Welcoming Committee

The Welcoming Committee has been around since 381 PC, 4 years after Fredrick M. Gyllis reconfigured Gyllis dome into a prison. Through the years, it has become the first committee anyone entering Gyllis is met with. It is in fact, near impossible to enter Gyllis without meeting the committee, as members of the Welcoming Committee, also known as Grandmas (gender and/or familial status notwithstanding), take their jobs very seriously.


When newcomers find themselves in Gyllis, they are guided by the Welcoming Committee to the Gyllis House, where they are locked inside for the first portion of their stay in Gyllis. This lasts until the committee is satisfied with the newcomers' acceptance of Gyllis’ laws and culture, of which the Welcoming Committee is tasked with introducing them to. Once the committee is satisfied, newcomers can file what name they would like to be known as with the Welcoming Committee, and then they are released to enter the rest of the dome.


The Welcoming Committee is currently led by Ethyl Gyllis, a position that she has held for the last 8 years. It has been under Ethyl’s direction that the Welcoming Committee has made great strides in getting newcomers to accept and be converted to Gyllis’ culture and laws quicker, and with a higher likelihood of it sticking with them after they are released. These strides have much to do with Ethyl’s introduction of the TCV method, or Threats of Chemical Violence. With problem newcomers who refuse to accept Gyllis’ ways, these threats are even followed through on until the newcomer repents and agrees to follow the rules, upon which time they are given the antidote. The implementation of this new method has shown to be very effective, with the number of cases the Murder Committee has to deal with dropping after its introduction.