UrQuan's King's Quest V Skip

What follows is something that UrQuan sent to Chuck in DMs, regarding the Any% / 100% distinction in KQV:

Here's the thing: I have a "skip" for King's Quest V.
It saves a lot of time.
People will not like it.
They will want it assigned to its own category.
Well.... admittedly, if KQ VII needed all of its different categories, if KQ V 100% needed its own category, then this fucking certainly does.
It is just fast.
I do not choose what is fast or slow.
but I do not want every new thing I find be showed aside and consigned to its own category.
At that point it is just not worth my time, looking at any of this stuff.

Speaking of wasting time, I now have first-hand experience of 100% in King's Quest V.
I cannot say it eased my frustration with this whole ordeal.
Here's what I can say for sure: I will NOT grind out two identical runs like that.

My plan was, I would go for Korzic's old route to throw the boot on the cat, with very little time loss ultimately, and then simply forgo using the grate skip at the end.
Then I would submit that single run to both categories.
However, to my absolute horror, I found another skip, which loses points if you do it.
For now I am just going to pretend that never existed.
I will use the big "skip" I mentioned earlier, but if there is too much pushback, I will delete the run, and might hope no one wants to figure out what exactly I did to make it work, such that we won't that new category.

It is no secret that I am frustrated with this whole thing at the moment; King's Quest VII, King's Quest V....
I'm telling you this so if this is how it ultimately plays out (me posting and deleting that run), you know it was a planned decision and I'm not just throwing a tantrum.
All I want is to compete on the main leaderboard.
I do not want my own sandbox to play in.
That is all I ask.

09/08/2018

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The only two runs UrQuan posted are both 100% runs. The only tech difference I can tell between UrQuan's runs and earlier runs is the quicker path from the oasis to the bandit's camp (two down, then left and down, almost like cutting a corner). But that doesn't lose any points.

If anyone has any ideas on what this might be, I'm all ears.