[@Sovi3t] it's a start and the smuggler idea is a good one considering all the sea going and airship traffic that comes into Ramsgate from the Docks and Scrag Town. It is still a WIP though so I'll point out a few things. 

This is another world all together so France, the French flag, and the alias of Frenchie are out of place. I'll go about making it clearer in the OP and post 5 Misc. but this is a low fantasy world apart from Earth and our world. It is a Shadowrun spin-off but only in concept, the real world is not our setting. To keep that theme, if you would like, you could make the equivalent elven, avian, human, or some other tribe, city, country (be creative) that could fill in for the French concept. 

Also, in this diametrically opposed world a "smuggler" no matter how charismatic would probably never even speak with "sophisticated" people, maybe retainers, go betweens, and functionaries but never the rich themselves.

As to the background, things like unions are more like guilds and schools for the poor don't really exist. Again this is a poor, corrupt, dark, and desperate world and life the characters lead. 

Keep working at it, proof reading, and being creative. It will get easier as I post more Ramsgate info.