The keys to getting a world record are perseverance, dedication, and using a seed so you get credit early every time. Other than almost botching the last action, not talking to the head at the first time of asking, and accidentally switching the scroll twice instead of once after freeing Otis, the run went pretty well, with no significant time losses. Great insult fights, and good catacombs.

Shout-outs to zergu12 and hyperformance for countless optimizations on pretty much every screen. Studying those runs has been delightful. Also shout-outs to LeoLitz and frozenspade for the seed to get the fastest possible combination to open the safe.

Played on ScummVM 2.9.1 using 102545962 as random seed. My list of keyboard shortcuts is in the video link.

Note to moderators: after loading the savestate at 3:03 (when the times shows 2:55), for 6 frames OBS captured part of the contents of my desktop when the game window changed size. A similar thing happened when resizing the game window at 3:45 (when the timer shows 3:37). I've obscured those parts; hope that's OK!