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On our last episode of Being Social, I was talking about how weird, but cool, it was to be running around with people outside my normal friend group. And now, the thrilling continuation of that post.

On Sunday, things happened.

Basically, Cara invited me out to lunch. I’m like “Sure, I can grab some food,” so I went out. Then Cole joined us. Then we came back here, played Soul Calibur of all things (We had had a long discussion about Ivy during lunch) and made Dungeons and Dragons characters.

Then Essner called, and wanted to throw down in some Arkham Horror.

This “mixing of friend groups” is not something I have had a lot of experience with. Certainly, if nothing else, the sorts of conversations I have with Cara and Cole are, in a large part, different from what I have with Essner, Spaeth, and so on. They’re all awesome people, but I honestly had no idea if they would mix well. My only previous experience with this, really, was Natalie, and she just didn’t really click with my friends at all. She was a completely different type of person.

Still, I wasn’t going to let nervousness get in the way of fun, so soon, Essner, Ben, Essner’s uncle Terrence, and Justin Spants showed up at the scene, and we got down to some Arkham Horror. I set out the millions of decks of cards, and we prepared to stop Yig, though we figured that wouldn’t be too hard, since we found out from Wikipedia that Yig is “easily pleased.”

Yeah, we had a blast, though. Cole and Cara were joking right along with everyone. They took to the game pretty well. (Cole, especially, commented on how fun Arkham Horror was.) Sure, I stepped in to make sure some inside jokes were explained, but that was just more fun, as I got to retell the stories, and everyone laughed at them. It was a really damn good time, and they fit in pretty damn well. My nervousness was completely unfounded. The night ended with Cara and Cole commenting that I had some pretty awesome friends.

And you know what? I do. All around. And doing things with them? Completely awesome. I’m stupid to be worried.

Anyway, I’m going to have to get them involved in more geeky board game fun sometime. There’s a whole world of board games I have yet to show them! Yes. Yes… heh heh…