Background - This is one of my first FRs, and I don't think I've written one in a year. A couple months ago, I posted that I was from Atlanta, and got a message from a fellow Sedditor (Atl5659), and we ended up getting together and sarging in Midtown of Atlanta on Halloween (to some moderate success - I got a K-close, and we developed some pretty solid chemistry working together). That said, I'm pretty new at seduction (about a year), and have been out of the game for about 2 months (the whole 'relationship thing'), and Atl5659 most does day/online game, so night game is something we both wanted to work on. I live in Macon, and this weekend was a festival, so I invited down Atl5659, another guy I know from high school/seddit (call him B), and a guy I sarge with down here (call him E), for a weekend.

Friday night - Me, Atl5659, my roommate, and B hit downtown, and I mostly just showed Atl5659 and B around the bars/clubs, but it wasn't too terribly packed, I know I wasn't feeling too in state, and Atl5659 said he wasn't either - Though Atl5659 DID #-close a girl in about 10 minutes at the first club (more on that further down). there was a pretty solid approach where my roommate (very AFC) wanted to talk to a girl, but couldn't get her attention, so B just went up to her and was like, "Hey, come here for a second" - total solid frame, and was following him instantly, and just brought her over to my roommate (who... didn't really do anything with the set). We ended at one of the larger dance/nightclubs, where we ran into some other friends of mine, and B and my roommate chatted up these two girls that I knew (and hopefully B chimes in on what happened here later). One chick later texted my roommate asking for B's number for her friend, and B got the number, and the girl was DTF, but he didn't pull the trigger... mostly because she was a girl I'd F-closed about a year ago. Anyways, there wasn't too much excitement Friday night.

Saturday: This is where it gets fun. Atl5659 had been texting the girl he'd #-closed, and they set up a Day 2 less than 12 hours later, so B and I dropped Atl5659 off at a Starbucks for his date. I'm not sure how the whole thing went, so I'll let him chime in later.

Night hits, we go downtown, and our group comprises of me, roommate, his best friend, B, E, Atl5659, my pivot, her boyfriend, and a former female coworker of mine. We start at my favorite bar, which wasn't too crowded, and I took the initiative on trying to open what amounted to a 12-set of women. They were all wearing glowstick necklaces, so I went in with. "Hey, how are yall doing tonight? I'm here with some of my friends [gestures to the bar where they're grabbing drinks], and we just HAVE to know where yall go these nifty glowsticks!" One of the women turns to me and tells me (kinda in sarcastic/disbelieving tone), "uh, right at front, they're handing them out as you come in...", which was true, and a shocker to me (I go to this bar often enough they don't card or tag me anymore, so I just walked in and missed it: Lesson - be more observational about surroundings). I had about a 5 minutes conversation with 4 of the women, but nothing seemed to be materializing, so I ejected. Next lesson - prior to coming out, make sure to develop signals to bring other guys into the set - with 12ish women, and the 4 I was talking to, I should've brought Atl5659 or B in and they could've facilitated.

However, taking the information about the glowsticks, E HAD noticed this, so he grabbed a few bands, and used them to open sets all night - "Hey, can you help me put this wristband on?" -> opening the set, establishes some baseline kino.

Ended up bouncing next door where things got a little better - I was involved in about 3 sets that were particularly interesting to me.

1: My main issue has always been AA, which is weird, because I rarely have a straight negative interaction when I open. However, when I'm with guys who know how to encourage me to open (E is good about this), I have no problem. I was with E, and he points to the end of the pool table, and tells me to go open two chicks. So I approach, and use my standard opener- "Hey, how are yall doing tonight?" I usually get waffley answers, but then I extend my hand and say "I'm Shohn64", and I usually get their name (I do NOT let go of their hand). I then say "Well [name] - Are you nimble on your feet?" I usually get either a) Usually, b) What do you mean?, or c) What's nimble mean? If a), I take the girl's hand (still in mine) and perform a ballroom style spin. If b)/c) I say "Nimble - it's a quantification of agility - can you dance?", in which they usually say yes, in which case I do the same thing. SOMETIMES I get resistance to spinning them, in which case I follow up with "Really? You're not that adventurous?", which is often taken as a challenge, let's me spin them, and then thread into my dancing routine (preface - I ballroom dance as one of my hobbies, so it's a pretty solid DHV - girl's can associate your skills on the dancefloor with your skills in bed, so...). I end up taking one of the girls, and doing some dance moves with her, and about 90 seconds in, I hit a puddle of beer on the floor and COMPLETELY tank it onto the floor. The girl I hadn't been dancing with laughed and bailed, and her friend followed.

