Atlas Adventures

Some entertainers have special abilities to affect the people and world around them. While all entertainers perform to the enjoyment of their audience, some have developed their skills so well that they can actually calm, heal, and even inspire others through their performances.

These powerful performances are not limited to traditional performance arts such as singing or playing an instrument, although these forms of entertainment are certainly effective as well. Entertainers' abilities can derive from any type of performance or "displayable" art: poetry, dramatic reading, sleight of hand, displays of paintings, drawings, or other creative pieces, dance, philosophical lectures, comedy, acrobatics or fire eating… Many entertainers choose to perform both publicly and privately.

In Puerto de Maio, every Saturday evening the Theatre Moderne showcases talent from the town. Parisian owner Madame Simone l'Arraigne arranges for an eclectic mix of performances, importing foreign talent as well as scouting it among the local population. All performers can expect some compensation, although of course the details must be negotiated with Theatre Management. Madame l'Arraigne is rumored to pay very well for those performers who use skills in a way that will benefit the audience.

With the arrival of many skilled entertainers in Puerto de Maio, an unusual discovery has been made: some entertainers can use the Locus in the town to return the dead to life. This was discovered when one of the Theatre Moderne's stage hands was struck and killed by a falling lighting boom during an audition for Madame l'Arraigne's opening production (set for April 1911). Grief-stricken, several chorus members followed his spirit to the Locus, where they hoped he would be restored back to life. While they waited for a local shaman to appear, they began to sing a traditional French mourning song to comfort the spirit. Both the entertainers and the shaman were quite surprised to find that at the end of the song, the stage hand was quite back to his normal self.

Notes: It is not necessary for you to have Entertainer skills if you wish to perform on Saturday nights. All players are welcome to do so. If you have an idea in mind for a particularly elaborate or unusual performance, please contact the Atlas staff in advance. We'll do our best to help you with equipment and make sure the stage area will accommodate your performance.