Great news, everyone! Just a few minutes ago, Desert Bus for Hope reached
$2.5 Million Lifetime
raised for Child’s Play.
As always, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the continued support of everyone in the Desert Bus community… viewers, crafters, volunteers, sponsors, everyone! You. All. Are. Awesome.
It’s that time of night folks, we are here starting a DONATION DRIVE! Not just any donation drive, we are doing a giveaway for a foil uncut sheet of commons from Battle for Zendikar!
With an easy donation of $13.10 or multiples thereof until 10:34 PM PST you get a chance to win this amazing, unavailable for purchase anywhere, uncut sheet of Magic!
(Sheet pictured is from M15)
We welcome back Fangamer as both a sponsor of Desert Bus and our official Desert Bus 9 T-Shirt production partner. Launched in 2008, Fangamer specializes in creating unique accessories, apparel, figurines, and other merchandise based on your favourite games and geek fandoms. In addition to their numerous wares, they also host podcasts, reach out to the community through Fanfests and conventions, and contribute to charity events—like us here at Desert Bus for Hope. We are incredibly grateful to Fangamer for their continued generosity and support.
Ian is running his first Donation Drive of his shift for this Unwritten Pack! Raise your hand if you played Myst? Chances are your hand is up because it was the most popular game of the nineties. Unwritten is a manmade Myst RPG built using the FATE system. There is a whole lot of wonderful things inside the pack that I’ll list below, but here is what YOU need to know. This drive will be running until 8:20 PM PST, and any donations of $8.88 or multiples thereof will get you entrance for a chance to win this pack!
– 1 Kickstarter exclusive hardcover (not available retail) Unwritten core rule book. Signed by the authors, and some members of the beta team. Includes bonus autographs from several Cyan Worlds employees, including Rand Miller and Richard A. Watson!
– 1 Kickstarter exclusive Unwritten postcard
– 12 Unwritten themed fate tokens in a hand dyed silk bag
– 4 Unwritten themed FATE dice in a hand dyed silk bag
– 5 Unwritten themed Scoutbook notebooks
Our new leader, War-Boy Ian, has decreed that his first giveaway of his shift will be an all shift long art challenge. In true Mad Max fashion Ian is looking for your interpretation of what a Warbus for Hope would look like. 
Any medium, any style, whatever you think the War-Boys of DBFH would ride into the fundraising battle. You have plenty of time to fetch your chrome and create our ride. This challenge will run until 1:00 AM PST (One hour before the end of Ian’s shift). What is the prize you may ask? Well it’s our second Fangamer Desert Bus 9 T-Shirt lot!
Get cracking War-Folks of the internet! Please send all entries to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line containing Warbus. Please include in the e-mail (or the filename preferably) with the public name you’d like to be called if you are selected as a winner.
Ian “drnobody” Horner
Crashes: 3
Patronus: THIS
Theme Song: Auvers Blue (Kemonozume OP Version) by Katteni Shiyagare
First Crush: Penny Gadget
Why “drnobody”?
When LAN parties were a new thing back in the heady days of the early 90s, when playing Marathon you had to choose a name to show up on the network under. I once logged in with just a space for my name, causing a friend to exclaim, “Oh, we’ve got a real Doctor Nobody”, which stuck in my brain. The next game, I made it explicit, and kept the name until the iMac was released, which made iHorner seem a lot cooler.
How he feels about driving for Desert Bus 9:
When not at Desert Bus, he can be found:
Helping out over at LoadingReadyRun.com. If he’s not over there, he’s probably either working on a batch of home-brew beer, or working on the latest episode of the LateNightDubFight.com.
Do I have your attention now? That’s right, we are doing a Donation Drive for the rarest of the rare, The Kickstarter Exclusive DLC Pinny Arcade Pin. This is the absolute most difficult pin to obtain. This pin can be yours for donations of $13.37 or multiples thereof for the next 35 minutes. We are running this drive until 5:55 PM PST. Get your donations in quick!
A winner has been selected as the representative image of our Seapope James….and Steven.
Our winner is Rose Nightshade!!!!
We also have some amazing runner-ups for the contest:
Check out the rest of our fantastic entries below!
![DSC_0256[1] The Potato Cat](https://ghostapp.desertbus.org/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/DSC_02561-The-Potato-Cat-150x150.jpg)
James has decided it’s time for some more eloquent writing.
We our doing our first written word challenge, and it’s for quite the prize! We are looking for a Haiku based on Cookie Clicker, the surprise killer app of Desert Bus this year. Please send any entries to contests@desertbus.org with the tagline including Haiku or Cookie Clicker. Please include a public name you would like to us to use.
This contest will be running until 4pm PST.