I don't see a lot of FR's that go from cold approach to f-close (perhaps because most sedditors aren't cold approaching?), so I thought I'd share one of mine.

The scene: Out at a bar that was having a theme night with my room mate/wing. I'm at the bar when I spot a two set (HB6.5 HB7) immediately to my left. I hesitate for about six seconds, then open indirect 'Hey, can I get a female opinion on something?' ... HB6.5 is standing closest, she lights up and immediately says 'sure!' I can tell she's attracted, HB7 seems unsure, but HB6.5 appears to be the dominant of the two so I'm pretty sure it's going to be easy to get to the hook point.

'So, my friend who just disappeared that way' (I gesture in the general direction I think my wing went), 'is going on a first date next week. He told her he'd surprise her but doesn't know where he's going to take her. I think he should <date idea>... What do you think?'

We talk about first dates, right as I'm about to switch off the opener, my wing walks up (perfect timing, just lucky). Hey! (I put my arm around my wing). This is the guy who's going on the first date. Now the girls seem even more engaged (the power of a rooting your opener)!

The four of us stand around and chat for another few minutes, while my wing is talking to HB6.5 I switch to HB7 and begin talking with her 1 on 1. I have a rule when making conversation where I don't ask questions, but instead make assumptions. 'You obviously aren't from <city we're in>, because <observation about her>.' I find this makes for a more fun conversation than asking 'where are you from?' even when an assumption is wrong, she'll laugh and tell me I'm wrong and we can talk about why I made the assumption. Plus sometimes I'm right. I didn't guess accurately in this case (but it didn't matter).

For the next 30 minutes I talk to HB7, my wing and HB6.5 drift apart, HB6.5 comes back to check on HB7 periodically, but isn't trying to get in the way.

As we talk I steadily kino escalate (standard escalation ladder), starting at light touches on her arm until after about 30 minutes it got to the point where an observer would think we're a couple based on how I was touching her (think about how you touch a girl you're already dating, this is what I was doing). During this process I casually number close her. We have a moment where our faces are close, I triangle gaze and say 'I'm trying so hard not to kiss you right now.' she smiles, I go for the kiss, she's very receptive (note: at this point it was clear to me she would kiss based on the kino escalation up to this point, kissing did not feel like making a leap, the beauty of smooth kino escalation).

A bit later my wing comes over and quietly suggests we location change (smart!).

Next time the four of us are standing together I bring up a really cool bar in the neighborhood I live in, the girls say they've never been there. I say let's go right now, we hail a cab and the four of us ride to the bar (I lead the location change because I opened the set).

At the new bar I'm just having fun with it, making out with HB7 by the bar in the middle of the crowd because why not. After we get drinks I lead us to a table, we sit down. During this time my wing k-closes HB6.5. Lights flash for last call. I say something like 'We live close by, let's go smoke [weed], our place is nearby'. From earlier conversation I knew the girls smoked. My wing and I have gotten many a 2 sets back to our place to smoke weed, I think it serves the same function as 'I've got a great bottle of wine', though our success rate has been very high (of the last 4 two sets we've said this to, 3 came back to our place).

As we are about to get in the cab HB6.5 starts piping up like they should bail. I maintain a strong frame and continue going through the motions of piling into the cab, telling the cabby to go to our place. I don't try to convince her of anything, I just continue acting as if 'of course we're going back to our place'. Momentum carries us through and we're back at our flat smoking weed.

After about 10 minutes I look over and my roommate has disappeared (he later told me he said to HB6.5 'I want to show you something', and took her to his room). I grab HB7 by the hand and lead her to my room (no words exchanged).

You can fill in the blank for what happened next.

TLDR: Opened, escalated, location changed, brought girls home, f-closed. No grand gestures or crazy routines, just fundamentals. This shit works people.