Field Report: Tequila Weekend

Ok, before we get started, yes, I'm bad and I'm back, can't believe it's been a year since my last post, I might write a post explaining the last 12 months, but I might not, really depends on whether I can be fucked and whether I can make the story of benefit to myself or you, my dear devoted reader.

Anyway, on with the show. Code names for people and places have been used to protect identities.
Friday, me and Wolf went out pretty early, hit up Rotation, it was pretty empty compared to usual, I was on a mission to open immediately on entry to every venue so I jumped into a 2 set in the centre of the room, opened with my 'cowboy hat' throwaway opener thinking this was just a warm up and expecting it to bomb, but they hooked onto it and teased back, throwing out at least 3 other threads, very playful and it's utterly shameful on my part that I stuck with my initial idea of leaving set as soon as I'd run the opener. Awful stall out, but first set of the night done which is better than the 40 mins of psych up time that tends to happen. what I should have done was just stick with it, throw out one of my default teases and take it from there, one of them was pretty hot although she spoke like she had a sore throat and my initial impulse was to neg on that basis, thankfully I didn't can't see that having gone down very well.
As it's so quiet we kid ourselves into thinking there are no sets to open, which quite frankly was an outright lie, after a drink we head off to hit Single Exception bar. again, I hit a seated 2 set of guys with the cowboy hat opener, so going strong on the mission, this time it does go as I expected, so I guess neither of them fancied me, which all of sudden makes me realise I had a high level of attraction with the first set in Rotation, doh! we hover around for a bit and don't open any sets, again, pretty bad form as it's busy, we need to get out of the habit of not opening just because there are no sets with blatant targets. As I keep reminding myself, everyone knows hot girls so everyone should be sarged to grow your social circle, need to start practicing what I preach.
We headed back down to Rotation, this time it was a lot busier, but I forgot my mission to open immediately so that went out the window at this point. It was bit cock heavy but still enough sets to keep us occupied, rather than opening we already had a plan to recreate a vibe we had going a few weeks ago. On that occasion we had gone in and acted high energy and like we were having a good time chatting to each other, very animated and fun. As a result we were effectively approached by any women within proximity to us, it was fucking crazy. this time we tried to recreate that, and to some extent did, I could see loads of AI's coming at us, but none within a few feet for an incidental easy open, which again, should not have been any kind of excuse, slapping my wrist hard for this now.
Next we headed to Dizon, where I quickly fell in love with a hot oriental bar maid from Canada, we're talking jizz your pants on sight hot IMO. Again, no opening of sets despite even more AI's and easy mixed sets hovering around, it was pretty dead so we should have just hammered what was there before moving on. We continued this pathetic performance when we got to Silk, although this place was more like a zoo, it was dude heavy again and the vast majority of the chicks there were hideous, and I really mean that, proper puke worthy ugly bitches, I actually felt myself about to wretch a couple of times just looking at them. The night was really not going to plan... and this is when the boozing started, we'd only had a beer each at this point, but it was £1.50 for all drinks in this place, and there wasn't much else for us to do, hell, we'd paid to get in so might as well make the most of it. Sank a few beers each in rather quick succession and then hit the dance floor. I started getting a bit more in state as tends to happen when we hit the floor, I've become a hell of a lot better at dancing since getting into game and no longer give a fuck about how I look, before game I used to shudder at the notion, now I'll jump into the centre of the floor and just hit it! It wasn't long before IOI's started cropping up, and then a hot 2 set, one a total Dex type (technical term for the type of chicks that make my sperm lock and load for combat), appear next to us and give us stupendous IOIs... which we totally do nothing about and they leave as abruptly as they appeared, making it painfully obvious that they came over to us for one reason and one reason only, by now I'm thinking I need a damn good slap and I'm giving myself the telling off of a lifetime, 3 weeks since my last sarge shouldn't have made me this much of a pussy! Fact of the matter is this would have been one of the easiest dance floor opens I had ever pulled off, the Dex type's body language was so open towards me it was just fucking on.
