To me, the most important part of that fantasy in the trigger.

Her idea:

"Maybe it's different for each person? So one could let the customer choose, one could have it set for the end of their shift, maybe they are all timed differently and go off as a cascade. Who knows.

Maybe if one just wanted the fun danger of it, there could be a ledge that slides out last minute to stop the blade or something

Or two seconds before you get off?"

My reply:

"See, for me it's totally a longer thing. I'd want her going in every day, not knowing what the trigger was. Watching people get decapitated every once in a while. Knowing that there's nobody there's who's been around for more than five or so year, but some people only last a few weeks.

I'm sure you'd probably last a couple of years. You're pretty good!"

I think it's incredibly hot that this friend got off on the idea of throwing my life away like that.

And it's even better that the fantasy worked both ways.

I think we eventually settled on "I'll start taking off the safety blocks once I've found your replacement" as the hottest version of this.

Which circles around to the problems I have with a lot of snuff kink, here: https://thicc.horse/@orange/112655866494910578

I feel like, for me, there's two kinds of scenarios here that appeal to me, just logistically so you don't run out of snuff toys.

You've got to slow it down.

1) People can pay to unlock the guillotine.

An owned toy is placed under the guillotine, with their owner setting some price to unlock it.

The owner can set and change the price. The sub may or may not have input on the price or get to know what it is.

The money goes to the owner, the sub sees an indicator light, and the person who paid has however much time to release the blade (or not).

And you know. You tweak the rules until it makes sense.

Maybe the lowest price your owner can set is $5000 and the highest is $100,000.

Ideally, you'd be able to set prices that reflect probabilities so the lowest price still has subs lasting (on average) a month, and the highest price has 90% survival rate after five years.

I think I'm okay with unowned/solo subs, but with a much higher minimum.

I also think it would be very fun to have a cheaper (but still expensive) option that just turned on the indicator light, but didn't unlock the blade.

The indicator light is to cause panic / prevent desensitization.

If somebody wants to write this, the range of consent options are...

Most extreme consent: Freely entered into TPE CNC. The sub has to agree to this being possible, but just through blanket consent is fine. The owner can (for example) trick the sub by hiding their plans or implying that the sub is special, but it can't be true noncon.

Least extreme consent: The sub can leave at any time, unless somebody has paid to unlock the guillotine.

@emerald @orange so "you can always leave, nobody's stopping you" is true, but the sub has a commensurate cost they must also pay

of course, above $n, consent is no longer required

@wanderling @emerald I think I would want some rules around that, but I like the idea.

I wouldn't want subs going home with more and more damage over time, unless there was something else going on like pressing the escape button:

- Was somewhat finite (you can only lose so many fingers),

- Permanently discounted you if you ever came back, or

- Volunteered you to be enslaved/sold/kept in place permanently.

@orange @wanderling "you can call red, but only once; then you're banned" would be a terribly manipulative rule for any playspace, wouldn't it?

I do like the idea that, parallel to the sub's "if I do a good enough job maybe the bad thing doesn't happen", for the dominants there's also a "if I do a good enough job I get to keep this one" reward chance