Sometimes what's almost as interesting
as a crazy accomplishment is what drove
someone to go for it. It's 2019 and the
year's most popular speedrunning game,
Celeste, has just received an unexpected
update. The platforming game, already
known for its simple controls, yet
supreme difficulty, has received a new
DLC chapter, which blew the difficulty
of the rest of the game out of the
water. Regularly requiring extreme
precision and easily being the longest
chapter in the game, the level was a
challenging new addition for most
players. But the community's most
skilled members were about to enter the
race for an unfathomable goal. In the
original eight chapters of Celeste,
there were a variety of collectibles.
However, the hardest is easily the
golden strawberry, requiring the player
to beat the entire level without dying
once. And although it seemed impossible,
a small dedicated group of players were
determined to be the first to get the
game's final collectible. Former
Speedrun World Record holders and
challenge runners joined the race. But
in the days after the chapter's release,
four players had risen to be the leading
contenders for the accomplishment,
getting runs further and further
throughout the nine subchapters. The
favorite for the first completion was
Enox, a legend who had beaten other
games entirely deathless and had been
putting in 10 hours a day into practice
and attempts. However, unexpectedly, one
of the other players got on a run.
Making it through the increasingly
difficult screens of the level, Lenny
Gold surpassed his previous personal
best and kept going, meaning this run
was an outlier and perhaps his best
chance at being the one to make history.
Finally, he had made it to the last
screen of the level, a 2-minute long
onslaught of everything the level
contained so far. But dash after dash,
Lenny looked like he could shock
everyone and reached the end.
It's not over yet, though.
>> To many people's surprise, the
developers of the game added one final
screen to the level that would only
appear if you had the golden strawberry.
After 20 minutes of perfect gameplay and
dozens of hours of attempts, Lenny was
now in unprecedented territory. Having
not even seen the room before, let alone
be able to practice it, he had one
chance, and if he would fail at it, it
was possible that all of his work would
go to waste. He would analyze the screen
for over 6 minutes. All the while, tons
of new viewers flooded into his chat,
hoping to witness history. Finally,
still shaking from nerves, he started
taking on the final screen, trying not
to grasp the full reality of the
situation. He was right on the verge of
making it happen. And although more
people may come to do it, perhaps
history would only remember the first
202.
>> Lenny Gold would become the first player
to get the Chapter 9 Golden Strawberry
with his fellow competitors getting the
achievement shortly after. However,
rumors of another accomplishment in the
game began to spread of not just beating
the hardest chapter without dying, but
rather the entire game, including
getting every collectible. This
one-of-a-kind multi-hour run seemed
impossible compared to even the final
golden. But if there's one thing about
speedrunning is that no challenge is too
insane for someone to try. This is the
story of all the trials and heartbreak
that it took for the impossible Celeste
run and the player crazy enough to get
it.
The player who would take on this
challenge surprisingly wasn't one of the
first four Golden Berry victors, rather
one of the viewers. Rick Fernel started
playing Celeste around a year after the
game released. And to say the least, he
didn't possess much natural talent for
the game. He had never done any
speedruns or challenge runs of any other
video game. And initially, he wasn't
even aware that he could dash in
different directions. As well, he was
far from being able to complete any of
the steps for the perfect run. There's
plenty to say about Rick, but one of his
biggest character traits is that he
didn't have a high self-esteem, which is
maybe why the story of Celeste resonated
with him so much. Being about a woman
who climbs a mountain to discover more
about herself with the help of others on
his own, Rick was able to improve and
beat the game. A couple months after the
original Golden Strawberry Race
Oh my Oh my god. Oh my.
And that's when he saw the video of
Enoch getting the second ever Chapter 9
Golden Strawberry. And seeing this
reaction, he wanted to accomplish
something that would make him feel the
same way. His whole life, he felt like
he had never stood out. And with this
team he had formed a connection with,
maybe he could finally find a way to.
