A quick reminder about a couple of happenings planned for today’s Alpha Flight that you can submit your tweets to! Tweet @DesertBus with the matching hashtag for…

#DBVox: We’re recording voice lines on-air to help out with this year’s Desert Bus Game Jam. Please keep your submissions short!

#DBAskGM: We’ll be talking, and answering your questions, about running tabletop RPGs. Submit your questions with this hashtag and our team of Alpha Flight GMs may answer your question on-air.

We’ve been doing this whole driving on the road thing for a while now, so we think it’s time to branch out to new exciting business opportunities. So, we’re branching out into another road-based business… food trucks! But… uhh… we don’t have any good culinary ideas. We’re five days into this and just pun-gry. So, we need your help!

We’re challenging the community to come up with their best interpretation of a Desert Bus-themed Food Truck. We’re looking for a menu featuring up to five delicious (?) items that we can sell. You may, optionally, also include an illustration of the Desert Bus food truck.

Send your submissions as a TXT file attachment to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line “Desert Bus Food Truck“. If you also submit an illustration, please attach as an JPG or PNG image. Please name both files, and include in your email, the name you’d like to go by should we showcase your submission on-air.

We’ll accept submissions until 5:00pm PST today. The winner gets a Desert Bus for Hope 2019 T-Shirt and DBloon!

Our friends at Humble Bundle have generously provided a 12 Month subscription to their monthly Humble Choice program. Humble Choice provides new games each month, and subscribers will receive up to 10 different each month of their membership (region restrictions may apply). In addition to this, Humble Bundle have also provided keys for games from their Publishing team: Void Bastards, Forager, and Crying Sun. And if somehow that wasn’t enough, they’ve also thrown in a physical item: Total Warhammer II Serpent God Edition. This collector’s edition includes the game contained in Serpent God ‘Lizard Skin’ Tome Packaging, an integrated art book, a stone effect ‘Puzzle Sphere,’ Carved Bone Effect ‘Teeth’ Totems, and a ‘Saurus Blade’ USB with Black Library E-Books.

Donate $9.90 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 1:00pm PST.

We want to say a hearty thank you to one of our sponsors, Take This. They are an amazing advocate and have been giving giveaways to Desert Bus for years.

One-in-two people will be diagnosed with a mental health condition in their lifetime. Especially in the video game community, the idea that “no one will miss me if I’m gone’ is a pervasive one. Take This was founded to let people know how wrong that is, that there’s help for people with mental health challenges who are also passionate about making games.

We here at Desert Bus would like to take a moment to recognize one of our very generous drink sponsors, JagaSilk. We couldn’t make it through this event without the generous support of sponsors willing to provide us with the sustenance and energy we need!

JagaSilk is a teabar, a wholesaler and a tea academy based out of Victoria, BC, Canada. They believe in beauty, balance and ethical business. This year they have generously donated an assortment of teas and kombucha to the Desert Bus crew. Yum!

From of us us here at Desert Bus for Hope, thank you, JagaSilk!

Roll20 has graciously given us a pack of 2nd edition pathfinder for their platform! They have an amazing digital tabletop system that is perfect for when you want to play with your friends but they live far away, or just because you don’t want to leave the comfort of your home!

Donate $6.40 or multiples thereof by 11:45am PST for a chance to win this lot of goodies!

Play Pathfinder with your friends, wherever they may be in the world! This pack includes access to the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, and Pathfinder 2nd Edition: Fall of Plaguestone on Roll20.net. You will also receive a 1-year Roll20 Pro Account which includes 3Gb of custom asset upload storage, powerful dynamic lighting and line of sight features, and Table on Tablet support. Digital product Only.

Thank you so much PubNub for sponsoring us this year!

PubNub offers realtime infrastructure-as-a-service, and provides enterprise-grade security, 99.999% SLA-backed reliability, and global scalability to support the largest realtime deployments, all via simple APIs and 70+ SDKs. Additionally, developers can take advantage of value added features for application areas like chat, collaboration, IoT device control, and realtime updates to further accelerate build and release times.

Hello friends! Do you want a knife but not the ability to use it?! Do you love video games and pretty hand made pieces inspired by them?! Then donate $5.99 or multiples thereof by 10am for a chance to win!

Thank you so much to Vancouver Island University for helping us out this year with our tech set up.

This is a place of acknowledgement and fair access, achievement and personal attention – a special blend of a caring, nurturing environment sets VIU apart from other universities. It’s an essential ingredient for a values-based education that creates an environment balancing academic accomplishments with the goal of developing students’ social and relationship skills to last a lifetime, make a difference, and model others to do the same. In doing this, VIU is making an invaluable contribution to much stronger and healthier communities and a better world.

Today’s starting giveaway is of two plushies: Link and Zelda based on their designs from Wind Waker.

Donate $8.24 or multiples thereof until 7:40am PST for a chance at these cuties!