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velt -> Rube Goldberg and other devices of inevitability (2/19/2010 1:45:53 PM)
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In popular culture there are numerous examples of bondage combined with impending doom of one sort or another. Some of the earlier examples in film have scenes involving train tracks, quicksand, sawmills, and waterfalls. Heroes like James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Batman are always finding their way into such predicaments. In the Star Wars films there are examples such as the deathstar trash compactor, Anakin Skywalker's arm trapping him against the conveyor on Geonosis, and Jabba the Hutt's sarlaac pit. The castration conveyor system in the movie Ice Pirates also comes to mind. Many thousands of other examples can be found, especially with so many horror films and shows like CSI. In a typical person's life I suppose a rollercoaster is as close as they'd hope to come to such a situation... being locked into a device that steadily raises them to the summit before the inevitable plunge.
As someone who enjoys designing and occasionally building toys and devices, I'd like to hear your thoughts on such contraptions as they can be incorporated into safe play. While I can dream up reasonably elaborate Rube Goldberg devices that would theoretically function and a wide variety of triggering mechanisms to initiate the process, I'm not sure what exactly it could do at the end that would be worth the effort. Perhaps water flowing from a faucet or bucket could cause something to be dumped on a sub, or CBT weights to be periodically added.
The potential for mindfucks is also delicious. Imagine a long well supported PVC pipe leading to a container attached to a ball parachute. The domme drops a single marble into the funnel at one end of the pipe, it falls in making a click and the sub hears it roll down before finally dropping into the container. This goes on for awhile, then the domme struggles to lift a bucket of large marbles to the funnel and dumps them in. The sub has a few seconds to sweat before realizing nothing is coming out of the pipe. The PVC pipe has a second smaller pipe inside it for the smaller marbles to pass through, but the large ones fall outside this one at the funnel end and take a different path and are blocked, never exiting the other end.
In general I'd classify these devices as ones that, once set into motion, would produce some predictable result unless actively interrupted. Other factors come to mind immediately. One being whether the sub is capable of influencing their fate in any manner. Is there anything they can do or say to escape? Another is whether they are bound and helpless, or expected to remain in place by exercising their willpower. A third is the apparent presence of the domme. While villains are notorious for leaving the hero to face the sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, etc, alone, the domme would likely want to stay back to witness how things went down even if it was safe for them to leave. A final factor is the degree to which the sub is able to track the progress of the device. Can they visually see a container filling with sand or timer, or do they just hear water dripping without knowing how much time is left? As a concept, I find the idea of the domme starting the device then using the time to tease the sub about what is going to happen to them to be incredibly hot, but that's just me.
So, has anyone had experiences with such devices or is there a specific example of these devices that has an aspect that appeals to you? Perhaps a book or movie that is especially relevant?
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