And after hitting two 1:14.06s, a 1:14.10 and a 1:14.16, I can finally stop abusing my inflamed ring finger any further. If someone wants to break the next second barrier, they're welcome to it.

Slight strange of strategies on the final grind, went more aggressive on the initial sleep framerule and adopted swimfan's approach to the skywalk setup. At least for me (with a slow mouse hand and the keyboard in my lap) swimfan's strat is actually slightly slower, but it's a lot more consistent, letting me get more runs to the final slides. The value of which can clearly be seen here - I had probably 10 runs on this pace into the slides, half of which died to bad monster luck and the rest of which didn't hit the slides quite as fast. Even here the 2nd slide was longer than it needed to be, thankfully it didn't quite cost me the 1:13.

Played in DOSBox 0.74, 10000 cycles.