powerful guests. prologue

I had amassed an incredible amount of funds and power over the past few years of running a criminal organization, it had long since evolved past the simplicity of a gang and moved on to bigger fancier schemes, we had even started to integrate our members into the government and the nearby marine base, everything was going well...

...except for one thing, a world noble was going to visit the island, I had heard this through my moles in the marines and knew that this would be a problem due to the unpredictable behavior and incredible influence of the world nobles, and so I began setting up a simple distraction for the noble, it was just a fancy festival but distracting them was the only way to deal with them without starting a war, and so I made the preparations for the festival fireworks, confetti, street vendors to sell food, and performers to entertain whoever attended.

I had only burnt through a small portion of my hoard by setting up this festival, and I decided that I ought to buy a small ship so I could greet the noble in person (and hopefully score some points with them), and so I began searching nearby shipyards for a respectable vessel to sail on.