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.

There is less than an hour to go on the final silent auctions of Desert Bus 2018! See what’s on offer below!

Provide a keg of beer for the Desert Bus after-party! The high bidder for this lot will receive an official “Beer Provider” certificate, our eternal gratitude, and the satisfaction of knowing they helped get the Desert Bus crew tipsy (on something other than sleep deprivation) after a week of utter insanity. Currently sitting at $2696.90!

Do you harbour a deep desire for a chocobo of your very own, but have found they’re just too big? Drake Chocobo Ranch has the solution for you, in the form of Sable the House Chocobo, with a high bid of $1666.66!

Soft as Elven skin, and warm as the fires of Mount Doom, your little one will be as content as Hobbits at a feast bundled up in The Hobbit Baby Blanket, going for $600!

These auctions close at 6PM PST!

You have reached the end of Final Fantasy VI. You have beaten the boss! You rejoice! And then… Kefka unleashes his final form, and you realize you still have a fight ahead.

This spectacular cross-stitch piece depicts Kefka from Final Fantasy VI as he appears in the game’s final battle. The pattern for this piece was created using screenshots from the game. It was kindly donated to us by Diane Hamilton Siefker.

Donate $9.14 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 1:45am PST.

Average walking speed is about 5kmh-1 which means it would take nearly two hours to walk 9km. Knitting that long, we can only imagine, would take much longer still! So take a look at this phenomenal Moogle knitted blanket that is the prize of our next giveaway!

Dream about Final Fantasy with this 6.5 by 9 foot acrylic yarn blanket fits a Queen-size bed and is made with 1400 squares for extra snuggliness!

To enter, donate $9.65 or multiples until 10am Pacific! Remember, multiple donations get multiple entries!

Shakespeare wrote: “This above all: to thine own self be true.” But sometimes you wanna play as someone else! This morning, Jer is inclined towards the latter, so we’re running a DONATION DRIVE to help select what Role Playing Game he’ll play!

Until 7am, make your donations to cast your vote!

• Donate $5.23 or multiples to make Jer play Baldur’s Gate
• Donate $7.87 or multiples to make Jer play Diablo II
• Donate $9.31 or multiples to make Jer play Final Fantasy II

NOT ONLY THAT! EVERYONE who enters our donation drive will be entered to win the BIG BAG o’ DICE, surely the most incredible assortment of RNGs ever put together!

Show me Steve Harvey as Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII!

*DING* Emu on the Loose is the number one answer! As winner, Emu on the Loose won the incredible Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Collector’s Edition prize pack!

Show me the runners up! *DING*

Lightning Returns Art Contest!

So bear with us here. We’ve got this awesome prize to give away, namely: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Collector’s Edition, which includes Japanese cover art, an 80 page art book featuring pieces by character designer Tetsuya Nomura and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo, a stylish pocket watch. and Aerith Gainsborough ‘Midgard’s Flower Girl’ DLC as well as a PS3 copy of Lightning Returns.

Want to win it? Well, here’s where things get weird. We want you to draw Steve Harvey as Lightning (see below, and above, respectively, or just hit up Google image search). Send your entry to [email protected] and use the subject line “Lightning Returns Contest.” Heads up! This is a quickie contest, so get your entry in before 8:30am!!

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DESERT BUS 8

AUCTIONEERS OF FINE MERCHANDISE & SUNDRY

Let’s talk about some of the fine items we have going for auction now, or in the near future!

Bidding ends on these three silent auction items at 6pm local time (about 2 hours from now). First up is Ch0c0b0 Charlene, a one-of-a-kind, fully-poseable, 10-inch Chocobo, handmade from acrylic yarn! There is also a World of Goo light box: this unique item makes a fine addition to any room and is a sure conversation-starter! Rounding out the selection is the Desert Bus Fleece Wreath, lovingly handcrafted by our own Tally! Say “Happy Holidays” in style this year while giving props to your favourite livestreamed charity event! Makes a great gift!

We also have a live auction coming up at 7:30pm this evening!

 Leonard the Not-Yet-Elder-God is another piece from that Michelangelo of Plush we know as Tally. This 10-pound, 5-foot mega-xeno-cephalopod hopes to one day make a feast of the cosmos, and is a great hugger!

Of course, this is a one-of-a-kind piece, so make sure to get your bids in because you will literally never find another item like this!