![]() Winning races earns you money which you can spend on upgrading your car. You’ll also have a choice driving one of six cars, though I’ve failed to notice any real technical differences between them. This customizable championship mode takes place of quick races, and highlights just about everything there is to do ingame. These don’t count for much, as you can modify or create your own leagues at will, effectively adjusting the number of races, laps and weather conditions you’ll experience. Instead of going for the traditional blend of championship, time trial and quick races, Speed Demons features ‘Leagues’, a term describing packets of races that differ according to how challenging they are. This obscure isometric racer isn’t fundamentally broken, but there’s just so little to go around here that its value is indeed slim. Evil Hat Productions.There’s probably a good reason why 2D racers are so few and far in between, and Speed Demons doesn’t do much service in breathing new life into the genre. Harper, J., Acimovic, S., Nitter, S., Arden, V., Figueroa, D., Green, D., Nittner, D., & Shields, A. The greater the distance, the more powerful the demon must be. ![]() For example, a fire demon could gaze into a fireplace and see out of the cook-stove at the Bluecoat tower down the lane. Remote Viewing: A demon may use their elemental affinity to achieve clairvoyance. A demon may also be summoned in this way, by forcing it to travel to the summoner’s ritual presentation of their element. A demon may bring others with them when they travel. For example, a sea demon could teleport from the water in a fountain to a canal under a manor house on the other side of town. Strange Travel: A demon may teleport from one site of their elemental affinity to another. They may also speak arcane effects into existence according to the elemental affinity and power level of the demon (the Whisper's Tempest ability is thought to be a lesser form of this power). They are also extremely quick, able to out-pace the swiftest steed.Īrcane Speech: Demons speak the ancient tongue of sorcery, which every human ear can discern. Strength & Speed: Demons possess monstrous strength-they can dent steel with their bare hands, shatter stones, etc. A demon is living embodiment of its dark desire, not a “person” in a normal sense.Įvery demon has these supernatural abilities: Only a small portion may be glimpsed when they crest the surface of the ink-dark sea, drawn by electroplasmic lures.Įach demon is obsessed with its dark desire (mayhem, manipulation, corruption, etc.), which it attempts to satisfy in every way it can, usually by preying on humans. No one knows the true shape of these horrors that dwarf the largest iron ships. The exceptions are the massive leviathans. Some demons can transmute into their corresponding element and a few can disguise themselves with a convincing human illusion. A sea demon is covered in dark scales and has black shark eyes, a fire demon has flesh of smoldering coal with fires burning within, and so on. Most appear as monstrous humanoids with physical features related to their element. Demons are corporeal creatures, not spirits, though they are extremely difficult to kill. Unlike humans, demons are not echoed in the ghost field-their blood contains electroplasmic essence, which gives them eternal life. Only a few escaped this subjugation, and scholars believe that it was these few that broke the Gates of Death in their rebellion and freed the greatest of their kind-the leviathans-to shatter the world. There are demons of the earth, demons of flame and smoke, demons of the sea, demons of the sky and stars, etc.īefore the events that caused the cataclysm, it’s said that the The Immortal Emperor bound most of the demons and imprisoned them in the dark, hidden places of the world. Each demon strain is thus connected to an element. Some scholars believe that demons are the first beings, brought into existence at the origin of reality, as the primal forces of the universe coalesced into the elements of nature.
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