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Well, this may have been a slow week for updates, but we've got some interesting announcements for you. First off, good old Grant Henry (aka Stemage) from Metroid Metal is heading to MagFest!! He'll be performing an as-yet-unnamed (and possibly brand-new!) mix with Chunkstyle, Danimal Cannon, Kirby Pufocia, and Illzbury Flowboy.

What is MagFest, you ask? MagFest (the Music and Gaming Festival) is THE biggest videogame music rock-out in the States! Every year for the past five years, Brendan Becker and company have been hosting this in Alexandria, Virginia and inviting TONS of bands from across the country. The Minibosses, Jenova Project, Neskimos, and Select Start have all made it here, and now it's Metroid Metal's turn! Our most heartfelt congrats! If you're planning to be in the Virginia area come January 1-4th (that's Thursday through Saturday), be sure to check it out! There's more info at the Metroid Metal forums!

The second thing we've got is an ANCIENT fanfiction from the mid-90s. This is Blood of the Chozo, the famous interactive story produced by the Nintendo Power Source's Epic Center. The story was about an evil branch of the Chozo who invades the galaxy. Nintendo fans created their own characters and played out their roles in the biggest Metroid Interactive Fanfiction ever seen! The whole thing literally took up over 6,000 posts.

While Blood of the Chozo predates the Metroid Interactive FanFiction (MIFF), myself and the rest of the MIFF community did a LOT of digging about eight years ago and contacted Cerberus, one of the original participants, who sent us this MASSIVE 110-page document containing all the posts he had saved. This weekend, through a special request, I dug through the entire document and cut it down into over a dozen easily digestable chunks. So head on over to the fanfic section and scroll ALL the way to the bottom to check it out!

Our collection of Blood of the Chozo material is by no means complete. It only covers the story of The Rebellion, one of the many narratives that took place throughout the game. We're very interested in finding out more information on this amazing story, so if you have any information, please contact us!

Well, that's it for this week. We're getting things organized for the big 12th Anniversary bash next month, so expect some more exciting things. Oh yeah, one thing we'll have before then is the credits information for the Metroid Manga. We were using the Snoopycool translation as a reference, and they've just brought out Chapter 9, so check their translation out!

Until next time...
Captain Commando