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 If you activate your fear passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to get away.  Run fast.  Bust down the locked door.  But you cannot use it to attack&mdash;the thing you fear most has the most power over you.
-Your fear passion has a connection to your [[Unknown Armies:Madness Meters|Madness Meters]].  These are mental stresses that record how messed up you are in the head.  There are five such tracks: Violence, Helplessness, The Unnatural, Isolation, and Self.  Pick one that synchs up closest to your fear.  Then if your fear rises up and smacks you, you have to make a stress check against the linked meter.
+Your fear passion has a connection to your [[Unknown Armies:Madness|Madness Meters]].  These are mental stresses that record how messed up you are in the head.  There are five such tracks: [[Unknown Armies:Violence|Violence]], [[Unknown Armies:Helplessness|Helplessness]], [[Unknown Armies:The Unnatural|The Unnatural]], [[Unknown Armies:Isolation|Isolation]], and [[Unknown Armies:Self|Self]].  Pick one that synchs up closest to your fear.  Then if your fear rises up and smacks you, you have to make a stress check against the linked meter.
 ==The Rage Passion==

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	If you activate your rage passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to lash out. You might fire a gun, swing a fist, or turn over the tables of the money-changers in the courtyard of the temple. You cannot use it to do some sort of skilled careful work, like picking a lock or hacking a computer belonging to your enemy. You must lash out immediately in all your volatile, beautiful, uncontrollable rage.		If you activate your rage passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to lash out. You might fire a gun, swing a fist, or turn over the tables of the money-changers in the courtyard of the temple. You cannot use it to do some sort of skilled careful work, like picking a lock or hacking a computer belonging to your enemy. You must lash out immediately in all your volatile, beautiful, uncontrollable rage.

			===Sample Rage Passions===
			'''Backchat.''' Is it too much to ask that people be polite? You understand
			someone who throws a punch at you, but a sarcastic loudmouth really gets your
			goat.

			'''Enemy Drivers.''' You’re an excellent driver. You wish all the bad drivers
			around you would just realize it, hang up their cell phones, and get the hell out
			of your way.

			'''Laziness.''' When someone does a half-assed job, they’re not just disrespecting
			their duties or their boss. They’re flipping the bird to everyone who has to put up
			with their shoddy work. God help one of your employees if you catch her
			slacking.

			'''Sleaze.''' Booze. Pornography. Foul language. Toilet humor. The country is
			swimming in filth, and no one’s doing anything about it. It’s time someone took
			a stand. Someday a real rain is gonna fall.

			'''Stuck-up Assholes.''' Just because you didn’t go to college and don’t drive a
			Lexus doesn’t mean those rich fucks get to look down at you. Goddamn snobs.
			Someone ought to take them down a notch.

			'''Those Fat Cats in Washington.''' Democrats and Republicans are just the
			competing teams in the “Screw the Taxpayer” Super Bowl, brought to you live
			by the Army, the Post Office, and your local Police Department.

	==The Noble Passion==		==The Noble Passion==

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	If you activate your noble passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to take a selfless action that furthers your noble goal. You need to do it right away—this isn't a resource you can use to write a grant proposal. Bust the lock on the warehouse to feed the starving, drive fast to get the child to the hospital, persuade a soldier to let you into the refugee camp. This is a moment to define your highest self.		If you activate your noble passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to take a selfless action that furthers your noble goal. You need to do it right away—this isn't a resource you can use to write a grant proposal. Bust the lock on the warehouse to feed the starving, drive fast to get the child to the hospital, persuade a soldier to let you into the refugee camp. This is a moment to define your highest self.

			===Sample Noble Passions===
			'''Entertainment.''' How much better would the world be if people devoted as
			much effort to making one another happy as they do to getting rich or becoming
			powerful? You believe laughter is the best medicine—so if you cheer someone up
			now, the future takes care of itself.

			'''Historical Preservation.''' If we can’t learn from the past, we’re doomed to
			repeat it, and all those who suffered did so in vain. Preserving our links to the
			past gives us a firm foundation to build a better future.

			'''Landmine Removal.''' Landmines are deadly, indiscriminate, and a bitch to
			remove. You’ve seen their carnage firsthand and you’re dedicated to removing
			them physically (by working as a minesweeper) and politically (through activism
			to get landmines banned).

			'''One for All.''' Most people are crap, but you’ve made a tight bond with your
			friends. They’re all right, and your loyalty to them is unshakeable.

			'''Pedagogy.''' Education is the key to it all. Knowledge rinses away prejudice,
			eases misery, and exalts all that is good about the human condition. Educating
			others is your mission in life.

			'''Protect the Elderly.''' Most old people have already had seven courses of
			misery and heartache in their lifetimes without an extra helping in the eleventh
			hour.

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You don't go through life like a car on an assembly line. You're volatile, spontaneous, and committed. The events in your life can have a profound effect on you. There's something that really scares you, something that ticks you off, and something that inspires you to action.

These are the passions that rule your life. In a very real way, they're the foundation of all the "logical" and "rational" decisions you make as a human being. These are the hot buttons wired deep into your brain.

You have three: A Fear stimulus, a Rage stimulus, and a Noble stimulus.

Your passions cannot contradict your [[Unknown Armies:Obsession|obsession]]. You are a coherent person.

When you're in a situation that pushes one of your buttons, you go all spooky-intense. You can opt to either [[Unknown Armies:flip-flop|flip-flop]] or reroll a failed roll during that situation. You only get to do this once per session for each passion. If you're going to go buck wild, make sure it's worth it.

The GM can shut you down. If you unleash a passion for bogus reasons and she calls you on it, you don't get to cut loose. Yet.

==The Fear Passion==
What do you fear the most? Pointy things? Looking Weak in front of people you respect? Whatever it is, it's the thing that makes you run like a neck-stumped chicken, the stink of panic erupting from your fevered skin.

If you activate your fear passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to get away. Run fast. Bust down the locked door. But you cannot use it to attack—the thing you fear most has the most power over you.

Your fear passion has a connection to your [[Unknown Armies:Madness Meters|Madness Meters]]. These are mental stresses that record how messed up you are in the head. There are five such tracks: Violence, Helplessness, The Unnatural, Isolation, and Self. Pick one that synchs up closest to your fear. Then if your fear rises up and smacks you, you have to make a stress check against the linked meter.

==The Rage Passion==
What makes you lash out in a blind fury? Child abusers? People who have undeservedly been rewarded with the things you work so hard for but cannot obtain? Your rage passion is the thing you must destroy, surpass, or overcome, in whatever form or persona it manifests.

If you activate your rage passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to lash out. You might fire a gun, swing a fist, or turn over the tables of the money-changers in the courtyard of the temple. You cannot use it to do some sort of skilled careful work, like picking a lock or hacking a computer belonging to your enemy. You must lash out immediately in all your volatile, beautiful, uncontrollable rage.

==The Noble Passion==
What inspires you to be the very best person you can be? Relieving the worldwide burden of poverty? Getting the money for your grandmother's operation? Your noble passion is the thing that takes you higher. To avoid your fear, you might leave your friends in the lurch. To destroy your rage, you might lie, torture, and murder. But to pursue your noble goal, you would make sacrifices, risk your own life, and endure terrible suffering for the common good.

If you activate your noble passion, you can use the flip-flop or reroll to take a selfless action that furthers your noble goal. You need to do it right away—this isn't a resource you can use to write a grant proposal. Bust the lock on the warehouse to feed the starving, drive fast to get the child to the hospital, persuade a soldier to let you into the refugee camp. This is a moment to define your highest self.