Run for the Hills!
Posted by Bruce on April 11, 2008
maggie’s coming to eat you!
Seriously though, there is a big fat hunger pig named maggie (note the intentional lack of capitalization) in the Spectacles series, and she can be dangerous if crossed, as so many Lucidans find out the hard way.
What makes maggie so dangerous, anyway? Well, mainly the fact that she’s so hungry! Anything that moves, as well as anything that doesn’t, is fair game; indeed, maggie will eat absolutely anything that isn’t nailed down (and even some stuff that is). If asked what her favorite food is, she will likely answer: “Everything!”
maggie is unique among the characters in that she doesn’t get her abilities the same way; instead, to gain a new power, she has to eat an enemy that has that power. For example, by eating the Headless Horse, maggie gains use of the Flamebreath attack. Her abilities are made more powerful in the same way: by eating something with an ability she already has, that ability will gain experience points and eventually level up.
As for how maggie fits into the story, she’s the leader of the neo-Hippos, a small collective of fatties who, for the past eight years, have practically lived to terrorize Elysia Ilapse, the daughter of Justin Ilapse, who created the Spectacles (the Spectacles will be discussed in a future entry). Before our story begins, maggie deserts the Hippos due to a rift with her sister Beverly and eventually decides to help Scott and Bruce out when she meets them in Lexington Manor.
