and so it begins
ooDM: I think that's all of you. And seeing as how Rover has no intimidate ranks, I don't think he could send the halfling running

. Because of that the halfling just smirks at you and walks away. This is a big description, just to speed things up so if you want to object or do something in between these parts, just say so. If there are some missing "r"s I'm sorry, but this laptop has a problem typing that letter.
IDM: The halfling leads you down a hallway, through some twisting passages, and leading downward. After mabye 10 minutes of walking, he stops before a door and knocks "knock...knock knock knock.. knock."
"Come in," says a voice, and the hafling opens the door. You come into a big room, about 30 feet by 30 feet. To the right and the left of the door, there are two unarmed muscular men standing with their arms folded, obviously guards of some sort. As you walk through the door, all of your magical items turn off for about 5 feet of space, and you true forms are revealed. In the middle of the room is a table with a man sitting at it, and he beckons you to sit down.
"Would you like any wine, or food perhaps?" the man asks, and pretty serving girls come out with food and wine. In the back of the room, a bard starts playing music. "But it looks like you want to get right to buisness."
"I've brought you here today because you guys are some of the best. As you can see you are a diverse group, a human, a minitaur, two slitherns, and a dover. The king has been pressuring me into doing this job for a while. His scholars are all worked up about the titanswar coming again or some crap like that, but all I know is that a scouting party has discovered some unusually high titanspawn activity going on a ways out of the city. Rumor has iot that these spawn are worshippers of Gaurak the Glutton, and are trying to collect all of his teeth and find him in order to bring him back to his former glory. Also, the king's
entire harem

, yes, his harem has been kidnapped. I don't know how in the nine hells an entire harem could be kidnapped, but it happened, and tracks were tracked down to the cave where these titanspawn are. Predictably, the only part of that tracking party that returned was the messanger sent back to reveal this information. We aren't quite sure what types of titanspawn are in there, but some of the common garuk ones will most likely be there. You know, Gauruk trolls, fatlings and such."
"Now, I'll give you 2000gp for equipment right up front, and 50% of the payment the king is giving me for this job, plus all the information and mapping we have, and second picks on the treasure. What do you say?"