Rick would join the Brazilian Celeste
Discord where he would make some friends
who would help him slowly work his way
through all the golden strawberries in
the game except for one. As his first
step to making a name for himself, he
decided he would try to join the game's
most exclusive club. Nearly 2 months
since Chapter 9 was released, only about
12 players had been able to get the
final golden strawberry. To say that the
chapter 9 golden is the hardest in the
game doesn't do it justice. Here's the
amount of time that it took for Rick to
get the normal A, B, and C-side goldens
for each of the games eight normal
chapters, averaging around 15 hours,
with some of the longer chapters taking
some more time, but around 2 months into
attempting the farewell golden. This was
his time on the level. Going for
deathless runs required a unique skill
set as Rick had to be able to pull off
strategies with a near 100% consistency
rate or else the run was doomed to fail
and sometimes these strategies were
harder than what the average player
could even imagine doing. There were
many reasons so few people had gotten
the achievement as each of the nine
subchapters were as difficult as some of
the previous B-side goldens. as well.
The sub chapters in the middle were
considered the hardest, meaning most of
the runs that got there would end and
the nerves in a run that would get past
them would be unbearable. However, on
January 29th, 2020, Rick would get a run
to checkpoint 7.
Christ,
that was tight,
dude. This got to be it. There's no way.
>> About 4 months after the initial race to
be the first, Rick had an opportunity to
join the exclusive club.
>> I do not know the strats. Let's go.
Whatever.
>> With nearly no hesitation, Rick took on
the golden room and became the 28th
person in the world and the first person
in Brazil to get the golden strawberry.
He was transforming from a fan to a
potential master. And that idea of what
he could become led him to close in on
the impossible goal.
However, after getting the final golden
strawberry, Rick initially took a step
back from the game as he had achieved
everything that the base game had to
offer. For the next year, he would
supposedly move on, starting a Twitch
channel and streaming some other
challenging modded maps. But that
feeling within him to want to be the
first to accomplish something one of a
kind kept surfacing. In a game whose
core message is about climbing the
mountain, setting your own personal
goals, accomplishing them, and moving on
to the next, Rick wanted to be the one
who would climb the mountain so great
that he would finally get the
recognition he needed. He wanted to
stand on the shoulders of every player
and finally have his moment. However,
the idea of going right into a 100%
deathless run was not even a
consideration. But what was more
approachable was an any% deathless run.
instead of every single level in the
game, any% would just be all of the a
sides in a row. This run was comparable
in difficulty to the chapter 9 golden in
that it was nearly twice as long but had
less hard screens during it. But despite
his experience with the run, the
achievement was taking longer than he
thought.
>> A key concept with challenge runs is how
difficulty scales with time. The chapter
1 and two a-side goldens are all right
on their own, but requiring both of them
back to back makes the difficulty grow
exponentially rather than linearly. And
this relationship carries on with the
more chapters added on to the run. Even
though the chapter 9 golden was
considered the base game's hardest
accomplishment, this self-imposed
challenge perhaps had it beat. It took a
while for Rick to get back into the
groove of deathless runs, but after over
2 months of attempts, Rick got his first
deathless run to chapter 7. I am very
nervous if you cannot tell.
>> With the weight of two months on his
back, he kept to relatively safe
strategies which would prove to be worth
it as he would pull off his first
deathless any% run in 45 minutes.
>> I did it.
>> However, Rick was far from being the
first person to complete this challenge.
But his company was getting more and
more sparse. But regardless, this didn't
satisfy him as he was on to his next
challenge. Being all of the seides
deathless, the seides contain some of
the hardest screens in the game, but
they were also some of the shortest
levels, meaning that beating all of them
deathless wasn't too difficult compared
to the a sides. Perhaps the biggest
difference between Rick's current runs
and 100% deathless runs were the red
strawberries. The red strawberries were
optional collectibles found in eight of
the games chapters, often requiring some
slightly more risky strategies in order
to acquire them. As his next step
towards his ultimate goal, Rick decided
to try doing an all red berries run
deathless, which added over 40 minutes
of gameplay and an additional chapter to
his any% deathless run.
Wait, how do you do this one again? Just
No. No.
Building off of all of these previous
challenges, Rick's skill was
continuously growing. But this challenge
was proving to take much longer than
expected. However, his tight-knit
community would help him come up with
some more consistent strategies, and as
a result, he got a run to reach the
summit. But this time, he still had one
more level to tackle. Chapter 8 was
originally intended to be the last
chapter of the game, meaning the
difficulty is somewhere between chapter
7 and 9. The hardest aspect of the
chapter was that the player's dash
wouldn't refresh upon touching the
ground as it would in every other
chapter, meaning that any small error
was much more likely to be deadly.
