Editing Scum: Hurting People (section)

=Justifying Murder=

To justify killing a human being, the Scum's player has to first come up with the reason why the Scum sees murder as a reasonable course of action. This can be almost anything you like! For example:

* "Cos he shagged my sister!"
* "Cos he's got more money than me!"
* "Cos he wouldn't share his Cider!"
* "Cos he's ginger!"
* "Cos he wouldn't let me shag his sister!"

As you can see, these don't have to be ''good'' justifications, they just need to be any old excuse.

Next, once you have that justification, you test the ''"I'll Cut Ya!"'' attribute. 

If you fail, then your ''Scum'' decides that it's not worth killing someone over. On a failed test, you can still try to justify murder to yourself again later, but you can't use the same excuse. You have to find (or make up) a fresh one.

If you succeed, then your Scum has convinced himself that murder is justifiable. This is a permanent shift in mental state, and from now on you can always attempt to murder that indivdual (i.e., you never need to test self-justification for murder with regards to that victim again).

Note that becase (as mentioned in the Core Rules)all dice rolls are made in the open, there is no way to hide your murderous intent! Your victim-to-be knows that you're out to get them! In-game, this is justified via such things as the rumour mill, MySpace blogs, Facebook rumours and the fact that Scum aren't very good at keeping secrets...

Note also that justifying murder to yourself doesn't take any time at all - you can keep trying at this check as often as you like!
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