James opened the door and tried to seem welcoming for the smelly man in tattered clothing shivering at his door.
"Good evening, sir! Welcome to my personal laboratory, Mister--"
"Just call me Hutch," the man interrupted James' painfully insincere greeting, "Not my real name, but it might as well be. Let's face it, we both know why I'm here: you need someone expendable to test this chamber on, and I'll take pretty much any gamble I have left at this point. No money, no family, and nowhere to go. Whatever your chamber does will either end what's left of my life or improve it somehow. If nothing else, I'll leave here with that $200 you promised in your newspaper ad if I live. So let's not pretend that we're going to get to know each other or that either of us cares how dangerous your little experiment is. Put me in the chamber and turn the damn thing on."
"Oh, okay, well in that case, 'Hutch', the chamber is right over here. I must reluctantly suggest that you remove your clothes. The machine will theoretically work with inanimate matter but the first test should ideally be just a human body. The before and after pictures will also be more anatomically informative that way."
Hutch threw off his clothes with no words, no hesitation, and no eye contact. James was actually impressed that the man's nude body was well endowed and well shaped, albeit unkempt in his present form. He would have expected a man like this to have at least a half-decent life just on sexuality alone, but apparently that was not the case. Hutch didn't ask any questions or even really stop moving long enough to undress: the faded garments and worn-out footwear formed a sort of a trail of clothes along James's floor. He just stepped in the chamber, turned to face the chamber door, slammed the thing shut, crossed his arms and tapped his bare feet. James fired up the machine, which took some initial photos and biological scans before continuing. James never even got a chance to ask Hutch what kind of life he would prefer if given the choice, so James just rubbed his chin for a moment to think of something interesting.