Author's Notes:

More optional world-building.

Welcome to Clocktower Equestria East! As part of your welcome to our Society, it is important for both doms and subs to get to the low-down on the collar, strap and safety-bell coding system we use here at our site. It might sound kind of dry, but trust me, collar coding will get you wet in no time.

By the way, this booklet was written especially for use at our home here at Clocktower Equestria East. As such it only refers to submissive mares like me.

As you probably already know, a collar is a symbol of ownership for the dom, a symbol of belonging for the sub. What it means may differ from pony to pony. However, here at Clocktower, we operate on one important rule - Your safeword is law. That means consent is everything. The Clocktower collar issued to all subs is a symbol of consent. As long as it is worn, the sub implicitly gives her consent until she utters her safeword or uses her safety bell (More on this in the booklet titled ‘Safe Word and Safety Bell Introduction’).

Subs in play must keep their collar on at all times while they are in any of the public areas. No collar, no play, no fun, no exceptions. So if you want to get laid, keep your collar on, subs! In addition to being your ticket to in to the action, the collar is also a safety measure. All collars are equipped with a unique magical tracking signal. If a collar is taken outside the site perimeter, guards will be alerted to check up on the wearer.

Apart from its role in safety, Clocktower collars are also designed to ensure your experience at Clocktower is as immersive and seamless as possible. As you may have noticed, here at Clocktower we maintain one big roleplay - that of a large scale slave training dungeon. We work really hard to maintain that roleplay. While some doms and subs prefer meeting up and planning their session in the tea shop or safe word rooms beforehoof, some desire the exciting realism of a spontaneous dungeon encounter. As you can imagine, asking everypony for their fetishes and consent can kinda dampen the mood and atmosphere we're striving for. On the other hoof, you want to make sure your partner shares your tastes in kinks and, more importantly, consent to what you have planned. Don't worry, we got you covered. All Clocktower collars, straps and safety-bells code for the sub's ownership status, sexual orientation and fetishes.

By the way, for those dominants who struggle with remembering the coding or have trouble making out the details in the dungeon's low light conditions, fear not, your masks are enchanted to decode for you at will. For more information on this, please read the info booklet on masks.

Note: Due to popular demand, it has been made permissible to make modifications to the standard Clocktower collar or even produce personal collars, as long as they fulfill Clocktower safety standards and adhere to the colour coding guidance below.

The Collar
All standard issue Clocktower collars are made to rigorous safety standards. They are all safely and comfortably padded on the inside and equipped with a reinforced central channel to protect the windpipe (and allow the more adventurous deepthroaters like me plenty of room). They also come with standardized emergency quick-release catches that all members are required to be able to operate comfortably.

Base Colour
Let us start with the base colours of each collar. These code for the submissive’s ownership status.

Red Collars
Red collars are worn by submissives belonging to no specific dominant and are uninterested in seeking a permanent owner. These submissives by default belong to Clocktower Society. They prefer brief commitments with short term masters and mistresses.

White Collars
White collars, otherwise known as 'collars of consideration', are worn by submissives who do not yet belong to a specific dominant and are interested in a more permanent relationship. These submissives belong to Clocktower Society until they enter a more permanent agreement with a dominant.

Note: Of interest, it is becoming increasingly common for some submissives to subtly court dominants by switching from red to white collars.

Black Collars
Black collars, otherwise known as 'training collars', are worn by submissives who have entered into a more long term probationary relationship with a dominant.

Note: Also of interest, the offering of black collars is becoming an increasingly common form of Clocktower courtship and has been observed in both directions, from submissive to dominant and vice versa.

Adamantite Crystal Collars
As you may know, adamantite is the strongest naturally-occurring gem in the world, and makes for the perfect material to symbolize the permanent ownership agreement some partners choose to enter. The offering and acceptance of an adamantite collar, otherwise known as an 'eternity collar', is a commitment many society members consider on par with marriage and is not something to be taken lightly. It is no coincidence that those in adamantite collar relationships also happen to be married outside Clocktower. There have even been a number of ‘crystal collaring marriage ceremonies’ held in Clocktower.

Studs
Studs on the collar signify whether or not the submissive is interested in ‘free use’ (‘Free use’ here referring to a slave being available for free use by any random member of the society). A collar with no studs means the submissive is not interested in and does not consent to free use.

Silver Crystal Studs
Silver studded collars signifies that the submissive gives implicit consent to free use. For black, white or adamantite collared submissives who are accompanied by their owner, it is generally good manners to first ask their owner for permission.

Ruby Crystal studs
Ruby crystal-studded collars signifies that the submissive is interested in play with random strangers as long as consent is sought first. A nod or a safe-bell ring is normally sufficient consent.

Colour Border
Many collars will have a colour border - a band of colour along the upper and lower fourth. These code for sexual orientation. Lack of a colour border means the submissive has no preference, i.e. they are bisexual.

Dark Blue Border
Signifies heterosexual submissives.

Dark Purple Border
Signifies homosexual submissives.

