END DAY 4; BEGIN NIGHT 4
Mayor Klipspringer Kennigit returned to the jumpers, but strangely with some horses, and one very dapper looking slug. The town could overhear Kennigit nervously speaking.
“Look, guys, we just didn’t have space in the very FIRST games to include the show jumping events! And besides, ya’ll never extended the invitation to jumpers for your RACING cups! Ya’ll didn’t even extend the invitation to every RACER—poor Mr. Sluggington here I’m
sure would have loved to have his best lads compete over there. And to be fair, how was
I supposed to know how technical ya’ll’da make it? You guys will be into running one week, and into dressage the next. We wanted to establish a JUMPING tradition”
A horse objected: “What courage! Not only do we JUMP often, but to suggest that slugs should have a spot at the racing cup? We all know slugs can’t race! It would be an embarrassment to our sport! Don’t pretend you aren’t just entertaining that old slug’s heart and taking his money, the same way you raised the Hay tax just to pay for these events here! Remember your roots here boy, it wasn’t the fresh grass grazing lobby that stood by your side in the past”
Kennigit was agitated, and spoke brashly with the town
"Ya'll decided who to send today? "
"Yea! We ALL agree, it should be ninebolt!”
There were some murmurs, people complaining "no we don't ALL agree", etc, but Kennigit jumped with it. "Ah! So that's easy. Ninebolt, you see, our dear friends---erm, I mean, not ‘deer’, but, well--our esteemed guests here could really use a good demonstration of a real JUMPING spirit. Show ‘em what these games are all about! Go on, show them the best JUMP ya got!
Ninebolt began to protest but Kennigit pulled him aside to whisper something to him. "Look man, the Hay lobby is a pretty big contributor to my campaign fund, alright? And they really got my klipspringer keister. Just, you know, JUMP."
Ninebolt tried, and made quite the embarrassing leap. A horse scoffed: “He jumped no better than a slug would!”
Kennigit: "Nonono! you see, that normally wouldn't happen, he wasn't a REAL jumping athlete. My interns will go fetch the body and you'll see!"
"As for the rest of ya'll, go to bed already, alright?"
People began to leave, when an unpaid intern brought up the body of
Askthepizzaguy. The found in his pouch some boxing gloves, a book on “Kickboxing 101: The best legsport”. The crowd was shocked—a Kangaroo that didn’t love to jump? But, they soon found the truth!
Ninebolt was a Klipspringer!
Askthepizzaguy was a Poacher
Night 4 ends in ~24 hours!
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7 JUMPERS alive!