366 Squadron RAF - SL version of Operation Crossbow Movie Trailer

366 Squadron RAF - Operation Crossbow Movie Trailer. 

This is part of the Bastogne Video Project by Zoe Connolly.

366 Squadron RAF group notices

Two notices from Cornelius Fanshaw today:

Group Notice From: 366 Squadron RAF, Cornelius Fanshaw

I just want to say thank you to all that turned up, it was a particularly good turnout considering it was a 366 only event. We even had tank and air support!
As for the objective... well we had Major Jaeger cornered in the bunker, but once again somehow she escaped (details of how she did this are vague and contradictory!) We did however capture some kind of advanced NAZI machine that our scientists are now examining, so we are calling this mission a partial success.

Group Notice From: 366 Squadron RAF, Cornelius Fanshaw

For those of you interested in participating in the next stage of this particular story arc, please visit Zoe's blog  http://zoeconnolly.blogspot.com/  and or sign up to the Timeforce 10 group where we hunt Zabrina through time and space.... (don't worry, 366 Sqn missions will continue as before as normal WWII missions in Bastogne)

Zabrina's revenge against 366 Squadron and TimeForce 10

Coming Soon: After several commando raids against her weapons bunker, Zabrina is ready to make an offensive move against 366 and TimeForce 10.

These recent photographs show Zabrina's Die Glocke Time Machine and a present day Nuclear Weapon. Unfortunately, the operative who obtained these surveillance photos did not return. May God rest his soul!

Zabrina's plan: As 366 Squadron closes in on her location in 1944 Caen, France, she'll make her escape in Die Glocke, timeporting for Tesla Station, the home and headquarters of TimeForce 10.

With her Nuke and the assistance of a station 'droid activated by her password, Zabrina will take control of Tesla, brainwash TF10 members, and rebuild her group, TimeRaiders.

Will her plan work? Will 366 Squadron and TimeForce 10 stop her in time?

If Zabrina wins... Prepare for the new world order!

LR Black Dagger

I need to resize it, but this was part of my marketplace shopping cart from last night. It will be part of the non-VICE props I use in 366 Squadron RAF roleplay.

It's a Black Dagger from LR Weapons

Daggers were often used by American OSS and British SOE during WW2 and add more depth to our roleplay options.

If I can do it justice, I'll make a video of the melee animation.

For The Record - Part 2

See the V2 rocket above? Things like this are 366's Target. Not your airplane, ship, etc., unless you try to stop us from our mission.

Grizzly Mom Activated!

As I previously wrote here, I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about the nature and missions of our roleplay groups. I have loads of notecards on the subject, and a little investigation on this very blog will also be helpful for anyone willing to do the research.

Like most people, I participate in a number of groups. My current active groups are 366 Squadron RAF and TimeForce 10. I call these active because I created TimeForce 10 and I'm a co-owner and event/mission planner for 366 Squadron RAF. I'm like a TV Show writer coming up with interesting plot outlines for us to act out and improv during a mission.

In the interest of full disclosure: I value friendship in SL and it's one of the critical elements that keep me coming back to this wonderful virtual world. Apparently several of my friends are on another SL Blogger's hit-list.

This is an honest disclosure about the things I love about SL...

• Creativity
• Friendships
• Roleplay Adventures
• Virtual Sex

Here's another shocking disclosure! I'm a member of the New Bastogne Admin Group (I know you're gasping and clutching your pearls right now!) Here's the reason why: Cornelius and I decided we needed our own Axis VICE Target setup in Bastogne, so I asked Vickster Kuhn for rez rights, which she happily granted because she supports our brand of RP and also finds it fun. My German alt also has the same rez rights. You'll find my items in two sims at Bastogne. Oh and 366 still has a plan to plant a box of exploding chocolates on Vicks' desk! This is our favorite thing. Planting fake explosives on Vice Targets in our little pretend Commando Raids with over-the-top acting.

I find it disappointing that a fellow SL blogger would not ask me questions about my groups and instead, go off in a direction of conspiratorial fantasy.

366 Squadron RAF is not considered a part of the regular pure combat military groups you see active in sims. It's considered a roleplay group, meaning we act out scenes more than we do combat. Since Cornelius Fanshaw started the 366 in the Fall of 2015 (366 is basically a WW2 version of my TimeForce 10 group) we have seen steady growth in membership. Some of those new members happen to be people that a few others in the aviation community intensely dislike. I don't understand this kind of behavior on the part of an SL Blogger and personally try to avoid crap like this, but I feel compelled to defend my friends and my groups.

366 roleplays cool infantry style commando raid scenes. I basically lift ideas from TV and Movie plots. Our inspiration comes from The Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Operation Crossbow, plus an assortment of James Bond films, and more than a few spy genre TV shows. That's it. That's what we do. Any regular reader of this blog knows exactly what we do and about our plans. We have a great time and I have a blast writing mission plans. People join us because it's fun and a very different mission based roleplay that's separate from the usual pure kill-count combat most people do. People wear the 366 tag in the Gulf (which is not our usual place to RP) because they love the group and are proud to wear it.