Note: Historically, Clocktower Equestria East had a green lower border for transformed subs - stallions who had been transformed into mares, commonly those who use the Transformation Center’s services. This was removed in 1001 after it was unanimously agreed the coding had no real significance.

Colour Band
This refers to the single band of colour that runs along the center of a collar. These code for the sort of roleplay the sub is keen on. Lack of a colour band codes for a sub who will roleplay simple willingness.

Orange Band
A sub with an orange band will roleplay unwillingness and resistance and seek a dom prepared to force them into submission.

Gold Band
A sub with a gold band desire to be petted and cared for by gentle, loving doms.

Purple Band
Subs with a purple bands are prepared to be objectified, abused and firmly trained by a strict, impassionate dom.

Collar Padlock
Collar padlocks double as property tags and symbolize ownership. They also bear the submissive’s Clocktower registration number. Most if not all submissives carry the key to their own padlock in a small latched recess in the back of the padlock, often considered a powerful symbol of willing servitude. There are two general types - Clocktower padlocks and personal padlocks.

Clocktower Padlocks
These are shaped after the Clocktower insignia and signify the wearer to be a property of Clocktower Society.

Personal Padlocks
These are normally worn by submissives who have entered an ownership agreement with a dominant. They are fashioned after the owner’s cutie mark. If the dominant has chosen to rename their submissive, said name is often inscribed on the padlock tag. If a submissive belongs to more than one pony, e.g. pets belonging to married couples, they may have a padlock bearing more than one cutie-mark.

While these are more commonly used with black and adamantite collars, they are sometimes worn on white collars by subs entering a prospective arrangement with a new dom.

Job Collars
As an aside, a number of subs serve a variety of specific occupational roles around the society. More info can be found in the guide on 'Life In the Society'. We'll touch on them briefly with regards to their specific collars.

Keeper Maids
Part of the Society Maid Service, the biggest bunch of nosy busybodies second longest-serving organization within the society, these subs have unique white frills on the upper and lower border of their collars. They can also be easily identified by their really cute navy blue maid uniforms. Keeper maids are the backbone of the society, maintaining the day-to-day upkeep of Clocktower Equestria East. They are big group, boasting maids for every possible need. These include the housekeeper maids who operate the self-cleaning spells and run the spa and shops and the repairmaids who maintain the training equipment and the semen processing plant that supplies the feed for all Clocktower sites across the world. You will see the ones being rewarded for exemplary behaviour assigned to the more 'delicate' cleaning duty in places like the cum dump halls.

Keeper maids are employed in full-time or part-time paid jobs and are not allowed to actively partake in personal naughty activities during work hours. While they are (mostly) good girls who would never dream of playing hooky, they are protected from being used by the general public during work hours by custom-made chastity belts. Their collar padlocks glow red during work hours, making it clear when they are off-limits. As soon as their shift ends, their padlock will helpfully glow green for a brief moment and let out a loud beep as their chastity belts automatically unlock, signalling to all doms in the area that the maid is up for grabs.

A good many keeper maids live permanently on site in the servants' quarters.

Slave-Keeper Maids
Slave-keeper maids are members of the Society Maid Service charged with the care of subs belonging to Clocktower. They are tasked with feeding them, putting them on display in the pens or setting them up in the public cum dumps, toilets or other public facilities for use, washing them after use and making sure they are carefully and comfortably stored away in the kennels for rest. Senior-keeper maids generally take turns at fulfilling this duty. They can easily be identified by their dark crimson dresses and collar frills.

Hoof Maids
While these ponies are classified as members of the society maid service, their work is entirely voluntary and unpaid. They can be identified by the black frills on their collars and their black maid uniforms. They are generally personal maids to specific owners.

Slave-Trainer Maids
A cross between the slave-keepers and hoof-maids, these are slave-keepers who serve one specific owner. They are charged with the care of their owner's prized slaves and assist in their training. They wear dark mauve uniforms and collar frills.

Hearthswarmer Shrine Maidens
As you're probably aware, Clocktower Society was born from the original Kindler cult faith that worshipped the Fire of Devotion, more commonly known outside the society as the Fire of Friendship. While embracing the religion hasn't been a requirement to join in over 1000 years, there are still many who maintain the original faith, fanatics ponies who refer to themselves as 'Kindlers'. Hearthswarmer shrine maidens are those who worship the Fire of Devotion through preaching your ears off submission and devotion. They are considered holy and sacred by the Kindler church and absolutely bucking annoying by everypony else. You can easily identify them by their really big heads the golden halo-shaped blinkers built into their collars, made to shield their eyes from the brilliance of the Fire of Devotion that burns in the original Hearthswarming Cave deep beneath Clocktower Equestria East. They also wear long flowing shrine maiden uniforms.

