Shortly before the Time Walk giveaway went live, our Desert Bus 2021 total stood at an incredible and much-appreciated $390K.
When the Time Walk giveaway ended, we stood at a whopping $460K. What a ride!
Thanks again to our anonymous Time Walk donor. Your generous gift raised $67,172.76 for Child’s Play in just 90 minutes! And congratulations to the card’s winner, who can now brag that they bought a Time Walk card for less than $10.
Last but not least, huge thanks to all of you out there who have supported Desert Bus with views, donations, suggestions for goofs – all of you make this great thing happen. We’re so happy to be doing this with you for the fifteenth year in a row!
It’s here. An actual, factual, Power 9 card: Time Walk for less than ten dollars. Specifically: donate $9.99 USD or multiples thereof before 9:30pm Pacific Time for a chance to win this card.
How do Desert Bus Giveaways Work?
Some of you are new here so let’s review how this works! First, you will need to create a Donor Account on this website right here, that you’re looking at: desertbus.org. Once you’ve created an account and logged in, click that big green “Donate” button up in the top right.
When the donation window comes up, select “Enter Giveaway.” The way this works, every bid of $9.99 USD is an “entry” into the giveaway, so if you donate $19.98 ($9.99 x 2), that’s two entries. You can enter as many times as you like, but please donate responsibly! Spend only what you can afford.
At 9:30pm PT, our Desert Bus crew will spin the wheel and randomly select a winner from all the entries we’ve received. You don’t even need to watch the stream to win – just donate – although we’d certainly enjoy your company! The winner will then be contacted via the information provided in their Donor Account and we’ll make arrangements for shipping!
What is this prize again?
We are giving away an unlimited edition printing of Time Walk, from the very first 1993 run of Magic: the Gathering. It’s one of the most powerful cards in Magic and has never been reprinted in its 28 years of existence. It’s even tournament playable!
AGAIN: Donate $9.99 USD or multiples thereof before 9:30pm on desertbus.org for a chance to win this card! Good luck!
Transmitting all the way from Rigel 4.5, longtime friends of the bus and consummate performers Andrew Cownden and Madeleine Suddaby are currently live with the crew of the USS Tucson.
They’re taking challenges from the chat and the singing has already begun, so hustle on in to the Night Watch stream to catch them while you can!
Just like your next Toreador PC, these Vampire: The Masquerade Notebook Covers are drop-dead gorgeous. They feature three designs inspired by Ventrue, Toreador, and Tremere Clans of the Camarilla and they don’t skimp on the details. Look at them!
Each notebook has been hand tooled with exquisite detail and gilded with metal foil accents. Since they’re notebook covers, you can bring them with you when the first (included) notebooks are used up – and thanks to the acrylic top coat, they are built to last as long as a Vampire Elder.
Donate $10.03 or multiples thereof before 7:30pm PST for a chance to lick the covers bring these beauties home!
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Attention riders of Desert Bus, we here at DB Labs would like to remind you that our current implementation of our Digital Presence Robot is still in beta. At no point should you attempt to feed the robot with food or drink. Failure to adhere to this recommendation may result in outages, screen smudging, and enough crumbs on the floor to trigger an immediate emergency vacuum procedure. Thank you for your consideration.
With that bit of housekeeping out of the way, here’s what else you missed during today’s Alpha Flight…
SungWon Cho (a.k.a. ProZD) calls in to hang out with Alpha Flight:
We auction off the M.I.N.I. Agent Field Kit live:
Latest updates in the Kindness War:
Erika runs Session 2 of Alpha Flight’s D&D Campaign:
The weather is a liiiiittle extreme right now:
We look at the winner and runners up of today’s Creative Challenge:
And, finally, did we mention that, thanks to all of YOU, we’ve reached $7.5 Million Lifetime raised for Child’s Play Charity? We did! Thank you!
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Remember, for the latest updates, stay tuned to desertbus.org. You can also catch up on the latest #DB2021 happenings around the web…
- Visit youtube.com/user/DesertBusForHope for the latest video highlights from the Video Strike Team (VST).
