Attending Oz KinkFest - part 3

"It was an absolute pleasure to have both you
and your wonderful knowledge as an integral
part of such a new and important event!
Thank you xx MM"
MistressMallice

It was the final weekend of OzKinkFest 2009 in Melbourne.

Everyone at Natalya's home slept late on Saturday morning, after Hellfire Resurrection ... and almost ten days of kinky activities. On Saturday afternoon sol and I caught up with Uber's MsDee, to discuss possible educational events for 2010. Then that night we attended Klub Kunst, described on the Oz KinkFest website as "a hardcore BDSM fetish event for those not faint of heart!". Which sounds just our sort of thing, really.

KK was held at Vedette Nightclub. I had something special planned for the evening, but on the other hand I knew we had to leave for the airport at just after 4am, to make sol's red eye flight. If we'd been more sensible we'd have gone straight to bed. But fuck being sensible, so we went along to KK, and I'm glad we did because it was a good night. Can't include any photos here, but there were some terrific performances and lots of play. As one (fantastic) performer Pepper1986 later noted on Fetlife:

"KK was probably my highlight [of KinkFest] ... I loved that everywhere I turned there were beautiful people who'd gone to huge efforts to dress up and that every corner you came around there was play, play, and more play, spilling into halls, doorways, anywhere someone could find a small space, a scene was bound to happen.."

We also caught up with both old and new friends. Amongst those new friends was Bella447. Although we have many mutual friends, our paths had not crossed until the organizing of Ozkinkfest. When sol and I had dinner with Bella and her submissive Paulus on Thursday night, I had jokingly offered her sol as a KinkFest stress release mechanism. But I had also asked whether she might like to play with us at KK, as sol had greatly enjoyed her using him as a demo bottom during Wednesday's workshop, and I knew there was much I could learn from her. She had very kindly agreed and I'd been enjoying the anticipation as much as sol.

Our scene followed the hottest, most incredible single tail scene between Mr_Joins and my friend losti from Sydney. I couldn't breathe at times, it was so exquisite to watch. At one point both Bella and I were adding our weight to the cross on which losti was leaning, as it appeared unsteady on the stage. When we took over the stage later (there were no steps up to the stage, which made a dignified Domme entry and exit impossible *grin*) and restrained sol on the cross, I positioned myself at the back of it, with my feet and hands on the cross bars for extra support. I knew the force of the blows sol often took.

You think as a Dominant you have everything covered, for your sub. You've put thought and care into choosing a play partner for him, someone that you both really like, someone extraordinarily skilled. You're on the stage of the hottest play party venue in town. You can feel the metallic taste in your mouth that only happens when a great scene is about to be played out. He's restrained and already dropping into the zone at the touch of both your hands, and your play partner's. And then something happens you can't control.

What I didn't realize at the time was that there were two open doors on either side of the stage, one leading to the outside smoking area. This meant the midnight air flow up on the stage was cool. Nice, in some circumstances, but sol was already chilled from having the flu ... and now he was naked on the stage and right in that damned draft.

My view from behind the cross gave me a close view of sol's face, and also allowed me to observe Bella as she began her warm up. Sol responded beautifully to the touch of her hands and to the various implements she used. She was extraordinarily graceful in her movements, and again I felt honored that she had so generously granted us this play time during what had to be one of the busiest weeks of her life.

We were about ten minutes into the scene. Watching sol so closely I was aware he was slipping into subspace ... but ... something was not right. I signalled Bella to stop, but in fact she already had. She was able to read his body and responses so well, I never had to lift a finger during that short scene.

We questioned sol. He was cold, he murmured. Too cold. I quickly felt his hands ... not too cool but his body was way too thin for any type of deep chill. So we took him down and wrapped him up quickly. I wonder now if we'd moved to the cross in the other room, whether we might have been able to continue ... but time was short anyway. It was time to say our thankyous and goodbyes, and head home and then to the airport.

Once home I put sol to bed for 20 minutes, with lots of warm blankets, while I finished his packing. I thought about putting him back into his jeans, but decided his leather pants and a jumper would be warmer. THAT was a mistake that would come back to haunt us.

