Editing Scum: We Is Scum (section)

=What does Scum do?=
==Scum Motivations==

As mentioned, ''Scum'' generally don't have much in the way of long term plans - life is cheap and meaningless.

The short term motivation of ''Scum'' is enjoyment. Scum will do anything if it feels good, from drink and drugs, to having unprotected intercourse, to casual crime, to high speed races and other dangerous games. Consequences rarely figure in a Scum's calculations. 

The long term motivation of ''Scum'' is to get out of their current lives and into something better. Scum don't tend to like the hard way up though - school, education, a job and hard work all take too long, and are frankly too boring to be worthwhile in the Scum's eyes. Instead, they look for quick fix solutions, which might include such things as:
* Acquiring a big stash of money or drugs.
* Getting hold of a book of "perfect racing tips" that predicts how horse races will be fixed for the next year.
* Getting into the Pop Idol competition, and winning through fair means or foul.
* Getting into the Big Brother house.
* Stealing a winning lottery ticket.
These motivations arise as the next get-rich-quick scheme arises, and hence tend to be the basis of game scenarios.

Note that though the Scum game is designed with scenarios and short stories in mind, it is possible to run games with longer campaigns, story arcs and more complex character development. This is explored more in a later section*.

''((*for the purposes of the Game-Fu competition, please note this variant is not yet included, but will be added at a later date))''
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==Scum Pastimes==

This is a small list of ways in which the protagonists might pass their time:
* Drinking down the pub, if you look old enough.
* Drinking at home.
* Drinking on the street.
* Smoking weed, taking other drugs.
* Going "on the pull" in pubs, bars and clubs.
* Having sex - anywhere and everywhere.
* Getting into fights, with fists or knives.
* Gambling and playing fruit machines.
* Playing pool and snooker.
* Shopping - or more normally, shoplifting.
* Driving around at high speed - either your own car or someone elses.
* Just hanging out, chatting shit.
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==Scum Culture==

This is a list of things that the protagonists are likely to like and appreciate. 

* '''Music:''' Lily Allen, The Streets, Blazing Squad, N-Dubz and So Solid are common choices. Many male chavs are more into their esoteric music and might have more eccentric tastes, such as obscure German hard house or real Jamaican reggae. Conversely, many female chavs may be more interested in mainstream music than in the music of their subculture, so may like generic pop like Girls Aloud, Westlife, etc.
* '''Food:''' Fried chicken, chips and burgers are a large part of the staple diet of our protagonists. They might also appreciate pizzas, curries, kebabs or chinese food, and will do so without any sense of irony, despite their generally racist and anti-immigrant attitudes.
* '''Drink:''' Cheap lagers (Carling, Carlsberg, Fosters) for the boys, Alcopops (WKD Blue, Smirnoff Ice) for the girls, additive-heavy shots (Shotz, Afterburner) for everyone.
* '''Drugs:''' Weed, almost universally. Ecstacy for about half. Cocaine for about a quarter. Heroin for about one in ten.
* '''Technology:''' Mobile phones are ubiquitous, and text messages are the default mode of communication for most Scum, though the female of the species are also liable to conduct actual spoken conversations as well. The current Scum generation also tends to be on the internet, though with activities limited to a ''MySpace'' page and the occasional ''YouTube'' posting.

Generally, the above is about as far as Scum will go with culture!



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