Preface: So I had a pretty bad week end party wise. Most of my friends were preoccupied with work and some others I wasn't sure if they'd be around to do something this Saturday. Friday already was kinda dead (the bars we chose to go to were empty or boring, so we went home early).
So there I was; sitting at home at 10pm with tired eyes staring into the computer screen when I decided: Fuck it; I'm gonna go solo tonight. Had coffee, took a shower to get the tiredness out and went off to the city. I already had a specific bar in mind; on the way there I thought about just dropping the plan and go see a movie instead - but decided against it. No! Today I'm going to do this thing... No pussying out!
I arrived at the bar, went in and looked around for a few seconds. I wanted to talk to the first girl that seemed interesting - nothing cought my eye right away so I went to the bar to get a drink. Standing in line in front of me I noticed a guy talking to a girl; I didn't really pay attention to her; this wasn't about getting to know her - this was about me getting into the state of just talking to random people. They were talking in English which is uncommon where I'm from; so one of them is obviously a foreigner.

Opening: This was my cue; I knew how to open them but I was hesitant because I wasn't sure about the relation between them and I also didn't want to intrude if he's super deep in flirt-mode with her. After a few seconds it seemed as though the conversation between them died down so I went in; tipping him on the shoulder [it was obvious from the accent that he was the foreigner]: "Let me guess: Australia!". He proceeded to tell me that he was in fact not Australian but from Neu Zealand. I joked around with him for a bit; then he left. So I turn to the girl.
"You from Australia, as well?" - "Nooo, I'm from here" [now in the local language].

Transitioning / Attraction: I was able to use this very low-risk opener together with getting tips on how the fuck to get a drink around here to transition into a normal conversation. I asked her to tell me a funny story about herself which was a short funny thing that happened to her; and I was asked to tell her a short story myself. It progressed really naturally from there. Every now and then I remembered what I've read in Savoy's Magic Bullets about building attraction so I tried to incorporate some of those things into the conversation. I expanded on my knowledge of whiskys and that I specifically come to this bar because of the cheap prices of whiskys. That's about when her shorter friend came to us. My taller girl told her friend that I was here alone to which she responded that I was cool because of that. This is when I made a mistake by trying to make her elaborate on why that was cool. She was caught in an awkward situation where she had to explain and rescued herself by "Because I'm the king" to which obvious. I rapidly tried to get attention away from this by teasing her about wanting to be king and not princess.

That's when they started to talk to eachother, completely ignoring me (shorter girl apparently had an eye for some guy and was coming back to her home base for regrouping). Standing there, locked in between the bar, a chair and the two girls I remembered something I read on how to open groups. I basically used an opinion opener I prepared to reinitiate the conversation between the girls and me. Louder than usual I said:
"So I have a question for you girls. My friend is throwing a theme party, and the theme is D; so I have to come as anything starting with a D". It worked, they dropped their topic and were concentrating on me by trying to figure out the best character I could play. That's when they did the work for me: Diver! I used this opportunity to refer to the fact I already had everything I needed to incorporate a diver at home; which was very practical. Of course the taller girl asked if I was a diver to which I could use this to build more attraction by expanding on diving, on the places I've been and on the things I saw under water. I felt that at that point I did really well attraction wise.

The shorter girl went off and I was again alone with tall girl talking a bit. I knew, the theory said I was supposed to have her qualify herself to me at this point. Sadly I didn't really know much about it, since I was concentrating on the first three phases this night (Opening, Transitioning, Attraction). She didn't qualify at all and instead told me I had "nice lips". Well... now, looking back I of course know that I could've gone in for the kiss right there; but to be honest I was a bit thrown off guard by this unexpected compliment. It ended up with a 10 second silence where she didn't look at me (of course this is where I realised my mistake and the fact that she's embarrassed).

Phone number and free shot: The conversation recovered from there though. She mentioned that they'd leave for another club which was not the one I was going to go: a friend of mine ended up texting me after all. I took this opportunity to get her phone number and stated that I'd text her "dirty things" later - she was a bit thrown off by this which made me decide to text her "dirty things" right away; she didn't seem to get it which I ignored.
Before they left, I played the 5 questions game which never failed me. Awesome - free shot for me; thank you, seddit.

Rest of the night: All in all; for me a very successful interaction. It was the first time going out that I conciously incorporated things I learned into a converstaion and tried to progress into a certain direction. The rest of the evering was pretty good as well - I didn't drink as much as usual which made me think clearer and the evening didn't cost as much. I talked to another girl at another club as well and got a # from her, too. This was by far the most successful and fun night talking to girls I had in a long time. I think something finally clicked and I'm on the right track. Let's see where this leads me from here.

tl;dr Incorporated a few principles from Savoy's Magic Bullets into my conversations - worked pretty well. 2# that night; which made it quite successful (for me).

EDIT: formatting