Desert Bus is a well-known known mini game, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly’s preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph, a feat that would take the player 8 hours of continuous play to complete, as the game cannot be paused.

The bus contains no passengers, and there is no scenery or other cars on the road. The bus veers to the right slightly; as a result, it is impossible to tape down a button to go do something else and have the game end properly. If the bus veers off the road it will stall and be towed back to Tucson, also in real time. If the player makes it to Las Vegas, they will score exactly one point. The player then gets the option to make the return trip to Tucson—for another point (a decision they must make in a few seconds or the game ends). Players may continue to make trips and score points as long as their endurance holds out. Some players who have completed the trip have also noted that, although the scenery never changes, a bug splats on the windscreen over halfway through the first trip, and on the return trip the light does fade, with differences at dusk, and later a pitch black road where the player is guided only with headlights.

So now what you know what desert bus is and what it looks like, time to get down to the rules.

1. There will be a total of 4 drivers. James Turner, Bill Watt, Morgan vanHumbeck and Jeremy Petter. Each driver will take 4 hour shifts.
2. If we are stupid enough at any point to drive the bus off the road, the game will be reset and we will start over. It makes little sense to sit there and wait for a tow truck and then watch ourselves get towed all the way back to the start, and would artificially extend the length of the drive.
3. Drivers are not allowed to leave their post at anytime. If it is an emergency and they need to leave one of the members of the pit crew will briefly take over

Last time I checked in on them they were up to $17,000 and 18 hours total!

Title: There
Prompt: Waterfall
Character(s): Giles, Buffy
Rating: PG
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Buffy has a close one and Giles is there.
Word Count: 275
Happy birthday froxyn

( She'd been covered in blood and gore and it hadn't taken much to get her in the shower )

Title: Oh Fudge
Prompt: Hot Fudge
Character(s): Usagi, Spike
Rating: PG
Genre: Fluff
Summary: Do blood and ice cream go together?
Word Count: 185
Happy birthday starbearertm

( The chocolate sundae had been her choice )

Title: A Gift
Prompt: Dagger
Character(s): Malachai
Rating: R
Genre: Dark
Summary: Malachai recollects.
Word Count: 100

( Malachai was not a good boy, not a nice boy. )

Title: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow // Requested by lucidreamsfics
Prompt: "I'll let you know the next full moon."
Character(s): Brigitte Fitzgerald, Sam MacDonald, Jeremy
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama
Summary: Welcome to the nightmare.
Word Count: 550

( You picked Sam over me and now anything that happens is your fault! )

Title: Rare Moon // Requested by starbearertm
Prompt: "Think you see werewolves a lot?"
Character(s): Spike, Sailor Jupiter
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Drama
Summary: Sailor Moon and Angel the Series X-Over
Word Count: 350

( She kind of came thundering in. )

Title: Metaphor // Requested by yen_sama
Prompt: "You can't tame what's meant to be wild. It just ain't natural."
Character(s): Minako and Trunks
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance
Summary: Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z X-Over
Word Count: 150

( You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. )

Title: 'snick
Prompt: Lighter
Character(s): Spike
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Summary: Why does Spike keep that lighter? He's probably not even sure.
Word Count: 235
Happy birthday rebcake!

( Spike and his lighter. )

Title: We Are No More The Everyman // Requested by silverspidertm2
Prompt: Godhood
Character(s): Megatron, Optimus Primal
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Summary: Post-Beast Machines. Megatron and Optimus... Talk.
Word Count: 100

( In the end, who was right? )

Title: Kübler-Ross Can Stick My Fist
Character(s): Cheetor, Panna (OC)
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Summary: Post-Beast Machines. Cheetor adjusts to peacetime.
Word Count: 780

( On Life and Living )

Title: Eyes
Prompt: Eyes
Character(s): Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Summary: Vegeta learns a painful lesson.
Word Count: 100

( Somethings are better left unexplained )

Title: Twenty Minutes
Prompt: Perfect
Character(s): Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Summary: Take the moments when you can.
Word Count: 100

( Sometimes all you can get is twenty minutes )

Title: Our Designation: Chapter Four
Character(s): X5-452 aka Max, X5-494 aka Alec, Madame X, Lydecker
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Summary: What if Max never escaped Manticore in the beginning of Season Two?
Word Count: 1,300

( she cannot run )

Title: Wondering
Prompt: Time
Character(s): Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Summary: Some spend a lifetime with no answer to their question.
Word Count: 100

( Vegeta never had a chance at family )

Title: Blue Skin
Character(s): Jhayra
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Summary: The universe is a big place and this is just one of the stories out there.
Word Count: 700

( the chick's got blue skin? )

Title: From Pact to Pack
Character(s): Sam/Brigitte, Ginger, Jeremy, Ghost + Others
Rating: PG-13 (currently)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Summary: A pack has safety in numbers.
Word Count: 1,275

( just keeping up the neighborhood )

Title: Fahrenholz
Character(s): Oz
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama
Summary: This is a world where no one wears who they are on their sleeve.
Word Count: 300

( Stay with the dead, I'm joining the living! )

Title: Prayer
Prompt: Revenge
Character(s): Vegeta, Nappa Raditz
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Summary: Raditz vows to make Freeza suffer.
Word Count: 100

( Who says dreams can't come true under Freeza? )