Test Subjects
If you have ever been inside an adult toy store, browsed for contraception at your chemist, seen your obstetrician or sexual health doctor or even visited your local blacksmith or siege factory, you'd probably have encountered a product of Clocktower Research Laboratories. There's more info on them in the 'Life at Clocktower' booklet but, in short, this geeky lot actually date back 1000 years to the days of the astronomer, mage and scientist purge that followed the banishment of Nightmare Moon. Many of those persecuted as lunatics in the years immediately following the Nightmare rebellion sought protection from the Society. In return they have worked tirelessly in service to the society and its ideals when they're not blowing up half the dungeons. Today they boast the society's second largest source of income and hold patents for many modern conveniences we enjoy, including contraception, sexual health potions, advancements in obstetric surgery, fertility assistance and safe child delivery, pretty much all sex toys ever devised by ponykind, pits full of freaky tentacle plants, portals, sex bots, napalm and moon rockets.

The crazy brave subs who volunteer to assist in the research laboratories as test subjects can be identified by their hazard pattern borders and the fact that most of them glow green in the dark. They're all sex-bots. The rumours that they are all sex robots built by the scientists down there is entirely unfounded. Okay, maybe only most of them are.

MILF Milk Mares
It's like they intentionally misspelled MILF there. They're a bunch of MILF and MILF-wannabes who get off on being milked for milk and cum. What? What else is there to say about them? The milk mares are a group of subs devoted to the production of the best quality mare milk and marecum commonly used for slave feed as they are or mixed in with other ingredients in the various feed formulas. Clocktower Equestria East's impressive production volume helps feed our sister site at Equestria West and our neighbour sites in Gryphonia, Zebrica and Saddle Arabia.

They can be identified by their special bell-shaped padlocks (these can still bear the Clocktower brand or be engraved with their owner's cutie-mark).

Brothel Slaves
The society maintains its own internal currency with a strict no-exchange-with-real-cash policy (basically, monopoly money) to allow for various fantasies to play out more realistically. However because of the sheer size of Clocktower Society (we kinda cover the whole world map), the toy cash has gone on to develop a whole toy economy. The Brothel is the biggest bunch of money-grubbing sons-of-llamas internal money-maker and has long since become the unofficial banking and trading hub within Clocktower Equestria East and between the other sites.

The brothel slaves are a bunch of system-gaming greedy sluts group of like-minded subs who devote themselves not only to their masters but the pursuit of their master's profit and wealth They get off on being bought and sold like cauliflowers. They are one of the society's most exchanged commodities only second behind contraception and are a common staple at the markets and auction blocks. They do not, in fact, have an official collar code, though the Society is working to change that. They generally identify themselves by their frilly dark gray saddles.

Livestock Seriously, that's what they call themselves
I don't even have to write anything here because somepony's just gonna cross it out and edit in something politically correct. This group caters to the predator-prey fetishists, commonly involving changeling, gryphon, diamond dog and dragon society members, as well as ponies who have undergone magical transformation into various predators including timberwolves. Play ranges from hunts in the old forest to taming in the barns.

Livestock can be easily identified by their unique red halters built into their collars, with or without bit gags.

Safety Bell
The Safety Bell is more thoroughly covered in the booklet on safe words and safe-bells, but in short it is an alternative to the three safe words that can prove particularly useful when a submissive cannot use her safe words for whatever reason, for example if her mouth is gagged. It is tied to a ribbon and worn around the end of a submissive’s tail. It is magically enchanted to only ring when willed by its wearer. To reiterate, the safe bell must always be available for the submissive’s use. While binding dock-rings to collars to hold the tail up is permitted, the binding of the rest of the tail in a manner that might restrict use of the safe-bell is not permitted.

Like the collar, it is also colour-coded. They code for the levels of the dungeon the submissive is permitted to use. As described in the facility guide, all Clocktower dungeons are split into levels. Deeper levels house more extreme kinks and fetishes and require higher levels of access permission for both dominants and submissives. Silver bells allow access to the top level, gold bells allow access to the lower levels and crystal bells allow access to the deep levels.

Hoof Straps
Also called ‘hoof cuffs’, these are accessories to the collar worn on the hooves and thighs. They are normally colour-matched to their collars. All Clocktower-issue straps are custom-made and enchanted to support double the weight of the pony they were made for. They are also comfortably padded and fitted with reinforced channels to protect blood vessels and nerves. As they are custom-made for safety purposes, it is against the rules to share/exchange straps between submissives.

While being a Clocktower member implies one has a fetish for BDSM, there are numerous niche kinks that ponies may be partial to. While not strictly mandatory, many submissives, especially red and white collared ones, wear badges on their hoof straps to advertise what kinks and fetishes they are open to/interested in. This helps guide dominants identify the right submissive to indulge in a particular kink, or to plan the perfect session to cater to the submissive’s tastes.

An entirely cosmetic silver version of each badge can be earned by completing the act in the public dungeons. A similarly cosmetic gold version can be earned by completing challenges specific to the kink. A crystal version is held by the top ten record holders in each kink. Guess who's held a crystal cum dump badge the longest, ever?

You can find a complete list of available badges in the glossary.

Note: It has become culturally acceptable for dominants to give their submissives a kink badge as an invitation to try out a new kink together. The submissive would then clasp the badge to their straps as a sign of acceptance. It is also becoming increasingly common for fellow submissives to exchange badges and try out each other’s kinks.