The Opportunist

The Opportunist is a NPC found within Hollow Zero. He appears in the Construction Ruins and Withered Garden Zones on Interior difficult or higher, providing Gear Coin loans for players during the mission. 
==General==
===Construction Ruins===
At the start of the mission, The Opportunist will allow players to loan Gear Coins, with 2 - 3 options of differing amounts available. The higher the mission's difficulty, the higher the possible number of coins that can be loaned per option. He will also freely give players the (Hollow) Piggy bank Resonium, which gives rebates at Bangboo Merchants the higher the player's debt is. 
The Opportunist will appear again at the entrance of each Frontline Outpost to give players the same offer for loans. If players take a loan from him at the Outposts, The Opportunist will provide free support between the choice of restoring health to all Agents in the squad by 10%, or reducing Pressure by 20. Afterwards, players can choose to spend more Gear Coins for additional support and supplies, including but not limited to receiving and catalyzing Resonia, receiving Bangboo Plug-Ins, squad healing, etc., with repeated support becoming increasingly more expensive with each purchase. 
Players can also choose to not take a loan, in which case The Opportunist will give players 100 Gear Coins as courtesy, and offer to provide one free support and the ability to purchase supplies as normal. 
The final appearance of The Opportunist will be before the mission's final boss, where he will ask the player to repay their loan. Paying off the full loan will make him catalyze the (Research) Resource Conversion Resonium, as well as give players the opportunity to acquire more support for 2000 Gear Coins per purchase. If players are unable to make the payment, players will need give all their Gear Coins and discard one Resonium for every 800 Gear Coins that the player owes to make up the difference.
===Withering Garden===
The Opportunist will be present alongside the Masked Scholar and the Secret Doctor when greeting the player at the start of the mission, and at the entrance of the Frontline Outposts. He represents the side that deals with financially-related benefits and penalties.
==Gallery==
Category:NPCs