Yes, it’s true … in a fit of charity at some (obviously) ungodly hour of the morning, the crew took it upon themselves to worship Cthulhu for donations. Cthulhu, on rising from his slumber in Ri’leh, took control of the bus and hit the brakes, causing the bus to overheat.
All of us are very disappointed with ourselves for this temporary lapse in judgement. Cthulhu’s influence is reflected in the name of our new driver.
Wow, guys! This is a lot of money, and at only eight hours in I’m frankly amazed! Let’s send this bus past the moon!
Wow! It is awesome to see that we have so much talent watching Desert Bus. Because you wanted to see them, here’s some very tasteful pinups of Kathleen … in a bear hat, of course (I said they were tasteful).
Ok well technically it’s Saturday, but we haven’t slept, so it feels like Friday.
Thanks everyone for sticking with us into the wee hours (or time) to help us push a few additional thousand for the children!
I step out for ten minutes to get a drink and BOOM: $12,000! I don’t know how you guys do it: you must be amazing or something. What I do know is $12,000 buys a lot of toys for the children! Let’s keep it going all the way to Vegas (and back!).
From: You
To: The Children
Subject: Eleven-thousand Dollars
Message Body: You are awesome. That is all.
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Yes, we have reached our fist deca-thousand! We now have four drivers on the hook for 24-hours each, and are well on our way to dragging Kathleen into the fray. After that first $500 auction, I don’t think she stands a chance.
If a spider had $1000 in each hand (leg?), he still wouldn’t be able to match your incredible generosity! You guys have done whatever a spider can and more, fetching Desert Bus the astonishing sum of $8000. As it it wasn’t already obvious, we’re in for the long haul now!
Normally, as our crazy bus trip progresses, we’ll be posting notices of our guests about an hour before they join our broadcast. However, because I expect a lot of activity on the blog in the first couple hours of the event, I’m posting our first guest a little early. Those of you who watched this week’s installment of LoadingReadyRun will know that we all recently became very very re-addicted to Magic: The Gathering, so we couldn’t be happier to welcome Mark Rosewater, the lead designer for Magic at Wizards of the Coast, who will be calling in to speak with us at around 7:00pm PST!
Mark has headed up Magic development over the course of many expansion blocks, and has comedy writing chops from years of working in television. He’s famous for his love of crazy mechanics, and his proclivity for writing extremely long blog posts about design, life, and the funny place where the two connect. We’re hoping that chatting with him will ease the pangs of addiction from missing Friday Night Magic–only one of the many trials to be suffered as the crew embarks on the first leg of its journey.
Wizards of the Coast has also donated a pretty astonishing selection of prizes–sure to tune your Elder Dragon Highlander deck into something absolutely terrifying–so stay tuned as those are auctioned off later in the event!
If you have any questions for Mark, you can post them here: we don’t promise to ask him everything (or anything) that’s posted, but we may draw on your questions if we have time.