Oubliette - self bondage scenario

The idea here is that you must stand on the stool and endure your predicament and whatever you have put onto / into yourself, you must do this without moving too much.

If you step off the stool or move enough to break the rope attached to your collar the key will swing and stick to the magnet, making it imposible to escape until someone comes to free you.

You must wait standing on the stool until the ice melts and the key drops down to your collar.

Once the key has dropped you may step off of the stool, this will break the rope and the key will drop to the floor, you then need to find where it has fallen and pick it up, so that you can release the handcuffs and be free.

B: - Blindfold, this is optional but definately adds to the experiance, making balance more difficult and a much bigger leap of faith to get from the stool when the key finally drops.

C: - A Stool, plain and simple.

D: - Release Mechanism (See numbers below).

E: - Collar.

F: - A weak point in the rope, this ensures that the rope will snap if you step off the stool, it also ensure you do not hang yourself. It is the most critical point of this scenario... Test, Test & Test, ensure the rope will break!

G: - Hands Hancuffed behind your back.

D: - The block of ice "4" stops the key from sliding down the rope and past the magnet, the knot "5" stops the ice from sliding down the rope before it melts fully.

1: - Ceiling Hook.

2: - Key to handcuffs "G"

3: - Magnet, if the tension on the rope is slackened the key will stick to this.

4: - Ice, stops the key from sliding down the rope.

5: - Knot to stop Ice moving. A variation is to stand in a circle on the floor, if you move out of the circle the rope will either break or slacken, depending on which way you move. In each case the magnet will catch the key.

Additional information:

Cover the floor around the chair with soft mattresses and/or pillows to make sure you will fall into something soft if you fall.

Do not play this scenario without constant supervision.

This scenario can also be played without the chair but you will still need to soften the potentional fall.

Always use at least one safe back up release method, preferably more.