When the new campaign picks up the characters will start in the city of Marsember, Cormyr.

http://www.meadehall.org/marsember.shtml

Some of that info might not be up to date but it'll give you a general idea of the area. Your characters just have to have a reason as to why they're in the city and looking for work as an adventurer. They can be from anywhere in the Realms more or less.

Oh yeah and yay my internet is finally hooked back up.

Now off to my Friday D&D game where I will most likely be playing a cleric too.

Glide (Ex): A hadozee can use its arms-flaps to glide, negating damage from a fall of any height and allow it to travel 20 feet horizontally for every 5 feet of descent. A hadozee glides at a speed of 40 feet (average maneuverability).

Glide kicks ass.

And Nico can pull off playing a thug ape pirate.

Of course he might have some ideas of his own......

I awaken chained to a wall with nothing but a loincloth,

Wih a mighty roar I go into a frenzy and break free of the chains and get to work breaking down the door that locks me into the cell.  After I calm down I realize the rest of the group is in the same cell as I am and I break their chains too.

We work our way down the hallway in the dark and hear some foot steps and drow voices down the hall, they repeat Lanister's name a few times but that is all we can understand.  We take cover as welll as we can in the darkness. My anger grows...

As they pass us I fly into a rage and attack their wizard with the chains still attached to my arms.  Somehow Torchy manages to light his loincloth on fire and makes a torch the others also attack and we are able to kill them off.

We scavenged what we could in the way of equipment from the bodies and after a little discussion went down the hall in the direction the drow had come from. We passed a portal that Nallan claimed was dangerous, its hard to tell with him, he might just be making things up.  We continue past it and come to a door that Casey and I break down and find a group of Drow and a giant spider.

We attack the spider first as it is taking up the entire entry way eventually we bring it down and Casey slips past it to attack the drow in behind but gets surrounded by several of them,  I try to go help but am beset by several myself. I cut them down as quickly as I can and the others are able to get to Casey as he falls from his wounds and we manage to finish them all off.

We are able to scavenge some more gear and find a key.  There is a door at the other end of the room but it is protected by purple glow.  Gawain uses his divine powers to remove the protections and we find that the key opens the door.  Inside we find all of our best equipment but none of the mundane gear or animals.

We baricade ourselves in the room as best we can and rest for the night which is thankfully uneventful, clearly these drow have underestimated us.

The next morning we backtracked to the stairway and Casey scouted down the stairs finding a temple to Lolth.  We continued on and found a human prisoner, we tried to help him but he was speaking giberish.  Near the cell we found another portal and a 100ft ladder leading down.  Nallan and Gawain figured out that some of the giberish the prisoner was saying was the password for the portal by his cell and we all used the password, Be'zeezle to pass trhu.

We appeared in a chamber with a number of drow and Lanister, who was clearly not himself. The drow attacked us almost immediately and most of us were too stunned to fight back for a moment after that the battle is mostly a blur for me as I went into a furious frenzy and slew many of the drow and they tell me that I killed Lanister aswell after the battle I fell unconcious but Gawain was able to revive me.