Hello lads,

Welcome to my first field report. I'll be describing my first time "sarging" in over 3 years (been in a relationship).

I've not yet finished The Game or spent any time checking out the forums and resources on the net so everything I did this time was improvised and somewhat based on concepts like social proof etc that are covered early in The Game and the rest was just habit coming back from my days partying before getting into a relationship.

The events of the night are in black and my analysis of them are in blue below.

Venue: Bar in Clapham, London
Date: 8/8/15
Time: 10:30pm - 12:20am
Wings: Gay friend Tom, straight friend Layla

It was the birthday of a friend of Tom and she hired the top floor of a bar in London and crammed it full with equal parts guy friends and chick friends. I only knew Tom and Layla, but Tom, being gay, good looking and outgoing, had very high social value.

The start was pretty slow with people tending to splinter off into individual cliques. I knew these had to be broken if anything was to happen. So after greasing my vocal chords with a beer, I plopped myself down on the table next to ours, slapped the thigh of the guy sitting there (next to his girlfriend), looked straight at him smiling and said "Hey man, I'm [Nobelium]".

He introduced himself and instantly his girlfriend leaned over him introduced herself, asked me who I was, what I did (IOI). (We caught each others eyes a couple of times earlier in the night). She was sat on the other side of him and so I spoke across him.

I put the eye contact down to my leverage of the relationships with the other guys in the bar (I met them, made them laugh, then patted their shoulder each time I passed them showing social proof).

Slapping his thigh, being confident and talking across him showed dominance over him.

I could have improved her attraction to me by not directly answering her questions, teasing her to her BF.

We chatted for a while, I dropped some value increasing bits about my business etc. After talking I held the girlfriend's gaze for a couple of seconds which I took as a second IOI. I put my arm on the back of the chair while I was talking to the dudes gf and my hand touched hers so I left it there, but she pulled it back.

I could have come across as too cocky when talking about my business but I didn't see any negative impact on the target.

I'm taking this as kino too soon, and in a sensitive place. If I would have sat next to her and instead touched her shoulder or leg and escalated, it would have worked.

I didn't feel right flirting with this girl because she had been with her bf for 8 years, but she was showing me some very clear signals of being interested. I told them I was going to go and see other friends and left them there. Interestingly Layla told me that she thought the guy was gay and the girl wasn't getting any. That would have made a lot of sense. I'm quite sure I could have banged her that night if I had less of a conscience, she wasn't surrounded by her friends who would judge her, and we had a place to go... Oh and if I wasn't so rusty

I moved to another table where there were two other girls, 7.5 and 8. I said "hello" at them very loudly to get over the background music, and put my hand out to shake theirs with a big smile and direct eye contact.

This is my usual opener because it's fairly innocuous, easy as fuck, and people never really reject you at this stage. But it doesn't set you up with anything else to say afterwards apart from small talk which is the bane of any wannabe PUA's life.

They responded well, with one girl reacting very friendly to me and the other seeming pretty introverted. We chatted for a little while about shit and I left.

Later I played a simple game of chance with a big rowdy group of about 6 dudes right in the centre of the room and I went on to win the game. I made a big deal of it. During the game I needed to down my drink but didn't have one so the introverted 7.5 from earlier eagerly gave me hers (IOI) (no it did not taste like rohypnol).

After celebrating I went back to the two girls and danced a bit and chatted to them. At this point my game faltered because when I'm sober I dance like shit as I'm too tight, and I ran out of things to say to the 8.

Some routines and not dancing would have helped at this point.

Layla wanted to leave the bar so I said goodbye to everybody I met (big smile, hand on the waist, kiss on the chick, "nice to meet you"). Saying goodbye to the 7.5 went like this:

Me: Nice to meet you (big smile)
Her: Ahh your going, okay safe trip home
Me: *walking away*
Her: Really nice to meet you
Me: *walking away*

Speaking after me = IOI.

So all in all a pretty uneventful night in terms of Game, but for my first time back in the game I was pretty happy getting a couple of IOIs from 2 different girls (there were no girls higher than 8 unfortunately).

Things I've learnt from this "sarge":

• I should have some routines to use when I run out of things to say
• I should tease girls much more; relying on just being interesting and sometimes funny doesn't always work
• Need to work on isolating the target
• Start using openers that lead up to something as opposed to dropping back into small talk

Catch y'all later
Nobelium