Your patron has waited aeons to be worshipped, and it hates being kept waiting. Each time you enrol or invest, the bead moves one step along your patron's card and you roll the ten-sided die. Roll above the number under the bead to avoid your patron being displeased. If you don't, draw a Divine Displeasure card.

The bead stays where it is: your patron lashed out, but it's still hungry. Only a successful summon calms it. The longer you ignore it, the bigger the number. The last step is always 9.

Roll a 10 and your patron is delighted: after an enrol, as many Little Ones again join; after an invest, it pays for another selling point. Roll a 1 and the bead moves one more step as well.

1. Look at the Abominations knocking at the gate and pick the one you want. You don't have to say which.
2. Lead a Little One to the altar and roll. Each one is harder than the last, and a one always fails. Roll a 10 and it's a perfect night: the next Little One walks up too, no roll needed. Came up short? Cash in a bonus selling point to add its number to the roll; it goes back under the deck.
   2+1st

   4+2nd

   6+3rd

   8+4th
3. For every three Abominations you already have, the parents are more suspicious: Abominations aplenty. Take 1 from each roll after the first for every three Abominations (three to five, −1; six to eight, −2; nine or more, −3). The first Little One is never harder.
4. Each time it works, choose: another Little One, or stop. Or let them all go: nothing is summoned, and they join the Unenrolled.
5. Stop, and spend the Little Ones on the altar on Abominations at the gate: one big one, or several small ones, as long as the Little Ones they take add up to no more than you've got. Another steps up the moment you take a card. Then they all join the Unenrolled, and your patron is fed: the bead goes back to the start.
6. Fail, and the night's ruined. Nothing is summoned, the Little Ones go back to their rooms, and a parent has noticed: draw a Meddling Parent card to see how bad it got. Your patron wanted an Abomination, not a near miss, so the bead stays where it is.

Three selling points can send a meddling parent away: discard one when you draw the card. The card does nothing and the ritual goes on as if the roll never happened: roll again for that Little One, or stop and take.

When parents pull Little Ones out, they take them down the road to the smallest rival daycare (tied, you choose). Some cards cost more than Little Ones: a step of the bead, your cheapest selling point, or your next turn. And some change what you do next: a night with no altar, a rival choosing your night for you, two off every roll, the shop closed to you until you summon, your patron rolling first, or a roll on the card itself. The card says.

Every Abomination of the same size is worth the same: taking 1 is worth 1, taking 2 is worth 3, taking 3 is worth 7, taking 4 is worth 12. Your patron may add or take a little. Ten of the big ones have a power, printed on the card, that works for as long as you hold it: a 7's is the smaller size of a 12's.

When your Abominations add up to 20, the stars are right and your patron wakes. Your awakening card, beside your patron, keeps count. Every other cult then has one more turn, the players before you included, and the game ends when the turn comes back to you. A rival with a rite can still use it in those last turns. Then the biggest collection wins.

The game only ends on a waking patron: if the Abominations deck runs out, the banished ones are shuffled into a new deck. A tie goes to the better daycare: whoever has more Little Ones.