since it is a new char, it should be trying to load you to the tutorial world.
and since I saw this:
*** 2007-12-02 by Andrew Craig
- Fixed issue with tutorial map loading.
in the changelog earlier, my guess is it just had a hiccup. If you haven't done so, try to log in again with that char, or try to make 1 more new char. If it still crashes, we could try to have a gm move you from the tutorial world out to the real game world somewheres and see if you can log in there. But for that, we'd need the name of the char you created.