A+, the Raven-born Drakeling Mindcrafter managed to close the gate in 1 hour, 6 minutes, and 18 seconds.
Video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/556313009 (original live commentary) or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUVdyvmuJuA (post-run commentary)

Still not quite caught up to the Paladin run, but a big improvement for Mindcrafter.

Point buy:
18 St, 6 Le, 15 Wi, 8 Dx, 23 To, 2 Ch, 5 Ap, 18 Ma, 10 Pe. 3 starting talents with 0 points left over.

Talents:
Healthy -> Hardy -> Tough Skin -> Iron Skin -> Steel Skin -> Immune to Pain -> Affinity With Axes -> Quick -> Very Quick -> Greased Lightning -> Affinity With Polearms (should be taken earlier) -> Doesn't Matter

The route:
  1. Bought rations in Terinyo, took the Healing quest.
  2. Generated Goblin Camp and grabbed the treasure piles.
  3. Scouted SMC.
  4. Completed the Healing quest the lawful way.
  5. Went through UD.
  6. Returned to Goblin Camp for rocks and used them to kill the dwarven veteran and malicious doctor.
  7. Got the wand of teleportation from VDDL using the mouseover glitch.
  8. Went down to arena, did 19 fights, and bought cooked lizards.
  9. Killed the old barbarian to hit level 11.
  10. Waited for settlement to show up, murdered some townsfolk to drop to chaotic, and shoplifted potions using potion of invisibility.
  11. Hired two mercenaries and piety scummed in HMV.
  12. Used the settlement altar to change alignment, precrown twice, and crown. Result: boots of the divine messenger, martyr mail, robes of resistance.
  13. Killed Munxip, using potion of invisibility to avoid summoning.
  14. Went to hole in the wall, joined the thief guild, and learned Detect Traps.
  15. Killed Barnabas, using potion of invisibility to avoid summoning.
  16. Went to pyramid and acquired the ankh.
  17. Killed Luuk'sort, using a few boost potions, and hit level 16.
  18. Completed Blup's quest and received the rune-covered trident.
  19. ToEF using wand of teleport, RCT melee for normal monsters, and thrown RCT for the Ancient Chaos Wyrm.
  20. Took the 20th arena fight and got the gladius.
  21. Visited mystic, turned in the gladius, and got Thrundarr off the lever with acid spit.
  22. Got cornucopia, mushrooms, and herbs from the Fungal Caves.
  23. The rest was fairly standard: got cat ring, used confusion to stop Yulgash from summoning, activated an appropriately placed alarm trap to lure Nuurag out quickly.
  24. D:50 was undiggable, unfortunately. Used figurines from an early shop to block the levers.