

I make it most of the way back to Pirate Isle, save and quit to avoid a random encounter. He gets one counter off which slows things down a bit but this is otherwise a very clean fight. This boss fight is a bit harder to get lucky on, if he uses Blaster it is an instant reset. I also run from the forced encounter with the two Maracco's and the big fish enemy on the first attempt which doesn't happen often.

The first encounter looks a little sloppy because I wanted to make sure Vyse was targeting the Looper, but I got what I wanted so I deemed it acceptable. Nearly every fight goes exactly how I want it to and I get three levels in the process, giving Vyse extra SP to speed up the boss fight. I only run into 4 randoms and with Skies of Arcadia's random encounter rate no less. I end by saving on the world map to avoid another random encounter. I really plan to reset on mistakes like this from now on, but for now I take the 1/2 second. I run to the small ship that you take to Shrine Island. I probably should have redone this but it didn't cost me more than half a second and I will make up for it with better town navigation in the future. There is no real difference in the swashbuckler choices time wise and I make one minor navigational error walking into the side of Vyse's house as I am exiting it. I run around Pirate Isle and watch some scenes. I probably lose a quarter of a second veering to save. There are no failed runs or unnecessary encounters in this run. I only fight the fights that I want to fight. Entering into a random encounter can add a lot of time, from screen break and battle load to selecting run and then how long the game decides to take on loading the post battle screen can add up to around 25 second of lost time in a run. In general I save on the world map a lot to avoid random encounters. I drive the Albatross for a little bit grab the Pirate's Grave Discovery and save and quit to avoid a random encounter. I luck abuse to make sure he doesn't use anything other than his physical attack which has a much shorter animation than Thunder of Fury and that is all that really happens in this segment. Segment 2 is the very first and very trivial boss fight against Antonio. Segment 2-Antonio and the Electri Box of Fate Luckly though what I got was one whiff with Aika and an otherwise very clean run with no random encounters to the first save point. The Electri Box is a 1% drop off of the soldiers so sadly I have to take what I get. Get an Electri Box drop from the first two soldiers and get to the save point. Using Zyre's run as a base I began my run. Amazing Ampharos and I reviewed it and while good we came up with several potential improvements. It didn't seem like I was going to be able to do it, but then Zyre put his up on SDA. I had been mulling over doing this speedrun for quite a while now.
