Conference of Cycle Families

The Conference of Cycle Families is the legislative body of the Community of Goëtia.

Composition

Each cycle family sends one representative to the Conference, which meets each year in Gathering Place. The current number of representatives in the Conference is 10. The Conference elects a President as the first order of business every year.

President

The President of the Conference acts as the Community of Goetia's head of government and can be empowered by the Conference with any range of duties or responsibilities. Failure to serve as President satisfactorily will result in failure to be elected, shame brought to the president's cycle family, and even possible exile from the Community.

Actions of the Conference

Each conference keeps minutes and these minutes are available to all members of the community. The major decisions of each annual Conference are listed below.

Year	Major Decision	President	Text
1514	Foundation	Father Jay	It is hereby decided among these Fathers and Mothers assembled in this place of gathering, that after unknown years of wandering the world, adrift on the sea, cast out of towns, our brothers and sisters burned, tortured, killed, raped, beaten, degraded, exiled for no reason but our choice of religion; we hereby decide to run no more. We will settle here, and in the hinterlands around this place, and keep ourselves secret from the world. We shall welcome our lost brothers and sisters into our families, we shall impart Missionaries to scour the world for those who are lost.
1547	Missionaries and Lost Ones	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	We shall welcome our lost brothers and sisters into our families, we shall impart Missionaries to scour the world for those who are lost.
1548	Taboo on Mating	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	Mating among the Goetics shall, by necessity of scarce resources and our need to remain hidden, be strictly limited to the annual meeting of the Families at the Place of Gathering.
1549	Taboo on Co-Mingling	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	The Families shall consist of only one gender, to prevent unintended pregnancies; to repeat last year's decision for all Goetics to understand: We have scarce resources and cannot grow our population or sustain many children while we hide from the world.
1550	Punishment for Mating	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	The biological father of any child conceived outside Gathering Place shall have a choice of two punishments: physical castration or branding and exile from the Community. A message from Mother Lauren: "Please, please please please please stop having sex. We are going to starve with all these new babies."
1651	To Settle the Ruins	Father Richard, Navigators Family	We have noted the disappearance of our neighbors and that they have left pristine cities neatly vacated. Our families shall move into the outskirts of this cities and establish permanent compounds.
1652	Cycles	Father Richard, Navigators Family	We encourage any mechanically minded Goetics to scavenge the Green for automobiles, preferably motorcycles, so we may spread farther.
1653	Highway Patrol	Father Richard, Navigators Family	The highways between our compounds are dangerous. Any Goetics who yearn for the open road shall be allowed to associate themselves as a new family with the authority and responsibility to patrol a stretch of highway between two compounds. The families living at each terminus are bound to provide food and shelter for these brave nomads in exchange for travel protection.
1661	Missive to the World Community	Father Alfred, Cliffbase Family	My name is Alfred, and I live four days away from Gathering Place, with others like me, at the base of a cliff. Some call it Basecliff, others call it Cliffbase. I have been selected to speak for my people this month, and attend to their religious needs. I am the 2,016th Priest selected according to your Nortonian months. By consensus, The Community has decided we can no longer hide ourselves as we have done for generations. We can no longer live hidden in the hinterlands. Our faith and worship practices drove us to this new homeland, Goëtia. We have missionaries in your countries, seeking out more like us, and the missionaries send them back to Goëtia. We have settled here and made a comfortable, albeit crude, life for ourselves. We are joined, somewhat regularly, by immigrants from your countries who felt persecuted for their faith. Thus we have incorporated self-sufficient technology into our simple lives. We learn of the outside world by each new immigrant, and we are troubled by what recent immigrants tell us. The Community welcomes them and assigns them to live in a new family. It is taboo to ask from where a Goetic came from. Our former lives are not discussed, and over the years, we only remember our time in Goëtia. Some are natively born in Goëtia, conceived during the Scheduled Time at Gathering Place when the Deacon determines our population cannot be maintained by immigrants. Carefully planned, we have maintained a small population and been able to remain hidden this way. We have been happy to remain undisturbed until now. The Community has felt compelled to come forward, and we declare ourselves to be a nation. As a nation we will establish ourselves over time and protect our way of life. We worship demons, worship ourselves, and worship each other, as gods of our own lives. We have, with serious consideration, begun to develop Gathering Place into a town of constructed buildings and will, in time, establish ways for un-recruited demon-worshipers to join us here to continue to build and modernize the Community. We are not unfamiliar with the trappings of statecraft, and we will soon begin to 'play the game' that we have resisted for so long. We would seek friendship with other nations that would, first and foremost, respect our demon-given right to be left alone. Be yourself, Priest Alfred
1662	Rapids Changes	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	The missionary to Malarboria returned and spread the good news, that Kizzy Drakland would come to rule the community as their living goddess. This prompted a burst of civic pride, and the construction pace of Gathering Place as a city increased. Family compounds began to transform into villages with the cycle families acting as governing councils. New and expanded editions of the Grimoindr, Kizzy's personal notes on the major demons she extracted from Demonsfall. Various Goetics have already pledged themselves to the incoming cadre of demons that they expect Kizzy to bring with her. Devotees usually find themselves elevated to positions of authority within the local families, or those already in power are expected to pledge themselves to a demon to ensure prosperity for their family.
1663	Population Growth	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	In the interest of growing our native population and raising growth to a sustainable rate, the Cycle Families may be composed of members of all genders, and no person may be denied admission into a Cycle Family, as full or auxiliary, based on their gender. Mating shall be permitted at all times, not just while at Gathering Place.