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as the sage exarion universe once said, "there are no good runs". but this one is pretty close.

i would have left it alone after my last run, but first of all, i had to derust a little for the marathon this weekend, and second of all, i discovered a pretty big error in my original route--i was selling eggs at the villa, which required a whole detour totaling 6 loading zones, but it turns out you can just sell eggs at the cafe lol. this change alone saves like 25s. on top of that, i decided to refine my load storage setup, and realized that you can use an audio cue to perfectly time the 5am fadeout without ever checking the time. basically, the "crickets" sound in the background always stops at midnight, so if you wait ~2m08s after that, your storage setup will be perfectly timed. i also found out after my last run that you can just whistle to store the load, rather than pocketing an item, which is slightly more precise (since the whistle animation is shorter), but it's technically faster, since you don't have to stop the clock at all to pull out an item.

this run almost died due to a terrible initial round of mining, but i managed to claw it back with good routing and a good second mining session. on top of that, i finally got first-try golden milk, so this is in all respects better than the last run.

absolutely love this route and glad i managed to get a near-perfect run with it. only reasonable way to beat it now would be if an item dupe or money glitch was discovered. maybe someday.