Mutt's Hypnosis

Mindmelt Party Rules

Admission Rules

  • You must be vetted and approved by Trancesylvania staff to attend.
  • Do not share the ticket purchasing link or access code with anyone.
  • Do not share the invitation to the Mindmelt temporary party discord with anyone.
  • Your ticket is not refundable.
  • You cannot give your ticket to someone else.
  • You cannot “transfer your ticket” to another event.
  • No tickets will be sold at the door. Ticket sales will close two hours before doors open and we will not reopen it.
  • If you have not already signed a liability waiver for Trancesylvania, you will have to show ID and sign a liability waiver with your legal name. We will turn you away if you do not have your physical ID on you at check-in.
  • If you are exposed to COVID-19 or another contagious respiratory illness within two weeks of Mindmelt, or feel sick within two weeks of Mindmelt, reach out to Trancesylvania staff for guidance on how to proceed. You may not attend Mindmelt if you could be contagious for COVID-19 as we have immunocompromised staff who cannot risk exposure. We will give you a testing and symptom monitoring timeline. In the event that you test positive, or we determine that the risk of exposure is too great and you cannot attend, we will do something to make it up to you. If you go against our guidance, or fail to report your COVID-19 exposure, we will ban you from all future Trancesylvania events. Flippancy and dismissal of the risk of COVID-19 to our staff will not be tolerated.

General Rules

  • You must be a legal adult aged 18+
  • You must be sober while in attendance.
  • Keep it confidential. No outing or stalking.
  • No photos are permitted at this event in any area at any time.
  • Cell phone use is prohibited in play areas. Cell phones may be used in the lounge or outdoors only.
  • Nudity is allowed in play areas. Underwear covering genitals and anus must be worn in the lounge and aftercare room. Vanilla clothes must be worn whenever outdoors.
  • Spaces in the Dungeon
    • Play is allowed in the main dungeon, red room, blue room, transformation chamber, and edgeplay room.
    • The lounge is primarily a social space. Light Hypno is allowed, but full scenes and other kinks should be taken to a play area.
    • No scenes are allowed in the aftercare room.
    • The kitchen is for staff only.
    • Doors to the play rooms and the aftercare room must remain open at all times.
  • Doors will be locked at 7:50 p.m. If you must step out after doors are locked, please talk with a staff member to ensure you can get back into the building. We will not check in attendees who arrive after 7:50 p.m. and you will be turned away. Planning ahead for traffic etc. is your responsibility. 
  • Respect all people of every race, color, gender, sexual orientation or lackthereof, body, neurotype, religion, nationality, and so forth. Bigotry will not be tolerated. 
  • Do not harass people, including following them around or “puppy-dogging”/”horn dogging.”
  • Respect the venue. Respect other people’s belongings. Respect each other.
    • Clean up after yourself. Clean dungeon furniture, including mats, after your scene. Alcohol free wipes will be available.
    • Do not move furniture, or mess with the lighting or music in any room for any reason. Speak to a dungeon monitor if you think something should be changed.
    • Keep genitals and butts off of fabric furniture. Place a chuck/pad between your bum and other furniture.
    • No smoking or vaping indoors.
    • No shoes on the mats. You may wish to remove your shoes upon entering the main dungeon due to all the mats.
    • Do not hang on the suspension rig.
    • Beverages are permitted in closed containers in all rooms. Small snacks like fruit gummies are permitted in non-play spaces if you don't create crumbs/etc.
  • Do not share the address of the venue. If someone asks, tell them to check their ticket confirmation email for it.
  • No therapy. This is recreational kinky hypnosis. It is entirely different from hypnotherapy. We do not cross the streams.
  • Respect that this event is organized by unpaid volunteers.
    • The word of staff is final and equal. Do not argue with staff about the rules, attempt to find loopholes, or try to shop for a staff member who will give you a different verdict. 
    • If a dungeon monitor interrupts your scene for any reason, give good faith that it was for a good reason, be kind, and listen to the dungeon monitor. They have your best interests in mind.
    • If we ask you to leave, you must gather your possessions, get dressed, and leave immediately. There is no negotiating on this in any capacity as we may be asking for your own safety.
  • Consent is absolutely mandatory and important. Negotiate and obtain consent for all trancing, kinking, or physical contact.
  • Do not "negotiate up" mid-scene. We will consider consent obtained mid-scene or mid-trance to be invalid if reported to us by a scene participant.
  • Consent may be revoked at any time.
  • Money or compensation may never be exchanged or solicited at the event in any capacity for legal reasons.
  • We rely on people to self-report consent violations. Do not assume someone did not obtain consent while you were not looking. If you are deeply concerned, talk to a dungeon monitor.
  • “No”, “Red”, and “Safeword” are always safewords in this space. Except for in the Edgeplay room where you may talk to the Dungeon Monitor about renegotiating the word “No.” “RED” CANNOT CHANGE.
  • “Yellow” always means to pause a scene. This word cannot be renegotiated.
  • Do not involve yourself in other people’s scene uninvited.
  • Do not interrupt a scene by going up to people and talking to them. If you see two people having an intense 1-on-1 conversation it's probably just best not to interrupt.
  • Do not trance yourself to someone else's scene and claim you got "splash damage." Hypnotists don't owe you aftercare for a scene they did not consent to your involvement in. If you are feeling as though you did get “splashed,” wake yourself up and calmly move away or go talk to a dungeon monitor.
  • The following kinks are not allowed at Mindmelt at this time:
    • Suspension bondage
    • Fire
    • Needles
    • Blood
    • Breathplay, including either cutting off air or blood to the brain. Hypnotic “breathplay” where no air or blood is actually cut off from the brain is permitted.
    • Watersports, vomit, or other “messy play”
    • Dirty diapers
    • Race play, including white people reenacting chattel slavery
    • Guns, car batteries, flame throwers, power tools, real animals (involved in your scene)
    • Anything else that the dungeon monitors deem to be a liability for the venue or organizers which we did not think of in advance.