Finally we head down to Under Beat, starting to feel the effects of the booze and probably talking a bit more shit to each other, on entry we hit up the bar for a couple of shots of Tequila each, it's 50p a shot on Friday's here, and this was the turning point, I know that because the sequence of events isn't totally clear from here on out, I know at one point I was at the bar and a blonde threw me 4 solid IOI's which once again I totally stalled on, it's got so bad by this point that I'm thinking I should be taken out back and shot. I know we had another couple of shots at some point before we headed outside as I hit the level of drunk that requires me to start smoking. As we stood there looking around I spotted a 4 set int he far corner and uttered 'fuck this!' and marched over and started running my opener, at the same time as a drunk old dude decided to do the same, somehow he ended up with his arm around me and graciously invited me to run with what I was going to say, so I ploughed in with my Online Dating opener, total chick crack, hooked hard, the dude was gone in no time, Wolf joined the fray and the set was off, sadly the 2 hot ones we totally ignored in favour of chatting to the two gobby chubsters, at one point I said something about meeting people in reality being much easier than online, and she half heatedly challenged me to get the nearby mixed 2 set talking, which was all the incentive I needed having finally found my bollocks again, opened them not Interested opener, my variation on the classic 'how do you let someone know you're not interested int hem without hurting their feelings?', my version roles into a story that happens to be true, although no longer relevant. they open beautifully and we chat for a bit before I return to the initial set and the chick that challenged me was quite gob smacked that I had just done that so naturally and fluidly, apparently not realising that I had done the same to her 15 minutes earlier. this ultimately went no where, we were drunk, but not THAT drunk, so called it a night... almost. As we headed towards the chicken place we came across a 2 set hanging around the street, Wolf opened, the alpha female's response was 'I've got off with you!' which she had, must have been nearly a year ago but I remember the night when he hooked into her. this set suddenly grows into a mixed 5 or 6, can't quite remember, but we handled the dudes expertly and they were happy to leave the girls with us, all we had to do was suggest heading back to the Wolf Lair for drinks and Wii, both were perfectly fuckable, but didn't and let the set fall apart, lesson learned.

Saturday, after a day of gym, sauna, steam and sun bed, sweating out all the toxins from the night before, we're ready to go out again for Hank's birthday bash, and we all know it's going to be boozy, all suggestions of 'not drinking much' and 'taking it easy' we had made throughout the day were simply bullshit and we knew it. Hank turns up at the Wolf Lair and we're all on the gin before you can say 'is this a good idea?', logistically this night was going to be tricky as Wolf's girlfriend was coming along and some of her mates were part of the party, and Wolf even joked because of this logistical nightmare that tonight would be the night we hook into a 2 set that want to come back to his.
We get to Chill and gin starts flowing like we've struck oil. And as if that wasn't enough, Hank buys a bottle of Tequila from the bar and we're throwing shots back like there was a prize, around this time I spot a Dex type in a mixed 3 set but don't do anything about it, but she catches me checking her out and ends up watching me for the rest of the night, fail. As the shots hit my system I can feel myself retreating into the depths of my mind, it feels like I'm watching everything going on around me through frosted glass, and I'm feeling very concerned that I'm not even going to make it to midnight. I decide to get some fresh air and head outside for a smoke. I can see a 2 set in the centre of the patio area that would have been an easy open but instead I open a mixed 3 set and sit down with them, one is quite attractive and the other 2 are straight away suggesting we hook up, she is giving classic smiles and eye contact, but I'm lashed and words just are not coming at the right speed, there is a serious miss match of drunkenness, I'm not even paying attention to what they are saying, and I eject. I should have thrown out the time bridge just for practice but never mind, however, it had been enough to wake me up, and I'm now feeling naughty!
I head back inside and am now on form, I'm mingling with everyone in our party, which had grown to about 16 people and getting my waffle on. One of them points out 4 hotties about to leave which I probably should have run over to just for a throw away opener and to build some social proof, but I'm also paying close attention to another dude in our group who is a bit of a natural and trying to analyse his game as it's happening. A few of us head outside for another smoke and I spot a mixed 4 (3 girls) who I head over to and and run 'Fun and Friendly', and before I can stack into any chick crack the one that was talking as I entered the fray turns to me and say#'s 'Yes, we are fun and friendly, but I'm telling a story so be quiet' and she carries on banging on about some shit, as part of it she mentions something about her hand and I ask for clarification, to which she explains she had been sick on it (in the story, not then and there) and before I know what's happening she's got her fingers in my mouth under the notion of making me be sick! I turn to the dude and start running game on him, he's pretty sound but also a bit out of his element apparently as he was no where near as high energy as the girls. I turn back to the finger girl (who was also the target) and plough into comfort with cold reading etc, get some details and make a connection, find out they are all heading to the same venue next as us, Wolf enters the set and I use it as an excuse to eject.... Why exactly? Not sure, this is something I need to work on, my next move should have been to FTC and then stack into qualification.
Next up I approach a decent 3 set and open with the Online Dating opener, quickly the alpha girl uses the thread to mention they are all in long term relationships, fair play, she knew what was going on and let me know it was unlikely without being a bitch. I stay in set to make it look like I didn't just approach to try a pick up, besides, I used to make a thing of going for girls in relationships. the Natural from our party comes over and knowing he uses a lot of AMOG tactics to raise his value I send him packing in seconds, I'm not prepared to have him jack my set... which I thought was a smooth move at the time... It wasn't, he got his own back later, but we'll get to that. I carry on to run this set and stack into a story, I can see the alpha girl is accepting of my presence and engaging me in conversation, the girl next to her has a look like thunder on her face but says nothing, and I can see in my peripheral that the hottest one is throwing DDB at me, but before I can really do anything the whole party heads over and we're off to the next venue.
