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[mitchw]

I found these over on the Yahoo FATE board. They were created by Rob Rendell.

Morbid Curiosity
Description: you can't help poking into things that people with more taste or weaker stomachs wouldn't.
Invoke: know gory or anatomical facts. Keep your cool when dealing with morbid subjects.
Compels: distract you when you should be focusing on other things. Make you say inappropriate jokes or comments.

The Delirium
Description: you've suffered some sort of mental breakdown relating to the monsters you saw in your living room, and now you find yourself haunted by nightmares and jumping at shadows.
Invoke: be alert, garner sympathy or run like hell.
Compels: May leave you a gibbering heap in the face of your fears.

Lets collect a list of these. Write up your favorite in this format and post it here....

Mitch

[Erifnogard]

Lord of the Hot Tea Drinkers
Description- You're not just a connoisseur of hot tea drinking, you're the connoisseur of hot tea drinking.
Invoke- If there is an obscure fact about growing tea, brewing tea, drinking tea, tea smugglers of the 1700's, etc. then you know it. And are willing, nay!, compelled to share it. Sometimes it is useful and pertinent to the situation at hand...
Compel: ...and then sometimes not. Unless it's mighty damn important to know that the rabid Turbonium dragon's favorite tea is Lapsang Souchong served at exactly 98 degrees Fahrenheit, your companions will be understandably upset with you for insisting on sharing that information as they attempt to sneak into said dragon's lair.....I'm just sayin'....

Better Paranoid than Surprised
Description- You believe that you can never be to careful. Sure squirrels are probably not the advance scouts for the Mombian invasion force but that's no excuse for not having a contingency plan...just in case...
Invoke- You are incredibly aware of your environment and everything that happens in your vicinity. You always have a backup plan for the backup plan. You haven't slept with both eyes closed since 1978...
Compel- ...or at all for that matter. And the lack of sleep gets to you sometimes. Like when the guy at the convenience store gives you change that has GPS tracking units embedded in the coins to track your movements. You're sure of this because otherwise how would that dog with the micro-camera eye replacement know to follow you from the store to the park where you hid your cache of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' editions? But you fooled him...this is just your decoy cache. These books are just used copies of John Grisham novels with 'Mockingbird' covers glued on them.

[Korbinius]