Let me put it this way.  Would YOU put your life in the hands of someone you don't know?  If you had any choice in the matter?<br/><br/>That said, I can go with being in a group of complete strangers.  Have done it often enough.  I do like Natalie's idea for starting us off.  Although, maybe instead of being slaves, maybe prisoners given the choice between LOOOONG prison terms or death, or go into the Labrynth?  Kinda like the "Dirty Dozen," fantasy style?