This death was a reminder that just one
minor error could make months of
progress fall apart. Even though 99% of
the run went smoothly, all it took was
one mistake to end it. This close miss
was a lesson to Rick that no matter how
close he was to his goal, he couldn't
get complacent. And shortly after, he
had an opportunity to prove what he had
learned.
I forgot my strat here. I forgot my
strat here. Is it a super dash from the
other swing? I don't remember. Does
anyone remember? Is it a super? I
forgot. Help.
Finally, half a year since his all
seasides run, Rick finished his all
clears deathless run and joined a club
of only two other players. The final
prerequisite for a full 100% run
deathless was perhaps the hardest being
all the B sides. Contrasted from all the
A sides and full clears, there were many
moments throughout the B sides where it
was hard to play it safe. The bides were
originally the hardest golden
strawberries to get besides chapter 9.
But Rick's experience with the other
long deathless runs would pay dividends,
as in chapter 5b, he even implemented
multiple speedrun strats instead of
taking the intended route. Given how
much he had been improving, it seemed
like only a matter of time until he
would get it. But still, he had to be
patient. His any% deathless run took him
about 2 months to achieve, and his all
full clears took about 6 months. And
since this was arguably harder, it was
wise to expect this to take a similar
amount of time.
Jesus Christ.
Rick would show just how much he had
improved and become the second person to
ever beat all the bides in a row
deathless. And in the description of the
video, he said that given everything
else he had done, there was only one
more challenge left to take on. and all
it would require would be his
everything.
Practicing for the 100% deathless run
meant putting together his experience of
everything he had worked towards up to
this point, as at this point he was in
uncharted territory. The idea of someone
getting a 100% deathless run was nothing
more than the subject of some online
rumors or jokes, as no other top players
had even expressed serious interest in
putting the time in that it would take
to get the run. And for Rick, that was
good news, as for the first time, he had
the chance to be the first at something.
The route that Rick chose for the run
was as follows. Each of the chapters a
sides followed by their bides, all of
the seides, then finally chapter 9,
ending with the secret moonberry route
to finish out the run at 176 berries
since the golden strawberries were only
available on the second playthrough of
each level. In an ideal world, he would
be able to start the run with chapter 9.
But since the level didn't unlock until
beating chapter 8, he decided to save it
for the end. Rick's excitement for the
goal was apparent as he started doing
100% attempts every day after he got all
the B sides deathless, having some
initial runs around 20 deaths. And on
January 8th, 2022, he had a massive PB,
a run with only six deaths, not
including the one mandatory death in
chapter 9 for the special Moonberry.
Surprisingly, his deaths were relatively
spread out with some happening on every
different difficulty. However, chapter 5
specifically seemed to be a struggle
this time around. The majority of his
deaths were a product of him forgetting
the strategies that he had for specific
screens, and to be fair, they were over
800 to memorize. Having all of them
memorized by heart and an over 3-hour
long run wasn't feasible. Rather, he had
to grow his skill of adjusting on the
fly when things wouldn't go to plan.
However, this run was already a big
milestone as it set the record for the
least amount of deaths in a 100% run.
>> This is what I'm feeling right now. Not
enough people try this. Surely somebody
is going to beat me like tomorrow. And
just about a week later, he was on the
path to shatter it as going into chapter
9, he had only one death.
Unfortunately, his record would still
stand. Choosing to save the hardest
chapter for last was proving to be a
questionable choice. But since he had
already made it so far, he decided not
to question it. Another week later, Rick
had a deathless run over 70% the way
through. And if he could make it through
the last B-side, the only true hurdle in
the run left would be chapter 9.
I I thought it could.
>> The nerves of having his first run
realistically close was simply too much
for him to handle, as he would die
another time afterwards to finish off
the run with two deaths. Ironically, for
the first time in one of his PBs, he
wouldn't have any deaths in chapter 9.
