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zippy dip ice cream eating contest!!

what's up? 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!

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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!

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Proof Fred's a Seer, pt 2: she TOTALLY dreamed about Zippy serving spaghetti!!

Hey?? I love Zippy?? And all the Local Color going on here?????

Fred's celebrated Every Single Birthday here, so you can bet she's here today.

Eddy is on the lookout for ex-mayor T-Bone, but he's definitely participating in this contest too. Along with his teeny assistant.

Bijou maaaaay or may not participate in the actual contest, but she's also just very much attracted to whatever the Happening Thing Is of the day. Possibly/probably trying to wrangle a pint of Queen G's very favorite discontinued flavor.

THIS IS SO CUUUUUTE 😩

All of mine are here!! I want cute ice cream and photothreads!!!

Audrey loves this town and Zippy’s very much. Could be persuaded to persuade in the actual competition, might just enter to have free reign to sample all the weird flavors

Chanel is here to pick at a single scoop while loudly threatening any school cheerleaders participating in the eating portion that they’re gonna do so much cardio tomorrow. But she also will be dragging friends into that photobooth.

Tybalt is here for a goddamn crown none of this second to third place nonsense this time!! (But he remembers cupcake puke and has no desire to repeat)

Atlas will be making his debut at this event and he’s so annoying at Zippy’s. He’ll be insisting Ex Mayor T-Bone makes all his sundaes because he just doesn’t trust Any Other Employee and someone please explain to him this isn’t a funny goof

I will beeee tossing up openers and/or like, tonight likely but lemme know if you want them as per forever!

Mary Grace says since she's not a flyer there's no need for her to be light, she's just making herself a better base

But won’t you please think of your health please eat a broccoli

There's probably some broccoli-flavored ice cream here

Chanel is, also, secretly cheering for her success bc like
If she dies of malnutrition at 20, she may as well win this

HI I'm gonna do an Open++ with Joop for hitting, but if you want to do a specific Jup/Atlas thread we can do that, instead B)

Aaaaa I will VERY MUCH hit up any open for these bad sibs!!!

You're way too nice to all of our terrible children. ANYWAY, I am up for threads and such please play with me!!!

Laszlo is probably not going to join the competition but he's amenable to being dragged into photos. He'll definitely pick the strangest flavors of ice cream.

Val is absolutely entering the competition. She's never had to count a calorie in her entire life and will happily live off sugar and cream today.

Uriah will ALSO enter the contest knowing full well he can't keep up with his trash compactor friends.

I've been up to my ears in art responsibilities this week but I'm on top of things now, although I do have to take Arty to the groomer which MAY BE traumatic. So long story short I'll be around more this evening.

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Omg those visualssss 😍😍

Freya is here and working!! But she might enter the competition ~just for fun~

Scarlett is more interested in weird flavors and crazy side effects than ice cream.

I would love to do a Zippy Dip employees thread, though I'm not sure what they should be doing. Although maybe they all took a quick break to cram into the photobooth.

Oh I like the idea of a coworkers photo! TEAM BONDING~

We'll nab Felicity too

Thank you!!

Jup is working and I will get a simple starter up for her shortly.

Winter is definitely here and she is going to try each one of the new filters in the photobooth.

Adrian will probably compete in the ice cream eating contest

And Hawthorne has the sense not to participate in an eating contest because he's sure he will choke and die, but he is probably around causing some sort of chaos, if anyone would like a thread.

I want sophochaos in the photobooth

Oh Extremely Good Idea YES PLEASE

I very abstractly Want Stuff today, so yes cute.

ALSO I would just like to say that I've been to Germany three (3) times and I NEVER SAW SPAGHETTIEIS ANYWHERE and now I feel CHEATED.

Why are they trying to HIDE their spaghetti ice cream from the WORLD

ICE CREAM @ THE ZIPPY DIP!

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