Strict Mistress has asked me to write up some examples of how to use the settings to help her give you the kind of Strict Mistress(SM) experience you will enjoy.
I will give three examples of typical chastity experiences. You can use these as a starting point and then modify them to create an experience that is customized to you. I will only discuss the settings that are crucial to each experience. Other settings won't really affect the duration and nature of the experience. The experiences are:
Experience A - Straight Duration no games, no Community involvement
Let's say you want to be locked for at least a week, but no more than 2 weeks. You don't want anyone but you changing your time, but you do want to have the option to punish yourself by half a day at a time if you don't meet some goals you have set for yourself.
Hard Limit = 2 weeks (this insures that you WILL get out after 2 weeks no matter what)
Permission Time Interval - Minimum = 1 week and Maximum = 1 week (this will force SM to set your duration to exactly 1 week)
Adjustment Interval - Who can Adjust = wearer, Minimum = 12 hours and Maximum = 12 hours (again this forces SM to add exactly 12 hours to your time and it tells her that ONLY you can adjust your time)
Show Duration = Yes (since you want to know exactly when you can get out)
Games = No Games
Adjust Lockup = no one (so the Community is locked out of being part of your SM session)
Note that the Keyholding Style can be set to any level since you are giving her no discretion. Her mood doesn't matter in this case. If YOU don't add to your time, you will get out in exactly 1 week with these settings.
Experience B - Unpredictable duration with games but no Community involvement
In this example, you want to be locked for around a week, but are willing to stretch it to two weeks. You are willing to let SM as well as yourself adjust your time and you want to play about 2 games a day. You want a little taste of uncertainty, but not too much.
Hard Limit = 2 weeks
Permission Time Interval - Minimum = 10 hours and Maximum = 14 hours (as we shall see in just a moment, this will give you somewhat less than 12 hours between games given the other settings)
Adjustment Interval - Who can Adjust = both, Minimum = 1 hour and Maximum = 2 hours (given the other settings this will let either you or SM add or subtract somewhere between 1 and 2 hours to your time when you do good or bad things)
Keyholding Style = Lenient. This setting is very important. A Lenient mistress will sometimes punish you but sometimes reward you. She will tend to choose random times towards the lower end of the ranges you specify. That is why your average time between games will be less than 12 hours and you will tend to get less than 90 minutes added to your time when you ask her to punish you.
Show Duration = No (you don't want to see what's coming but you do have a rough idea because of the narrow range of your settings)
Games = 10% Chance. This means that each game you play gives you a 10% chance of winning. On average, you will win after 10 games with these odds. Now if you find every game opportunity as soon as it opens you would play 10 games in 5 days. However, you do have to sleep! Plus, you or SM may add a few hours ( or more than a few if you are really bad), so you might not play 10 games until a week has passed. And of course you could be unlucky so you might have to play some more games over the next few days. That's chance for you.
Adjust Lockup = no one so the Community cannot be part of your SM session.
Notice that there is unpredictability, but it is controlled. You will probably win and get out sometimes between 5 and 9 days, but there is a slim chance if you ask for lots of punishment, check in rarely to see if you have a game and get unlucky that you could go 2 weeks. However, in that case, you hit your hard limit and are released WITHOUT having to play and win a game.
Experience C - Unpredictable duration with games and Community involevment
Now you are ready to feel the power of Strict Mistress. You want it all, but still want to feel safe. So you still want to limit the experience to 2 weeks, but you want to play a bunch of unpredictable games, have to please the Mistress and get other Keysafe friends involved.
Hard Limit = 2 weeks (you still want to know when you WILL get out for sure)
Permission Time Interval - Minimum = 1 second, Maximum = 10 hours. You will be choosing a Strict Mistress and you know she chooses randomly towards the end of the interval you set, so that would be about 8 hours or 3 games a day. Why 1 second? Because now you have a reason to check back in soon. Your next game could literally be any second. Of course, they will average 8 hours apart, but you can't go and ignore SM for 6 hours because you set a 6 hour minimum between games. You have given yourself an incentive to keep looking to keep playing.
Adjustment Interval - Who can Adjust = Mistress (you don't want to punish yourself, you just want to leave that decision to her) Minimum = 1 second, Maximum = 4 hours. With a Strict Mistress, you will tend to get punishment or rewards near the 3 hour mark so you guess that even if you are bad, you won't have to wait much more than 12 hours per game.
Keyholding Style = Strict (that is her name after all)
Show Duration = Yes (since she might punish you for asking it creates a delightful temptation to check the time of the next game)
Games = Random Odds. Since you want some uncertainty, this will make sure you can't exactly predict what each game will give you or easily calculate how long it should take you to get out. All you do know is that with a Strict Mistress choosing your odds, you will have on average somewhere between a 5 and 10% chance of winning a given game. So it should take you between 10 and 20 games to win and get out.
Adjust Lockup = Both. This means that you want to give people you have Admired one shot every 12 hours to immediately increase or decrease the time to your next game AND that you want to let everyone vote on raising or lowering your time. However, since your Adjustment Interval is only 4 hours long and you know any Community adjustment won't be nearly as long as SM would give you, it is likely that the Community won't push you more than a couple of hours up or down at most each window.
The effect of these settings is that you have a rough idea of how many games you can play a day (2-3) and when they are LIKELY (but not certain) to appear. The small Adjustment range means that even with punishments and Community involvement, the adjustments are likely to add some spice but not make a crazy change to your experience. If you end up playing 2 games a day and it takes about 15 games to win, you should be out in a week. However, with these settings you could be out later today or in 2 weeks. That's exactly the kind of fun you wanted.
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That's it for the examples. Hopefully they have given you a sense of the wide range of chastity experiences you can have with the new Strict Mistress and an idea of how to shape your settings to get the experience YOU want. Strict Mistress is very subtle and we have only scratched the surface of what she can do. We tried to make her act like a real person and it takes time to get to know how she will react. We suggest starting easy and add complexity and options as you get to know her better. No need to rush, she will be here for you for a long time. Good luck and have fun.