Thanks for checking again. You start the game in the hub area able to talk to the 4 npcs who explain the situation but its not required and you can just leave if you choose to. I came up with another idea, when you click to leave if you haven't talked to anybody yet I'll pop up a confirmation dialogue that you want to leave without talking to anyone. I hope that confirmation combined with the exclamation for new dialogue will be enough when I can patch it.