Do you fancy a chance at winning a limited edition From the Vault: Dragons Magic: The Gathering foil card set, featuring 15 legendary dragons in beautiful chromatic foil? Well then make a donation of $5.23, or a (positive integer) multiple thereof in the next 27 minutes for a chance to win!
It’s time for another art contest, people, and this is going to be a good one. Kathleen has issued a challenge to create a portrait of her D&D alterego Pel.
There is a lot of stuff to know about Pel, so I made some notes based on Kathleen’s descriptions. Feel free to use as many or as few as the notes as you like, because there’s a lot here.
This contest is open until Kathleen’s shift ends at 10 this evening — that’s about 10 hours from now, so she is expecting quality! As always, send your entries to contests@desertbus.org.
The winner will receive a fantastical D&D adventure pack, including a hardcover copy of the Murder in Baldur’s Gate setting book, a Murder in Baldur’s Gate adventure booklet, and a folding tetraptych DM screen.
Basics
- Male Elf, Wizard, level 5
- Favors fire attacks
- Alignment is chaotic something
- Comes from a noble background
Personality and Characteristics
- Self-absorbed
- Egotistical
- Self-styled ladies’ man
- Pyromaniac (obsessed with setting fires)
- Stubborn
- Cowardly
- Has a bad sense of timing
- Fussy
- Headstrong
- Snarky
- Obsessed with mushrooms
Items and Garb
- Cloak of Resistance
- Elven Chain Mail
- Uses Staff implement
- Crystal Ball
- Magic scrolls
- Ring of Shooting Stars
- Scrying Orb
- Socketed golden skull
Behavior
- Poops on enemy food supplies
- Helps himself to party treasure
Other
- Is followed everywhere by an entourage of Goblin servants, who revere him as a semi-divine figure and loyally obey his every command. This often means carrying unconscious party members
- Has a cursed Scrying Orb that seemed to give him the power to spy on anyone he pleased, but was actually giving fake visions. It also caused him to act erratically, including an obsession with mushrooms
- Experimented with transmuting organic matter into Earth Elementals, beginning with a ham sandwich
We have heaps of excellent auctions going on right now and coming up soon! Check it out!
Live Auctions
This cool House Targaryen Banner goes under the hammer at 2:00pm.
Then an auction for an autographed My Gimpy Life season 2 script will be auctioned at 4:30pm.
Silent Auctions
Thanks to everyone who contributed art for our packing tape hero contest. We had loads of great entries, but the prize, a copy of Plants vs. Zombies Risk, went to Alexandra Craven, for this masterpiece:
Way to go Alexandra, enjoy Plants vs. Zombies Risk! See the rest of the cool entries in our gallery below the cut.
So we combined a bunch of challenges into one. We tied people up with tape, made Andy sing a song, anddddd now we challenge you to create superhero-inspired fan art based on this photo! Send your submissions to contest@desertbus.org and include “Superhero Challenge” in the subject line! You’ve got until 8:30am Pacific Standard Time! The winner gets Plants vs. Zombies Risk!
Update: we’ve extended the deadline by half an hour. You now have until 8:30am to get your art in!
Good morning everybody! I’m Mike, your blogger for the next eight hours. You may remember me from such things as me blogging nine hours ago.
I’m not usually much of a morning person but when they said they needed someone to come in early and do a full shift I said I was good to go.
Why? Well, every red-blooded Canadian knows that during playoff time, no matter what happens, you get back out on the ice any way you can. That’s how Stanley Cups are won, and that’s how we’re going to raise money… for the children!
So let’s drop the puck and get this thing going!
Check out these sweet silent auctions that end at 10am Pacific Time.
It’s a little on the heavy side, but this chainmail tie most definitely makes a statement. The man who wears this tie is sure to get attention.
Straight out of the 8-bit classic SkiFree, the yeti is back to eat your skier! Starting with 3240 individually cut fabric ‘pixels’ and a whole lot of sewing, there are now two quite large yetis, back to back.
Three silly sketches from comic book arist Geoff Darrow. PLEASE NOTE: At the request of Ken Steacy, and with the permission of Child’s Play, 50% of the donations for this item will go to the Desert Bus organizing team, in recognition of their efforts in putting on this event. The other 50% will go to Child’s Play.
Plus there’s this awesome live auction happening at 11:30am Pacific Time!
Original, handwritten story by Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse
It’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, reverse acronym!). Join Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse as he takes a huge risk and reads aloud from his work in progress. Amongst the laughter and the tears, if you can stop cringing long enough, Stepto is auctioning off a hand written copy of his story.
We auctioned off this sweet Castle of Koopa Lightbox!
We had a fanart contest for FTL!
This happened. (Lots more photos at that link.)
We hit five points! (Screenshot by Andrew Carpenter.)
Plus we gave away so much awesome stuff!
If you have any fanart, videos, songs, or anything else send them to stuff@desertbus.org!
I’m not really sure what’s going on here.
Attack on Bill! By Smeghead.
Chibi Creepy doll by KateMonster.
The London Underground. Sent in by Lord Chrusher.
One of our totally killer dance parties!
Plus there are lots of super rad photos on our Flickr account!
We couldn’t show it on the stream but here’s a photo of the Lightbox lit up!
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