My role:
Anastasia Hoshin
Merchant of the West
Anastasia Hoshin is the chairman of the Hoshin Company and a candidate to become the 42nd King of Lugunica. A commoner turned successful entrepreneur, her motive for participating in the Royal Selection is solely to expand her business. She has a crafty personality. She always puts benefitting herself first, though she also likes it when people benefit when she benefits. You are an Independent role with the goal to sucessfully make 70 exchanges/sells. Alternatively, you must make 50 exchanges/sells and survive until the end of the game.
-Super Role-
[Passive - Royal Selection Business Expansion] - As Anastasia is a candidate in the Royal Selection for the next King with the sole purpose of expanding her business, Anastasia will always be investigated as "Independent" to alignment checks. To role cops, she'll return as "Anastasia Hoshin, Independent" and nothing more.
[Passive - Merchant of the West] - Anastasia is extremely skilled at business, having worked her way up from nothing to being the president of a prominent company. Her skill is mentioned to be natural. You are the owner of the Hoshin Company, which players may buy abilities from. A WU with the opening of the shop will appear at the beginning of the night, which can acquire abilities from. The shop will have the abilities from dead roles. When taking an ability, players will borrow it in the form of a loan and upon taking 3 abilities, Anastasia will take an x-shot from the player. If no x-shots are available, Anastasia will take a copy of an Infinite shots ability, with that ability being blocked throught immunities from being used in that cycle.
[Passive - Eye for Business] - Anastacia is a natural born businesswoman, knowing the ins and outs of making business. When targetting a dead role, her abilities cannot be redirected and this passive cannot be negated or bypassed.
[Passive - Fool me Once, Shame on You. Fool me Twice, Shame on Me] - Anastasia can only be roleblocked and rolechrushed once each, afterwhich she'll be permanently immune to those abilities.
[Passive - Money Bears no Sins and is NAI] - To run a successful business, you must know your clients and what they desire the most. As part of Anastasia's business strategy, depending on the player's alignment, the corresponding shop will be available to the players, with the Town shop being available to all players, while there will be a second shop solely for Mafia players. Town shop will be publicy available to all players, while Mafia shop will be available in their very own, underground, Black Market (Mafia PM). Abilities will be given according to "First come, first served" maximum. As Anastasia only cares about profit, if there are dead roles from different alignments to be scavenged, she will collect those resources in a Town-Mafia ratio of 2:1.
[Active - Procuring Resources] - Before opening doors, a business must have the appropriate resources and goods to offer to the public, as well as a built network for those goods to reach their costumers. Anastasia activates this ability to add a dead role's abilities* ** to her shop once per cycle
*Limited to available x-shots.
** Infinite-shots abilities will be taken as 3-shot
[Active - Hoshin Company's Initial Public Offering - IPO] - The owners of a private company may want additional capital to invest in new projects within the company. They may also simply wish to reduce their holding, freeing up capital for their own private use. They can achieve these goals by selling shares in the company to the general public, through a sale on a stock exchange. Anastasia activates this ability to put up for sale 49,9% of the company's shares, with the players being able to buy 10% of shares each. Anastasia's shop will permanently have for sale the base ability of that player (exceptions may apply) with the limit of selling of 1 per cycle, and, in exchange, players that got the shares become immune to Merchant of the West negative effects, while also having a one time purchase preference voucher in case of goods dispute with other players (1-shot)
[Refer a Friend Program] - An once in a life time opportunity to let your friend know just how great and diligent Hoshin Company is! Anastasia may extend the effects of the IPO to an additional player. She selects one of the shareholders and that player may refer a friend (player) to benefit from the IPO effects (1-shot)
[Dividend Payments] - A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, it is able to pay a portion of the profit as a dividend to shareholders. After Anastasia sells 25 abilities from her shop, she may activate this ability to give 1 ability to the shareholders before the shop opens to the costumers. The player from Refer a Friend Program is not eligible for this ability (1-shot)
[Active - Don't take away my Goodies!] - if 2 or more janitored abilities are sucessfully used in a cycle, Anastasia may activate this ability to unjanitor one of the roles and take the goodies for herself (for the shop), all for the greater good of her costumers (1-shot)
[Outsourcing] - In order to cut expenses for the Hoshin company, Anastasia may outsource a part of the work required to secure resources. If Anastasia is directly and exclusively told about the role name of a janitored player, she may unjanitor that role and add those abilities to her shop (1-shot)
[Active - There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Hoshin Company] - Hoshin Company's business slogan, that was born from countless restless nights of brainstorming, thought-enhancing magic spells and black tea. Even if an ability was thought to be in the game but isn't, Anastasia will use her resources to make them real, in order to acommodate the costumer's expectations. Anastasia may target a flipped fake role and add those abilities to her shop (2-shot)
[Active.- Hoshin Company's Bonds Issue] - A bond is a fixed-income instrument that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower. A bond could be thought of as an I.O.U. between the lender and borrower that includes the details of the loan and its payments. Anastasia may activate this ability to issue bonds into the market. In Hoshin Company we care about sharing deep and meaningful bonds with our investors. A WU will appear and the first 6 players will acquire bonds from the Hoshin Company by writing "Anastasia's Bonds" in bold in their role PM. To acquire a bond, players will lend a x-shot ability to Anastasia to be available in her shop. 1 Cycle later, Anastasia will give the following abilities to the players as payment according to the order in which they wrote the keyword in their role PM: (1-shot)
- 1st Bond: Amp
- 2nd Bond: Refill
- 3rd Bond: Double Action
- 4th Bond: Refill
- 5th Bond: Double Action
- 6th Bond: Amp
[Active - Restocking Goods] - Any Company must be aware of current market's trends to supply the costumers with the appropriate goods and services, according to the Law of Offer and Demand. Having this in mind, when a dead role's abilities are added to the shop, Anastasia may check with the host the possibility to restock an already used x-shot ability, effectively functioning as a refill ability (3-shot)