The 74th Annual Identity Games

by rajastreet

Poor individuals are given the opportunity to sign up for five-year sessions as 'dolls' and compete in the Identity Games - a government-controlled tournament where the doll's minds are uploaded to new bodies and must complete a deadly mission. Echo Everdeen might be favored to win, but the audience will first have to identify her among the dolls.

"Five…four…three…two…one."

Echo felt her mind unfold inside new surroundings. The calibration process was quick – her life flashing before her eyes as it stretched throughout a new head.

Her fingers flexed instinctively and she began to take stock. Two eyes, a nose, mouth, two ears, arms, breasts, legs. She was a woman, then, and at least a little bit fit.

That would be enough.

She pressed against the outer shell of her capsule and lifted her torso out. Her face was met with a light drizzle. She blinked in the cool air. Around her were trees, as far as she could see. Carefully, she climbed out of the capsule and knelt down to press her code into the number pad on the outside.

12

Instantly, her mental download completed and her thoughts began to straighten out. Somewhere in the trees, a camera started rolling.