Tales by Balefirelight (a Fallout: Equestria Group Collab)

Skilled

by TundraStanza

“Hey, Aru Kab,” he said.

“What?” asked the disgruntled Aru Kab.

The first colt proceeded to open the door to the first building that he approached.

“My skills!” he proclaimed.

Aru sighed bitterly, but he followed after his idiotic partner anyway.  Said partner immediately rushed over to the counter with all the bottles stashed behind it.

“Bartender, I require a refreshing beverage to wet my sexy throat,” he said.

“O…kay.” The mare tilted her head in confusion. “What’ll you have?”

The colt chuckled. “This poor woman has no idea what I’m about to do. All she can hear is whatever selected dialogue I choose at this time and respond accordingly.”

“Uh… I’m sorry, sir,” said the mare, “We don’t serve that here.”

“What the frig?” he asked, “A Barter check of 75? How can this be? I thought for sure it was a Speech check. That manual lied to me!”

Meanwhile, another mare leaned back in her seat towards Aru.

“Hey, what’s wrong with that colt?” she asked.

“Oh, that’s just Phallic Blister,” said Aru dismissively, “About two days ago, he convinced himself that he was playing some virtual reality video game on hardcore mode.”

The mare raised her eyebrow. “Are you serious? Wow, what a dork.”

“Sadly, he’s my dork,” Aru said before sighing again.

“Curse you limited skill tree!” Phallic screamed to the ceiling. “Curse you!”