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Geek in styling hell.

Since the hair on my head gets longer again, the need for some „styling“ becomes more apparent: Without any help of gel, wax, spray, foam or similar products, my hair is just a mess.

Thus I found myself in the „styling department“ of a supermarket wondering which product to get. I knew exactly what I wanted: Some gel that I can use to prevent the hair from looking plastered to my skull as well as directing it into some sort of sorta-wet-look.

But the products all advertised „wild styling“, „ultra-strong glue“, „ultimate matt-effects“, „cool wet gel with power“.… ARRGH!

These descriptions tell me nothing about the products properties, just what image the advertising department wants them to convey — which is absolutely not what I want to know. I don’t carry the tube with the product around, I carry my hair around. 

I wonder if there’ll ever be some unpretentious no-nonsense personal hygiene & styling line which just says „makes hair stiff and keeps it in shape“, „cleans teeth, tastes like mint“ or just „cleans hair and keeps it healthy“.

What is it about

WTO 2060 is a Cyberpunk-like roleplaying setting. Currently, it’s being designed for a future play-by-post roleplaying campaign.

As you could see by the first background notes, the setting tends towards „dark and gritty“. The player characters will struggle for survival, living mostly outside the established system. They work for big corporations, governments or the Mafia — whoever offers a job and pays in anonymized money. A typical job might be

  • infiltrating an office tower undetected, gaining access to their core computer systems, download the blueprints for the new sonic toothbrush, cover their traces and deliver the data to the competition
  • Freeing the younger sister of a squatter from an illegal bioresearch laboratory
  • Shut down a powerplant
  • escort a VIP through a gang warzone

Player characters will be specialists of some kind. In their field, they are far better than the average joe. Alas, thanks to some event in their past, they aren’t part of normal society anymore: They don’t have access to normal bank accounts, don’t have a credit chip and especially don’t have any official documents. For society, they don’t exist. This certainly is a hindrance in a lot of ways, but also offers a degree of freedom: If society doesn’t care about you, you can stop caring about societies rules. 

Of course, randomly shooting people is a surefire way of making society and law enforcement notice you, but not in a good way.