Hi Swanfeather! Thanks so much for coming.<br/><br/>That sounds quite smutty and not very actiony Corvus... but I like the basic premise since my own Herodias Academy basically uses that very idea in a slightly different way. I like the idea of the community being set in the contemporary world as well, it lets everyone get an immediate handle on it so we're all comfortable at once.<br/><br/>To provoke some plot into that there might be a need to have an outside influence though. It doesn't have to be a 'baddies vs goodies' setup, but something that applies pressure, tension or a reason for this community to be the way it is.<br/><br/>Going back to Herodias the setting behind that was an ordinary smart regency building in a smart middle class rural town in southern England. The academy took in well to do young ladies on invitation only (it had its field personnel out scouting for likely suitable candidates). The staff were all female as were the students. Fees were very high - no riff-raff. The school taught some traditional subjects but leaned towards those that had real life application such as mathematics, English, languages, some of the arts, computer sciences, business management, politics, economics and so on. The purpose of the school was to create and send out skilled dominant females into the world of business, politics and religion and to gain a toe-hold of influence in the sectors that mattered; governments, churches, major industry and so on. It was revealed that the 'Herodias Society' had a number of similar academies in other countries, all working towards an order-changing policy.<br/><br/>Now as well as producing dommes who would take the reins, the school needs to train them to be dominant and so the second class of students it recruits are submissives as willing material for them to hone their skills on. The game actually only revolves around the lesbian D/s relationships (because that was what I had a craving to do at the time) and these are carried out in a communal dorm and bathroom with lots of humiliation play and all that nice stuff.<br/><br/>The one fantasy element I introduced was that the students and school are well known in the local town and the academy funds many local initiatives such as homeless shelters, community halls and pretty much has the local council in the palm of its hand. As a result the local police and residents turn a blind eye to some D/s play in the town itself such as subs being led around on leashes, with hands bound, gagged perhaps and even some daring clothing (but not outright nudity which I thought was pushing the bounds of realism too far). The purpose of the 'in public' option is to explore humiliation themes for any submissive characters. We haven't in fact got around to such scenes yet but its my aim to do so.<br/><br/>The point of the submissives is that once fully trained they too have a purpose in the Society's plan which is to be sold to or rented out to senior religious, political or industrial figures for the purpose of controlling these men or women and even blackmailing them, thus adding to the Society's influence in the spheres it had chosen to work its insidious processes...<br/><br/>Suitable submissives who cannot afford the fees are employed as maids. My subby naughty maid craving of mine surfaced here long before I used it again in Maid Mansion.<br/><br/>But all that aside, and for our purposes, such a setting gives a closed community, with elite social overtones, one with any perversions we might want to explore, D/s play which seems to be very popular on E, or anything else, and an external reason (plot) to be doing what it is doing. If people wanted to concentrate on the outside plot more that would work very well with some characters perhaps being in an agency that had become aware of what the community's purpose might be and had begun working to thwart them.