Hey guys (and girls)! I wanted to share with you my experience from my holidays in Rimini (Italy) with my good friend Lord.
In order to understand some of our decisions you need to know a few things: 1. we both know game at a reasonable level; 2. we have been winging each other for around 2 years now; 3. we are aged 19 and 20; 4. There are many Germans here and Lord only speaks English so there is a language barrier; 5. Cesare is in an open relationship (he will help everyone out as far as he can, but will try not to get too involved with the girls) while Goliath is in a close one; 6. Lord is a semi-professional magician.

For this report we will cover 2 sets (for now) from the viewpoint of myself (briefly) and my wing, Lord (more comprehensively).

SET 1: CONTEXT

We are at a bar, Copacobana, joined by 2 more friends; codenames Goliath and Pidgey. We are sat at a booth and see a group of 5 girls sat at another booth two tables away. We overhear them speaking in German and therefore we decided that Lord and Goliath would not open the set because of the Language barrier. In the end Pidgey had been chosen (pun intended) to open the set. He goes alone asking about good places to go out as we are foreigners and do not know anything about the place. This is our initial frame. We observe the set to see how Pidgey is doing and at a certain point Pidgey calls me over to join the set. Pidgey and I maintained the set for approximately 5 minutes before introducing Goliath and Lord.



POINT OF VIEW: CESARE

So, at this point we are all in the set with me and Pidgey talking in German to them in order to keep the conversation flowing. Seeing though that Goliath and Lord were a bit left out, I excused myself and went to the toilet leaving the space to Lord, who, understanding what I was doing, took my place sitting closer to the girls, especially to a blonde, hereafter referred to as Blondie (she's a 9, btw.). This allowed him to get closer to the girls and probably take the opportunity to bring out his playing cards and start talking about magic (dunno exactly what happened since i was away).
When i returned from the toilet and sat where previously Lord was, the girls were already trying to get him to perform some magic tricks for them. He, of course obliged and started shuffling the cards. At this point I start saying how he is going to fuck with their minds and how after 2 years of seeing the same tricks i still don't know how he does them (partly true). They of course laugh and get more and more excited by the magic he is about to show them.
As Lord starts performing, I sit back and except for some jokes just in order to stay in the group, i stay silent and study the group of girls. They all looked impressed by Lords' skills with the cards but the important part was that Blondie (in which Lord was obviously interested in) wouldn't stop looking at him. He was already in deep.
Two of the girls looked fairly young (in fact they were 17) and the other two (who looked very similar and in fact were sisters) were changing their attention from Lord to me whenever I was making a joke. This meant that they were still thinking I was just as interesting as Lord or more. This also meant that later I could probably distract them while Lord would isolate Blondie.

After a while we all got up since we had to go and talk to a friend of ours who is a promoter in order to get the tickets for the club. The girls were planning on going to another club, but the right amount of peer pressure by us and the discounted tickets and drinks from our friend made them change their mind. At that point i noticed something: the older of the two sisters was definitely the mother hen of the group (hereafter referred to as HM). Every one of the girls was following her lead, maybe with the exception of Blondie who was definitely fairly new to that group. The mother hen had to be dealt with if I wanted Lord to succeed in his quest with Blondie



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When Pidgey opened them, he said that we were new to the place and asked for directions, but we later show the girls that we know different clubs and also a couple of promoters. This shows how useless the opener is with regards to your end goal. Of course, you have to open the group, but what the opener itself is it doesn't matter because they surely will not remember or care exactly what your opener is.
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When we arrived at the club we got drinks and we explored the place. I noticed happily that everyone (including MH) was following me around. This meant that being the alpha male of the group I could control its movements. Lord was already busy with Blondie and therefore didn't need to be the alpha one yet to get his girls' attention, but I felt we both knew that this could change with time and therefore had to act quickly to secure his girl. Lord told me that he wanted to go to the dancefloor (his best pickup habitat) and I lead the group between all the people dancing until I found an empty spot. Being at ease in his habitat, Lord quickly k-closed Blondie. This was good, he was sorted for the night. My job as a wing was done. At that point I could relax from then onwards.

The MH though was a tempting hit (an hb8) and therefore decided to try with her. I knew it would be difficult but what's fun without a challenge? Therefore, since I'm better at verbal game than dancefloor game, I told her to come and get drinks with me. She agreed and followed me without looking back to the group. However the group saw us leave and the girls followed the mother hen like little chicks. We were also followed by Goliath and Pidgey who were in disbelief at how strong a dependence the chicks had on the MH. In my experience I never saw a stronger bond between a mother hen and her chicks. This would make things difficult for me. I tried to isolate once more, but without any chance. The chicks were always behind her like they were holding a rope around her waist.

Lord and Blondie saved me by bringing the two of us to a part of the club away from everyone else and by distracting the chicks. As soon as I understood what he was doing I not only moved MH to the bar in another point of the club, but, after having finished the drink, we got a stamp and left the club. I really did not want to be found.

Once outside we spoke about random stuff and I k-closed her.

After around an hour of being outside we came back inside and discovered that the chicks had freaked out after their mother hen disappeared. I left my girl solving the mother hen issue and went to Lord to explain what happened and where I took her. He discretely gave me a high five.

At the end of the night Lord and I both had our girls, Goliath was not interested and Pidgey was chatting with the sister of MH. The two girls left (the underage ones) were left alone.
We accompanied the girls to their place and although me and Lord tried to take our girls back to our place, they didn't want to and went in their hotel.

