It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this: a beautiful handcrafted artwork inspired by The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

After countless hours of dedicated practice, the power of Din’s Fire was harnessed and used to recreate the iconic stained glass window from the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on wood. This breathtaking woodburning depicts the brave Hero of Winds and clever Princess Zelda. Only the most stalwart Zelda fan will rise up and lay claim to this piece of art.

Donate $10.15 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 8:40pm PST.

With the switch over to Nightwatch, we’ve switched over into our second set of silent auctions that are now live on desertbus.org. Check them out…

DesArt Bus For Hope Cushion

Featuring the fabulous art of LRR and Jon Kay this cushion holds the entire t-shirt based history of Desert Bus for hope!

Each of the nine images has been carefully recreated, some by hand, to keep their original details. The extra colors included match the colors of the shirts the designs were originally printed on.

Mox Amber Pendant

Now your Mox Amber can be a worn powerstone. A legendary mana rock from the halls of Dominaria realised. This light but powerful artifact weighs in at 17 grams and costs nothing to cast. And speaking of cast, this Mox is made of fiberglass resin — moulded off of an actual stone and tinted, well… amber. Comes with a handy leather safekeeping pouch as seen on the card art!

To bid on these silent auctions, make sure you’ve created a Donor Account, then go to the item’s respective page to submit a bid. Silent auctions run for eight hours, so these will wrap up at 2am PST.

It’s time for the first Creative Challenge of this year’s Desert Bus for Hope! For those new to this year’s event, our drivers will throw out from time to time a challenge to our community for your submissions of artwork, poetry, prose, photography, or other stuff – check the blog for details on each challenge and submission instructions. With that out of the way…

Inspired by Andrew’s memory of hitting $2 million lifetime (pictured) and other memories shared by the room, Ashton and Andrew have challenged the community to draw or submit poetry/prose of their favorite Desert Bus for Hope memory. We’ve been doing this for 12 years now, so share the best moment that’s still in your heart today.

Send your submission to [email protected] with the subject line “Desert Bus Memories“. If submitting a drawing, please submit your image as a JPG or PNG, either as an attachment or a link that we can easily access. If submitting a text entry, please submit your poetry/prose as a TXT file or a link we can easily access. Also please let us know what name we should use for you should we show your submission on-air. The winner of this challenge will win a Desert Bus 2018 t-shirt!

We’ll run this creative challenge until 10:00pm PST.

We would like to welcome back MomoCon as a sponsor to Desert Bus For Hope 2018. Momocon donated a bunch of video game and comic content for y’all this year!

MomoCon opened it’s doors to the public for the first time in 2005 as a free convention in Atlanta, GA. Since then, MomoCon has risen to become one of the largest anime conventions in North America.

MomoCon is an all-ages convention with a focus on Japanese and American animation, comics, video games and tabletop games, and the best of fandom to their fellow fans.

Thank you, MomoCon, for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope.

Are you interested in owning this DesArt Bus for Hope Cushion?

How about this Mox Amber Pendant?

Bidding will open for both of them at 6PM PST!

Only one hour remains on our current silent auctions!

Bids for Farosh, Spirit of Glass, four hand painted water colour Magic: The Gathering tokens, and a Desert Bus-themed handcrafted leather deck box will close at 6PM PST!

Want to win these prints of the card art for “Nissa, Vital Force”, and “Gideon of the Trials”, each signed by Terese Nielsen?

Donate $8.18, or multiples thereof ($8.18, $16.36, etc.) until 5:30PM PST!

Graham welcomed us to The Bus Place…

Serge got up close and personal with some mystery beards.

Jerry and Brenna Holkins stopped by.

We saw the return of Snorsh, and learned more about Weagles.

Alex graced us with a soggy street pineapple.

We hit $35,000 in donations.

And of course, dance parties.

Stick around for more shenanigans!

The lovely Brenna Holkins made us a special giveaway prize for Desert Bus!

If you are interested in this fabulous Big Deck Energy cross-stitch, please donate $7.77, or multiples thereof ($7.77, $15.54 etc.) over the next 45 minutes, until 3:20PM PST.

We would like to welcome Channel Fireball as a sponsor of this year’s Desert Bus For Hope. They have provided us with Magic goodies to pass on to all of you for this year’s run.

Channel Fireball is the home of free Magic strategy content, as well as an online retailer for Magic: The Gathering singles and accessories. They have been in the collectible card game market in one manner or another for over 15 years, and this year they are sponsoring Desert Bus.

Thank you Channel Fireball for your support this year!