Desert Bus is about open-hearted charity, community, and care… while this Magic: the Gathering Conspiracy set is about everything but.
Conspiracy’s free-for-all multiplayer format fills your hand with tricky, secret cards and underhanded ways to influence the table in your favor. It’s the perfect recipe for brazen backstabbery and it could be yours for a donation of $11.02 or multiples thereof.
Donate before 7:30PM PST to throw your hat in the ring for this sneaky set!
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Hello intrepid adventurers! Today our crew began their interdimensional adventures through the multiverse. What dangers and mysteries will they find? You’ll have to watch and find out!
But, if you missed today’s session, or anything else today during Alpha Flight, here’s a quick recap…
Session 1 of D+B happens, led by GM Cameron…
Jacob escalates the Kindness War with Zeta…
The room has a conversation about music and travel…
Jacob and Erika do the Bee’s Knees dance from FFXIV…
Kathleen does an ad for Kathleen’s Discount Necromancy Store and Warehouse…
And, finally, Alpha Flight adopts Nigel the Orc…
Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2021 happenings around the web…
Magic cards! We’ve got more Magic: the Gathering cards up for grabs! Supercharge your card collection with this booster box from the Zendikar Rising release in this giveaway.
Take an expedition into the heart of Zendikar. This third adventure into Zendikar brought back many fan favourite mechanics like Landfall and Kicker and introduced new mechanics like Party and Modal Double Faced Cards. This collector booster display contains twelve 15 card collector booster packs with two expedition box toppers. These packs are not intended to be drafted and are filled with goodies like foil cards, showcase and borderless cards, and an extended art rare or mythic.
Log in to or sign up for a donor account, then donate $10.15 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this giveaway until 5:45pm PST.
A lot of great people put together this year’s Alpha Flight intro, outros, and bumpers! Here’s who worked on our videos this year…
Credits for Intro Videos (D&D Manual)
Graphics: Taylor Quinn (TQ), Jen Carling
Animation: Jen Carling
Writing: Alpha Flight
Producer: Kathleen de Vere
Music: King of Mandol by Swirling Ship
Credits for Outro Videos (Jocko’s Magical Emporium)
Writing: Kathleen de Vere, Erika Cole, Taylor Quinn (TQ), Matt Griffiths
Product Shots: Taylor Quinn (TQ)
Overlay Graphic: Taylor Quinn (TQ)
Editing: Matt Griffiths
Narration: Jacob Burgess and Taylor Quinn (TQ)
Producer: Kathleen de Vere
Music: Dancin’ in the Tub by Family Kush
Segment Bumpers:
Editors: Matt Griffiths, Kathleen de Vere
We’ll also post the dialogue for each outro here. We’ll update this post each day with the latest outro text.
Day 1 – Polymorph Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8Etozq-7A
Attention all bargain seeking mages! Are you sick to your gills and/or lungs with the high price of Polymorph Cream? Well cry and/or expectorate no longer, because Jocko’s Magical Emporium is blowing out our entire stock of Polymorph Cream at… surprisingly low prices!
Jocko’s Unlabeled Polymorph Cream is ideal for students of transmutation, open-minded druids and anyone looking to get out of a team-building exercise. This egg-enriched, non-vegan lotion not only moistures the skin and/or scales, it tastes great with tomatoes.
When the label comes off, the price goes down!
Fill out our customer satisfaction survey and let us know what you turned into and we’ll give you 10% off your next order of Polymorph Neutralizer!
Jocko’s Magical Emporium — our prices will change you!
Day 2 – Quarry Seconds Crystals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5u8VtnqVgs
Need to practice some self care for yourself and your bank account? Blitz your chakras and shade your auras with Jocko’s Magical Emporium’s newest selection of Quarry Seconds Crystals.
These off-cut crystals were accidentally cleansed under the light of a gibbous moon, but that means we’re passing the savings, and medium vibes onto you. Guaranteed 100% natural, our crystals are sourced from rich veins of quartz, citrine and tourmaline in a valley that local nymphs are said to use as a latrine.
These beautiful semi-precious stones are safe to enjoy at a distance and make great gifts for the meddlesome busybody in your life. Available in small, medium and triple thick.
Jocko’s Magical Emporium — where the savings are crystal clear!
Day 3 – Ring of Replication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7uOBA0dFiE
Are fast paced encounters leaving you feeling like you need to be in two places at once? Jocko’s Magical Emporium has you covered… Literally with our brand new Ring of Replication! This hyper-allergenic ring will double you up, ensuring you’ll always have a flanking bonus with these two rings. You simply won’t find a lower price on four rings like this anywhere!
These eight rings are priced to move because we are overstocked on these 16 rings! If you order in the next hour we’ll also throw in a free Bag of Holding with room enough to store all 32 of your rings.
This once-in-a-lifetime half-off deal means you can pick up 64 rings for the price of just 32! Just order soon!
Jocko’s Magical Emporium – The best place to buy 128— 256 rings! …512 Rings.
Day 4 – Bogweed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv2i0q0H8Yg
Escape from the stresses of the adventuring life with Jocko’s Magical Emporium’s all new line of premium bogweed.
Locally and organically grown by local and organic witches under high-powered local and organic grow lights, this… uh… “potpourri” boasts a hoppy floral aroma and refreshing lemony turpeens! Jocko’s premium bogweed is ideal for anyone looking to boost the healing power of their tinctures, slip into Elven trances more easily, or endure lectures from their draconic patron.
Pairs well with long rests, bards who are learning to play the sitar, and chips. Available as dried flower, tinctures or brownies, and delivered to customers of legal adventuring age in discrete unmarked packages.
Jocko’s Magical Emporium — don’t puff, puff, pass on our deals!
