Check out our new silent auctions!

This beautiful cross-stitch of the main Justice League characters measures 24 x 13 inches and features distinct painted backgrounds for each superhero with their symbol stitched on top.

Pepe and Geoff teamed up to travel to the Shadowlands to experience the new World of Warcraft expansion, but unfortunately they neglected to read the fine print on their mode of travel. Pepe is still in high spirits, but despite Geoff’s smile, he looks like he’s lost his appetite. This 3-D printed Pepe & Geoff nightlight features soft and sparkly firefly lights in Pepe, and two glowing LED control buttons in Geoff. One toggles Pepe’s lights on and off, while the other adds to a sleep timer with every push that will turn off the glow once it counts down.

These auctions will end at 02:00AM PST!

The great Wisdom Dog is here to impart knowledge in return for beefy treats, playing fetch, and/or scritchies. Here’s what else you missed during today’s Alpha Flight…

Kathleen becomes Wisdom Dog and imparts wisdom:

The Seattle Garages made a song for Jacob:

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We play What’s It Made: The How It’s Made Guessing Game!

The crew searches for Name + “the Hedgehog” and here’s what we found…

And now, a totally normal meeting of the Snorsh Tourism Board:

And finally, our guest Alison monologues in various styles…

Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2020 happenings around the web…

• Submit your bussing from home photos at yourphotos.desertbus.org.
• Tweet about what Desert Bus for Hope and Child’s Play means to you using the hashtag #DBToMe.
• Visit youtube.com/user/DesertBusForHope for the latest video highlights from the Video Strike Team (VST).
• Be our friend on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
• And, of course, the live stream is always available at desertbus.org and twitch.tv/desertbus!

Earlier today, we challenged the community to develop plant-sonas for Alpha Flight. Here’s the winning submission, created by QuietCat:

Thanks to everyone that submitted an creation to this challenge! Here are some additional honorable mentions from our community…

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Get ready for our next Donation Drive! Adventuring card gamers, we have… well… an adventure card game! It’s the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, signed by the game’s designer Mike Selinker.

The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is a long-running cooperative card game set in Paizo’s Pathfinder universe. Designed and signed by game designer Mike Selinker, this set of the Core Set and the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path will keep you entertained for years to come.

Donate $6.66 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 5:15pm PST.

We’d like to take a moment to thank one of our Technical Sponsors for this year’s Desert Bus for Hope: OBS Ninja!

OBS Ninja is a cutting edge, Peer-to-Peer forwarding technology that offers a completely private and ultra-low latency way to bring remote media streams (such as cameras and microphones) into video streaming software such as OBS. All of Desert Bus’s broadcast technology relies on OBS Ninja and we are so grateful for the sponsorship support of its developer Steve Seguin! Try out this awesome tool at obs.ninja.

Thank you to OBS Ninja for your support of Desert Bus for Hope!

This year, we’ve asked our community to share what Desert Bus for Hope and Child’s Play means to them, and what impact they’ve had on their lives. Here is a selection of these community submissions…

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 10, and at the hospital they had a Gamecube with a Mario Party game, which really helped during a difficult time. So I know how effective @CPCharity's work can be, and I want to fund that for others. #DBtoMe

— Robert Bernthal (@Bobalob93) November 14, 2020

#DBtoMe On Nov 9 2019 @DesertBus helped the love of my life propose to me. On Oct 3 2020 that moment was part of our wedding ceremony. Thank you for being part of our love story! https://t.co/CHlMWucqzh pic.twitter.com/rc2tsWHtuY

— Rebecca Evans (@rebeccajknits) November 16, 2020

@DesertBus My son Ben was 6 when he was diagnosed with cancer. He and his little sister spent countless hours at the hospital playing games. It is a privilege to help provide that for kids today. #DBTOME

— Dean Steadman (@SlagMacG) November 16, 2020

@DesertBus When I was 14 I was in Great Ormand Street hospital for 10 weeks. I passed the time by playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the PS2. I know how much games can really improve a child's stay in hospital and since DB4 this event has become really important to me #DBTOME

