The gate closes June 11
Secure your place
at Bicolline.
The presale closes June 11 and the price climbs after. Pay for your seven day ticket now, while the rolls are still open.
New to the field
Enter your name beneath Sang Sombre, the patrons who took us in. Their banner carries our muster: register under their house and you stand with the Dry Vine on the field.
- 1.Open the gate above and make your name there.
- 2.Take the seven day pass for the Grande Bataille.
- 3.When the gate asks for your guild, give Sang Sombre.
- 4.For lodging, choose decorum camping at any location, and add a note: we are a new guild, and the Dictatente has guaranteed us lodging in one of the villes.
- 5.Send word to Hector once it is done, so we count you in.
MMXXVI · Our first Grande Bataille
Grande
Bataille
The fields of Bicolline · 8–16 August
What it is
The great summer war at Bicolline, and everything that surrounds it.
Bicolline is real in the way that matters. Two medieval villages. Over two hundred and fifty standing buildings, with their roads and bridges and ditches, built by hand over decades. The Grande Bataille is the year's great filling of it: thousands of souls, seven days, one world.
Inside, it is only the world. Duels and bards and merchants, guilds at war and guilds in alliance, and no reminder anywhere that any of it is chosen. The Dry Vine takes the field this year for the first time.
Why we go
Everything so far has been preparation for this.
We were not always a guild. We were a performance, good enough that the patrons who watched offered mentorship instead of mere applause. That is how a guild is truly born: not declared, but believed in. We left our old banner, called for blades and bards from our city and veterans from everywhere, and became the Dry Vine.
We have not been idle since. Blades drilled, songs rehearsed, canvas and kit gathered, the camp planned down to the cookfire. This August we take the field as the Dry Vine, and whatever waits there, it will not find us unready.
The week
Sat · Aug 8
The main convoy departs at first light. Some follow later in the day.
Sat · Aug 8
We reach Bicolline. The camp goes up, the cookfire is lit, the kitchen is feeding the guild by sundown.
Sun – Sun · Aug 9–16
Seven days of the Grande Bataille. The fighting, the feasts, the shows, the long nights. The Dry Vine stands its space and keeps the banner up.
Sun · Aug 16
We break camp. Everything packed, the long road home, begun the same day.
What to bring
Every member packs their own. One rule from us: bring a cot, not a bedroll. For everything else, a full and well-tested list.
What it costs
$703 if you drive.
$643 if you fly.
All-in. Fifteen people, nine days, one canvas city.
| Line | Rider | Flyer |
|---|---|---|
| Bicolline 7-day ticket (non-member presale) | $325 | $325 |
| Tent share (3 bell tents + 1 owned, 3–4 sleepers each) | $160 | $160 |
| Transport (10' U-Haul + convoy fuel & tolls) | $146 | $86 |
| Shared food (breakfast + dinner × 7 days) | $67 | $67 |
| Firewood, first aid, contingency | $6 | $6 |
| Total | $703 | $643 |
Ticket is Bicolline's 2026 non-member presale, $435 CAD, converted near $0.73 and rounded up for the exchange. It closes June 11. After that the gate price climbs.
When it's owed
May 30
RSVP firm
Headcount locks.
June 11
$325 ticket
Bicolline presale closes. Price climbs after.
July 15
$318 – 378 trip share
Tent, transport, food.
Late Aug
Reconciliation
True up gas, tolls. Usually a refund.
What the guild provides
You carry your own kit. The camp itself is already standing.
Everything that turns a patch of field into a home, the guild raises before you arrive and strikes after you leave. None of it is yours to bring, buy, or carry.
The kitchen
Fire and gear enough to feed the whole guild, morning and night.
A dining shelter
Canvas to gather under, in sun or rain.
Lanterns
Light for the camp once the sun is down.
Tables
To eat at, work at, and lay out kit.
A storage chest
Kept keeping for what should not sit in the open.
Crates
For hauling and stacking the camp's common goods.
A clothesline
For drying what the week soaks through.
Water
Drawn and kept on hand for the camp.
The Dry Vine is not closed to everyone. Only to most.
Send word to Hector.