Your curiosity gets the better of you, and you find yourself wandering over to the circling stallions.
"C'mon! Y'all can't seriously be too scared to drink a mare under the table!" She laughs loudly, another two rounds of cider being placed down onto the table.
She searches around the crowd for an appropriate opponent, before, of course, she settles on you.
"You! Ya look like you can hold down a few pints!"
You pause, while every other stallion's eyes attach onto you.
"C'mooon, I'm payin' fer it today, but you'll be payin' fer it tomorrow." She chuckles.
The pressure's already too much to turn down her challenge, and she seems like she's already been drinking for a while, so surely it can't be too hard to out-drink her.
You take a seat opposite her, the stallions surrounding you whispering and gasping amongst themselves.
"Okay, so here's how it's gonna work - Down the glass, in one gulp, and whoever falls down first loses. Right?"
You eye up the two foaming pint glasses in front of you. This is such a stupid idea...
"Three! Two! One!" The orange mare counts you in, and then she's off, her head tilted back and her throat surging as she gulps down the cider. You quickly join her in downing a glass of it yourself, if you weren't having to swallow it down at such a pace you'd remark it was pretty good cider.
She finishes her glass a few seconds before you, wiping her lip with a satisfied grin. You pull your empty glass away breathlessly.
"Pretty good cider, huh? Made it maself, y'know?"
You nod, but before you have even a chance to catch your breath, she's moved onto the second glass, and you join her.
It's surprisingly quite exhausting, and though you do have a high alcohol tolerance, you're starting to feel a little lightheaded from the lack of oxygen alone. All you can see is the golden-orange beverage drain away from your glass, your vision blurring for a second as you focus entirely on finishing the whole glass.
You slam your glass down onto the table, taking in desperate breaths, all the while the mare opposite you simply sits and smiles, unphased.
"Not bad at all! Yer doin' better than half these so-called stallions, but it's time for the big guns."
She leans over and says something to a pony, who head over to the bar.
"Now, a few months back, we had these real special dark apples growin' in the orchard, and I took that opportunity to make some special dark cider. Now, this stuff's pretty strong. Had Big Mac sleepin' like a baby after jus' one glass. Let's see how ya do." She winked, and the two large tankards were placed down in front of you, once more there were two glasses each.
If you weren't tipsy already, after this you sure would be. The ponies around the table gasped, but Applejack's smug countenance was unchanged.
"Three... Two..... One!!"
You both swung the tankards up to your lips, gulping the cider down. It was immediately obvious that this was much stronger. It was far more bitter than sweet, and with nearly the potency of whiskey, but now you'd gotten this far your pride was setting in. You're not giving in that easily.
The cider was heavy as you swallowed it down your gullet, sitting in your stomach like a rock and making your head lighter.
You both completed your cups, and she seemed impressed.
"Wow! Yer doin' better than I expected! Nopony's gotten further than this last pint, though. Good luck." She grinned as she held the glass in front of her; she looked as if she could quite easily down another five of these if she wanted, but this was it.
You took a deep breath, and both began to drink. You were starting to feel the effects of the alcohol take hold of you, but not in a pleasant way. A headache was starting to form, but you power on, every mouthful of dense, dark cider becoming more and more difficult to swallow.
After about ten seconds. You both slam your tankards onto the table, and...
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