You awake, head-splitting. You are seated in a dark room. You cannot move. You strain to investigate the opposite wall with a grid of pulsing ropes.
A voice projects down. You cannot turn your head up to see the source.
"By GN charter B612, subsection 2, you are each hereby conscripted into the HDON. Please stand by."

A bright light shines from the wall as the voice cuts off, illuminating the room, seeming like the insides of some animal, flesh and veins.

A hologram of a woman's face appears.

"I am Rear Admiral Barret, commander of the downward spiral fleet, telepresence from the DNS Nimitz.

"The world you know is a lie. Humanity has advanced far beyond the sheltered Earth, which functionally serves us now as little more than breeding stock.

"You are given a higher calling. We will now proceed with a test to determine how best you will serve the HDON. Though bizarre, these questions are so designed by top psychological profilers to correctly perceive FP- functional personality. Please indulge me."

A light flickers and the hologram is replaced with a silent video of a tan-skinned man writhing on a white linoleum floor, hands cut off, stumps pawing at a noose around his neck. A person offscreen is forcing a yellow tube into his mouth. Yellow fluid trickles down either side of his mouth as he chokes.

"Please answer each question in whatever succinct matter you feel most appropriate," The woman says, unmoved.

1. Would this video bother you more or less if the victim was a dog, rather than a man?

2. Would this video bother you more or less if it included sound?

3. Would this video bother you more or less if the victim was a woman, rather than a man?

4. What country would you guess this video was filmed in? Why?

5. What would you guess is the man's name? (roll a d6)