For about 3 hours of gameplay, only two
lapses in judgment were what was
separating him from it. It was clear
with his previous accomplishments that
he had all the puzzle pieces for the
successful run. And at this point, his
main adversaries were nerves and
fatigue. The pressure of seeing people's
reactions in real time often would
distract him enough to forget all the
specifics of his route, but also
maintaining his focus for the relatively
repetitive run was its own battle. He
could try to play as if there were no
stakes, but if he didn't focus enough,
he would perform worse. The Rome was
finally starting to take its toll on him
as he would have over a month and a half
of daily attempts without any PBS,
including six more runs with two deaths,
bringing up somewhat of a two death
curse. The journey of improving from a
nobody to someone on the verge of
history in the game was fulfilling, but
exhausting. And a part of him just
desperately wanted to be the first and
get it over with. And as if the pressure
wasn't taking enough of a toll on him
already, he received some haunting news.
Enoch, arguably the game's most
prestigious challenge runner and the
player who was the inspiration for him
to start attempting goldens, announced
that he was going to start attempting
100% deathless runs. This made his
stomach sink. Even though he had such a
large head start in terms of progress
towards the goal, he wasn't confident in
his ability to stay ahead of Enoch.
Worst of all, he could lose his chance
to be the first to get the run. The news
made his following runs less enjoyable
and caused him to get less past the
halfway point. And it would stay that
way until
>> Okay. All focus plus all B sides. Nice.
>> Rick would get his first run through the
B sides in a long time, but he knew he
couldn't afford to let up during the
seides.
>> Starting to get nervous.
For the first time ever, there was only
one level standing between him and his
goal.
>> I've done this so many times. I need to
stop shaking. I'm really I seriously
need to stop shaking.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't do
that. 3 hours into the run, Rick would
forget his strategy for the screen and
miss a wave dash, causing what would
come to be his first and only death in
the run. When his runs weren't as close
or had early deaths, there was never a
feeling that he blew it. But this run
was perhaps the first time that feeling
crept in. As well, what made this hit
even harder was that it felt like his
time to become the first was close to
running out. A missed wave dash is what
took me. One death.
One death 100%.
>> Perhaps two deaths were better than only
one. The pressure had taken its toll on
him and kept him up at night. And for
the first time in a while, Rick would
stop doing daily attempts. Those
supporting him were disappointed that he
had stopped his progress when he was so
close to getting a successful run, but
were unsure of how to go to convince him
to keep going. A friend of Rick's, who
also happened to be a moderator of the
Brazilian Celeste Discord, decided to
host a week-long event where, in homage
to his progress over the past 2 years,
everyone would do their own 100% run of
Celeste. In the midst of a step back
from the game, Rick noticed the event
going on and firstly was flattered. He
noticed other players doing runs in
voice calls and posting their times.
Recently, he had been worried about the
pressure of performing at other people's
expectations. But what this event helped
him realize was that he had already
become an inspiration for others prior
to even being the first to get 100%
deathless. His persistence to his goal
and continuously improving had made him
a symbol of pride for the Brazilian
community that he had found a home in.
On March 19th, the last day of the 100%
event, Rick decided he would do one run
in order to participate. His run started
out casually. He was still attempting
deathless strategies, but said he
wouldn't reset the run if he had any
death. As well, 15 minutes into the run,
he exited the level he was on to fix
some audio issues, which would
technically prevent the run from being
verified due to current speedrun rules.
Regardless, he kept the casual attempt
going. For most of the A and B sides, he
was mostly holding conversations with
his friends entering chat. He was having
a good amount of close calls, but was
making good last second adjustments to
keep the run deathless going into the
seasides. Rick knew the reality of the
situation that just one death would end
the perfect run. But perhaps for the
first time he was comfortable playing on
the edge and the seasides were perfect
example of that.
For the second time ever, Rick had a
perfect run going into the game's final
chapter. Although he was in a much
better mental state this time around, it
was impossible to not feel some kind of
pressure. But perhaps since this run was
just meant for his friend's event, it
was just an exciting opportunity.
>> I can do this again.
>> Making it to the fifth subchapter, the
screen that ended his previous best run
was coming up.
>> Let's do this.
>> Yes.
BB
>> Rick would execute his strategy properly
and continue to work through the hardest
sub chapters made up of some of the
hardest attributes of every previous
chapter. He chose to not take any breaks
so he could stay in the zone. The muscle
memory that he had started building over
2 years ago had to continue to show
itself now as the nerve surely had the
chance to affect his gameplay. But now
there was only one more part of the
level where that could happen. The
chapter's final screen was the longest
in the game, being over 2 minutes with
no place to rest. And after that,
instead of taking the normal route to
end the chapter, he would have to do
precise jumps in order to work his way
back through the screen in order to take
the secret route for the final
collectible of the run, the Moonberry.