2: I was outside cooling off, and B was adjacent to me chatting up a girl. He literally just grabs me, and says "Hey, this is my good friend Shohn64, we've known each other for 10 years, he's a great guy, etc", so I start talking to the girl, and all of a sudden B is GONE, and left me the set (which was weird - the girl was cute and she was pretty into him, cause she made note about it. But, it was basically "Haaaave you met Ted?" From HIMYM - apparently B had been doing this to my roommate all night, but my roommate is too AFC/awkward to have done anything with it), but I ran my ballroom routine, and she actually had some experience, so we talked for a little. B came back, she said she needed to find her cousin in the bar, so I ejected, B took her hand, and did a lead through the bar with her - was pretty solid, but don't know what kind of close he got here.

3: This may have been one of the best openings/first 5 minutes to a set I've ever had - I was sitting down on the patio outside with my coworker, and this girl walks by with two drinks in her hand. Made eye contact, smiled, and she smiled back. I stood up, introduced myself, ran my routine, she knew what was up dance wise, so we had some fun. Two guys then came over to our corner and one guy started talking to her. She seemed like she knew him, so I let it fly, and just started chatting up the other guy (who looked bored as hell), rather than just orbiting around waiting for this chick to finish talking to this guy. From the second guy, I ascertain that they don't know her, and are leaving soon, so I just chill with him. They leave, I start talking to the woman again, and ask her what brought her out downtown. She tells me she was with her friends, but lose them, so she's just drinking at last call and hanging around. I tell her that my friends and I are about to bounce to a different nightclub, and she should come with us (i.e. move the target). She's completely down for that, and there's a lot of closeness face wise, and a lose of arm/back touching going on.

Then it went to hell.

She said "Before we go, I want to sit down for a minute, my feet are KILLING me." There were no open chairs (Atl5659 had taken the seat I had been in), so she just sat down in the corner next to the wall. I thought "Hey, I can sit down next to her, get some shoulder/side kino going on, establish a better connection, talk for a few minutes, build attraction, etc", so I'm getting ready to do that, when my roommate, who'd overheard the conversation, yells out "Hey, if your feet are tired, just take this guy's seat [motioning to Atl5659], he'll give it to you!" This screwed the set for 3 reasons: 1) Broke isolation - I already had the girl 1 on 1 and was escalating, and my roommate broke that and brought her into the group, 2) I know Atl5659's game, I knew he wouldn't give up his seat without her earning it, and 3) No one had seen me flirting/escalating with her OR open her, so I knew Atl5659 was going to start running game, and we had no way to communicate the situation. Atl5659 ended up running game, and I'm still gaming too, so we're really splitting attraction. It wasn't til we started walking to the next nightclub (which I made every attempt to accelerate the situation to) where I could let him know the situation, which we were cool with. At the next nightclub, ended up dancing with this woman for a decent while, but I absolutely shat the bed on the K-close (on the dance floor, faces millimeters from each other, and I didn't pull the trigger), but I did catch a #-close from her. Lesson 1) Pull the effing trigger - I've never been comfortable making out with a girl on the dance floor, but I guess it's time to get comfortable. Lesson 2) Make sure that everyone in the group knows what's going on so that someone doesn't just blow your set open for no reason. Lesson 3) Signals. Develop them.

All in all, a pretty solid night/weekend. B, E, and Atl5659 have been throwing around the idea of getting a lair together for Atlanta, since the 4 of us have pretty good chemistry, and it would be nice to bring some additional guys into the fold. B's band is playing in Atlanta in 2 weeks, and the Final 4 for NCAA Basketball is in Atlanta, so we're thinking it's going to be wild. If anyone is around the area, hit me or Atl5659 up, and we'll all meet up and make it a wild time.