to her waist, all night she tormented me with flashes of her mile-long legs. Before the song ended an adorable little subbie with a baby face I have noticed at other events tapped me on the shoulder to ask if I would like to flog her. The DJ cued up Madonna's Erotica and I gave baby-faced subbie a massaging flogging and just a couple of little teasing gropes. With the music, crowd & brevity of an encounter at a party, there is no opportunity for in-depth questions. I have no idea if that was Baby Face's first time under a flogger, or if she's an experienced masochist who normally plays with knives. I don't know what she likes, and I don't know what she needs. What I know is that for the length of a song or two she is going to put her body in my care, without questions or demands & simply submit to whatever I offer. I did all of my scenes on the dance floor this time. The DJ was really outstanding & just kept spinning my favorite jams. The weather kept the crowd smaller, so I had the room on the floor to own all the space I needed. There was an endless stream of bodies that tapped me or I tapped, who were kissed by my floggers. In time most of the faces will run together in my memory, I suspect though, for my temporary subbies, they will always remember my face as the one who exposed them & tormented them on a dance floor. Mistress is a bit of an egomaniac, this feeling feeds me well. There was another face of note that, I put on the floor though. I noticed a face that looked just a bit like a face from my private life. I asked his name when I tapped him on the shoulder, and damn me if it wasn't the same name as the person he was reminding me. You wouldn't believe me if I also said that he was in school for the same profession as the other person, but he was. Oh, that little boy was in for a treat just because his mouth was shaped just so, for having a name that is rather common and my current frustration at time & space keeping me from the man he reminded me of. I did have the chance to ask, and it was his first time under a flogger. It was his first event as well. I would have very much liked to have stripped him down and striped him up with Destroyer, but again play parties with a new friend aren't the time or place for a heavy-handed scene. So I only removed his sports coat and ever so gently worked him over with Dreamer & Dancer. I do believe the subtleties of gentle are as intense as heavy when the rhythm is right and the rhythm was so right. The DJ put on K7's Move it Like This while that scene unfolded. I haven't heard that song in a decade at least. It was my favorite once upon a time, and it spoke directly to the moment and my mood. It's rare, but cutie boy X, future professional xxxxxxx, gave Mistress something she needed and she will remember clearly.
