As Mystery and I traveled the world doing workshops, meeting all the players
in the game, the seduction community became more than just a bunch of
anonymous screen names. It became a flesh-and-blood family. Maddash was
no longer seven letters of type but a funny, Jeremy Piven-like entrepreneur
from Chicago; Stripped was an uptight book editor from Amsterdam with
male-model looks; Nightlight9 was a lovable nerd who worked for Microsoft.
Over time, the posers and keyboard jockeys were outed, and the super-
stars were given their due. And Mystery and I were the superstars because
we delivered: Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Montreal, San Fran-
cisco, and Chicago. Every workshop made us better, stronger, more driven.
All the other gurus I had met clung to the safety of the seminar room. They
had never been forced to prove their teachings in the field city after city,
night after night, woman after woman.
Every time we left a city, a lair sprung up if one didn't exist already,
bringing together students eager to practice their new skills. Through word
of mouth, the lairs soon doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in size. And all
these guys worshipped Mystery and Style: We were living the life they
wanted, or so they thought.
Each workshop generated more online reviews praising my newly ac-
quired game. Each field report I posted triggered a flood of e-mails from
students wanting to be my wing. The list of sargers in my phone book was
actually starting to surpass the number of girls I'd met.
Most of the time when my phone rang, it was a guy asking for Style.
And, dispensing with introductions, he'd ask, "When you call a girl, should
you block your number or not?" or "I was in a three-set, and the obstacle
ended up liking me and giving me her phone number. Do I still have a
chance with the target?"
The game was consuming my old life. But it was worth it, because it was
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