Okay since somebody actually reads my posts. :)
For this route ideally you'd want to do a few things in last night of the first cycle before 12pm:
- Get magic
- Go to Milk Road to activate Lon Lon Ranch on the map for wrong soaring
- Go to Deku Palace to activate that
- Get Song of Soaring
After that you'd death warp back to Clock Town, which is why I damage myself down to 3/4. There is still mandatory damage coming up, 1/4 from big Octo and 1/4 from dragon fly from a boost that skips a lot of deku flying. So that leaves 1/4 and that leads to a quick death.
The death warp is possible because the clock tower opening cutscene sets your last entrance back to central clock town. So when you die you end up there. But that is also the problem. For that to work, you can't load a new map after the CS has played. Which means you'd have to make it to deku apalace and back out again before midnight.
That does not seem to be possible. Even though my TAS was bad, and I know it was. I probably didn't waste enough time for a better TASer to be able actually get to the palace. (btw time runs faster in first cycle, just in case people don't know)
So to make it, you'd have to drop either magic or milk road and do them later.
Magic you can get after you death warp back to CT.
Milk Road, you can soar to later at any time, as Clock Town gives you the milk road soar.
Don't really know what would be faster.
If we did this, in cycle 2 we would soar to great bay, get zora mask, activate zora hall, soar to mountain village, activate goron city, soar to Stone Tower, jump down, make our way to the witches, get the bottle, then go to deku palace again. The zora mask would make the swamp faster, but there is still a lot of redundant stuff.
So as much as it pains me, I'm not sure if that route is actually faster anymore. We do add quite a few transition scenes and two intro cutscenes and don't even get everything done we'd like to. Also you can't be directly at the clock tower at midnight and you probably won't even make it to SoS before midnight, so that is all time lost.
It might be a good idea to do the beginning of cycle 2 like the RTA route (
current WR). That way is kinda painfull, since it blows a boatload of explosives for a wrong warp, but it is really convenient that that wrong warp puts you directly in the deku palace.
If we did this we'd probably get ~179r in cycle one instead of going to the swamp. I think we should have enough time to make it to milk road and get magic, though.
We'd do one trip around the south, and bop into milk road, then do the usual trip around the north and deliver the fairy. At least from my guesstimations that should be doable. Well at least you'd make it back to CT in time and even if you need to spend some time after 12 to get to the tower, it's probably still faster than soaring to milk road later.