Day 5 – DIY Summoning Circle Kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjSIRfWaB7A
Sick of paying abyssally high summoning fees to Warlocks? Jocko’s Magical Emporium’s new DIY summoning circle kit will let you cut out the middle-caster and connect directly to the infinite outer planes.
Don’t waste your time reading all seven volumes of the Demonomicon, this kit includes everything you need to commune with the chaotic including: salt, candles, india ink, chalk, bones, hair, musk and a simplified next of kin notification form.*
*Due to international owl restrictions customer must supply own blood and teeth
Order in the next 30 minutes and Jocko will throw in a free copy of Granny Gam Gam’s Big Black Book of True Demon Names.
Jocko’s Magical Emporium — where we are absolutely not responsible for what you do with our products! (Or where you put them!)
Day 6 – High Heeled Combat Shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-qdcL-q25Y
Bring sophisticated style and a minimum armor class of 11 to your next encounter with Jocko’s all new line of high heeled combat shoes.
Go from the dungeon to the club and then to the other kind of dungeon in these stylish shoes, made with bludgeon-proof steel toes, reinforced insteps and blood resistant genuine leather uppers.
Deal 1d4 piercing damage with every step you take, all while gaining the tactical advantage of the high ground. Painful for both you and your enemies, use them to fight large size monsters from a more ergonomic height, or just make your legs look hot. We guarantee the dex penalty is worth the charisma bonus!
Jocko’s Magical Emporium — where our Safe word is savings.
In celebration of Nail Polish Day on Alpha Flight, we’re starting a giveaway for a set of three sparkly Desert Bus inspired nail polishes to adorn your nails with! In the prize creator’s own words…
A Treo of beautiful handmade indie polishes. Desert Buck is a linear ultra holographic in silver; 69 Nice! is a black jelly base filled with colour shifting iridescent flakies in greens, golds, and magenta; and Going to the Store is a violet base filled with a mix of glitter, and aurora shimmer shifting through cyan and emerald. For best results, apply with base coat and a quick dry to coat.
Log in to or sign up for a donor account, then donate $6.90 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this giveaway until 4:00pm PST.
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to thank one of of Technical Sponsors for this year’s event: PubNub!
PubNub was founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA as a Data Stream Network for software developers to build realtime applications. They succeeded in making real-time message systems that allow for near instant communication for web and mobile apps. Today, PubNub powers thousands of realtime apps around the world, from innovative start-ups to globally recognized brands. They manage over 3 million realtime messages per second and 100 million devices per month.
It is thanks to PubNub that we are able to continually show you our live donation total. Thank you, PubNub, for your continued support of Desert Bus For Hope!
In addition to all the Official Desert Bus 2021 T-Shirt and other merch from the Desert Bus Store, we’ve got a few special promos from friends of the bus around the Desert Bus for Hope community. The creators of these promos have pledged to donate a portion of the proceeds to Child’s Play Charity!
We’re starting a giveaway for this Pokémon Shadow Box! But first, you gotta catch the description of this prize from the prize’s creator…
Prepare to be a-Mew-sed. I’m gonna Raichu a description so filled with awesome puns you won’t Bayleef it. Whether this prize comes up in Omanyte Watch, Zeta Shiftry, Dawn Gardevoir or Abra Flight, you’re going to be stunned by the Beautifly prize I have for you. Just take a Pikachu.
How Charmeleon is this? I know it’s Farfetch’d but this Scrafty trainer combined only sheets of white cardstock and LED strip lights to create this Tentacool framed artwork.
It took an Unown amount of time to create, but I’m no Fletchling. I took some time to Meditite and finally got it Rhydon.
The frame measures 247mm by 247mm, and is 31mm deep. Batteries not included unfortunately. You’ll need six AA ones. The frame has a hook to hang on the Walrein, but it’s thick enough to Butterfree-stand. I’ve included some velcro tabs if you want to affix the battery packs to the back of the frame.
It would be Onix-ceptable for you to ignore it, so don’t be a Slowpoke and place a Bidoof. Shout about it in the Chatot and let everyone know – let’s get a full on bidding Wartortle going.
Log in to or sign up for a donor account, then donate $8.98 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this giveaway until 2:35pm PST.
We’d like to take a moment to thank one of our returning Prize Sponsors for this year’s Desert Bus for Hope: Ysbryd Games!
Ysbryd Games is a publisher that is looking for spirited independent game developers who hunger to create games with magic. They provide a rock-solid bridge for every step of the video game publishing journey: fundraising, polishing, and marketing. They’ve seen lots of hopeful indie devs get derailed by the realities and difficulties of video game publishing; they’ve walked the road themselves and are here to help out.
In addition to donating prizes to this year’s event, we also welcome Ysbryd’s community manager, Jacob Burgess, joining us again on Alpha Flight this year. Thank you Ysbryd for your support of Desert Bus for Hope!
Our first giveaway of today’s Alpha Flight has begun! We’re giving away a custom-painted Desert Bus-themed CyberGirl Chizue, generously donated by MomoCon and assembled and painted by a crafty trio of creators.
From the world of Lauren Cooke’s “CyberGirls” line of limited run resin model kits, Chizue (age 26) leaves the cyberpunk metropolis of future Atlanta, GA (USA) to make her way to Las Vegas (by way of Tucson, Arizona). Garbed in her stylish Desert Bus 20XX jacket, equipped with state of the art cyberlegs, and armed with her kanji-inscribed baseball bat “HomeRun!!”, this street viper is looking to make her mark in Sin City and your collectibles display. Prize package includes one custom painted assembled model figure and base along with one unassembled kit.
Log in or sign up for a donor account, then donate $8.26 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this donation drive until 1:15pm PST.
