For female characters, the scene plays differently after the leg hook. Minthara scoots us up onto the altar, then climbs over as well, for what transitions into a 69 scene. The transition here is odd, because Minthara climbing over us doesn't line up well with where she was in the previous cut – she is at our legs, below the knees, looking forward to us, but when it cuts, she moves almost like she's diving forward to flip her leg around, from somewhere near our head. The movement makes no sense – she'd have to slide forward about four feet, turn around, and then flip her leg over.

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Worth noting that for halfling females, the issue with our rock hard physic-less, gratuitously pointy breasts comes to full foreground view – the camera gives us a lovely frame shot of our character lying on the altar, obscured by it so that all you can see is that jagged spire of pointy breast standing up like a flag pole. I'll articulate this point further down, but here is one of the worst and most visible spots to point it out.

These two cuts are shot deliberately to give us a full frontal view of Minthara's exposed groin, with her knees apart... and yet, all it achieves as a result is to push in our faces again the fact that the models have no fun bits; if we don't see this, we can imagine that they are complete people doing fun things – if we are shown that they aren't, that breaks the scene

The next shot is a positioning shot – there's nothing wrong with it per se, except that it doesn't have a place in a romantic scene, and it also doesn't have much of a place in a pure adult-content, pornographic scene, but it's too flat and emotionless to work in an erotic or passionate scene. A romantic scene doesn't use this kind of shot, or it uses it in conjunction with a full pan movement to illustrate closeness and intimacy that is occurring as they move. A pornographic scene doesn't take the time out to show a back and face shot like this without there being obvious action or a point of overt sexuality to focus on, because it clutters the scene progression.

There's a positioning continuity break here too – Minthara looks back over her shoulder at the camera as she settles – but she cannot be looking at her sexual partner in doing so, not if her groin is positioned over the other woman's face, as is implied. She's just looking off to the side and grinning in a mildly amused and mostly dispassionate way. After she bends down, the camera cuts again – the fourth cut in about seven seconds, and far too frequent.

This cut is to our character's face; this is, we can presume, supposed to be showcasing our character's reaction as Minthara begins going to town on us, supposedly... but it doesn't really look like the face of a woman getting oral to me, if I'm completely honest.

We get another cut after a second or two, this time to a top-down shot of the now more overtly displayed 69 position. Or at least, it's meant to be one. On human-sized females, Minthara is nowhere near our fun places – she is definitely not giving a woman oral from that position, although if our character were male she might be imagined to be sucking a penis comfortably. On a halfling female she's looking down at our knee.

Our character is the passive assistant in this shot – part way through we raise our head to reciprocate, but the rest of the body language is non-existent; the player female is a crash dummy below the neck, with her hands just lying there and doing nothing. She's not the focus of this scene, so she's forgotten about. The focus of this shot is Minthara getting eaten, or something approaching that; nothing else has been given very much consideration.

This type of 69 pose is the one classically used in pornography because it allows a variety of camera shots from different angles that can get at the 'good stuff'. It's not really an ideal pose otherwise, especially for two women. For most female-female pairs (and I don't want to make bold absolute claims because people are different... but generally...), a side-lying position will be more comfortable and easier to access properly for both parties.

We could suppose, given that the shot means that Minthara can't really be servicing our character, that this is intended to just be Minthara getting service from our character... but if that's the case, the earlier shot of our character's face is rendered completely without meaning or purpose in the scene. I'd also point out that if the intention was for Minthara to be receiving alone, and she's supposed to be the dominant partner, then she should really just be sitting up, giving the servicing female better access to caress her hips and thighs, her middle or even up to her breasts, potentially.

There isn't much else to say for the female branch, because there's actually not a lot to it: This entire sequence, from the moment Minthara mounts up on our character, to the end of the scene, gets less screen time overall than the earlier blowjob did. Why?

That's the break down, for the standard scenes. Leading up to these scenes, Minthara is set up as a Dom, and the scene is presented to us as though it is going to contain D/s elements. It doesn't. It is entirely vanilla in all the most tasteless ways (I have nothing against vanilla sex and sexual encounters and I enjoy the simple things as much as anyone, but it wasn't what was promised here). It's scripted, choreographed and shot like a porn film, but uses extra shots, cuts and angles as though it wants to be something else too, and ends up undermining itself at every step, no matter what it's actually trying.

In this scene, Minthara is anything but dominant – the longest shot in the scene is of her giving your character a blowjob on her knees while you hold a hand on top of her head. Please, just read that sentence twice.

For males, the sex is a very plain reverse cowgirl, which, despite having the female physically above the male, is not an innately dominant position... it's just pretty normal.... and it transitions delightfully well into a number of distinctly female-submissive poses almost naturally... The writing transitioned it into facing cowgirl, not upright, but rather interspersed with kissing and face-touching – this is also in no way dominant posing or behaviour; this is the sort of position that conveys romance and intimacy more than anything else, which are not what this whole Minthara sequence is set up to be about.

For females, we get the extreme short end of the stick, no pun intended. A brief 'for-porn' 69 shot, and really just nothing else. If Minthara was face-sitting us more clearly, then she could be construed as acting dominant, but that's a big if, considering the pose she's in.

The basic contention here is that the writing should not promise one thing and then deliver another; if you're promising a D/s encounter, then make sure that that is what you deliver. If you don't intend to actually deliver that, then don't promise it.

To the designers of this sequence (and future sequences):

Please, decide what sort of a scene you're making, and stick to it.

Please, please, do some consulting on this type of material and don't just look at a few pornos and wing it. If you're going to promise D/s content, then provide it, and make sure you've actually done your homework in writing and presenting it – if you want us to engage with the content, it need to be done well.

Please, please, please, consult with some women who sleep with women, and some men who sleep with men on the writing and choreography of scenes that involve those pairings. Get some people who know this and who understand it, and don't just guess at what traditional adult media says it's like... it's usually very misguided.