Fortune

The town of Fortune is a floating industry town, built partially on a particularly large specimen of Megaflorica, and partially on a series of floating piers, makeshift rafts, and derilect ships. Fortune is dependent on regular supply ships from the mainland to provide most key resources, particularly drinking water and enough fruits and vegetables to stave off scurvy for the 500 or so permanent residents.
Fortune exists because of the value of the oil produced in large bulbous structures found within tangled mass of the Megaflorica. Early extraction efforts involved cutting these bulbs free from the Megaflorica and then draining the oil from them, but when a work crew accidentally discovered that it is possible to preserve the bulbs by leaving the connecting vines intact. The cut in the bulb made to release the oil within seals within a week or so, and the bulb can be harvested again after about 2 months. The majority of Fortune's population work to produce this oil, combing the Megaflorica to find bulbs, disentangling the bulb such that it can be brought to the surface without being cut loose, and tending and harvesting the bulbs once they are freed.

Trade

Fortune is officially supported by the Tulwood High Seas Company, a powerful consortium of merchant traders operating out of the free city of Tulwood. Officially they provide all supplies in exchange for all the oil produced and military protection, as with all of their other outposts. However, the realities of life on a Megaflorica make this somewhat more tenuous than usual. The town of Fortune drifts the seas alongside its Megaflorica, often going at speeds that most sailing ships cannot hope to match. This, coupled with the complex pattern that Megaflorica follow in their drifting, means that the town is often not where it is expected to be, and if the winds do not cooperate, planned traders may not be able to keep up.
As a result of this, Fortune operates with a degree of unofficial independence from the Tulwood High Seas Company. Ships from other cities hoping to trade for the valuable oil are generally welcomed by the people of Fortune, though any ship caught doing so by a Company or Tulwood Navy vessel is treated as a raider rather than a trading partner. The people of Fortune keep an off-the-books reserve of oil to facilitate these trades, and demand a greater value in supplies and luxuries than they receive from Company traders, which can include things like more varied food supplies and drinking options that offer a relief from the monotony of their standard fare, entertainment sources like cards, books, instruments, and occasionally just decorative items that the town Factor or one of the other higher ranking employees takes a fancy to. This practice also gives rise to a technically legal but widely frowned upon trade in megaflorica fronds, which can be used to make an unusually stimulating tea.