Hi Simon,
I'm not sure exactly what you mean but I'll try and answer as best as I can! If you talk to the Gorse-Jones's and say yes when they ask to leave the ship then you lose the game, but I guess you know that as you've finished it properly. Unfortunately at the end of the game the cd I had went wrong, (due to a certain interferring mum who ruined the cd somehow, but let's not get into that!) so I couldn't try to save Georgia after her being poisened, which is a pity as I think that Georgia and the secret agent should get married! The way that I finished was, first, to show Officer Morrow the tarot card, but he says basically, 'Yeah right, tough luck! Try someone else!' I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I found that, after retrieving all the artifacts, (which I found was the trickiest bit of the game, with vlad at the end as I didn't think about going down below decks at first!) then talking to Penny Pringle and showing the seaman that card, was the quickest. I have not left in another lifeboat apart from that, but as I said my first cd didn't work properly. I'm trying to get hold of another one, if I do I'll let you know of my progress, and you please let me know of yours! You don't happen to know of any sites where I could get another copy do you? Good luck! Jess (hope this e-mail actually sends!)