There it is... the sub-13... but it's a very flawed run. It actually has more glaring mistakes than most of my previous WRs did. It just flies through the parts that aren't horrible.

This run was very much a tale of three segments. The first 6 minutes were great; then I lost 5+ seconds (on gold) to bad RNG in dragon arcade, another 3 seconds to getting stuck behind a guard in Serak's castle (a mistake that should never happen and has absolutely no excuse), and another 3 seconds to typos in the rocks-and-bucket room. Then the last 4 minutes were amazing again, I golded Cheesemaster by almost 2 seconds and basically matched golds in the other splits. (Did miss a glitch I intended to go for with freeing Thaylor, but that barely matters.)

Without those slowdowns in the middle this run would have been 12:48 (!!)... but I'm not sure how realistic a time like that is, it would basically mean 13 minutes of perfect execution combined with either perfect dragon RNG or good dragon RNG with left pool. Something in the low 12:50s feels doable, though; but the last 3 splits on this run will be brutal to run against.

Played in DOSBox 0.74, max cycles. Stream VOD: