I came across this passage that I thought could help describe on fighter making a fear check in Ravenloft.
"Hank felt a strain of fear enter his heart that he had not even felt in Nam, although he had been scared most of his time there. That was a rational fear. Fear that you might step on a pongee stick and see your foot swell up like some noxious green balloon, fear that some kid in black p.j.’s whose name you couldn’t even fit in your mouth might blow your head off with a Russian rifle, fear that you might draw a Crazy Jake on patrol that might want you to blow up everyone in a village where the Cong had been a week before. But this fear was childlike, dreamy. There was no reference point to it."
"Salem's lot" Stephen King
Quote for fear check inspiration
Quote for fear check inspiration
Only two things scare me and one is former back-up dancers for Christina Aguilera.