You must log into the Khyber world and start your charater from there or you will not be able to join our party.

Also, you will recieve free DDO points for playing. These can be spent at the DDO store. It's important that you try to keep 50 points in case you have to buy the item that allows your character to go from a max level of 4 to a max of 8 and again at level 8 to level 12 and so forth. The item that lets you do this will be dropped randomly but just to be on the safe side...