— Bertie Wooles 🔶💙💛🇪🇺💛💙🔶 (@BertZZ_) November 15, 2020

You know that feeling of place and family you get at a great convention? Want that feeling from comfort of home? Desert Bus gives that for me, for a whole week every year. The community, art, comedy, hype, and unabashed enthusiasm are so wholesome and healing. #DBtoMe

— Shiny Crochet (@ShinyCrochet) November 14, 2020

We want to hear your story! You can tweet using the #DBToMe hashtag throughout the rest of this year’s run. We’ll be retweeting submissions throughout the run on the @desertbus Twitter feed and highlighting a selection of tweets from the community here on the desertbus.org blog.

As always, thanks for being a part of our community and your support of Child’s Play!

Coming up at 3:00pm today, we’ve got a Live Auction for an awesomely fluffy Chocobo Sculpture, generously donated through our annual Desert Bus Craft-Along!

Your quest is over and it’s time to welcome your very own fluffy Chocobo into your home.

Inspired by the Final Fantasy VII remake, this handmade Chocobo has been crafted and tamed over many weeks and stands at a glorious 20cm tall.

The Chocobo is made from wool which is sculpted over a wire frame using needle-felting techniques. This construction process allows the Chocobo to be gently posed.
The legs and beak are created from apoxie-sculpt clay and brought to life with acrylic paint.

Although life-like, it’s best to keep the real food and liquids away from your Chocobo to ensure a long and happy life!

Remember, to bid on Live Auctions, you’ll need to sign up for a Donor Account and link it to your Twitch account. All Live Auctions are conducted in our chat channel on twitch.tv/desertbus. Remember to watch chat for the latest updates, as chat is usually a few seconds ahead of the video feed.

We’re starting a donation drive for this generously donated signed copy of Arcade Spirits for the Nintendo Switch!

Arcade Spirits is a visual novel of love and quarters set in the alternative history of 20XX, where the video game crash never happened. Find romance, build friendships, and defend your arcade against rivals. This physical edition Nintendo Switch copy is signed by Stefan Gagne and Aenne Schumann, co-authors of the game, and is provided by the developer Fiction Factory Games.

Donate $7.25 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 2:00pm PST.

We’re kicking off another Creative Challenge here on Alpha Flight. After taking a brief look at Sonic the Hedgehog personas for everyone on the shift, we’re taking a moment to celebrate… houseplants!

We’re challenging the community to develop their best interpretation of an Alpha Flight house plant persona. Feel free to interpret this challenge however you will, or in whatever medium you wish, but you must be able to distill your creation into one image.

Email your creations as a PNG or JPG to [email protected] with the subject line “Alpha Flight Plant-sonas“. Be sure to include the screen name you’d like to go by on air and on the blog in the event your creation is highlighted. The winner of this Creative Challenge will win a Desert Bus for Hope 2020 T-Shirt and DB2020 Doubloon.

Get going… this challenge is open until 4:00pm PST.

Alpha Flight has a guest on shift with us today! Please welcome Alison Luhrs to the digital moonbase and Desert Bus for Hope 2020!

Alison is a Seattle-based improviser and theatre artist with a decade of experience professionally making stories up in front of people. She has performed with Jet City Improv as a mainstage cast member and frequent Jet City Presents cast member/director, and participated in comedy festivals across North America, including the Seattle Festival of Improvised Theatre, the Alaska State Improv Festival, and was a guest with her duo Book Club at the final Chicago Improv Festival. During the day she is a Creative Manager of Worldbuilding at Wizards of the Coast where she has worked on Magic: the Gathering, Baldur’s Gate III, Dungeons & Dragons, and many other titles. As an occasional guest in the LRR extended cinematic universe, she is most well known for that Friday Nights Glengarry Glen Ross parody sketch and comedic shenanigans at various Late Night Dub Fights over the years.

Alison will be hanging out with us all shift today, so if you have any challenges or questions for our guest, or for any of our other entertainers on Alpha Flight, you can submit them here on desertbus.org.