[Thoster joins in on the laughter, because he's playing up just how much he can be one of the rich guys.]

Speaking of friends... [He says, taking a sip of his drink and swooping around to stand between them, putting his back to a majority of the crowd and dropping his tone a bit lower.] A friend of mine told me that the good King might be able to provide a hand if one was looking to, ah... expand the workforce. [(bluff 28) Because these guys look like they might be terrible enough people to know a thing or two about slavery.]