My playing group wants to start a new campaign, and I am going to be running it, my first time as a GM. All the players are playing evil PCs, and I am starting them all out as level 1 characters. As the game starts, they are going to be slaves in an underground drow city.
I have a good portion of the world created at this point, and lots of ideas for challenges to run them through, but I am trying to think of a compelling way to get them to just start down the road.
I am planning on having the whole thing start with the house they are slaves in coming under attack by a rival house, and them escaping during the ensuing carnage. What I am trying to figure out is a way to have them either get out of the city and start down the roads to the rest of the adventure, or figure out a way to lay low for a while in the city until the chaos settles down a bit. What does everybody think?