Conference of Cycle Families

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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.

Turfed Cycle Families
Colors
Back Patch
Name Father/Mother Membership Established Affiliates
Cliffbase colors.png Cliffbase CF Alfred Priestly Full Members: 314
Auxiliary: 6,732
1661 Boars, Horses, Eagles
The Saints colors.png The Saints CF John Babbit Full Members: 265
Auxiliary: 5,912
1661 Boars, Tigers
Navigators colors.png Navigators CF Alan Paulson Full Members: 154
Auxiliary: 3,867
1662 Swifts, Horses
Gateway colors.png Gateway CF Tori Muench Full Members: 167
Auxiliary: 4,034
1662 Tigers, Wolves
Nomadic Cycle Families
Colors
Left Arm Patch
Name Road Captain Membership Established Run
Wolves colors.png Wolves CF Les Full Members: 27
Auxiliary: 13
1663 Gateway and Gathering Place
Boars colors.png Boars CF Francesca Full Members: 12
Auxiliary: 25
1663 Cliffbase and The Saints
Tigers colors.png Tigers CF Gerald Full Members: 7
Auxiliary: 6
1663 Gateway and The Saints
Horses colors.png Horses CF Darren Full Members: 5
Auxiliary: 2
1663 Cliffbase and Navigators
Eagles colors.png Eagles CF Edward Full Members: 54
Auxiliary: 23
1663 Cliffbase and Gathering Place
Swift colors.png Swift CF Penelope Full Members: 39
Auxiliary: 6
1663 Navigators and Gathering Place

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. Records have been kept from every annual meeting, including the informal Family Conferences that founded the Community itself and established the Goëtian taboos necessary to keep the Community safe and hidden. 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.
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.
1664 Formal Claim to the MCS Father John Babbit, The Saints CF A formal claim for the turf around Gathering Place shall be lodged at the Micronational Cartography Society no earlier than 23 Friedeber 1664.
1666 Final Map of Goetia Father John Babbit, The Saints CF In the year '666 it was decided by the Conference to finalize the turf of each family. Kizzy Drakland was presented with the map and asked to present it to the MCS for approval.
1667 Expulsion of John Babbit Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF The former leader of the The Saint Cycle Family, known as John Babbit, was expelled from his own family, and in accordance with tradition, is persona non grata among all cycle families who wish to maintain association with this conference and the Community. John Babbit was found to be a conspirator and saboteur from a nearby island whose real name was Johan Johansson. He conspired to derail Goetia's admission into the MCS for reasons presently unclear.