We lose runners more often than we'd like. Promoting someone from tourist to runner is always a mixed feeling. Like "Yay, another person joining the party! ...man, I really hope they survive." But as far as danger goes, runner is safer than being an agent or a heavy. Especially a heavy. Glory--she's our synth heavy--pretty regularly will face off against twenty raiders single-handed. Runners are trained to go around trouble, but heavies face it head-on. Their job is to smash trouble out of the way, and trouble usually smashes back.
[Deacon intertwines the truth and the lies. Honest about the Railroad and synths, and lying about himself. It's good to talk about the Cause with someone who has no learned bias or prejudice. And it's safe to talk about it here; the Institute's reach is long, but it sure as hell doesn't stretch to outer space.]
It's super tough to tell the difference between a human and a synth. Synths have mechanical components deep inside, but if you go digging for them, by the time you find them you've pretty much killed the synth. And if the person turns out to be human, you'd have definitely killed the human.
But synths keep the exact same appearance they were created with, unless they go in and have surgical alterations done. If someone's watching closely for a couple years, that can be a big clue when extra wrinkles totally fail to show up. Oh, and we can't gain or lose weight. I can eat all the Fancy Lads Snack Cakes I want and not put on a pound. It's awesome.
That's why I have my face done regularly. I can let people think I'm just, like, a crazy human with issues and a scalpel addiction, but really it's to cover the fact that I don't age.
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[Deacon intertwines the truth and the lies. Honest about the Railroad and synths, and lying about himself. It's good to talk about the Cause with someone who has no learned bias or prejudice. And it's safe to talk about it here; the Institute's reach is long, but it sure as hell doesn't stretch to outer space.]
It's super tough to tell the difference between a human and a synth. Synths have mechanical components deep inside, but if you go digging for them, by the time you find them you've pretty much killed the synth. And if the person turns out to be human, you'd have definitely killed the human.
But synths keep the exact same appearance they were created with, unless they go in and have surgical alterations done. If someone's watching closely for a couple years, that can be a big clue when extra wrinkles totally fail to show up. Oh, and we can't gain or lose weight. I can eat all the Fancy Lads Snack Cakes I want and not put on a pound. It's awesome.
That's why I have my face done regularly. I can let people think I'm just, like, a crazy human with issues and a scalpel addiction, but really it's to cover the fact that I don't age.