Public Caning Scenes

I use rat­tan exclu­sively. I use bam­boo, graphite, etc., extremely rarely — merely as a vari­ance of sen­sa­tion. Sarah puts the bam­boo cane in the same cat­e­gory as a two-​​by-​​four.

The very-​​thin graphite cane was a gift, and tremen­dously wicked. Its noise as it swishes through the air is very scary — and, thus, I pri­mar­ily use it for swish­ing through the air.

Canes break, so plan on it. There are things you can do to make break­age less likely, but they do break. So, if you lose a cane or two (or twenty), don’t sweat it.

In pub­lic play, there are a cou­ple of things I’m very care­ful about.

1. I don’t leave the canes — not even the small­est ones — where some­one can casu­ally pick it up and mess with it. If some­one gets stu­pid with a spare hair­brush or strap, that can be sur­vived. Nor is the item likely to be bro­ken. A cane, on the other hand, is dan­ger­ous, in the hands of an idiot. And, they’re eas­ily bro­ken if you do just the right stu­pid thing.

2. If you leave a cane where some­body can sit on it, even for a moment, some­body will sit on it. I have found that I need to be par­tic­u­larly care­ful to pro­tect my canes dur­ing a scene. If some­body can walk by and step on one, they will.

I’ve done far more dam­age with my canes, on the back swing, then ever in con­tact with a back­side. Peo­ple insist on not pay­ing atten­tion, and/​or walk­ing right through the mid­dle of a scene. I’ve taken out any num­ber of cans of soda, care­lessly placed within range.

It’s a self-​​correcting sit­u­a­tion, though. A cane in the face does grab one’s atten­tion. Like in ten­nis, I can (and do) use a cane fore­hand and back­hand. At one time in the dun­geon, there was plenty of room, but this one per­son kept care­lessly walk­ing past me, inter­fer­ing with my swing. After about the third time, I timed my back­swing to nail him full in the chest in front of an audi­ence who knew he’d been care­lessly inter­fer­ing. End of problem :)

To be sure, it is proper eti­quette to not play with some­one else’s toys with­out per­mis­sion. How­ever, in Sarah’s party suite, if toys are left out in the gen­eral gath­er­ing area, that means they’re there to be used. I leave out my most painful imple­ments so that they can be used. :)

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