Mistress in this case is interchangeable is Domme, Dom, Master, Top, owner. That is just for simplicity.
I started this project to show to my Mistress as we've not played in a long while (house buying, moving, unpacking et al) and wanted to get back into the swing of things.
I would imagine it like a skill tree in a game but in reverse. In a game (Arkham Knight is a great example actually) you put experience into something and you fan out to more difficult things. In this it’s actually the reverse as any of the pink items are groupings of topics so it wouldn’t make sense to fan out. Now, the reason it works like this is because I chose a free online tool for mind mapping. Also because I think it’s best to be able to practice multiple skills at a time.
Y'all would pick a few Topic Groups that y'all feel is important. For instance Mistress and I will most likely start with Feminization, Etiquette and Practical skills. We'll pick a deep leaf in, lets choose a single topic first, deportment. She wants to teach me "Curtsey”, “Carrying Trays & Drinks”, “Kneeling” and “Various Heel Types & Heights”.
We can practice those for, say, a week and she’ll grade me on those skills. Test me if you will . 1 - 5 stars (kisses, maid’s hats or whatever fun grading scale y’all would choose). 3 or higher and you can move on to a different skill in any topic of any group. Once you’re graded at a 5 (in which I would hope that your mistress should have extremely high standards in order to reach) you’re considered to have mastered that skill in your mistress’ eyes. Of course she can always remove points from any skill if your mistress sees that you’re slacking in any way.
My Mistress and I will most likely shoot for 3 or 4s for most of a sub-tree group (deportment for instance) and move onto another one and then shoot for 5s in each leaf. What makes this really fun is if y’all make the grading a ceremony with many different punishments for not doing well enough. Say mistress wants to a first round test on “Curtsey”. We are shooting for a 3 (whatever that may be in her eyes). If I don’t perform as well as I should then, other than the amount of shame I would feel for disappointing her [and I already feel that warm chill thinking about it], I could get a severe punishment catered to me of course. Could be hitting me (low pain tolerance), tickling (super sensitive), being serious and not laughing (i’m a laugh slut) or what have you. She could do these tests every time she wants to go up a grade with the same punishments. Now, mind you, not everyone works well when punished and instead performs best when their dominant is a reasonable/loving dominant but that is far outside the discussion of the skill tree :).
If y’all would like y’all could have a full on ceremony for a topic group. Kind of like in a martial art when you’re getting your belt you can showcase the mastery of your skills for all the skills under a topic group. Y’all could have a group of friends over to show off all that you’ve learned and you can earn a new “thing”. I guess in this case it could be a new collar and each one is a different color much like in martial arts. White to black (or pink).
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