Faxanadu/any %

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:

1. Go right, die.
2. Talk to Guru, get Ring of Elf
3. Talk to King, get 1500 golds
4. Buy Red Potion, Sell Red Potion (1420 golds left)
5. Buy Elixir, Dagger, Deluge (300 golds left)
6. Buy 3 x J Key (0 golds left)
7. Talk to King, get 1500 golds
8. Leave Eolis (use J key)
9. Pass Apolune
10. Enter Tower of Trunk (use J key)
11. Manipulate room drop counter to get early Mattock spawn (drop counter at 4)
12. Use Mattock (drop counter at 1)
13. Arrive Forepaw (2851 golds with optimal kills)
14. Buy Wing Boots (51 golds left)
15. Talk to Guru to set death warp
16. Leave Forepaw (drop counter at 2 at first screen right of Forepaw)
17. Go to sky fountain, talk to crazy man HO HO HO, use pausing to conserve wing boot ticks from here until death
18. Go to Tower of Fortress (use J key, drop counter at 3 when passing Forepaw)
19. Fly up to Guru, kill bees for Boots (drop counter at 4)
20. Talk to Guru, get Jo Key (drop counter at 1 after leaving)
21. Fly up to fountain
22. Die
23. Leave Forepaw, get Ointment (drop counter at 2, use ladder above to get counter to 4)
24. Drop to Jo door. Kill wyvern, revive fountain, get Ruby Ring (talk to the man ***twice***), kill wyvern 3x more (2880 golds)
25. Return to Forepaw (drop counter at 1)
26. Buy Long Sword, Q key (780 golds left)
27. Leave Forepaw (drop counter at 2)
28. Push rock from fountain, enter Mist door (use Q key, drop counter at 3 at first room there)
29. Kill things for golds
30. Enter Mascon
31. Buy Meats for magic refill
32. Leave Mascon
33. Kill things for golds
34. Go to hospital, kill bird inside (drop counter at 4)
35. Grind golds, move drop counter to 3 using hospital door (Should be at least at 4300 golds)
36. Use Wing Boots to fly up toward Victim (use pausing to conserve some ticks past Victim)
37. Kill things for golds
38. Enter Victim
39. Talk to Guru for death warp
40. 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)
41. Leave Victim
42. Pick up Wing Boot spawn on the way to Tower of Mist (drop counter at 4)
43. Enter Tower of Mist (Use K key)
44. Get Black Onyx (drop counter at 1 on the way)
45. Die
46. Leave Victim
47. Fly to A Key house, get A Key, (counter hits 4) (extend boots past poison jump)
48. Enter Branch (use A Key)
49. Run/Fly to Conflate (counter at 1)
50. Enter Conflate
51. Talk to Guru for death warp
52. Leave Conflate
53. Enter next branch (use K key)
54. Run to Magical Rod (counter at 3)
55. Get boots below Magical Rod (counter at 4)
56. Get Battle Suit
57. Die (counter at 1)
58. Talk to Guru to get Ring of Dwarf
59. Leave Conflate
60. Enter next branch (use K key)
61. Manipulate counter to 4 for ointment
62. Pass Daybreak (counter at 1)
63. Enter Castle of Dartmoor
64. Use boots to enter Castle of Fraternal (extend boots for the rest of the game)
65. Run to Grieve (counter at 3)
66. Kill Grieve, get Dragon Slayer
67. Manipulate counter back to 3 in room south of Grieve, using ladder
68. Get Demon Ring from Guru
69. Get Ointment (counter at 4)
70. Fly out of Castle of Fraternal
71. Enter Evil One's Fortress
72. Fly to Evil One
73. Kill him before your ointment and boots run out