Spirals

You don't need a Mesmerizer of your own to place a sub in trance using their Mesmerizer - all you need are the appropriate access permissions as described in the previous post,  This means that you may not have an easy way to see what options are available for spirals.   I have some ideas about how I might provide this information automatically, but for now I'll just show the standard spirals here in this post.

A "spiral" is the eye-focus image that's displayed to the sub while they are in trance, and is typically a rotating spiral.  It doesn't have to be a spiral, and it doesn't even have to rotate - it can also be a sequence of frames to make up an animation loop. You can select a particular spiral with the setspiral command, which takes an integer parameter, currently ranging from 1 to 7, with the initial value being set to 1.   The spiral selection is persistent across logins, so if the sub finds one of the provided spirals particularly effective, you can set that as their standard image.

Shown below are the 7 standard spirals, as of version 0.98.  Note that all of these are displayed with an alpha of somewhat less than 1, so the sub can see through them.  Spirals that appear static below will be displayed by the Mesmerizer as rotating clockwise.  The direction of rotation (or of animation, for frame sequences) can be reversed by using a negative number.  For example, setspiral "-1" will show spiral number 1 below, rotating counter-clockwise.

setspiral 1

setspiral 2

setspiral 3

setspiral 4

setspiral 5

setspiral 6

setspiral 7