I march into Double Swine like a man possessed, I'm feeling good, really in state, I head straight to the garden for a smoke knowing it's really easy to open sets out there from my last visit a few weeks back. I head to a 2 set and sit down, wolf joins me quickly and we have a good chat with them, lots of fun, the alpha girl is chubby but she's got such a fun attitude and pretty face that I considered ploughing her, set runs for a good amount of time but I don't stick to my game plan at all, in fact I'm not even thinking about it, I'm just drunk and waffling now. As the set comes to an end Wolf is quite thankful that his missus didn't turn up while we were in set, and as if by magic that's when she appeared, we head upstairs and get a drink, and I head downstairs to the gents, getting felt up by a 3 set on the stairs on the way, they pinned me against the wall and one of them just rubbed her hands all over me, I'm enjoying this night a lot.
I go back to the garden to rejoin the party and see the mixed 4 set from Chill, but don't re-engage as I've got my eye on a 2 set, who are clearly part of a much bigger set nearby but have separated from them, and one of them is a super cute brunette. I head over and run 'Not Interested', they blow wide open, I think I stacked forward but can't quite remember exactly, I'm lashed by this point. Wolf sends in his girl to wing and social proof, she is also drunk and somehow ends up suggesting she's going to lick HBcute's face. It turned out HBcute's boyfriend was part of the larger set a few feet away, so it's essentially over, but I hang around again for social proof purposes and a guy joins the set who I make friends with quickly and keep everything sound. while I was in this set I spotted another 2set sat at a nearby table, one of which I Had opened a few weeks prior and should have totally closed but happened to be drunk and easily distracted... something that seems to be happening a lot and needs to be addressed.
Wolf heads off to put his girl to bed as she's drunk and tired and says he'll give me a call when he's on his way back to see what's going on. I end up chatting to one of the girls in our group, who I've had opportunity to sarge before and have seen IOI's from her a number of times in the past, but this time it's jumped a level, she's kinoing me a lot and running connection building questions on me, and I'm thinking this is golden, especially as the social pressure has eased for her as Wolf's girl is one of her mates. However, I was about to get bitten in the ass by my earlier actions, the natural joins us and befiore I know hat's going on he is sexual framing like a mother fucker, he went all in and in fairness, I was pretty impressed, it was a well timed manuver and I totally stalled. In hind sight I could have thrown out a low invesment suggestion to see if she was willing to follow me to the bar but didn't realise that until later, and just left them to it. that said, I do still intend to close this deal at a later date, I've had chances before that I wasn't sure about, but now I know there is a long running attraction there that seems to have jumped a notch (probably due to my runnign around opening sets and social proofing myself).
Wolf calls me and I can't find Hank, so we agree to meet outside Lucky Number, which when we get there has a really long line which isn't moving, a girl steps on my foot and manages to hit the sweet spot on my toes first knuckle for maximum pain, and someone lets off a logic defying fart, so we sack it off and head to Dizon.
first up I open a 2 set next to me at the bar who are the 2 set I saw earlier in the centre of the patio at Chill, in fact, that's what I opened with, said I was going to come over and ask them a rediculous question. she asks if it was going to be a chat up line and I say 'yeah, it probably was', her response is that I should have come over because she loves chat up lines, it's a bit confusing as to why I ended the set right then and there, I'd rather not think about it to be honest.
We head to the smoking area so I can have another smoke, bad habit, must stop boozing and smoking ASAP! Wolf opens a 2 set, I head in to wing but they hadn't hooked properly yet and it falls apart, but within seconds a girl approaches and asks for a lighter. The joke Wolf had made earlier was about to become a reality. Her friends join us from all angles, it's a decent 6 set and within seconds I'm all over the birthday girl, I can't recall exact details but I'm pretty sure they did all the work, I could see Wolf getting the number of the first girl within minutes and the birthday girl used that as a platform to number close me, she then created the conspiracy frame that she had known me ages to avoid a dudes her friend was tryign to hook her up with, next we head inside and isolate our 2 at the bar from the rest of the set. Before I know what's happening birthday girl is time bridging to meet us again, and I've barely said 10 words since the set started, she is a motor mouth, total air head, but also totally got her sights set on me. I'm not that keen to be honest, hot body but I'm all about soft features and an air of cuteness and innocance, she's a drunk bleached blonde, not my bag, but hell, it's 2 in the morning and the club is getting empty, and most would be happy with this outcome. she repeates the same threads over and over and I get a little k-close in just to shut her up. she takes the other girl to the toilet and wants me to find out if wolf is keen on her, which is a totalyl redundant question as he quite clearly was. We roll of for a bit, have a piss and get a drink, find them outside again about 15 minutes later and they are elated to see we haven't ditched them. Birthday girl spends the next 15 mins talking and the club starts to shut, I get the proper k-close in and Wolf does the same, we part ways with them and leave.
When we get back to the Wolf Lair his girl is out for the count, but then my phone rings, it's birthday girl, SHIT! They're gunning for the F-close, son of a bitch, why tonight?!? We ignore it and skin up a joint and settle into watch some trashy TV, 40 mins later, Wolfs girl from the club rings him! WTF! You can't make that shit up.

So, in conclusion, 3 sticking points to focus on:
1. Not making the most of AI's and easy to approach sets
2. Not sticking to my game plan
3. Ejecting for no reason