I suppose in my mind it comes down to who was in the area first as they are the ones with the established presence. Assuming that's me, I feel a greater obligation to my own group than I do to somebody else's group and/or feelings.
It seems to me it's always the second party's responsibility to initiate communication so as to preemptively avoid such issues in the first place. If they're not doing that, I'm going to say 9/10 times they're the ones at fault either by accident or by design. I'd like to think the GMs would see it that way as well. Perhaps they will not, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
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