Off-season Specials
The Altador Cup season is each year in June. The rest of the year, the players may still get into all sorts of adventures. You can read them here.NAVIGATION:
The Faeries' Ruin Effect on the Altador Cup teams
A Bit of Background Info...
In September, Year 12, the annual Faerie Festival abruptly came to a halt due to an unforeseen curse that turned the entire faerie population in Neopia to stone!
As the months dragged on, Neopia learnt how much danger they were in without the faeries monitoring the overall welfare of the planet. A crack team of heroes (King Altador, two of Altador's guards, King Jazan of Qasala, Captain Brynn of Brightvale, Xandra the scholar, the Ogrin Top Chop Master and Hanso the self-proclaimed master thief) went out of their way to rescue the sinking Faerieland in order to save Neopia from a horrible fate.
Many had to do battle with Shadow Wraiths that plagued the planet and drained the life out of anything they passed. It was a grim time for all.
But the destination for Faerieland was a direct collision just outside of the Haunted Woods and Xandra revealled her true powers for Neopia's rule. At that point Xandra had turned everyone in the vicinity of her into stone after tricking our heroes into believing that an ancient ritual would save the doomed world. Hanso and Brynn had been spared from the ritual's effects because Xandra believed that they could help her reform Neopia "in her image".
Brynn battled against Oblivion whilst Hanso deliberately antagonised Xandra to overload the artefact that started this mess (he liberated it from her a second time since the start of the plot) which led up to the most selfless heroic deed in Neopian history...
Hanso sacrificed himself to save the world by destroying the energy-charged artefact, petrifying himself and Xandra in the process of breaking the evil spell. This unpetrifed our fallen heroes and the faeries... although earlier on in the plot, Xandra had killed off Hubrid Nox to aid her plans and sadly he could not return.
With the faeries freed along with our other heroes, Queen Fyora returned the favour to Hanso, asking him to revisit her when he was fully healed...
(For more information about the plot, please see our The Faeries' Ruin plot coverage.)
But due to the catastrophic effect this was having on the Neopian world itself, our Altador Cup stars suffered during the off-season as well.
Today you will hear from the players themselves about how The Faeries' Ruin impacted their lives and training possibilities in the duration of the global crisis.
Team Interviews
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Team Brightvale
Team Brightvale were also aware of Faerieland's dilemma early like Altador was. At first Yooyuball practice carried on as normal (along with academic study, of course) whilst King Hagan sent Captain Brynn to investigate the faeries' situation. But as the world around them began to decay, Team Brightvale found themselves working on saving their homeland and Faerieland from a ghastly fate...
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CAPTAIN "SQUEAKY" TRESSIF At first we all felt rather safe. Yooyuball practice went to schedule... we all studied at the crack of dawn as our Royal Highness commanded... Then the Wraiths came. | |
| ORIE DINELLE King Hagan commanded help with the archives so I arrived to lend a hand. Captain Brynn needed a certain book and order needed bringing to the shelves of our library... |
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 | REB WEEMELOTT
The shelves were a mess. Orie and I took separate ends of the archives to assist Captain Brynn... Eventually a civilian found what the Captain of the Guards was looking for but we stayed to help tidy some shelves more anyway. It's what the king wanted. | |
| MONTECITO When the Wraiths attacked, Kayn and I joined the guards to protect Brightvale from those monsters. The battle went on and on, though. |
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 | KAYN HIRECK
It was good fun battling them. It was refreshing. | |
| MONTECITO Yeah, but it was tiring. |
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| KAYN
There were too many. | |
| SQUEAKY I saw Captain Brynn get captured by those fiends! That Hanso fellow acted wisely, though, I'll give him that... He may have been a thief but he acted in the lady's best interest. If he did not flee from the Wraiths he would have faced the same fate. |
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| ORIE
Reb and I did not assist in battle. We were stationed in the archives. Must have been one heck of a war, though! | |
| SQUEAKY I am glad that you and Reb were out of harm's way, Orie. If all of us were involved in battle our Yooyuball squad could have suffered serious set-backs if those Wraiths captured any of us! |
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| ORIE
We were safe, Captain. | |
| SQUEAKY And for that I am grateful. |
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| MONTECITO
Captain Brynn is a real hero. We owe our lives to her for the efforts she went through to aid Faerieland. | |
| SQUEAKY Yes - in the next upcoming tournament we will not play just for king and country - we will play for Brynn and everybody who risked their lives for the restoration of Neopia. | | |
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