Hey everyone, want to do something awesome?

We need to fill out our achievements page and we want you to do it for us (that sounded better in my head…)!

Anyway, help us out and get your achievements

Here’s what you do:

1. Go to our achievements page and see which achievements we have already unlocked this year!
2. Notice that we need images to put up for those achievements!
3. Realize that if you submit art for those unlocked achievements you could win a prize!
4. Draw/Photoshop/Airbend something awesome and save it as  Save it as a PNG at 70px by 70px with transparency.
5. Send it to us at cheevos@desertbus.org and use “Achievement Unlocked” as your  Subject Line!
6. ???
7. PROFIT!

So what do you get? Well, we might just be giving our favorite entry a copy of The Darkness II for a platform of your choice (XBOX, Playstation or PC).

Plus, you get unlock the personal achievement “Achievement Unlocked: Unlock Achievement Unlocked through Unlocked Achievement”.

…achievement.

Help us, oh-Desert Bus fans, you’re our only hope!

Want to win an cuddly R2D2 plush made by our very own Tally of Tally’s Treasury? This droid has big attitude for such a small guy and is made of soft fleece, felt, and sass with a with appliquéd felt detailing. You can hold onto this plush droid like your childhood memories of the pre-prequel Star Wars!

Tally is also the coordinator of the Desert Bus for Hope Craft-Along, which is pretty much the most awesome role ever because she gets to talk about, look at and handle countless incredible handmade items and get to know the immensely talented people who made them. But she has to pretend that it’s super duper difficult and arduous work, since Desert Bus is all about pain and suffering, so shhh!

To win this item drop donate any multiple of $12.22 before 8pm! Every $12.22 buys you an entry into the draw! So go! Bid! You still have 40 minutes!

And may the Bus be with you. Always.

T-Minus thirty minutes until you have a chance to win your very own song by the Doubleclicks!

That’s right. Your very own song. Anything you want a song about, 60 to 90 seconds long.

The Doubleclicks perform delightfully geeky songs in a way only a pair of sisters can – using their cello, ukulele and sweet harmonies. Since hopping on to the scene in 2011 with a weekly new-song YouTube project and the music video for their Dungeons & Dragons love song – “This Fantasy World,” The Doubleclicks have headlined from Portland to Seattle and beyond, performing at w00tstock shows with Paul & Storm and Wil Wheaton, and entertaining audiences at pop culture, gaming, and sci-fi conventions.

During their call in we’ll be auctioning off A Custom Doubleclicks Song! Yes, your very own song. That’s right. Anything you want a song about they’ll write and record it!

The Doubleclicks will be calling in on Wednesday at 7:00 PM PST, 10:00 PM EST, 3:00 AM GMT.

Daniel Beck won the Desert Bus Desert Buck contest by designing the perfect monetary currency of Desert Bus, but he didn’t let a little thing like winning stop him from continuing to make more!

Although the official term “Desert Buck” means a denomination of $22.805 (the amount of money raised by Desert Bus 1 for the woefully unknowing) Daniel has determined a Desert Buck to indicate the total raised by each year. In this way it seems more like a “Desert Bond” or a “Desert Stock”, but either way it’s freaking awesome.

Here are his other denominations!

Two Desert Bucks, AH AH AH

You’ve got four hours left to bid on the following auctions

• Ravnica Guild Signet Rings set: Ten (10!) 3D printed signet rings bearing the original guild symbols from the ten guilds of Ravnica!
• duct tape Desert Bus Deck Box (with unstoppable tiny Myr army!): Plus a hugely terrifying Creepy Doll figurine.
• Desert Bus 3000: In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bus…
• Desert Bus leather arm band – small, steampunk style: Beautifully detailed with the words “Desert Bus for Hope,” surrounded by Desert Bus and steampunk imagery.

Plus the following auctions have just gone live!

• Custom painted Warhammer set: 40k or fantasy? You decide!
• Electric Blue – Tron painting, oil on canvas: Hyper realistic oil painting!
• Pyro Jack doll: From the game Shin Megami Tensei Series, and it even sparkles!

Thirty minutes until we start what is going to be one of the hottest live auction’s of our entire history!

Prepare your wallets for the unthinkable: A full, uncut, foil sheet of Return to Ravnica. Rares and Mythics. Simply stunning.

Thank you, Wizards of the Coast. Thank you.

You have a chance to make this once in a lifetime item yours today at 5:00pm PST

Tally loves costumes and dressing up in costumes (as all right thinking people should). During her shift she donned her Tigger/Hobbes costume and asked all of you to submit your costume photos. There were so many that it was really hard to choose a winner, but in the end we randomly selected Kia Ora’s Gundam Style costume.

Tally’s favourite was this costume by Leoma Silfren of Zora from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
 

 
And here are the rest! These photos make me want to dress up right now! 

One Desert Buck is $22,805, which is the amount we raised in the first Desert Bus. We had a contest to determine the design for both the paper/bill and metal/coin versions of the Desert Buck.

The winner of the paper/bill version was Daniel Beck!

The winner of the metal/coin version was Darcy Runham!

Thanks to everyone that entered!

Andrew Ferguson has been taken amazing photos of us throughout all of Desert Bus for Hope. If you want to see what you missed, or just want to see a different angle of the mayhem, make sure to check out photos.desertbus.org.

Here’s just a couple of the over 250 photos currently online.

BearKate & Kathleen Gangnam Style

Talleesi with Dragon