I know this is difficult to follow. Many people have trouble understanding the improvisational roleplay and acting we do. Maybe people who engage in regular combat shouldn't wear our tag when they do VICE Combat in the Gulf. I think that's a great idea as it will avoid such confusion in the future. We don't RP in the Gulf, we RP in New Bastogne. But please, before you taint the reputation of a roleplay group full of people interested in acting out infantry style commando raids against Axis Super Weapons and my own German alt, ask questions about it from direct sources first. Asking questions would have been your best first step.

Oh, and if you're too lazy to ask me, there's always this cool search thingy called Google. Just type "366 Squadron RAF" and most of the results will be links to my blog.

~ Zoe Connolly 

 

366 Squadron RAF - Mission 9 this Saturday

Here's a peek into the concept...

As the 366 team sweeps through the German Bunker on a search and destroy mission, they make the amazing and frightening discovery of their new secret weapon.

Die Glocke.

The Nazi Time Machine!
 

For The Record - 366 Squadron RAF and TimeForce 10

366 and TimeForce 10 were recently mentioned on another blog and I feel the need to set the record straight on what the groups do and don't do with VICE Combat.

366 Squadron RAF was created in the Fall of 2015 and is primarly a group for people interested in re-creating exciting commando missions in WW2 sims. We're more like a group of actors playing parts, with 70-80% roleplay, and 20-30% use of VICE Combat. We use VICE Targets like V1s, V2s, Heavy Water Processing Machines and similar items to re-create daring missions to sabotage and destroy Nazi Super Weapons. When Axis players get in the way of our mission we fight back, but our main role is to blow things up and VICE does so quite spectacularly.

Since late 2008, I have barely been able to keep up with other combat roleplayers in SL. I'm just not that good at it, and frankly, I can't devote that much time in SL to get any better. But I love the era, love acting, and like any good event planner, love to plan missions! So I created alternatives to the pure combat that most people do. I think it adds a different dimension to WW2 sims and it's great fun! It brings out my inner-actress!

For another post about our style of roleplay, here's my post from December 2015.

TimeForce 10 (TF10) was created in the late Fall of 2008 as an alternative to my Royal Caledon Air Force group when it was getting more and more difficult for me and others to fly in Caledon and other Steamland sims.

TF10 combines two favorite things! Spies and Time Travel! We don't really use any one combat system for TF10. Basically, if a gun looks good in a scene we use it. 

I used the word scene in that last sentence which is very appropriate because we often speak of our mission arcs or storylines as though we were producing a television series. 

We alternate between several series. 366 had its first season between November through April. TimeForce 10 is back for another season between May and whenever we run out of ideas and are ready for 366 again. Actually, we're planning a crossover where we will combine both in a time travel story in WW2! 

For the record, a photo was published featuring several TF10 members having virtual sex several thousand meters above the Gulf, well above any public area. You'd have to work very hard to find us, and yet someone did. I do admire their abilities as a spy, and you know how I love spies! But they missed a great opportunity to show the hottest scenes that included my great ass and breasts. Such a loss!


I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has about the nature and missions of our roleplay groups. I have loads of notecards on the subject, and a little investigation on this very blog will also be helpful for anyone willing to do the research.



Thank you!

~ Zoe Connolly

366 Sqn RAF - Operation Crossbow Movie Trailer Test 1

I've been working on a Second Life version of the Operation Crossbow movie trailer. Here's what I have so far. I have another 45 to 60 seconds of content to add later.




This is the original Operation Crossbow trailer.

Operation Crossbow - (set design screenshots)

Screen captured pics from the movie Operation Crossbow. The photos are for a set design concept in a future Second Life Role-Play. 

366 Squadron RAF - graphic for recruiting

366 Squadron RAF - Video Test of Quick Edits and Music

Part of the ongoing Bastogne Video Project


 

This is another little test video. In this one I try out 3 ideas.

1. a nice little Ident Musical thingy with my "a Zoe Connolly production" motion graphic.
2. some quick 1 second edits at the start of the video. 
3. some epic sounding music. 

Advantages of quick 1 to 5 second edits

1. It's easier to hide lower SL Video Capture frame rates.
2. It better emulates modern movie and television editing practices.
3. You can tell the same story in less time.
4. Shorter videos retain more viewers.

TimeForce 10 and 366 Sqn RAF title sequence test for SL machinima

This is a Test of a few title sequence ideas for an upcoming Second Life machinima (SL Video). 

  TimeForce 10, 366 Squadron RAF, Second Life

Prep for 366 Squadron RAF Mission 5

Second Life roleplaying is great fun and I love planning RP events. Part of that is a search for props... sometimes exploding props. While chatting, I told my good friend Buzzbox Munro about my roleplay plans. Buzz is a great guy and a wonderful creator of WW2 Era items in Second Life. 

I told him specifics about our next 366 Squadron RAF mission based in part on the Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage by the Norwegian Resistance and the British SOE. He was kind enough to recreate VICE Target explode-able Heavy Water Processing Tanks. 

These tanks will "star" prominently in our next few missions, the beginning of a new story arc. 

Pic of the Day

Zoe listens carefully as an ally outlines an interesting new plan.

(photo taken at Leona's Cafe in New Fallout)

 

Photos of 366 Squadron RAF Headquarters

 

EXTRAS: Random photos from the AXIS side

We're working on a Second Life machinima project that would combine the feel of two movies: Battle of the Bulge and Operation Crossbow. 

For the next 4 to 6 weeks I'll be shooting stock footage I can use in any WW2 video project.