Safety

  • In the event of a medical emergency, tell a dungeon monitor ASAP. If you feel the need to call 9-1-1, you may begin dialing first, but we must be informed that 9-1-1 is being called ASAP.
  • We expect participants to take reasonable precautions to reduce risk along the SSC or RACK models. Participants who we recognize as chronically reckless or dangerous to play with may be banned from future events organized by Trancesylvania.
  • Rope tops are expected to have a pair of emergency shears (or other suitable tool) in the event of needing to immediately release a bottom from restraint.
  • Large / long implements (long whips, etc.) may only be used if the play space available safely allows for such – if there is not enough room to safely use a large implement, staff may intervene to request that you refrain from using it.
  • If you are concerned about someone's scene, or about anything, speak to a dungeon monitor and do not take matters into your own hands.

Edgeplay Room

  • Scenes which could be particularly disturbing or triggering to most people, or might otherwise make dungeon monitors concerned about your scene, may only be done in the edgeplay room. Examples include but are not limited to: 
    • consensual non-consent 
    • rape play
    • Hypnotic “Breathplay”
    • hypnotic death play
    • hypnotic castration/dismemberment
    • extreme torture themed scenes
    • intense fear play or panic attacks
  • Before beginning any scene in the edgeplay room, talk to the dungeon monitor in that room to confirm availability of space and how the dungeon monitor can know that all participants are safe and having a good time.
  • You must tell the dungeon monitor what is being used for safewords and stop signs.
  • The dungeon monitor may veto your scene as a liability at their discretion. You may propose modifications to your scene to make it safer for the venue and organizers.
  • The dungeon monitor may decide your scene does not require the edgeplay room and, depending on demand for the edgeplay room, may ask you to do your scene in another play area.

Sex

  • MindMelt is a sex positive play party!
  • Sex must be consensual. Duh.
    • If you want to roleplay nonconsensual sex, see Edgeplay Room.
  • Sex is allowed in all play areas: main dungeon, red room, blue room, transformation chamber, edgeplay room.
  • Sex is not allowed in the lounge, aftercare room, bathrooms, coat room, kitchen, hallway, or outdoors.
  • You must put chucks/pads under anyone participating in your scenes that involve genitals.
  • Please practice appropriate safer sex practices for your anatomy, e.g. use condoms when applicable.
  • You must make every effort to be sanitary. This means thoroughly cleaning all affected areas, and using pads and chucks. Please keep sex away from fabric items which cannot be easily cleaned.
  • Accidental discharge must be cleaned by the scene participants as soon as possible after the scene. If participants are prone to discharging fluids, place pads on the floor before play.

In any event that our rules are deemed ambiguous or insufficient in any scenario, we defer to the rules of The Nest as a fallback.

Dungeon Etiquette for people new to dungeons

  • Dungeons are easy to be in!
  • If you're not in a scene, don't make too much distracting noise. Go to the lounge for that.
  • Don't interact with someone else's scene, this includes pointing at them and talking about them.
    • Do not interrupt a scene by going up to them and talking to them.
    • Do not trance yourself to someone else's scene and claim you got "splash damage." Hypnotists don't owe you aftercare for a scene they did not consent to your involvement in. If you genuinely are feeling weird because of proximity to someone else's trance, go talk to a dungeon monitor and do not make it the problem of the people who were trancing near you.
    • If you see two people having an intense 1-on-1 conversation it's probably just best not to interrupt.
  • When you're in a scene, follow the rules of the dungeon.
  • After you leave the dungeon, it is okay to talk about what activities you saw others doing, so long as comments are positive and you don't say who it was.
  • Stealthily watching a scene from afar is OK if you aren't obviously ogling them in a way they'd notice and find distracting, and aren't like, masturbating to it or moaning.
  • Please be considerate of how long you are using a single piece of dungeon furniture as others may be waiting to use it.