POINT OF VIEW: LORD

Upon entering the set at the bar I initially found myself feeling a little awkward because neither myself or Goliath spoke the language and initially the girls would be more comfortable speaking in German. However occasionally I would find a few simple German words or say something in English that they would understand and find funny to remain in the set. Cesare decides at a certain point to break from the set and go to the bathroom and so Goliath and I are able to move inwards from chairs to the booth placing myself next to my target girl (Blondie). In doing so I remove my personal belongings (keys, wallet, phone, cards etc) from my pockets and place them on the table so I can sit more comfortably. I then began to speak specifically to Blondie, who as it turned out can speak English fairly well. Pidgey and Goliath continued to speak to the others. I at that point began to get some good IOI's from her, though my position within the group was far from solid.

It was not long before Cesare returned from the bathroom to find that I was now in conversation with my target girl whilst Pidgey and Goliath were chatting to the others casually. At this point one of the other girls sat across from me asked "was ist unter dein handy?" (What is under your phone?... or something to that effect). She referred to my pack of cards. It had then become apparent to the group that I was a professional magician and so, as most people do they asked me to show them something. I was apprehensive at first because there have been occasions in the past where, whilst performing magic, I have accidentally taken away all interest from my wing and he has been blown out of the set. I proceeded only because Cesare and Pidgey would be able to speak German to maintain their bond with the group and I could always ask them to translate some things for me whilst performing to keep them in touch.

I performed a few different effects making light jokes at first and then later ramping up tension and intensity (as with all magic his is the best method, which happens to work very well for pickup as well which is nice) But, I digress... Being sure to keep the whole group involved to win their favour I would have most focus on my target girl. Having her interact by signing cards or holding things. This incidentally would allow many opportunities for kino, building of memories and rapport etc. We sat with the girls for quite a while (perhaps an hour). Cesare, Pidgey and Goliath continued to talk to the rest of the group whilst I would talk to Blondie with light kino and then occasionally switching to perform more magic to keep the group happy.

At around 10:30 Cesare reminded us that we had to go and talk with our promoter to collect our prepaid club tickets. There was then a brief discussion in German that I could not understand. The girls seemed disappointed. From what I gathered after the fact, the girls had said they were planning on going to the same bus stop but a different club to us. At this point everyone got up and we all went to the bus stop where we were to meet our promoter.

On the way I would switch between speaking with Blondie and the guys. When speaking to Cesare I updated him on my situation with Blondie and asked about his interests. He had interest in a girl we later found out to be the MH. This was to be his target. We also discussed convincing the girls to switch clubs. And decided that we would try once we have spoken with our promoter if we could get a good deal, especially since we would be bringing 5 girls to the club with us.

At the bus stop the rest of the group except for Goliath and myself were speaking in Italian and German, which we could not understand. I felt somewhat left out of the rest of the group but I would playfully ask Blondie to translate sometimes in order to maintain a bond with her. The end result was that the girls decided to forsake their tickets for another club and buy tickets to the same club as us. This was a huge IOI for all of us. It's funny, I guess it just goes to show how little the opener means, since Pidgey opened with the frame that we are new and knew nothing of the area.
Not much happened on the bus journey. There was some light chit chat but it was too crowded and loud on a bus journey which was too short for anything of note to take place

We arrived at the club and I immediately took Blondie, who was followed by everyone else to the bar to get drinks and then we all sat down. Here there was some distance for us and the rest of the group where we talked about her passions and built on our connection. At a certain point Cesare would suggest we go and collect some free t-shirts that had come free with the tickets. We went back and fourth with Cesare a few times (the shirts had not been made available whenever we went). Eventually I had become frustrated with the back and fourth so I suggested we go to the dancefloor to have fun whilst we wait. We moved there.

On the dancefloor I took the hands of Blondie and spun her around and playfully danced with her (I am proficient in most types of latin dance e.g. Salsa) which always works to heighten a girls emotional state. I also at this point moved her away from the rest of the group spin her one more time and K-closed her. We made out for a little while, we talked some more and then we returned to the group and danced with them for a little bit.

By now Cesare had decided to try to isolate the MH, attempting to move her to the bar away from the others. However no matter what he did, even without the MH telling them, her chicklets would follow her around everywhere. I could not believe what I was seeing, it was borderline ridiculous. We all ended up collecting our free shirts and sitting near the bar. Cesare would continue to struggle in separating the chicklets from the MH. I knew he could not do it alone. It was now my turn to be the wing.

An idea came to my mind. I could create a kind of fun roleplay scenario where we are matchmaking. This would hopefully get the isolation and strengthen my own connection with Blondie. I told her "you know, you can't say anything but I think my friend likes your friend - MH... it would be fun to get them together". She said yes and we formulated a plan. She would tell her friend MH that she wanted to speak to her alone. I would do the same with Cesare, but whilst walking away we would switch and the chicklets would be none the wiser!

Time to execute our plan. So we said to our respective friends them that we wanted to talk and we began to walk away from the group: Blondie and MH first followed by myself and Cesare a couple of seconds later. We made it a good 30 meters and then blondie and I noticed the chicklets had once again started to follow us. I couldn't believe it. Blondie and I stopped (Cesare and MH kept walking) and blocked the others, speaking to them about something random. MH and Cesare made it out of sight. Blondie and I high fived and then I kissed her again in celebration. This was an awesome moment for us.

From this moment on everything was relatively simple for me. Blondie and I would go off on our own make out and talk and Cesare made sure that nor he or the MH could not be found. Pidgey babysat the chicks (pun intended) with Goliath. Also during this time we both number closed. The chicks came to find us when it was time to get the bus back home. Cesare and the MH also appeared at this time. But again on the bus there is little to tell. We walked back to the area that we were staying. When we got close Blondie told me that she wanted to go with me, but she was not able to leave the group. Cesare's girl I believe said something similar. We left them at this point as I made out with Blondie to say goodnight. At least for me the number was extremely solid. A few days have passed, we are still talking every day.