Excalibur Experiment Round 5- Only Way Out Is Up

Round 5 has arrived! Cerosse has arrived in the Crossroads Colosseum for an electric showdown with his next opponent, Marc Talibor. But no experiment ever goes exactly as planned, and the pair soon find themselves forced to work together to survive an unexpected threat.

Like before, here's some general warning and instructions for the visual novel:

-Scene Selection: If you exit the game and return to the title screen, you can hop back in from the start of any given scene.  Useful if you missed a panel and want to start over or are trying to skip to a specific point in the round.

-The game might take a while to load on it's first run. If nothing is happening once you start the game and start clicking, just give it a minute or so to finish loading. This is especially pertinent in this round, as many of the scenes have a lot of panels to load in them! Press the left mouse button to progress the story and speed up text. Note that there is, due to the limitations of the program used to create this, NO back button, so be careful!  You can save and load the file, however.  Furthermore, you can press the space bar to hide the text box and see the art behind it properly. Press space again to bring it back. If the game is bigger than your screen dimensions, either zoom out your screen, or there is a "full screen" button to the bottom right. 

-This round has a plenty of swearing, violence, and upsetting scenarios. Not for kids!

-All characters that aren't mine are used with permission. 

Marc Talibor is owned by @ast0naut on Twitter.

Chassi by NebulousHarmony

Myuranda and Akurze by @UnstableReact0r

-HUGE thank you to Ershal Mimicry, Medina, and Papsi Cola for proofreading my script and generally helping me turn that monster of a rough outline into an actual story. I appreciate y'all letting me whine at you.

-Total Number of Images: 407

-Bonus Challenges included: Up Close And Personal, Team Up, Let 'Em Hang