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By Red^Biker^Chick on Sat 28 Sep 2002 at 14:32
I was at the 3rd Absolution last night, and I am sad to say all the hard work that went into last month's Absolution was wasted.
Last month cerberus and I had taken great time to explain why lighting, spacing of equipment and alike was really important, but all this was ignored this month by the organisers.
We arrived just after 10 (it started at 8) the so called resident Domme was busy chatting and blocking the dungeon door (she was still doing the chatting but well away from the dungeon when we left). The lighting was too low to play safely and the equipment was badly laid out (what equipment was around was also mostly unsafe or unusable or just being used as chairs).
We were the only ones to play in the time we attended, and this was interrupted due to bad etiquette. The organisers have no leaflet letting the punters know the etiquette rules, so this finished our scene for the night.
We thought we would go look in on the other side where the music and dancing was going on... stood around and even sat a while (after looking for somewhere that was not soaked in drink or filthy dirty). We both looked bored as hell as we are not disco people but seasoned BDSM'rs, so after just a little over an hour and a half we left feeling very disheartened.
For myself it's a long drive to MK and to keep going to a place to give support that is not listened to or even cared about I now feel it's all time wasted. Such a shame as it's obvious that MK needs a venue that can give players and clubbers a place to go and have fun, but I would not recommend this venue if you wanted to play with your sub. If you like to shout to have a conversation or watch glasses being broken or even spot the jean wearing wallys who are only there to stare (at us perverts) then this might be the place for you.
If only the organisers would listen to some common sense instead of just wanting to line their pockets this could be a good place to go.
The upside to this was most of the staff did dress up this time, and most of the customers had made an effort (was nice to see the maid trying to help clean up the broken beer glass in the middle of the floor... nice arse by the way ).
As we left we looked to see if anyone was using the equipment and no one was, all the people who was stood in the dungeon area where just chatting and drinking no play was to be seen anywhere.
We left by the back door and as we did cerberus said "I don't think anyone will play there tonight. It's a shame because last month it looked like it was getting better, we had so many playing, but it's taken a step back and not done what it was meant to do and get better."
I won't be visiting this venue again.
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