Guards start in “Employed in the Royal Guard”. The center circle has two different meanings, one for the thieves and one for the guards.
Thieves start in “Having a ship”.
End condition:
when time track reaches end or as soon as thieves get to the tiny space guarded by pass values 4, 4 and 8. They want to have their ship, get away clean and have the jewel.

When the end condition triggers, the pieces who are in a particular space, that’s their destiny in the fiction. I.e. you can be in the “Death” circle safely, you just can’t end up there.