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    CTNP made its first-ever public appearance January 4-7, 2007 at the Music and Gaming Festival (MAGFest), which took place in Vienna, Virginia at the Sheraton Premier hotel.  Committee and Editorial Team member Jeremy "Pezman" and I (Wayne "CT Novelist") took every opportunity we could during this trip to promote the project and gather petition signatures.  We were armed with plenty of forms, informative sheets, a sign, an OpUV prize list, a black tablecloth, and a few goodies from a nearby Staples.

    Our reception during the weekend was overall positive.  Lots of people were excited about the project, including a few who already knew about it from our Internet presence.  In the end, we collected 83 signatures and met some cool people, many of which are pictured below.  Enjoy!

    (Just click the thumbnail for a much larger image.  Sorry...not all of them are top notch.)

Shortly after the start of the festival, people gathered in this room to hear and rate instrumental reproductions of Chrono Trigger music.  Jeremy and I took this as our first opportunity to gather signatures, successfully gaining just shy of our first 20.	This is a picture of the game room, which was the grand ballroom packed with tables upon tables of console games from the classic NES to the Wii, and everything inbetween. Look closely at the nearest TV screen to see what I was playing (Mario Kart 64).	In the original dealer area, I got to meet this "cool cat," Dominic, from Firaxis (the company responsible for Civilization).  He wasn't officially there for company business but did entertain us with some familiar video game tunes played on his keyboard. (Note that there is no official endorsement of the CTNP by Firaxis.)	This is me at our first booth location, where all of the dealers were originally situated.  I'm actually working on the Chapter 2 (Revision 6) edit on the laptop in this picture and finished it while at the show. It was a humble booth but not bad for last-minute preparations!
This is a picture from the ArmCannon concert.  This was the first of many concerts and was actually pretty fun (and I'm not much of a concert man myself).	Another ArmCannon concert picture.  I particularly like the Toad hat.	Yet another picture.  Yeah, this was one of just a couple of concerts I stayed around for.  (They were all good, but I had other things to do!)	Here's another band, though I can't remember who they are.  (If you went and can identify them, email me, please.)
Another picture of this band, which was also very good.	MrMAGFest himself, dressing his best for the concerts.	Eager gamers flocked in and out of the game room throughout the conference to enjoy some of their favorite games on their choice of console system.	Author Robert Aldrich speaking at a panel in which he described his top 10 emails.  Education at its finest, folks!
This is me with Robert Aldrich, just after purchasing his book Crossworld.	This was the view of the dealer area after we all moved from downstairs to the game room.	This is the view we had of the game room from our new booth location.  It was a little more exciting than the previous setting (though I did get a lot done on Chapter 2 while down there).	Here's our new booth location in the game room!
From left to right: Steve Celestin, me, and Adam Poots.  We had a great conversation with these two employees of Atari while at the show.	Another view of the game room	Guitar Hero was one of the most popular games at the show.  I actually played it for the first time here with Jeremy, which was pretty cool.	This cool dude (not me, the one at the piano) had dozens of songs memorized and on sheet music from various video games and provided some additional entertainment in the game room.
Left to right: Geoffrey Taucer, me, and Larry Oji ("Liontamer").  These were a couple of cool dudes from OCRemix and were also making their first MAGFest appearance.  Many of us Chrono fans know this site for its Chrono Symphonic project.	It's hard not to make friends at shows like these, and HyperFusion here was one such individual.  He was also one of the MAGFest attendees who had already heard about the CTNP, making him instantly that much cooler!	What gaming conference would be complete without gamers so dedicated that even their vehicles must bear the identities of their favorite games?  The answer: not MAGFest!