ICE CREAM @ THE ZIPPY DIP!

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zippy dip ice cream eating contest!!

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Hey y’all! It’s time for the annual End of the Year ice cream eating contest at the Zippy Dip. Come on down and say good-bye to 2019’s wackiest experimental flavors by over-indulging in loads and loads of them as quickly as humanly possible! The Dip’s been done up for the occasion, with streamers and banners in tons of bright colors. Today, tables have been pushed aside and booths magicked bigger so there’s plenty of room to mingle and snack on traditional Zippy Dip fare while brave contestants chow down at a long table in the center of the shop.

It’s out with the old and in with the new today: while customer ?favorites? like dragonfruit breath and ultramarine are being cleared out, today Zippy is introducing a new frozen treat for 2020: Spaghettieis. These adorable spaghetti sundaes come in a variety of fun flavors, finding creative ways to make ice cream, cookies and fruity sauces look like pasta. The new treat is immediately popular, and the Zippy Dip employees may find themselves preoccupied with prepping pasta sundaes...

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how this works!

🍨 Welcome to the Zippy Dip’s annual end of year ice cream eating contest! This Elflock Falls tradition is thirty-five years strong, a way to celebrate flavors past and send off Peckenpaugh's students for winter break. It’s a pretty big shindig downtown, held every year just before midterms.


🍨 Every year, Zippy rolls out batches of his most and least successful new flavors from the year to be sampled all in one go. While certain flavors will surely return next year, for some this is a final (and needed) send-off into the great big ice box in the sky.

🍨 Entry fee is 2 dragots. That's all you can eat ice cream for 10 USD.

🍨 Participants must eat as much ice cream as they can in a limited amount of time. Complicating matters is that each bowl potentially comes with a strange magical effect. One ice cream flavor may be so spicy it makes you breathe fire, another may make you hiccup confetti. It's hard to say which you're getting until right before you're digging in. For narrative purposes, assume each effect wears off after a few minutes, and you can have up to two effects stacked on you at once.

🍨 Mechanically, this game is run in rounds. Check in with an initial form (provided below) and wait for your roll. If you pass a round, reply to that comment to confirm that you’d like to proceed to the next round. You do not need to proceed to the next round, if you're feeling comfy in your current spot.

🍨 Last one standing (eating?) wins! Within the OOC mechanics, that means that whoever is on the highest round as of Friday, December 13th, 11:59PM EST is the winner. Your fabulous prizes include an 👀 interesting trophy 👀, gift card to the Zippy Dip, and a pack of tums.

🍨 Zippy Dip employees can participate in the contest!

locations!

⬦ THE CONTEST: Line up at a hot pink and neon blue checkered table to FEAST on some frozen treats! Post your participations forms here.

⬦ FOR SERVERS: Zippy Dip employees, come get your tips! It was all hands on deck today and each one of you was kept pretty damned busy between refilling contestant’s bowls and serving up those new spaghetti-like sundaes. While the traditional (vanilla, strawberry sauce, cookie & coconut) was most popular, Dippers were given the chance to get a little creative and invent their own spins on spaghettieis. Maybe they’ll get added to the permanent menu!

⬦ THE PHOTOBOOTH: The Zippy Dip always has a photobooth, but today it’s been charmed with new magical filters. Pop in and take a regular portrait or apply some whimsy to a shot with your friends.

⬦ THE ZIPPY DIP: The Zippy Dip interior is 1950s diner-style, all neon blue and hot pink. This is a familiar spot to most Peckenpaugh students as it’s the best place in town if you want a burger, shake and cheese fries to nibble while loitering. Posters advertising cool treats and neon lights promising a fun, friendly atmosphere hang from the walls and twinkling lights hang from the ceiling. There’s ample seating at booths and the bar, though most of the tables have been cleared away today to make room for the contest. Zippy’s manning the soda fountain and he just can’t stop talking about how much he loves that new mural the Aesthetic Magic kids are working on. Yinzer doing such a great job!

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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THE CONTEST

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Post this form to this comment header to participate in the ice cream eating contest!

<b>NAME:</b> <b>APPROACH?:</b> Do they have a secret plan of action? <b>EFFORT:</b> How desperate are they to eat ice cream? <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b>

THE CONTEST: Mary Grace

[crowhop]

NAME: Mary Grace O'Malley
APPROACH?: She barely ate today. Gotta leave plenty of room for a delicious and nutritious meal.
EFFORT: Oh FULL FUCKING BORE, ya girl's got a reputation to uphold apparently.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Remember the days of having a teenage metabolism guys

THE CONTEST: Fred

[ohwormhole]

NAME: Fred Adler
APPROACH?: 17 birthdays and counting of eating this stuff.
EFFORT: It's ice cream??? There's ALWAYS room for ice cream.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Doesn't have a teenage metabolism, but that's not gonna stop her.

