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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MistyThorin" data-source="post: 3473185" data-attributes="member: 36806">Thanks to an emergency at work, I wasn't able to be there half as much as I had intended. At the time I did manage to get it, there was a fair-sized group from the Cat there, along with several others. Slightly clique-ish? Well, sure... several parents chatting with old friends, and several of their teenage children. However, I only saw one person get "ignored" by everyone... and this person wandered into the area, sat down silently off to one side while others were involved in conversations, and left again before anyone had a chance to really notice this person in-character. (Maybe 5-10 minutes real time... which is not long enough in chat-time, IMHO, for people involved in another conversation to extricate themselves politely and go over to start talking to the stranger.) This person made no effort of their own that I could see, to make the first move and try interacting with anyone.In fact, I saw some serious efforts by a couple of people to break away from interacting with just their usual friends. I don't know that it was an altogether successful effort, but it happened. All in all, I think the event was great fun, and my thanks to everyone involved in making it happen.</blockquote>