Coming up at 3:00pm today, we’ve got a Live Auction for an awesomely fluffy Chocobo Sculpture, generously donated through our annual Desert Bus Craft-Along!
Your quest is over and it’s time to welcome your very own fluffy Chocobo into your home.
Inspired by the Final Fantasy VII remake, this handmade Chocobo has been crafted and tamed over many weeks and stands at a glorious 20cm tall.
The Chocobo is made from wool which is sculpted over a wire frame using needle-felting techniques. This construction process allows the Chocobo to be gently posed.
The legs and beak are created from apoxie-sculpt clay and brought to life with acrylic paint.
Although life-like, it’s best to keep the real food and liquids away from your Chocobo to ensure a long and happy life!
Remember, to bid on Live Auctions, you’ll need to sign up for a Donor Account and link it to your Twitch account. All Live Auctions are conducted in our chat channel on twitch.tv/desertbus. Remember to watch chat for the latest updates, as chat is usually a few seconds ahead of the video feed.
We’re starting a donation drive for this generously donated signed copy of Arcade Spirits for the Nintendo Switch!
Arcade Spirits is a visual novel of love and quarters set in the alternative history of 20XX, where the video game crash never happened. Find romance, build friendships, and defend your arcade against rivals. This physical edition Nintendo Switch copy is signed by Stefan Gagne and Aenne Schumann, co-authors of the game, and is provided by the developer Fiction Factory Games.
Donate $7.25 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 2:00pm PST.
We’re kicking off another Creative Challenge here on Alpha Flight. After taking a brief look at Sonic the Hedgehog personas for everyone on the shift, we’re taking a moment to celebrate… houseplants!
We’re challenging the community to develop their best interpretation of an Alpha Flight house plant persona. Feel free to interpret this challenge however you will, or in whatever medium you wish, but you must be able to distill your creation into one image.
Email your creations as a PNG or JPG to contests@desertbus.org with the subject line “Alpha Flight Plant-sonas“. Be sure to include the screen name you’d like to go by on air and on the blog in the event your creation is highlighted. The winner of this Creative Challenge will win a Desert Bus for Hope 2020 T-Shirt and DB2020 Doubloon.
Get going… this challenge is open until 4:00pm PST.
Alpha Flight has a guest on shift with us today! Please welcome Alison Luhrs to the digital moonbase and Desert Bus for Hope 2020!
Alison is a Seattle-based improviser and theatre artist with a decade of experience professionally making stories up in front of people. She has performed with Jet City Improv as a mainstage cast member and frequent Jet City Presents cast member/director, and participated in comedy festivals across North America, including the Seattle Festival of Improvised Theatre, the Alaska State Improv Festival, and was a guest with her duo Book Club at the final Chicago Improv Festival. During the day she is a Creative Manager of Worldbuilding at Wizards of the Coast where she has worked on Magic: the Gathering, Baldur’s Gate III, Dungeons & Dragons, and many other titles. As an occasional guest in the LRR extended cinematic universe, she is most well known for that Friday Nights Glengarry Glen Ross parody sketch and comedic shenanigans at various Late Night Dub Fights over the years.
Alison will be hanging out with us all shift today, so if you have any challenges or questions for our guest, or for any of our other entertainers on Alpha Flight, you can submit them here on desertbus.org.
Hello Daynerds! Have you been enjoying your day so far? Want to catch up on what you’ve missed today? Of course you do!
First off we got to meet Mikey Neumann, an overall wonderful human being who runs FilmJoy, a youtube channel dedicated to positivity and the celebration of films.
We also got to celebrate Ashton’s birthday!!!!!
We got serenaded by Paul, took Mikey to the store, and had Liz teach him the Kraken Dance!
And then we went on to our Game Show of the day….MATCH GAME!
(And in case you’re curious…..friendship was the true winner this day!)
We coffee pong’d…
And talked about *checks notes* Foooooooot bell? Ball? Sport? Sports.
We also got to learn what Carrot Milk is. So if you don’t know…now you know.
So if we’ve learned anything, it’s that in the end, no matter what…
Have a good day friends <3
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.
Prepare for a one of a kind draft experience!
Donate $8.24 or multiples thereof before 11:45am PST for a chance to win!
War of the Spark: Mythic Edition includes 24 War of the Spark booster packs, eight of which are Masterpiece Boosters. Each Masterpiece Booster contains one of eight foil, borderless Planeswalker cards, featuring new cards from the set like Gideon Blackblade and Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God alongside powerhouse cards from Magic’s past like Jace the Mindsculptor and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon.
…So let’s take a look at the new ones!
First up is the Super Mario 64 Box-Art Cross Stitch! This one-of-a-kind piece of art is a cross-stitched replica of the Box Art for Super Mario 64. This auction ends at 6pm PST!
Next up is a Rotate The Shift Blanket! As the bussing days progress, you can rotate the 66” square blanket to match the shift you’re watching. This auction ends at 6pm PST!
Varia is a new style of collectible card game that pits you against your opponent in 1v1 combat. In this fast-paced game, there are no minions to protect you or creature summons to hide behind. Instead, you use a combination of cards and dice to interact with your opponent in a high-stakes fight to the death. This lot includes the seven card decks from the game’s first edition as well as two uncut sheets of cards featuring every card from the first edition.
If you like cards, give this one a shot!
$6.40 or multiples thereof until 10:00am PST
Legacy Book Press Book Collection
Donate $7.12 or multiples thereof by 7:35am PST for a chance to win this sweet set!
The winner of this prize pack will receive:
1 copy of “From First Word to Last: The Craft of Writing Popular Fiction” by Arlene F. Marks, signed by the author.
1 copy of “An Odyssey into Video Games and Pop Culture: The Collected Garwulf’s Corner from The Escapist and More” by Robert B. Marks, signed by the author.
1 copy of “Video Games and Pop Culture: Odyssey Two” by Robert B. Marks, signed by the author.