Proof of concept. I found out that version 1.0 has a bug where the kobold never wakes up from your walking if you use the mouse click to walk instead of the keyboard. I take those points and stick them into strength instead to reduce the antwerp door grind. Fetch spell and 35 lockpicking get me what I need.

Additionally, running in v1.0 got me the hi-speed hero option and also opened up the one-shot bug on the troll which I somehow managed to execute on this run. All that got me a sub-20 which I feel is good enough for now for thief. Is sub-19 possible? Probably. But any really good run of this requires grinding for good RNG and I don't have that in me right now.