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The Faxanadu Any% route is difficult.  After ShinerCCC got ahold of the game, hetook the run in the direction of following the TAS, which works and saves much time, but is unforgiving to execute.  A rough outline of the route follows:

# Go right, die.
# Talk to Guru, get Ring of Elf
# Talk to King, get 1500 golds
# Buy Red Potion, Sell Red Potion (1420 golds left)
# Buy Elixir, Dagger, Deluge (300 golds left)
# Buy 3 x J Key (0 golds left)
# Talk to King, get 1500 golds
# Leave Eolis (use J key)
# Pass Apolune
# Enter Tower of Trunk (use J key)
# Manipulate room drop counter to get early Mattock spawn (drop counter at 4)
# Use Mattock (drop counter at 1)
# Arrive Forepaw (2851 golds with optimal kills)
# Buy Wing Boots (51 golds left) (1 Wing Boots)
# Talk to Guru to set death warp
# Leave Forepaw (drop counter at 2 at first screen right of Forepaw)
# Use Wing Boots to fly to sky fountain, talk to crazy man HO HO HO, use pausing to conserve wing boot ticks from here until death (0 Wing Boots)
# Go to Tower of Fortress (use J key, drop counter at 3 when passing Forepaw)
# Fly up to Guru, kill bees for Wing Boots (drop counter at 4) (1 Wing Boots)
# Talk to Guru, get Jo Key (drop counter at 1 after leaving)
# Fly up to fountain
# Die
# Leave Forepaw, get Ointment (drop counter at 2, use ladder above to get counter to 4)
# Drop to Jo door.  Kill wyvern, revive fountain, get Ruby Ring (talk to the man ***twice***), kill wyvern 3x more (2880 golds)
# Return to Forepaw (drop counter at 1)
# Buy Long Sword, Q key (780 golds left)
# Leave Forepaw (drop counter at 2)
# Push rock from fountain, enter Mist door (use Q key, drop counter at 3 at first room there)
# Kill things for golds
# Enter Mascon
# Buy Meats for magic refill
# Leave Mascon
# Kill things for golds
# Go to hospital, kill bird inside, get Wing Boots (drop counter at 4) (2 Wing Boots)
# Grind golds, move drop counter to 3 using hospital door (Should be at least at 4300 golds)
# Use Wing Boots to fly up toward Victim (use pausing to conserve some ticks past Victim) (1 Wing Boots)
# Kill things for golds
# Enter Victim
# Talk to Guru for death warp
# Buy 3 x K Key (costs 4500 golds, try to have as close to that as possible) (Boots counter should be at least 9 if you're not pausing)
# Leave Victim
# Get Wing Boots spawn on the way to Tower of Mist (drop counter at 4) (2 Wing Boots)
# Enter Tower of Mist (Use K key)
# Get Black Onyx (drop counter at 1 on the way)
# Die
# Leave Victim
# Use Wing Boots to fly to A Key house, get A Key, (counter hits 4) (extend boots past poison jump) (1 Wing Boots)
# Enter Branch (use A Key)
# Run/Fly to Conflate (counter at 1)
# Enter Conflate
# Talk to Guru for  death warp
# Leave Conflate
# Enter next branch (use K key)
# Run to Magical Rod (counter at 3)
# Get Wing Boots below Magical Rod (counter at 4) (2 Wing Boots)
# Get Battle Suit
# Die (counter at 1)
# Talk to Guru to get Ring of Dwarf
# Leave Conflate
# Enter next branch (use K key)
# Manipulate counter to 4 for ointment
# Pass Daybreak (counter at 1)
# Enter Castle of Dartmoor
# Use Wing Boots to enter Castle of Fraternal (1 Wing Boots)
# Run to Grieve (counter at 3)
# Kill Grieve, use Wing Boots when they run out (and extend for rest of game) get Dragon Slayer (0 Wing Boots)
# Manipulate counter back to 3 in room south of Grieve, using ladder
# Get Demon Ring from Guru
# Get Ointment (counter at 4)
# Fly out of Castle of Fraternal
# Enter Evil One's Fortress
# Fly to Evil One
# Kill him before your ointment and boots run out