Funds

"Enough to support me for a little while in adequate comfort."

 are the primary currency of Cultist Simulator. Every cycle of Time Passes, is automatically consumed. If no Funds is available, the player will begin to starve and suffer afflictions, which consume Health.

Uses

 * Used in place of Vitality in order to restore Health when plagued with an affliction or injury in the Dream verb.
 * Obtain Contentment by dreaming with Funds, however this can induce despair or sickness.
 * Mend a cracked Noonstone by talking to a follower about it and giving them.
 * Heal a wounded follower.
 * Purchase Books from Morland's Shop and Oriflamme's Auction House.

How to obtain
Funds can be obtained by working. But there are other ways to get Funds:
 * Sending followers on Cult Business.
 * Sending or  followers on Cult Business. However, you'll also get Notoriety.
 * Sending, or  followers on Cult Business. However, you'll also get Notoriety and a Prisoner or Corpse.
 * Agreeing to Poppy Lascelles' one-time proposition with 1 Passion to immediately gain and 1 Silver Spintria. However, in the Season of Rags Poppy will return and demand a sacrifice. If no followers are available to sacrifice, the player will be sacrificed and the game will end.
 * Auctioning items in Oriflamme's Auction House, e.g. Spintriae gained from commissions, items obtained from expeditions.
 * The value of items depend on their Auctionable value.
 * Getting fired from your highest position job at Glover & Glover. This gives a packet with a high amount of Funds.