Cirque de Ianua
The Cirque de Ianua is a circus built in the 12th arrondissment. It actually resides in the Parc de Bercy. It is a rambling enclosure built inside a Grecco Roman wall with gates to the East and the West. there are also hidden doors to the North and South known as the Porte de Cardea (Heart Gate), and the Porte de Mania (Gate of the Soul) There are rambling paths leading up to the main gates, done in white and black cobblestones. The hidden doors are covered by thickets of trees and vines.
The Cirque is open from 10 AM to Midnight, Tuesday through Sunday. Various acts perform at different times, and the Acteurs des avenues cam be found here at different times. The Cirque requires a 18 Euro entrance fee, though there are monthly and yearly memberships available. Children and the elderly get in for 10 Euro.
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Entrances to the Cirque
As the Cirque is named after the Gate Keeper, these are truly special items. The artwork here is fine enough to entrance Toreador when they enter. The Gates were updated in 1885, at the request of the Management by August Rodin. It is marked by the twin faces of Janus, and carvings showing the various sacrifices to the Guardian of the Gates.The Gate is warded, and the keepers know when a supernatural enters the Cirque. Of course Management likes it that way...
Gate Attendents
This is no small job here, and attendants are well regarded within the Cirque. While the main money takers are lower level flunkies, main performers come to the gates to welcome in the crowds. They can be found on main stage when they are not here. If one is lucky, they enter the Cirque when a popular main stage actor is on duty, getting to meet and get autographs from the highly talented performers. Performers are known to hand out free passes to those venues they inhabit.
Porte du Soleil Levant(The Gate of the Rising Sun)
This one of the main gates to the Cirque, done in beautiful varicolored marble. Various beautiful statues reside around it, and there are Cirque employees here most of the time giving out information. There are always lights on here, they are powered by back up generators should the main power go down.
Porte du Soleil Couchant(The Gate of the Setting Sun)
Here the walls have become a more gray marble, with barred copper colored wrought gates. There are always lights over the gates, those lights are also powered by backup generators should the main power go down.
Porte de Cardea
This gate is hidden, cunningly carved to match the stone around it. While a regular shaped door, the mechanism that allows it to open are hidden in the carving of a human heart on the stone. When pushed the heart recedes, and allows the tripping of the lock mechanism. This door is monitored by a camera. There are also other guardians here, but they do not always move to defend the Portal.
Porte de Mania
This gate actually opens into the ground, taking the user into the limestone mines under Paris. There is no marked path, and anyone who enters here without experienced guides risks being lost. The cover that hides the Portal is a large round stone that is actually hollowed out and light. Needless to say, traveling through the Porte de Mania can expect to have their soul weighed. The Porte is observed by a camera, and sensors trip when the stone moves. There are also other guardians here...
Les Gens de Cirque
- -- Paulo Montressor
Acteurs principaux
- -- Mitinia Klaus: Dancer, juggler
Acteurs des Avenues
- -- Bartleby Guysmith: The Sword Swallower
- -- Niamh Elwyn: Scarf Dancer
Donne D'Amour
These women (and men) work the main avenue. They also live and work out of Le Maison de Aphrodite.
Main Portions of the Cirque
Le Grande Cirque
This is a huge building, with soaring roofs and beautiful stained glass windows surrounding the huge arena at it's center. There are side buildings built onto it, to house the props, people, and animals that will be used each night there is a performance here.
Le Maison de Fous
This is a building much like the layout of a modern office building. Inside are individual rooms for the clowns and "fools" of the Cirque. There is a main dining hall and kitchen available to them.
Le Labrynth de Haies
This is a huge wandering maze of hedges, walls, and mirrors. By turns it is beautiful, disorienting, and horrific. No one who enters the Hedge is sure they came out the same...
Le Tunnel de L'Amour
The Tunnel of Love is a classic river ride in a Venetian pole barge, except that it is powered by a cable effect. Soft music and French singers croon to the riders, who are shown portraits, darkness, sculptures, and varying moments of solitude. What can go wrong on a boat ride?
le Maison Aphrodite
Nearby Le Tunnel de L'Amour is a three story mansion known as the Casa Degli Amanti, or house of the lovers. Both men and women (and a few transexuals) can be found for evening consorts, quick romps, or other lover enhanced entertainment. The Casa is cloaked behind hedges and a small parc. While prostitution is legal in the Cirque, the general family atmosphere is protected from the flaunting of these consorts.
Le Parc Animalier
This is the zoo of the Cirque, and all the animals used in the shows are kept here. The Cirque has collected various species from all around the globe. In some varieties the Cirque has the jealousies of the Zoo de Vincennes. It is overseen by Bronislava Ramsey.
La Route de L'Avenir
This wandering route is the main path through the Cirque. Le Grande Cirque lies along it's path, as well as Le Parc Animalier. Concession stands and curio shops line it's empty places. Many side streets take off of it. This is where the best of the Acteurs des Avenues are found.
Le Maison de Fortuna
This building is all about the lady of luck,Fortuna. Here there is major gambling and video rooms for betting of all kinds. The Cirque has set up real time links with Monaco and Las Vegas in order to keep accurate books on current wagers for world events. If it can be decided by chance...somebody is betting on it in Le Maison de Fortuna.
Le Maison de Freaks
This is the building that houses the regular sideshows known as Freaks. The Bearded Lady, The Crocodile Man, The Tinniest Man. Those are just a few of the "Freaks" to be found here...
Day to Day Management
There are several people who keep the Cirque running day in and day out. If there is a business deal to be made (selling trinkets in the Cirque, performing on La Route de L'Avenir) one must talk to Yannic Morel. A very effusive man, Yanic smokes terrible cigars and squints his left eye almost to the point of closing it.
The buying of supplies and hiring of permanent staff is done by Eulalie Leandres. A round figured blond woman in her late 40's.
Enforcement of security for the Cirque is done by Fred Leone. Everyone who conducts business in the Cirque will deal with these three at one time or another.
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