>Be a DM - have your vision destroyed

Be a DM

Make the Bad guy of the Region a Merchant that sell useful stuff with a trade-off

Create connections with the players so that when they discover he's the bad guy from the start they are shocked

Have your players try and steal all his stuff and start the fight with the Bad guy in his Dangerous Form 3 sessions ahead of what you predicted

They just wanted the Kart to make it easier to travel around