Hey Guys,
this is my first Field-Report here about some girl I approached during an all-night long "Art and Culture Festival" in some neighbouring town about four weeks ago.

-1 Approach and eMail-close
-2 movie date with her friends and some FB+txting time bridge
-3 Art exhibition+IKEA day2 with one of her friends.

So it's gonna be quite a LONG post!

ONE
I was at the festival alone (I wanted to meet some other HB there) and went into a Gallery, watching some paintings, talking to the staff watching some artist live-performing etc.
They had a bar arranged with some free drinks & beer (I'm German and beer drinking age is 16(!)) and I was watching at some painting by Kandisnky (I'm a huge art fan) as some HB7 walked up the bar and got herself something to drink.

3-second-rule.
Me: "Don't forget to pay for it"
Her: "Oh no, they're free and besides I'm working here"
Me: "So you seem to know art, cool! (leaning in) Do you think that Picasso stole some ideas from Kandisnsky? (rolling off - moving slightly back, upper body turning away)
Her: "Hm I don't really know, seems possible. I'm just working for the performing artist here and I'm more into books"
...
After about 10-15 minutes talking about some mutual interests (got at least 4 IOIs) I was asking her whether her artist/boss was missing her and we went downstairs where the artist was performing. As we were going, I passed her and while doing that I barley touched her shoulder and then moved in front of her downstairs. On the stairway I watched back at her:
Me: "Oh, my name is actually 'Cristian' (not my real name) but without the 'h'. There is some backstory to it"
Her: My name is [NAME]. Now that's unusual, how come?
I told her that story about my name she told me hers - and some story about her second name and we now were at the location where the artist was performing.
About 5 minutes in I displayed a FTC pulling out my cellphone to check the time and told her that I had to leave and I did the David D. #-close technique.

Me: Oh sorry, the time is running away, I have to go in a while. But since we're at an art gallery: How about you being a little creative aswell? (I grabbed some brochure laying around and pulled a pen out of my pocket)
Her: *giggleing* Well, OK I'll try!
*She moved over at a table and was about to draw something*
Me: Just a little hint: Try adding some digits or letters
Her: Oh, well - okay. Since my cell is in my car and I only got my eMail - here you go!
Me: I gave her my cell & eMail in return.

We wished each other a goodbye and I went. In the beginning I thought that nothing would happen afterwards since I think an eMail-address is less valuable than a cellphone number and did nothing with it.
Continuing...

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"I want the truth!!"
"You can't HANDLE the truth..!!"

TWO
Four days later I got an eMail from her and after some back and forth (some Q&A about ourselves) she asked me whether I wanted to go to the movies and some bar with her and some of her friends.
The total eMail convo took about a week, but I never asked for her cell.

I accepted her offer and I went to the bar some days later. My goal was to befriend her friends etc. and have some fun time. Her (as I believe) best friend was my goal: I needed her to like me and as she was sitting between me and HB I gave the lion's share of attention to her friend who was a solid 8 in a LTR but I kinda gamed her anyway. Some magic, DHV stories and at some high point I excuesd myself ("I have to go to the toilet" to give both of them to "talk". Same went with the movie afterwards
Male friend of them sitting - me - her best friend - her - some other friend. We were watching a sneak preview (didn't know what we were about to watch) of "The Rum Diary".
Fun movie with some sexual tension and Johnny Depp. Great one!
Plus no possible arkward situations with HB while her friends being around and no possiblility to find rejection on my side.
After the movie we went outside for some talking - some discussion whether or not to go to McD to get something to eat.
I wished everyone a goodbye with a handshake:
Female friend of hers: Polite/charming smile while shaking hands
Her best friend: Big intruiged smile with big eyes while shaking hands
HB: Glad and happy smile while shaking hands.
And I left.

So I think the evening went very well and I think her best friend being there with some other friends (and her 'shielding' HB off) turned out to be a huge plus although we didn't have some real opportunity to talk or for me to advance.

Two days later I added HB and her best friend on FB.
Some chatting back and forth I got her # some time midway and some days later she posted a news article about some art exhibition in a bigger city (80km/50mi away) on her wall.
Me: [Like it!] "Sounds kinda interesting".
The next day I msg'ed her that I was about to go to IKEA in a while and asked her whether she wanted to tag along and see that exhibition. She accepted, found some time both of us had nothing to do. The evening before she texted me whether or not it was okay with me to take another friend of hers. Of course it was ! *yay*! But I told her that it was no big deal at all

_________________
"You want answers?!!"
"I want the truth!!"
"You can't HANDLE the truth..!!"

THREE
She and her female friend (who is a 4 ) picked me up at the McDonalds parking lot where I was waiting and we drove there with her car.
They didn't want to go with mine (2yo Ford Focus /w AC) so I got my stuff into hers (~14yo Ford Fiesta without AC). It was around 27°C / 80°F (in the morning) - and kind of a "tell" - At least I didn't have to sit on the backseat for about an hour

While driving we talked almost the whole time - never really went out of a topic to talk about. Goals in life, our backstories, personal values, books, music etc. etc. It never got boring
We first went to the exhibition and as we entered I gave her approval that she's into fine arts and culture and not some philistine. She approved and we talked about some other exhibitions we wanted to go to (some posters about others were hanging on the wall)
"Oh yeah I want to go there and that one must be fun also!" etc. etc. (So I already knew where to go next with her)
During the exhiition I almost always kept close to her, talked about the paintings/art epochs/painting techniques - Trying to make some points with my knowledge, but never showed off.
At the main exhibition some artist filled an entire room with hundreds of thousands of photos and created some hilly landscape with photos on wooden frames you could even climb onto. So we had great, exhaustive adventure-like fun making photos with the camera she brought, made some short videos. Told each other some stories about the pictures we liked and stayed there for at least one hour.

After a short break in her steaming hot car we went to IKEA and basically the fun continued. Just check out Sean Stephenson who I have to thank for.
Got some role playing going on in the kitchen section:
I open the obviously empty fridge: "Hmm, I think we gotta go shopping for some groceries, right?"
She: Totally flabbergasted
Then we sat ourselves on some couches, watching other people there. One time (since we had our camera) I just spoke to some old lady and asked her "since it's so comfy here" to make a photo of the three of us sitting there. So it was great fun, you should check out Sean's presentation - and we were at many different locations.

When we were done, we got ourselves something to eat and went back home. On our way back the talking continued. (We had to leave early for some barbecue her family was having).

Back at my car (one hour's drive later) I put my stuff back into the car and wished her goodbye. She was sitting in the car with fastened seatbelt, what I consider to be an IOD - but I have no idea what I should have done better.
While she was driving off, she waved me goodbye while smiling and I went back home.

That was yesterday ( July 25th ).
No text or anything untill now. I'm thinking about texting her tonight or on friday.

Cheers!

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"You want answers?!!"
"I want the truth!!"
"You can't HANDLE the truth..!!"