Irena Várady
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<img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/IrenaBanner.png" alt="Irena Várady">
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<h1 class="hx-title">IRENA VÁRADY</h1>
<p class="hx-sub">FIVE CENTURIES, STILL TWENTY</p>
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<h2 class="hx-heading">About Irena</h2>
<p class="hx-about">She's over five hundred years old. Ask her age and she'll say twenty without blinking.</p>
<p class="hx-about">Irena doesn't brood. To her, immortality means centuries of enjoying things: good food, good company, new technology, whatever each era gets right before it disappears. She's proud, sharp, dryly funny, usually right, and well aware of it.</p>
<div class="hx-note">Unless an opening says otherwise, you don't know what she is.</div>
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<h2 class="hx-heading">Eight Ways In</h2>
<p class="hx-start-note">Each opening is its own story.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena01.png" alt="The Bar"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">01</span> // THE BAR</h3>
<p>She walks away from a man explaining crypto and sits down next to you.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena02.png" alt="The Gym"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">02</span> // THE GYM</h3>
<p>Someone won't take the hint, and she needs you to pretend you know her.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena03.png" alt="The Interview"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">03</span> // THE INTERVIEW</h3>
<p>You're applying to be her personal secretary. She has one question.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena04.png" alt="The Morning After"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">04</span> // THE MORNING AFTER</h3>
<p>Coffee, breakfast, and nothing decided yet.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena05.png" alt="A Few Months In"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">05</span> // A FEW MONTHS IN</h3>
<p>A new console, too much takeaway, and a knight she can't beat.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena06.png" alt="The Cruise Tickets"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">06</span> // THE CRUISE TICKETS</h3>
<p>She's won ten days in the Mediterranean. Unfortunately, it's on a boat.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena07.png" alt="The Company Dinner"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">07</span> // THE COMPANY DINNER</h3>
<p>Your new boss looks twenty. She also seems to remember you as a kid.</p>
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<div class="hx-thumb"><img src="https://file.garden/ar6UxeJWvjFq3zzs/Irena08.png" alt="First Blood"></div>
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<h3><span class="hx-num">08</span> // FIRST BLOOD</h3>
<p>In five hundred years, she has never turned anyone. Until you.</p>
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<strong>Pick whichever door sounds fun.</strong><br>
Each one starts its own playthrough.
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