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      <title>Bicolline: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the forests near Shawinigan, Quebec, there are two medieval villages that do not appear on any historical map. They have roads, bridges, ditches, houses, and inns, all built by hand over decades, not by archaeologists reconstructing the past but by thousands of devoted participants constructing a present. This is the Duché de Bicolline, a 140-hectare fantasy live combat experience founded in 1994 in the municipality of Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc. It is one of the largest and most elaborate live-action role-playing communities in the world, and from the air, its twin villages look convincingly ancient.]]></description>
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      <title>Bicolline: A Kingdom of Cards and Solars</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bicolline is not a weekend event that resets when the participants go home. The world of Mundus, as its fictional setting is known, has its own persistent geography, economy, and complex geopolitics that have evolved continuously since 1996 in response to player actions and battl...]]></description>
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      <title>Bicolline: The Guilds of Mundus</title>
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      <title>Bicolline: The Grande Bataille</title>
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      <title>Bicolline: Where Fantasy Meets the Forest Floor</title>
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