No,
>> I'm sorry. I'm way too nervous to This
is what I do when I'm nervous. Just talk
a lot.
>> On the back of his most unexpected run,
>> he would face the last opportunity to
choke the run head on and make history.
After over 1,400 hours in the game, Rick
would pull off the 100% deathless run
and perhaps most importantly be the
first to do it. The moments and days
afterwards were pure ecstasy as he
finally was able to declare victory. But
calling this the perfect Celeste run
wasn't entirely truthful. Firstly, his
one exit at the beginning of the run had
technically disqualified it according to
official speedrun rules, but also he
hadn't gotten every collectible in the
game, as he was still missing the golden
strawberries from every chapter, which
only appear on the second playthrough of
every level as a celebration for hitting
100% deathless. 3 days later, Rick
decided to do a stream where he would
attempt all the golden strawberries in
order to finish off an actual full run
of the game.
>> Uh, I don't expect to get this, by the
way. uh like it's it's okay if I die.
>> The stream was mostly Rick continuing to
banter with his chat, still feeling the
high of a couple days prior, but in
front of everyone's eyes, the most
astonishing thing was happening.
Incredibly, Rick beat every single level
again in order to get all of the golden
strawberries except one. For each level
in the game, there's one golden
strawberry with the exception of one,
the very first level of the game. The
chapter 1A side has a secret golden
strawberry which is achieved from
beating the level without dashing.
Dashing is the fundamental basis of
Celeste gameplay, but beating chapter 1A
without it was just barely possible with
the utilization of some pretty niche
techniques.
>> One a dashes. No, I'm never going to do
one a dashes.
>> Rick had never considered incorporating
golden strawberries into the run in the
first place. So now he had to learn and
practice the strategies for the game's
final berry. Even though the berry was
from the game's first chapter, getting a
deathless was harder than most of the
other golems in the game, as some of the
tricks required precision down to the
pixel, depending on the strategy used.
In preparation for his attempt, Rick
spent 2 days practicing the level with
the help of his chat. Later, he got the
berry 31 times in a row on another save
file. And for attempt number 32, he
moved to the deathless one.
>> I'm suddenly so nervous. Holy [ __ ] This
is it.
Why am I so nervous? I need to keep
checking if everything's recording. I
need to check if everything is right.
No, no, no, no, no. I missed it.
Rick would dash to prevent the death and
then exit the level, adding another
asterisk to the deathless run. But on
his second attempt, this would happen.
>> Yes.
Yes.
Nice.
Not to dash. I want to lose this
progress. Nice.
Yes. Holy [ __ ] dude. That was so
202 deathless. The accomplishment was
supposedly the magnum opus of the game,
but for some reason, the moment didn't
feel the way he imagined it to. This is
a real comment that appeared on Rick's
upload of his split 202 Deathless Run,
accusing him of faking the run. It was
brash, ignorant, and many other things.
But the worst thing was that maybe it
had some truth to it. Not that Rick had
faked the run, but in how it brought to
light many of the asterisks that the run
had. The flaws of Rick's 202 run were as
follows. His quit at the beginning of
the run, the two multi-day breaks in
between different segments of the run,
his dash and exit during the wing berry,
and lastly, his deaths in the Pico8
miniame. Depending on who you asked,
this run qualified as perfect, and Rick
considered asking for an exemption from
the mid-run break rules in order to
submit this run to speedrun.com, but
ultimately decided against it. If
someone could consider the run flawed,
it was flawed. But the alternative to
leaving things as they were was scary.
It meant hopping back into a journey
with many unknowns. But what he had to
gain was true peace with himself. He
wasn't aiming to be an arbitrary first
anymore. He was aiming to push himself
to true perfection.
Rick dedicated himself to a simple goal,
a 202 berry run in one sitting,
including a perfect playthrough of the
Pico8 miniame. This way, there was no
possible asterisks left in the run. 202
runs in one sitting rarely happen, not
even considering the deathless aspect.
But deciding to do this run left him
with some freedom to choose the route
with the golden berries. And the route
he landed on was essentially his
previous 100% route, the dashless
golden, and then doing the rest of the
levels in reverse for the rest of the
goldens, saving the chapter 7 seaside
for last, potentially for sentimental
reasons. It would take him another 2
months to get his next run close to 100%
deathless. But on June 4th, he would get
it. And going into the Golden
Strawberries, there was nothing in the
run that could disqualify him this time.
