>>6350075>>6350044>>6350030You approach the artists' table. As you get closer, you try to stand up straight and act cool, but inside you're quite nervous. You recognise some faces: singers, artists, actors, fashion designers and painters, all sharing champagne and eating as equals.
Some people glance at you out of the corner of their eyes. You feel some men looking at you with curiosity, as you are a new face in this city. You keep trying to hold your chin up and maintain your posture, but no longer being the most brilliant person in the room leaves you feeling quite vulnerable. You approach one of the tables to relax and breathe. It seems like you are having a panic attack.
You spot some chocolate toffees, your favourite, and slowly start eating one after another. You wash them down with a little sparkling champagne and concentrate, breathing and looking out of the window, accepting your reality. Hundreds of metres below sea level, in this miraculous city that seems like a dream, you are a new face, a small fly in the ointment, so you must pluck up your courage and face everything.
You turn around with your confidence restored but still quite fragile, and you see people who seem to be the centre of attention.
Who do you talk to first?
>Ilona Várady, a veteran opera singer of Hungarian origin. You recognise her immediately by her bright smile and golden blonde hair. Despite being almost 60 years old, she is still as vibrant as a young girl. You know her because your parents know her personally, and it is likely that if you speak to her, she will recognise you, but it has been more than a decade since you last saw her in person.> Rafael Montoya Álvarez - Spanish painter, you have only seen him at presentations where your parents took you. His art style is quite unique and avant-garde with social themes. He is a fairly young man, barely 25 years old, with a rapid and somewhat scandalous career. >Étienne Moreau - French writer, you have never met him in person but you have corresponded with him by letter. He has written several plays for you and your parents as commissioned works. He is a very cultured and wise man. At 45, he is still in fairly good shape, but you can see the effects of surviving the war on him. > Sander Cohen - Sander Cohen himself, a man with a pompous and refined air but with a particular and humble style. You know about him and his plays but have never seen him in person or any of his works. It is clear that he is at the pinnacle of the arts in Rapture, as almost everyone revolves around him, his tastes and opinions, as if he were the sun of this solar system. 