The Pre-Ghost Hunting Stream Chat

The Pre-Ghost Hunting Stream Chat is the first notable event of Wilbur Soot's offline chat.

Though the offline chat was always accessible before the day of the Ghost Hunt, its community never congealed to form notable lore. This event would form the baseline for the future of the chatroom, and create the base line for the environment that The Regulars know and enjoy today.

History
On the 12th of October, 2020, Wilbur Soot announced he would host a ghost hunt in his office, scheduled for an unknown time on the 23rd of the same month.

This sparked curiosity in his fanbase. However, due to a lack of information about the actual time of the stream, a large amount of people flocked to the channel up to twelve hours in advance. These people would settle down in the offline chat, and eventually, as new offliners arrived, they started to strike up conversation as more and more hype built.

The activity slowly increased as time passed. Members started to become comfortable with the offline dynamic, and as they grew more used to sitting in offline chat with the rest of the waiting folk, a friendly dynamic began to form. Some members even began to lament over the idea of losing the connection to the other offliners when Wilbur would inevitably go live. The Pre-Ghost Hunting Stream Chat was filled with a constant anticipation for stream - chat members would brace themselves on every hour mark for stream to begin. In the final hour or so, Moderators began to inform the offliners of Wilbur's location, only further building the hype.

As the time drew closer to the stream, some offliners banded together to make a twitter group chat - this would become The Regulars' hang out groupchat. Activity grew so high that the chat had to be plunged into Slow Mode, and sometimes even Emote Only mode.

Results
This chatting event would lead to the first wave of offliners settling down and officially becoming Regulars. It would also see the creation of the Regulars' Twitter Group chat, and after several hours of constant chatting and waiting, would enlighten some offliners as to the presence of the Offline Wilbur Picture (Offlinebur) for the first time.

Trivia

 * This is the longest constant event of the entire offline chat history. Some members remained active for hours at a time, even with no hosted stream.
 * The stream itself took place at about 2am BST (UTC+1). There were documents made in order to track suspicious activity - some offliners saw its construction.