Welcome to the Chickobo Shift Parade! Each Desert Bus for Hope shift now has a chocobo chick representative! Orange for Dawn Guard, red for Alpha Flight, blue for Night Watch, purple for Zeta Shift, and chaotic rainbow for the inevitable Omega Shift. Each chick also comes with their own shift banner attached to stands via magnets. You know what that means? You also get epic ‘fridge magnets!

Each chocobo chick is lovingly constructed with acrylic yarn, polyfil, wired poseable feet, and semi-precious stone eyes (jade, obsidian, tiger’s eye and amethyst). The banners are constructed of felt with embroidered detailing, and reasonably powerful magnets sewn between felt layers. Stands are made of wood, clay, and iron wire for the magnets to easily stick to, with tiny green trees to mark their front side and dark green velvet underneath to assure no furniture will be harmed in the display of your magnificent parade.

Sign up for or log in to your Donor Account, then donate $5.55 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this giveaway until 4am PST.

Donated by our friends at Wizards of the Coast, is this Midnight Hunt Premium Foil Full Set The nights on Innistrad grow longer and longer, and the humans fear that the sun may one day never rise. They turn to a desperate ritual to try and return balance to Innistrad, but all around them the creatures that hunt them in the dark close in. This full set of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt includes one copy of every card in the main set in premium foil. (Does not include alt-art or borderless versions.)

Sign up for or log in to your Donor Account, then donate $7.13 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this giveaway until 2:00am PST.

This time, on Night Watch…

Our discussion of the merits of root beer somehow led us to crime.

We enjoyed our visit from Tabitha Sheehan (via the Telepresence Robot), who joined in our Star Trek poker game.

Max fiddled. Then fiddled again later in the evening, this time so hard they broke the mic! 

We also played “What animal are you” for every Desert Bus Shift.

Finally, as we all say: Ajony.

You seem like a nice sort, so we’re gonna let you in on a little secret: there’s some great prizes available right now in the Silent Auction, but they’ll be gone in just three hours. Quick!

Portal Mittens

If you put a pair of portals on your hands and then stuck one of your hands into one of the portals, what exactly would happen? Would your hand come back out of… itself?

You can investigate first-hand if you bring home these Portal Mittens and you’re willing to put your body on the line. For science. And the children? For the science children.

Current Bid: $1,200

 
Desert Bus Shift Banner Biscornu Set

These pincushions are so cute that you’ll hate to put any pins in them. Luckily, they also make great decorations and conversation starters! The only thing they can’t do is be hackey sacks: we’ve been specifically warned.

Current Bid: $1,100.11

If you’re gonna stay up late with Night Watch (and we’re glad you are!), then how about getting into some vampire action?

Sink your teeth into Vampire: The Masquerade – Vendetta and strive to become the next (vampire) ruler of Chicago.

Donate $7.73 or multiples thereof by 11:30pm PT to win your crown!

We’d like to take a moment to thank one of our Prize Sponsors for this year’s Desert Bus for Hope: Nix of Nothing!

This weekly webcomic is the latest adventure tale from M. Lee Lunsford, whom you may also recognize as the creator of the annual Desert Bus poster. Demigod Nix was supposed to enjoy a life of freedom from divine expectations, but all that changed when an unknown divine force targeted them. Now they must journey to see if they can find peace once again.

Thank you Nix of Nothing and M. Lee Lunsford for your support of Desert Bus for Hope!

We must be driving through an empty canyon, because we swear that there’s an echo when we shout. Listen, see if you can hear it:

Humble Bundle Bundle undle, undle, undle…

Oh gosh. Maybe we should have kept our voices down, because here comes an avalanche – of games! This year’s Humble Bundle (undle undle undle) contains wonderful games such as Carto, Unpacking, The Wild at Heart, and Dodgeball Academia. If we get out of this canyon safely, it could be yours!

Donate $5.14 or multiples thereof by 10pm PT to catch this landslide of goodness!

You got your D&D in my Magic! You got your Magic in my D&D!

We’re giving away a Magic booster set featuring the wonderful world of D&D, with 30 set booster packs that each have 12 magic cards, 1 art card, and 1 token card. If you’re lucky enough to win this set, you’re probably lucky enough to get some real winners in the set, don’t you think?

Donate $8.89 or multiples thereof by 8:45pm PST for a chance to win!

We’ve been driving this bus for a day now to raise money for the children, so we’re happy to welcome a special guest from Child’s Play: Tabitha Sheehan!

Tabitha (she/her they/them) has been the Community and Program Coordinator for Child’s Play for three years, which means she manages Amazon wishlists for the hospitals and collaborates with streamers like ourselves – among many other talents! Welcome to the USS Tucson, Tabby!

We’d like to take a moment to thank one of our returning Prize Sponsors for this year’s Desert Bus for Hope: The Garages!

The Garages are an anarcho-syndicalist Blaseball band from the fictional location of Seattle, and have created Desert Bus themed songs as well as merch in the past. Though they’re mostly known for making songs about being gay, fighting gods, and all other things Blaseball.

In addition to donating prizes to this year’s event, we’ll also be seeing them live on Desert Bus starting 8PM PT on November 14th.

Thank you Garages for your support of Desert Bus for Hope!