Editing Scum: Clued Up (section)

=Notable NPCs=
==Professor Plum==

Professor Plum is in his fifties, slightly overweight and permanently sweaty palmed. He is a primary school teacher in the estate, and probably taught most of the scum at some stage. His favoured social activity is cottaging, and he can be found at the Conservatory between 12am and 3am every night.

He'll surrender his ''Clue'' to any male Scum who indulges in homosexual activities with him (standard half hour action, no roll required, but can only be carried out if no other Scum are present at that location). He can also be otherwise "persuaded" to surrender what he knows (for example by being intimdated, befriended, bribed or beaten up - all of which require attribute tests.)

==Reverend Green==

Reverend Green is in his early twenties, and has the malnourished intense look of a schizophrenic scaghead. He'll often hear Jesus talking to him, and will lead long conversations with himself. He'll sell weed to any who ask.

Green's ''Clue'' can only be gained through subtlety and care - any attempt at violence and intimidation against him will result in him "kicking off" and likely murdering the offending Scum. The Scum know this, and are appropriately frightened of Green. On the other hand someone who seduces or befriends him, bribes him, or joins him in a sufficiently long weed-smoking session will likely find out what he knows.

==Miss Scarlett==

Miss Scarlett says she's eighteen, but she's probably anything up to ten years older than that. She dresses in a skintight red lycra miniskirt, with bright red lipstick and a bouffant of blonde hair. A cigarette perpetually dangling from her lower lip, she'll proposition any man (or boy) that walks past her, with services ranging from the £5 blow to the £500 Julia Roberts special.

Despite selling sex she's doesn't really enjoy it, but she'll only reveal her ''Clue'' to a paying customer (a standard ''Shrapnel'' test). A particularly mean scum could get the information out of her more aggressively, but its worth remembering that her location is a public area.

==Mrs. Peacock==

Mrs. Peacock is a large lady, with a big personality. Being from Jamaica, she's one of the few non-white faces on the Estate, but she laughs off the background noise of racist abuse with a smile and forced jollity.

She'll surrender her ''clue'' to any boy who charms her or any girl who befriends her, or to anyone who'll share a joint with her.

==Colonel Mustard==

A worn-out looking old perv with a trenchcoat and a handle bar moustache that have both seen better days, Mustard can be found perpetually browsing the library of porn at Mr. Patel's corner shop.

Mr. Patel used to kick him out, but has now decided he likes having the old man about, and that he is essentially harmless.

Mustard will surrender his "clue" to any pretty girl that convincingly flirts with him (a ''well shaggable'' check) or to any Scum who'll buy him pornography (a ''shrapnel'' check).

==Mrs. White==

Mrs. White isn't a lovely old lady. She's pretty much the opposite of that.

With her trolley full of collected street rubbish, her dirty moustache, her leering squint and her endless muttering of racial slurs, she's pretty much an archetypal bag tramp. During the night time she sleeps in the graveyard, and takes great pleasure in emptying her bowels over the graves of anyone with a vaguely foreign name.

She's not really cogent, so talking to her doesn't achieve much. Rather, the ''clue'' is hidden in her trolley. Searching the trolley full of crap is a ''Sneaky Bastard'' check... but that's the easy bit. Taking the trolley in the first place is the hard bit.