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Dragon Warrior Speedrun I SFC route
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Filename aaai OR so hi i -- (all hiragana)

Collect all chests
Purchase club
Search drawers by sleeping old man in inn (Chimera Wing)
Purchase Dragon Scale, two torches, two herbs   (Riyuu no urako, たいまつ, yakusou)
Equip scale, leave town

Grind to 2 off slimes in mountains north of castle (Immediately north?  Way north?)
head toward Kol
Throw torches at tuff stuff (Scorpions) to deal 4-6 damage
Get Fairy Flute (ようせいのふえ), search first and third drawer above
 - First drawer is clothes (布の服).  Equip them!
 - Third drawer is strength seed (ちからのたね).  Use it!
Use wing and walk to Garinham, try to be level four
Buy six herbs, fill inventory with torches (5)

Head to Mountain Cave
 - http://www.realmofdarkness.net/dq/wp-content/img/snes/dq/maps/rocky-cave.png
673 gold chest on second floor
Cursed necklace chest
 - Inventory should be full, open until it gives it to you
 - たいまつ = batsu  (Torch)
 - Shi no kubikazari (死の首飾り) o mitsuketa!   (Death Necklace)
You can use a torch now
Get important-looking chest north-eastish flanked by torches (Iron Shield, equip.)   (てつのたて)
Get two important-looking chests in SW corner flanked by torches (Str and MP Seeds; use them)
Deathwarp.

Walk to Rimuldar
Loot pots in key store and use the item (120g, defense seed)
Buy six keys
Sell Death Necklace, club, clothes
Buy herbs, torch, two Chimera wings
Buy broad sword for 1500
Go to inn, use two keys to get HP seed and use it

Chimera wing
Raid treasure room (Leftmost and bottom chest, not middle.  Items are seeds)
 - Bottom: すばやさのたね Agility Seed
 - Next: ふしぎなきのみ MP Seed
 - Next: Magic Key
 - Next: 350 Gold
Buy at least one key
Lifeforce Nuts in rightmost drawer of Stones of Sunlight grotto
Get Stones of Sunlight

Garinham
Buy Chain Mail (くさりかたびら) (300 gold) from weapon dealer
Fight through grave, use torch
 - You want to hit level seven in here
Three chests on first floor; open outside two and use the leftmost one.
 - Rightmost is HP Seed
 - Other two are gold and an extra key
Nothing else in here but the harp...  Get it and deathwarp.

Wyvern wing to get out of castle; head to Cantlin to fight Golem.
Grind to eight on wraiths/wolflords after bridge on the way to Hauksness
 - Sleep wraiths
 - Sleep Werewolves on the way to Cantlin
Golem (155 HP)
 - Fairy Flute is Yousei no Fue
 - I will quickly learn what "[X] woke up" is in Japanese!
 - Alternating attack/flute is safe?
Cantlin
 - Vault everything that isn't equipped or a key, then vault the dragon scale (NWmost stairs)
 - Use inn, use defense seed in drawers at inn
 - Buy two chimera wings
 - Get another MP seed from the drawers in SE building
 - Buy four holy waters from SEmost lady
 - Use Chimera wing

DRAGONGRIND
 - Use fairy water
 - Go kill dragon in tunnel (153 HP)
 - Get princess
 - Cast Outside
 - Die in Swamp
 - IF KEYS < 2 BUY KEYS
 - IF HOLY WATERS < 1 BUY HOLY WATERS
 - IF LEVEL < 15 GOTO DRAGONGRIND
 - Before last dragon, withdraw everything except for the Fairy Flute and equip the dragon scale

Carry princess to get the Staff of Rain
Carry princess to Armor of Roto
 - Attack the Axe Knight until it dies
Carry princess to Token of Roto
 - Token is on a half-tile one halftile to the right of where it is on the NES version
Grind in hills E of token until a bit after 17
Death warp (or Chimera wing/Return)
Get Rainbow Drop
Heal at Rimuldar

Get Sword of Erdrick
Hit level 18 on the way to the Dragonlord
Kill Dragonlord
 - First form: (240 HP)
    - Heal if under 40, end with 55+
	- Takes 7 hits to kill, add 2.5 per Healmore
 - Second form: (350 HP)
    - Strong flame, attack, one of two weak flames, weak flame or attack
    - Heal if under 101/64/64/101 HP, respectively

starofviolence: so, basic guideline for the herbs is 82 HP on turns 1 or 4
starofviolence: it's based on the herb's minimum healing of 20

GG

End timing at The End screen, because Japan