- Be our friend on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
- And, of course, the live stream is always available at desertbus.org and twitch.tv/desertbus!
Thanks to the eternal generosity of the Desert Bus for Hope community, we’ve raised $7.5 MILLION LIFETIME for Child’s Play Charity!
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Thank you all SO MUCH for your support of Desert Bus for Hope and Child’s Play Charity. We are eternally grateful!
Earlier today in Alpha Flight, we challenged the community to illustrate the characters starring in our recurring D&D campaign. Here’s the winning submission, from quietcat!
Thanks to everyone that submitted an entry to this challenge! Here’s a few more notable submissions from the community…
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By Jess.
By toxicspecters.
Question: Do you like cozy crafts? Or colorful crafts? Debate. Or not, because with this giveaway, you can have both in this Cable Knit Panalysts Panel Blanket. In the creator’s own words…
GOOD NEWS! You’re looking at a prize from Desert Bus for Hope! You could have a Panalysts Panel Baby Blanket or a Panalysts Panel Lap Blanket! Which do you choose? (To be clear there is one blanket, it measures 30″ x 50″ and is inspired by Loading Ready Run’s panel show, The Panalysts)
This blanket was made with Brooklyn Tweed fingering weight wool yarn. Brooklyn Tweed yarn is developed, sourced, processed, spun and dyed in the United States, but not all of the colors for this project were available in stores anywhere near the crafter, so some of this yarn has traveled through Victoria, BC’s own Beehive Wool Shop back to Boston to be knit into eight cable knit panels – get it? panels! – in the style of The Panalysts.
If you or your nearest baby is not a fan of The Panalysts, you’ll just see a very cool rainbow. That’s okay!
Log in to or sign up for a donor account, then donate $8.41 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this giveaway until 5:45pm PST.
We’re doing a special Magic: the Gathering giveaway this evening that we wanted to preview for you… an ultra-rare and very powerful Unlimited Edition Time Walk! Whether you choose to play the card or display it as a keepsake, it’s an ultra-limited opportunity to add this to your collection and own a piece of Magic history.
Take a trip back in time to 1993 and then take an extra turn after this one with this Unlimited Edition copy of Time Walk. One of the most powerful and rare cards in the history of Magic: the Gathering, Time Walk is included on the Reserve List and has not been reprinted in 28 years. The card is tournament playable with some slight scuffing and whitening around the edges.
Tune in to Night Watch tonight for your shot at this giveaway! We’re scheduled to run this giveaway from 8:00pm to 9:30pm PST for $9.99 (or multiples thereof).
Don’t forget… beginning this year, you need a donor account to win any giveaways. Be sure to log in or sign up for a donor account ahead of time so you’re ready to go.
Incoming Live Auction alert! The M.I.N.I. Agent Field Kit is coming up for auction today at 3:00pm PST!
We represent an organization called MINI – the Multiversal Incident Neutralization Inititative. We’re a secret organization tasked with tracking super-powered entities across the multiverse, to keep fights between them from disrupting the peace here in our world. Haven’t heard of us? That’s a testament to our success!
This briefcase is standard equipment issued to new recruits as part of the M.I.N.I.A.T.U.R.E.S. project, recruiting gamers, role-players, and the like to simulate multiversal conflicts. Included are:
• 47 customized and fully-painted gaming miniatures, representing a broad lineup across the Desert Bus and LoadingReadyRun multiverses. Scale is “28mm heroic”, used in many RPGs and wargames.
• Full-color poker-sized deck of 53 character cards. Cards double as ‘token’ cards for a popular trading card game.
• Dossier with agency ‘Welcome’ letter and assorted character sheets.
• Durable metal-walled briefcase with custom foam inserts.
This item represents months of research, crafting, and love. Agent, it is your duty to give it a good home!
Be sure to log in to Twitch chat to you’d like to bid on this! Remember, you’ll need to link your Donor Account to your Twitch account to bid, so be sure to do that before the auction begins.