THE CONTEST: Eddy

[quidditched]

NAME: Eddy Waxweiler
APPROACH?: Mickey's helping. Can you REALLY crush the gluttonous dreams of a tiny mouse?
EFFORT: All teen boys are garbage disposals.
ANYTHING ELSE?: He swore off sugar for exactly a week, which is probably better than most people.

THE CONTEST: Tybalt

[princeofcat]

NAME: Tybalt Zettler
APPROACH?: Went on a long run before this, constantly starving anyway, may have hollow leg
EFFORT: Wants to win with the power of like 3 recent near losses
ANYTHING ELSE?: I wondered if he’s learned and he hasn’t

THE CONTEST: Scarlett

[scarletthatfield]

NAME: Scarlett Hatfield
APPROACH?: Are you implying she thought about this for a hot minute beforehand?
EFFORT: Balancing the desire to win with the thought of how many crunches she'll have to do tomorrow.
ANYTHING ELSE?: She wants to experience as many weird effects as possible.

THE CONTEST: ECHO (echo... echo... echo...)

[empiearr]

NAME: Echo Ellerby
APPROACH?: USE HANDS AS ICE CREAM SCOOPS TO SHOVEL THE ICE CREAM IN FASTER!!!
EFFORT: Oh so desperate to win. She must bring honor to the Ellerby name. Her eyes roll back into her head like a shark as she goes full savage.
ANYTHING ELSE?: She's wearing her Anne Bonny costume for no other reason than The Attention.

THE CONTEST: Adrian

[numerologest]

NAME: Adrian Gildersleeves
APPROACH?: Presses his tongue to the roof of his mouth between bites to avoid brain freeze.
EFFORT: A bottomless stomach and big dreams, he's giving it his all!
ANYTHING ELSE?: All Of The Dairy

THE CONTEST: Skip

[recordskip]

NAME: Skip Rider
APPROACH?: Gettin his slurp on!
EFFORT: He’s just here for the sugar coma, baby. Until he sees the other competitors, at which point he is also here for the competition.
ANYTHING ELSE?: His parents have been on a health kick lately and he’s anticipating less candy than usual this break, so he’s got to get his sugar in now

THE CONTEST: Felicity

[bratsquatch]

NAME: Felicity Deverill
APPROACH?: For the first time in her life, she had a successful meditation session. She's feeling ZEN.
EFFORT: Maximum effort!
ANYTHING ELSE?: She's gonna blow chunks on a customer later.

THE CONTEST: Trudy Mcgilliguddy

[themurderbird]

NAME: Trudy Mcgilliguddy
APPROACH?: A loose fitting dress and infinitely stretchy tights.
EFFORT: This monster loves a stupid competition and she wants to WIN
ANYTHING ELSE?: destroy her, someone has to

THE CONTEST: Wyatt Webberley

[quodpotted]

NAME: Wyatt Webberley
APPROACH?: He doesn't strategize for anything that isn't sports, but he is a hungry teenage garbage disposal.
EFFORT: Not that into the competition, but REAL excited for free ice cream
ANYTHING ELSE?: om nom nom

THE CONTEST: Willow Quackenbush

[pageantree]

NAME: Willow Quackenbush
APPROACH?: She's just trying not to cause an unfortunate accident.
EFFORT: Not all that desperate
ANYTHING ELSE?: curse curse curse curse

THE CONTEST: Kermie

[maledictorian]

NAME: Kermie Creekmore
APPROACH?: Is there a time limit? Can he just let it melt and then drink it??
EFFORT: BALLS TO THE WALL YA BOY LOVES A SWEET
ANYTHING ELSE?: There's no way he has the patience to let it melt before drinking it but he thinks he's smart.

FOR SERVERS

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Zippy Dip employees! Check this out!

<b>Name:</b> <b>Did They Make An Experimental Spaghetti Sundae?:</b> Tell us about it! Each sundae is one (1) ice cream flavor for the noodles, one (1) berry/chocolate/etc sauce for the spaghetti sauce, and 2 - 3 extra toppings (for example, coconut as a stand in for parmesan, a biscotti that looks like a slice of bread) <b>How Was Your Hustle?:</b> Scale of 1 - 10, did you get that bread? <b>Anything Else?:</b> How'd your shift go?

