I'm proposing a scenario that allows us to do something other than sit around in a tavern, while we wait to be introduced into the game proper.

BelGareth's initial thread referenced that a horde of humanoids were laying seige to "Starlit halls of the Thuendweir dwarves". I'm going to propose that we be a group of reinforcements paying off an old debt to the dwarves (or hoping to be paid by them, if you'd rather) by coming to their aid. Hobgoblin sorcerers have made teleportation and flight into the Starlit Halls treacherous, and there's an army on the surface between us and the dwarves. So the group of us are sneaking in through a seriees of monster-filled passages in something that is most definitely not a ripoff of the Underdark.

I figure that this scenario lets us chat when we want to chat, and if any of us want to invent monsters for us to fight along the way, they're free to do so.

And...if you hate this idea, say so and we do something different!