This probably isn't going to be a great FR, cause I got hammered last night but whatever. Nine sets/Ten girls...I can't believe myself. And that's just the female sets...I was just socially on point last night, talking to everyone. Got blown out a couple times but most of the interactions were neutral or positive. Didn't get any results though, and I definitely could have.

Showed up around 10:45, same Monday night hipsterish dance party I used to go to every week during the summer. As I'm walking up I hear someone say my name, turn around and it's two girls (HB7/7.5) but I don't recognize them.

I say "Did you just say [JBlaze]?" HB7.5 - "Yeah you look like our friend [JBlaze]." "Oh, well that's actually my name so I was confused." Them: "No way really blah blah blah." "Well what are your names?"

They tell me, one has the same name as my sister. I tell her that and say "This is getting kinda weird"...then as I'm talking a couple of my friends walk up, one yells my name with a Y on the end, cause that's what my friends call me. I leave the HBs and go talk to him, then see two more of my friends leaving the bar, they yell my name too, I talk to them. Clutch as shit...social proof right from the get-go. I talk to them for a minute then go inside and wait at the bar for a bartender. While I'm waiting the HB7.5 comes in, she's all tatted up with a lot of piercings and wearing black...not usually the type I go for but she was hot. She saddles up right next to me...there's no one else waiting at the bar either. Says my name with the Y on the end, elongated. We'll say my name is Tom/Tommy just to make this easier. "Toooommmyyyy". I get close and talk in her ear cause it's loud as shit...say "I'm an asshole and forgot your name already"...she responds with something unrelated to what I said, apparently didn't hear me. Then says she didn't tell me her name yet, I say "yeah you did like two minutes ago"...she's clearly already drunk even though it's not even 11 yet. She says "Oh well I didn't even remember, you could've saved yourself the embarrassment." I get my drink and tell her I'm going to go find my friends (they're upstairs), planning on getting back to her later. I don't see her again after that. Fuck.

Went upstairs and hung out with a big group of friends/acquaintances at the pool table. Like 10+ in all. I just stick to them for an hour or so before I convince people to go downstairs to dance. We go down and it's dead...which is weird, usually Monday nights are popular here. There's an HB7.5 photographer who goes around to hipsterish bars/parties in the city and takes pictures and posts them online, I met her one through a friend. She's standing in the back by herself with her camera so I go up to her, say "[Event] is dead, what's the deal?" We talk about how it's died down since school started back up, she says sometimes it fills up around 1. She takes a picture of me. I go back to my friends. This is some inner game shit but I see her as out of my league just because she's somewhat of a socialite, I guess.

I talked to an HB6.5 I've seen there before, and the Asian kid she was with outside for a while. Just friendly stuff. It seemed like the dude was into her so I didn't try to game her.

Later in the night I got blown out twice. There was a blonde HB7 who I'd seen earlier in the night just kinda sitting by herself, before her brunette HB6 friend convinced her to dance. I went upstairs and saw her leaning against the bar...I just leaned up against it next to her. Told her my friends are being lame and leaving, so it looks like I have to make new friends. I can't remember what conversation came next, but eventually I asked her name. She says, "I don't have one." HA! I'm like "Oh really"..."I have a boyfriend"..."That's cool, but I wasn't hitting on you" (I wasn't...it was seriously just casual conversation and this girl was a total bitch). She rolls her eyes. I laugh, say "Whatever" and walk away. Then a few minutes later see her brunette friend leaning against the wall and open her (prob not a good idea but whatever)...I think I've actually seen her before and say that.. "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" She just says "No" and walks away. Haha.

There's an afterparty and I'm standing outside with my friends waiting to go to that, when the HB7 hipsterish chick (not the tatted up one) comes out with a group of her friends. The HB7.5 isn't with them. As she's walking past I say "Hey you're the girl I met at the beginning of the night"...she calls me cute and then goes across the street and gets into a car with her friends. It happened so fast I couldn't even do anything. Fuck. Should have talked to her earlier in the night but I hadn't seen her before that.

At the afterparty, I talk to an Asian HB7.5 for a while but I fucked it up. I forget how I opened but at some point I asked her what nationality she was for some stupid reason. She tells me to guess. I tell her that might get me into trouble cause I know Asians are sensitive about being called the wrong Asian. I guessed like 6 different nationalities before I finally got it. And my Natural friend interrupted the set. This dude is seriously a horrible wingman. His game is all social proof because he knows a ton of DJ's and party promoters. He doesn't actually have the "game" we talk about on Seddit. He tells me I'm "wasting my time" because she was standing near the door when I was talking to her. WTF? He said she was trying to leave...but she was standing there when I opened the set. This dude also has a huge ego and there's no way he'd listen to me if I tried to criticize him for this type of shit.

Opened a blonde HB7...forget what I said to open (I learned how little your opening matters last night...I'd read it before but this is the first time it sunk in while in field). Found out she was a photographer and talked about that...at some point broke off. The conversation with her was awkward though...I have a hard time getting past small talk. I really need to work on my conversational skills. I went outside after talking to her and talked to an HB6 sitting on a bench about traveling, cause she's from Arizona and I have friends who moved there. This conversation was actually going really well but she clearly had a BF because some dude kept periodically coming over and touching her and shit (feeling threatened?). This was good though...helped get my confidence up that my convo skills might night be so bad.

Asian girl ends up straddling some fat sloppy looking dude outside and they leave together. I'm kinda pissed cause I wonder if that could've been me, if my friend didn't interrupt.

Talked to the same blonde again inside, was doing minor kino shit like just standing really close so our arms were touching, emphasizing points by touching her arm with the back of my hand, etc. This was going nowhere though.

A different blonde HB7 opened me...a few people were leaning on this bar thing that overlooks the downstairs, I made eye contact with her and she smiled and waved. I didn't make enough effort here though. It seemed like she might have been with a dude there, plus it was like 4 in the morning at this point and I was exhausted.

Talked to an HB7 who I met at the same place once before and she complimented my eyebrows (interesting)...she didn't remember me though and was being kinda standoffish so I didn't pursue that.

This is really long so I'm just going to cap it here. I'm not sure if I got every set but yeah. 9 sets! I can't believe it. My friends band is playing at a bar in the same area tonight and I'm looking forward to using this momentum (I'll have mad social proof! He's the lead singer and one of my best friends from high school). Hopefully I have another FR soon.

TL;DR Opened 9 sets, got blown out twice, my AA is subsiding...time to work on conversational skills. Jesus Christ this turned into a wall of text.