He would take on the dashless and
chapter 9 goldens as the first part of
the second half of the run and managed
to put them away without much trouble.
In this run, he decided to do the
chapter 8 Bside first. And in the
beginning, he was able to stick to its
cycles until
>> I don't know.
Maybe it's just
ah doing 202 berries in one session was
harder than before. As this mistake
happened nearly 4 hours into the run,
the fatigue of aiming for a 5-hour
perfect run made it much easier to
forget one of the nearly 1,000
strategies he had to remember and made
the lack of successful runs up to this
point make sense. His next 100% run
would display similar fatigue as he
would die on the dashless golden right
after getting 176 berries. However, his
following run wouldn't end so quickly.
The remaining levels were some of the
tougher ones, but one by one, Rick was
knocking them out. All he had to do was
be ready for any surprises.
>> That was an accidental wall boost. Jesus
Christ. No.
I am a bod.
>> He would close out the 202 run with a
total of one death. The idea that Rick
had flooked his split 202 run was
gaining more merit. For many, going for
a 202 run in one sitting seemed like
trying to win the lottery twice. But
this time around, Rick didn't care what
others thought. He had only cared about
reaching his own personal standard. His
next run would reach 182 berries. Dying
on the chapter 6 seaside nearly a month
after his previous, the hours that were
going in between each successful run was
not something to be ignored as the near
daily streams, sometimes reaching 7
hours, were adding up. The decision to
take on the 202 grind was adding in
hundreds of hours to an already
astonishingly long grind. But it was a
decision that Rick was enjoying. Past
1:00 a.m. Rick was on a new personal
best run. Only three berries away from a
full run. Seven sees that you free,
right?
Even though there was only three levels
left, Rick wouldn't have the energy to
finish out the run. And besides a 180
berry run in August, he would start to
enter a dry spell of more runs passing
the 100% mark. Whether he was tired,
thinking about the last berries of the
run, or just plainly not playing as
good, the runs weren't stacking up the
way they used to. It would take all the
way until November for him to get
another run past 100%. And that run
would die right afterwards on his
chapter 9 golden attempt. Unexpectedly,
he would happen to get another run a few
days later, although it would die at 184
berries. It had now been 8 months since
his split 202 berry run, where he could
have called it quits. Since then, he had
put nearly 1,000 more hours into the
game in an effort to have what he
considered a truly perfect run. The
opinions of others occasionally ran
through his mind. Why was he even doing
this? No one would even care at this
point, or at worst, that he would never
be enough. Compared to when he had first
picked up Celeste, Rick had changed. In
the past, he was less confident in who
he was as a player, but also as a
person. Slowly, through the help of his
true friends and sheer willpower, he
turned himself into someone he thought
he could never be. Someone who could
stand out and be the first to achieve
legendary accomplishments. But
ultimately, he had done it for external
validation. A true 202 deathless run was
the first accomplishment he was going
for. Not out of pressure, insecurity, or
spite, but rather out of a wholehearted
desire to give everything that he had to
the game that changed his life and to
stand on top of the final summit for
everyone. This run was significantly
harder than any of the previous
accomplishments he had worked through.
But even though he had put over a
thousand hours into this and had
experienced things that should have
convinced him that this run was
impossible, he had only one thought
racing through his mind.
This time around, Rick would take on
many of the hardest goldens right after
getting 100%. And that would prove to be
a good choice. Piece by piece,
everything was falling together. First
chapter 9, then the C sides, and lastly,
the A and B sides.
Awesome.
Holy crap.
Beating his last PB, the summit was
officially within sight.
Oh my god.
It's over.
At last, Rick was free. Ultimately, his
story wasn't one of hatred or
self-loathing. It was one of
transformation. Step by step, he turned
himself from someone who felt like he
had no reason to feel good about himself
to someone who was able to strengthen
and inspire his local community through
his own work that he had dedicated his
whole self to nearly every day in his
own way and with supportive individuals
by his side, he was able to transform
his life. And although Rick may have
moved on to other avenues, his legend
still lives for those who decide to take
their own journey up the mountain.
I did it.
Turtle necklace speed run.