Good morning Desert Bus!

You won’t believe the five fabulous items we have to help wake you up today! Feast your eyes and bleed your wallets at these:

• Enkindle this Hanar hat made by Ry! Holy crap! It even has one of its tentacles signed by four members of the Mass Effect dev team! This One wants this hat!
• Helen Cowart has made a beautiful glass plate based on the game “Journey”. You can really tell that this piece is a labor of love. Wow.
• If the last hat was too biological for you, Ie Dineen has crafted  a head-cover that turns you into the original cyborg badass: Darth Vader!
• Ken Steacy has donated a fantastic lot of signed Star Wars Celebration VI prints to keep the Force with you!
• A signed lot from Paizo Publishing signed by their creative team that includes books, maps, and the best thing ever: a wicked looking goblin plushie!

The 1st place winner is the prettiest princess! On a bus!

And the 2nd Place winner is:

And just to get the full effect, he also sent it to us in 3D!

And the rest of our amazing submissions for this contest are:

It’s late (or possibly early, or like mid-afternoon depending on your timezone), but we have silent auctions happening all the time!

There are four hours left to bid on these fabulous items!

• Hulk messenger bag: Handmade from actual comic books!
• Portal earrings: In one ear and out the other?
• The Epic HeroClix Collection: Features lots of giant clix! Nemesis, Onslaught, Frost Giant, Apocalypse, Sentinels Mark V and Mark II. Jeebus!

You have eight hours to bid on these marvelous auctions!

• Desert Bus Magic the Gathering lot: Play Mat, Deck Cozies, and more!
• Carmen Sandiego Cross-Stitch: Includes an ACME Crimenet case file to help you catch Carmen Sandiego!
• Just A Geek – Wil Wheaton, signed by pretty much everyone: Signatures include NASA (!), Jonathan Coulton, LRR, and MC Frontalot.

All these submissions were amazing, but the winners are:

You’ve got less than four hours to bid on these silent auction items!

• Custom painted Warhammer set: 40k or fantasy? You decide!
• Electric Blue – Tron painting, oil on canvas: Hyper realistic oil painting!
• Pyro Jack doll: From the game Shin Megami Tensei Series, and it even sparkles!

There are eight hours left to bid on these auctions that have just gone live!

• Hulk messenger bag: Hand made from actual comic books!
• Portal earrings: In one ear and out the other?
• The Epic HeroClix Collection: Features lots of giant clix! Nemesis, Onslaught, Frost Giant, Apocalypse, Sentinels Mark V and Mark II. Jeebus!

Only fifteen minutes until this auction launches!

Found in the depths of Vault 34 and signed by the entire dev team this framed Fallout New Vegas Poster is worth your weight in bottlecaps and will be shipped to you directly by Obsidian!

The auction starts at 9:00pm PST.

Hey everyone, want to do something awesome?

We need to fill out our achievements page and we want you to do it for us (that sounded better in my head…)!

Anyway, help us out and get your achievements

Here’s what you do:

1. Go to our achievements page and see which achievements we have already unlocked this year!
2. Notice that we need images to put up for those achievements!
3. Realize that if you submit art for those unlocked achievements you could win a prize!
4. Draw/Photoshop/Airbend something awesome and save it as  Save it as a PNG at 70px by 70px with transparency.
5. Send it to us at [email protected] and use “Achievement Unlocked” as your  Subject Line!
6. ???
7. PROFIT!

So what do you get? Well, we might just be giving our favorite entry a copy of The Darkness II for a platform of your choice (XBOX, Playstation or PC).

Plus, you get unlock the personal achievement “Achievement Unlocked: Unlock Achievement Unlocked through Unlocked Achievement”.

…achievement.

Help us, oh-Desert Bus fans, you’re our only hope!

Want to win an cuddly R2D2 plush made by our very own Tally of Tally’s Treasury? This droid has big attitude for such a small guy and is made of soft fleece, felt, and sass with a with appliquéd felt detailing. You can hold onto this plush droid like your childhood memories of the pre-prequel Star Wars!

Tally is also the coordinator of the Desert Bus for Hope Craft-Along, which is pretty much the most awesome role ever because she gets to talk about, look at and handle countless incredible handmade items and get to know the immensely talented people who made them. But she has to pretend that it’s super duper difficult and arduous work, since Desert Bus is all about pain and suffering, so shhh!

To win this item drop donate any multiple of $12.22 before 8pm! Every $12.22 buys you an entry into the draw! So go! Bid! You still have 40 minutes!

And may the Bus be with you. Always.

T-Minus thirty minutes until you have a chance to win your very own song by the Doubleclicks!

That’s right. Your very own song. Anything you want a song about, 60 to 90 seconds long.

The Doubleclicks perform delightfully geeky songs in a way only a pair of sisters can – using their cello, ukulele and sweet harmonies. Since hopping on to the scene in 2011 with a weekly new-song YouTube project and the music video for their Dungeons & Dragons love song – “This Fantasy World,” The Doubleclicks have headlined from Portland to Seattle and beyond, performing at w00tstock shows with Paul & Storm and Wil Wheaton, and entertaining audiences at pop culture, gaming, and sci-fi conventions.

During their call in we’ll be auctioning off A Custom Doubleclicks Song! Yes, your very own song. That’s right. Anything you want a song about they’ll write and record it!

The Doubleclicks will be calling in on Wednesday at 7:00 PM PST, 10:00 PM EST, 3:00 AM GMT.