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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8371159" data-attributes="member: 30538">Hodan Yasin<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-z7dK2ZG/0/a1877955/S/ubah_ali_somali_activist%20%281%29-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Sometimes Argus acquires its agents in a decidedly twisted manner. Hodan Yasin, the Chief Administrator of the company's offices in Nairobi, started her professional career as an employee of one of Argus' competitors. WonderWorkers Incorporated was established by her father, Hassan Yasin, in 1999, and intended to provide the same sort of services that Argus did and does, but focusing its efforts in East Africa. It did this well enough that when Argus finally negotiated the acquisition of WWI in 2008, Hassan was offered a director's seat and occupied it until he passed away from old age in 2017.The terms of that merger were largely negotiated by Hodan, who had been her father's right hand for the last few years of WWI's existence, as well as acting as a field operative before that. While her own company was right on the verge of going under, she nevertheless convinced Argus that WWI had much more to offer them as a partner than as a subsidiary. Putting her father in a director's chair was both a retirement present for the old man and also a way to ensure that there was an African on the board. (Hodan privately finds the Director General's pretensions to African identity to be absurd, despite his birth and the unusual circumstances under which he was raised.)Hodan's goals are to preserve the safety and freedom of Africa, in general, and specifically that of the sub-Saharan region. If the nations of this continent are to rise to the potential she believes that they possess, they will have to do it themselves, not because of saviors from the West or the East. However, alliances with powers from beyond the region, like Argus, are helpful if their resources can be applied in an appropriate manner. And Hodan is quietly convinced that she is the best available person to perform that application.One of her subsidiary goals has been to improve the relationship that exists between Kenya's hero, the Ghost Hunter, and the branch of Argus under her administration. This has been a very frustrating experience; the Hunter has managed to foil every effort to even contact him, much less to establish some sort of alliance. It makes no sense to Hodan. She knows that the Ghost Hunter must be at least as clearsighted as she is, so surely he can see the advantages that connecting with her would grant him. With his talents combined with Argus' resources, they'd both be able to do so much more good than they can do alone. Why is he avoiding her, then?She isn't willing to believe that the Ghost Hunter has realized her intentions, and decided he doesn't want any part of any of it.Hodan Yasin - PL 5Abilities:STR 0 | STA 1 | AGL 1 | DEX 2 | FGT 4 | INT 5 | AWE 4 | PRE 3Advantages:Benefit 4 (multi-millionaire), Connections, Contacts, Defensive Roll, Equipment 4, Evasion, Grabbing Finesse, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Languages 3 (English, French, Swahili, others, [Somali is native]), Ranged Attack 3, Redirect.Equipment:20 points as needed.Skills:Close Combat: Unarmed 3 (+7), Deception 6 (+9), Expertise: Business 5 (+10), Expertise: Civics 3 (+8), Expertise: Streetwise 2 (+7), Insight 4 (+8), Investigation 3 (+8), Perception 3 (+7), Persuasion 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+7), Technology 2 (+7), Vehicles 5 (+7).Offense:Initiative +5Unarmed +7 (Close Damage 0)Defense:Dodge 5, Parry 7, Fortitude 3, Toughness 3/0, Will 7.Totals:Abilities 40 + Advantages 24 + Skills 24 + Defenses 12 = 100 pointsComplications:Responsibility--Motivation. Ambitious.</blockquote>

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