Coming up at 2pm today is our first Live Auction of Desert Bus for Hope 2020. And what a prize it is… the winner of this auction will receive a custom crafted “Guardians of the Bus” Battle Chess Set!
This set includes 32 metal and resin scale miniatures, each modified and painted as a different cast member or Desert Bus lore item. Play as the Tech Army – equipped with boom mic scythes, Minecraft picks, and Random Dance Party robots. Or, challenge them with Team Spoop – wielding song, spell, and Creepy Doll. 12 additional bonus minis are included, usable for prop, display, or extremely strange game of fairy chess.
At 28mm scale (~1:56), each piece doubles as a miniature for tabletop games. The wood box, made of laser-cut walnut, white poplar, and purple heart, measures 11″x11″x2″ when closed. All 32 main chess pieces fit snugly into custom-sized cavities, and the magnetized lid can be fully removed for use as a massive tabletop dungeon tile.
Since this is our first Live Auction, let’s cover how this works. Live Auctions are conducted in our Twitch channel chat at twitch.tv/desertbus. Make sure you’re logged in to Twitch and that your Twitch ID is linked to your Donor Account. Remember… chat is usually ahead of the stream by a few seconds, so watch chat for the latest updates during the auction.
Desert Bus for Hope is fueled by the endless generosity, enthusiasm, and support of our community. You make up the backbone of what we do here every year and we thank you for being a part of this endeavor.
Because you all are fantastic and are such an important part of what we do together, we wanted to provide a new opportunity to add your voice to this year’s event. Starting today and through the entire run, we encourage you to post on Twitter about what Desert Bus for Hope and Child’s Play means to you, or what impact they’ve had on your life.
Share your story on Twitter with the hashtag #DBToMe. 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.
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to thank one of our returning prize sponsors for this year’s event: Card Kingdom.
Card Kingdom is owned and operated by brothers John and Damon Morris. They began their adventures in the collectables game as kids, learning the business by selling baseball cards at local swap meets. In 1999, they opened Card Kingdom in John’s basement, and before long they quit their day jobs to focus full-time on making Card Kingdom the best place on earth to buy Magic cards. Since then Card Kingdom has grown into one of the world’s biggest retailers of Magic: the Gathering, with two brick and mortar locations in the Seattle area.
Thank you Card Kingdom for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope!
If you’ve been looking for games to play, Humble Bundle’s here to save the day. Win a full year of Humble Choice, which includes 9 games from a new selection pool each month! Additionally, the publishing team from Humble Games has included keys for their latest games including Ikenfell, Carto, Prodeus, and more.
Donate $8.12, or multiples thereof, by 11:45am PST for a shot, and make sure you have a donor account set up and ready to go!!
DAWN DAWN DAWN…….
DAWN DAWN DAWWWWN…….
DAWN DAWN GUAAAARD
Do you look forward to the Dawn Guard intro every year? Do you have a great concept for a new spin on it? Then this challenge is perfect for you!
To start, go to THIS LINK and download the 5 files of our Dawn Guard hosts doing their part in the singing. What we want you to do is to take these and edit them together into a beautiful Dawn Butterfly.
Please make sure the clip isn’t any longer than the longest clip in the files. Once you’ve finished it, upload the video to Youtube and send a link to contest@desertbus.org. You have until Sunday, November 15th at 7:00pm PST. Starting on Monday morning, we’ll play the best 4 counting down to the winner on Friday.
The winner will get a Desert Bus tshirt from Fangamer!
Do I really need to say anything? Literally ANYTHING about this thing?! It’s beautiful! How would you not want this thing?! Donate $9.33, or multiples thereof, before 10:20am PST to get your chance at it!!
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Wait are you still here? OK OK! So, this handsome wall clock recreates one of the stained glass windows from the masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and translates it into beautiful multi-layered wood. Made of cow tree wood, walnut, birch, acrylic, cork, and artboard, this clock is inked entirely by hand and meticulously finished. It has been UV protected and sealed for the vibrant colors to last a lifetime. Now go donate!
Get your little bidding fingers ready, because you’ve got less than an hour to get these Silent Auctions before they go away!
The Blackwork Worker Bees embroidery piece is here…
And the Shift Themed Dragon Eggs are here!
WELCOME TO THE FEUD!
We are starting a donation drive for this sweet book, just donate $5.55 by 8:35am PST to get a chance!
If you’ve been watching us for any extended amount of time, you’ll know we’ve played a lot of Family Feud, and all of you have been contributing your voices to us to help continue this tradition through the Boss In Charge, Noy2222. Now that there’s been so much, there’s enough to make a whole book!
ZETA HAS BEGUN. Well, it began. And then the very first Zeta of the run came to an end. Sleep through it? Work during it? Did you have to exit, pursued by bears, and couldn’t watch the stream? We’ve got you covered with the night’s highlights!
Let’s begin at the beginning:
But, like, what is a peep? Are the real peeps the friends we made along the way?
After years of using the song, Zeta finally plays Numberwang
We finally get a short, concise, understandable* primer on Blaseball!
*Explanation may not be short, concise, or understandable. It is entertaining, though
The best part of waking up, is probably not Foldger’s in Serge’s cup.
Cameron discusses the potential biology of a minion. It is A Lot.
Now, this is a stretch, but… Here’s a stretch.
How about a recap within a recap?
And as our broadcast day comes to a close, we here at Zeta wish you a good, and mildly confusing day.