Re: FOR SERVERS

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Name: Jupiter Quigley
Did They Make An Experimental Spaghetti Sundae?: Oh hell yeah. She went with matcha ice cream for the noodles (zucchini noodles!), a marshmallow drizzle for the sauce (alfredo!) and a topping of shaved chocolate (truffles!).
How Was Your Hustle?: 7. Jupiter's your typical teen employee but she gets by on charisma.
Anything Else?: Really wanted Mayor T-Bone to take her shift for her.

Re: FOR SERVERS

[freyanorris]

Name: Freya Norris
Did They Make An Experimental Spaghetti Sundae?: Yes! Freya doesn't usually create her own concoctions, but she's inspired by the ongoing unicorn trend. This is her Winter Unicorn Spaghettieis, and it bears no resemblance to any spaghetti dish because why would you want your ice cream to look like a savoury meal??? She picked blueberry ice cream for the noodles, added a generous drizzle of strawberry sauce, and topped it off with white chocolate stars and edible glitter.
How Was Your Hustle?: 8! She wants tips, okay. Plus she genuinely loves her job.
Anything Else?: By the end of her shift she's exhausted but buzzing.

Re: FOR SERVERS

[bratsquatch]

Name: Felicity Deverill
Did They Make An Experimental Spaghetti Sundae?: Oh for sure! She calls it "The Toupee." There are banana flavored ice cream noodles arranged like hair. A thin chocolate sauce that hardens into a shell because this head of hair isn't graying. And coconut flakes on top because, unfortunately, you do have dandruff.
How Was Your Hustle?: 9. She needs that money if she's gonna take Cardboard Doug Bobson out to a nice dinner.
Anything Else?: Trying not to throw up after her go in the ice cream eating competition.

THE PHOTOBOOTH

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HOW MANY SOPHOMORES CAN WE FIT?

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"SOMEONE'S STEPPING ON MY HAIR!" Cedar shouts, crammed in a corner as they are, surrounded by butts and legs and arms and more butts. "GET ON MY SHOULDERS, THERE'S STILL ROOM FOR MORE."

PHOTOBOOTH: ZIPPY DIP TEAM PHOTO

[gasgiant]

"Aight, what filter do we want?" Jupiter asks, tugging on her ponytail as she starts to read off the filters, "Daguerreotype—am I saying that right? Yeehaw, Cat—oooo Dogwarts." Her attention tips up to the small mirror and she grins at her reflection. "Or do we even need a filter at all?"

THE ZIPPY DIP

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Jup Waits (Open++)

[gasgiant]

Ice cream contest day is great because the shift goes fast and you gets great tips. Ice cream contest day is awful because it's too busy and you're supposed to be on your best behavior, and Jupiter cannot consciously behave. Still, she manages. Blue and pink aren't exactly great colors on her, but she rocks them the best she can anyway in that cutesy 1950s diner waitress uniform as she sidles up to an occupied booth, notepad in hand. "What can I ge'cha, honey?"

OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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OOC - PHOTOBOOTH FILTER GUIDE

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The magical photobooth takes animated or still images of up to four students easily (the record is 24 kids showing up in a photo from the Zippy Dip photobooth). You can opt to apply a filter to your photo:

PHOTOBOOTH FILTER GUIDE
Hashtag No Filter - Does what it says on the tin.

Daguerreotype - An attractively old time-y photo that seems a bit singed at the edges, no matter how you looked in the booth, you are frowning in the photo.

Yeehaw - Every head gets a cowboy hat, like a Las Vegas pigeon.

Cat - Turns your head into a cat's head. What kind of cat would you be, if you were a cat? The photobooth knows.

Rotoscope - Applies a rotoscoped filter to your images. Makes you look cartoonish!

The Dreamworks Special - Gives everyone in the photobooth the dreamworks eyebrow.

Sparkles - Surrounds you in attractive sparkles with an airbrushed doily background like you just stepped out of a shoujo manga.

Colorized - Produces a slightly desaturated picture that looks remarkably like colorized photos/film.

Impressionist - Makes your photo look Claude Monet-ish.

Dogwarts - This weird photo filter sorts you into a Hogwarts house by making it seems as though you are wearing the school robes of the famed wizard school, but also gives you dog ears and a tongue.

Vibe Check - This photo filter adds an aura effect around each person squished into the photobooth. Each color represents a different mood, but someone has helpfully scratched off the color guide, so who knows what each color means!