Sol's flight left at 6am. He planned to pick up the car at the airport and be home in bed by 9am. As I wrote to friends later, at 8am I got a call "um ... I think I might have fucked up". Not getting back into his jeans meant that at 4am he'd forgotten to put his car, house and work keys back into his pocket! Thank you so much to everyone - especially MistressTerra, MistressAdira and MistressAdira's submissive - who helped us get those keys back to sol that very day. He eventually reached home at about 6pm. Personally I blame the CB6000 ... he's been a tad preoccupied with it LOL.

I missed sol dreadfully. I'd stayed on in Melbourne for a final kinkFest event on Sunday afternoon - an afternoon tea for Female Dominants, with me talking informally about Femdom tea parties. But first Natalya and Kaluah and I met Surgeon and Surgeon's_shadow for yum cha. Considering Surgeon and Surgeon's_shadow were still playing hard when sol and I left KK at 3am, I wasn't surprised by Surgeon's pained expression whenever light or noise reached him, LOL. Surgeon's_shadow also showed us her beautiful marks.

A few hours later Natalya and I arrived at Madam Brussels'. Their back parlour had been booked for our afternoon event. Madam Brussels' website says about the parlour:

THE PARLOUR - "Up the rear of madame brussels"

Beyond the garden gates is a room of mystery and intrigue. Leave behind the pink haze as you enter our Den of Iniquity, boasting some of the rarest dark spirits in Melbourne including over 20 of the worlds finest rums.

We are taking things back to the good old days where service was everything and the drinks were even more. The Parlour will be hosted by your own dedicated personal waiter, who will stir your desired concoction of refreshment using original art-deco cocktail apparatus, and splash your scotch with a proper soda siphon. There will be strictly NO muddling or shaking here darlings. And as for those floozy punches that are taken in the garden.....well none of that will be going on in the Parlour! We are more likely to turn your head with an antique pitcher of martini or manhattan..."

You get the idea. It was a great venue, and the afternoon was a great deal of fun. I was delighted to make the acquaintance of several new friends, amongst them MistressCeleste, who gave me this beautiful gift, with infinite possibilities:


And also Ms_Neta from Tasmania, who I'm really looking forward to getting to know. Old friends - including Devilwoman - were also there. My "tea parties from hell" stories kept everyone amused, with Devilwoman providing great backup.

I was to leave early Tuesday, so on my last day Natalya courageously braved the traffic to drive me down to MsRoni's home. MsRoni is recovering at home from an operation and was unable to attend KinkFest activities. We spent a wonderful laughter filled few hours filling her in, and enjoyed a great meal together, where I got to eat this:

Home to Natalya's one last time, to pack and say goodbye to her beautiful cats:

Kaluah drove me to the airport at 6am. It was lucky I arrived at the airport early because my first flight had been canceled. I landed in Sydney with 3 minutes to change flights, but made the connection. Sol was waiting for me, still very sick with flu ... in fact he ended up taking the whole week off work. We both crawled into bed and stayed there. We got up to go pick up the Xmas Present on Thursday, and got up on Friday to go see the Doctor. But otherwise we were in bed for a week.

But bed together, even sick with flu, was a very nice place to be :)

Sincere and heartfelt OzKinkFest thank you's to:

• Natalya and Kaluah for their incredibly generous hospitality and airport runs (having guests for almost two weeks is a long time ... we owe you, literally!)
  

• MistressMallice and Bella447 for making OzKinkFest 2009 happen

• Natalya and Bella for involving me in the OzKinkfest workshop program (which made attending Kinkfest possible for sol and myself)

• Bella for scening at KK with us (To Be Continued :))

• everyone who let us watch them play, and who shared their skills and knowledge with us

• Devilwoman (who is extremely dangerous ... to go shopping with)

• MistressTerra, MistressAdira and MistressAdira's submissive for rescuing sol!
  

• to all the new friends we made. As Bella later wrote "I meet people who truly touched my heart during KinkFest, and I hope we will become great long-term friends".

(photos: Ms160
and Ozkinkfest.com)