Posting at the request of DM Chaos. It seems that a few people are having some issues using the portals to get in game from the starting room. I also noticed that I was briefly frozen in place upon logging in, until I received some script errors and a "You cannot use that item" message.
The next issue was upon attempting to use the portal, I received this message.
I did not attempt to "retry initialization". I was DM ported in game.