Jer and Tally will be calling Desert Bus on Nov.23rd at 5:30pm (PST)
Jer and Tally are a couple of ordinary folks living in Vancouver, doing app development and administrative work respectively, fussing about the rising cost of avocados and yelling at all the (other) crazy drivers on the road. They were previously part of the Desert Bus crew and are thus calling in to reminisce about the good old days and pester the current crew.
Jer is a former member of LoadingReadyRun, and the infamous writer and DM of the Temple of the Lava Bears D&D campaign that LRR live streamed in 2015. He was a Desert Bus for Hope founder and designed the DB app. He now does iOS development full time.
Tally wrote a crafting blog for several years and created a metric bus-ton of geeky plushies for various occasions, from Craterhoof Behemoths (Behemi?) to fuzzy kobolds and majestic dimetrodons. She acted for many years as the Desert Bus Prize Mistress.
Jer and Tally have recently become parents and now spend most of their time obsessing about sleep and snapping cell phone pics of the goofy faces their baby makes. If you’ve got any questions about baby poo, they can probably answer them.
Have a question for Jer and Tally? Write it in the comments below!
Thank you for all the amazing work you two have done over the years for Desert Bus. Congrats on your daughter and I hope all is going well for your family in general!
Do you have any tips or suggestions for someone who loves to craft but recently has come to feel dispirited because their efforts and ideas are unwanted or not good enough for others? I know folks say to just make for yourself what you enjoy, but if you kinda need to rely on others liking what you do so you can afford (financially and mentally) to craft for yourself, it feels like a stuck position.
Thank you again for taking time out of your chaotic schedules to hang out with all of us. We <3 you both!
Missed you both at DB this year. I started watching LRR to get through a particuarly stubborn depressive episode and Temple of the Lava Bears provided an oft needed escape from reality. I
Missed you both at DB this year. I started watching LRR to get through a particuarly stubborn depressive episode and Temple of the Lava Bears provided an oft needed escape from reality. I would love to hear some fun stories from ToTLB or the original Temple of Elemental Evil you guys played! Hope your new human is humaning successfully!
Hey Tally, love the awesome work that you do.
My question, how has Serenity Darkmoon Raven been? Just wondering if she ever made a reoccurrance or if you suppress her very very very deep inside you where she will never see the light of day again.
Either answer is perfectly normal.
Sincerely, Desert Bus Viewer, Blake.
When’s “Baby’s First Driving Shift”? 😉
Is there any update on a published lava bears module or book?
i am led to believe someone from penny arcade did a live auction for DM advice via skype, any chance you would be interested in doing the same jer? it would be silly (and you are a legitimately good dm as well <3 )
Any D&D advice?
To Tally:
Thank you for openly documenting fertility struggles on your twitter. As someone who now has a baby on the way after 2.5 years of trying, it was very helpful on tough days to see someone else moving forward throughout tough times. So, thank you.
Just wanna say, Jer and Tally look so happy. It’s a great thing to see.
We didn’t get to all of these during the call, so:
@admiralmemo I think we’re kind of expecting there’ll be self driving busses by the time she’s old enough for her lisence. 😉
@Dillatont ❤️ I’m so sorry you had to struggle with that, and glad my words were of some help during that time. I struggle to keep emotions to myself but sometimes I think it’s good that we share our struggles as well as our successes. Congrats on your baby-in-progress, that’s so exciting!
@MacSquzzy ❤️ Thank you! We are. Life is difficult some days when babbo but we wouldn’t trade it for anything.
It was so lovely to call in and chat with everyone!
Oh and @Earthenone I mentioned that to Jer and he’d probably enjoy trying such a thing someday in future when our day to day is a little less hectically consumed by baby things. 🙂
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