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 Kiko Lake
Team Kiko Lake had a fright as they watched the pretty pink cloud of Faerieland somewhat transform to resemble Darigan Citadel. Little did they know that Team Faerieland was going to take refuge at their lake.
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CAPTAIN "POKE" CELLERS It was our day off from Yooyuball practice and the first sign of anything strange happening with the faeries was when some Neopians from Neopia Central ran by screaming; "OMG! The Soup Faerie is stone! We're gonna starve to death." | |
| ERLI QUINNOCK I laughed hard at first... only because I didn't think they were being serious! I mean you don't ever expect the faeries to be turned to stone, that was unheard of! It wasn't until more Neopians panicked that I realised it mustn't be funny. |
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 | MEELA KITAH
We took a quick trip to the Market Place in Neopia Central to see if they were right. I couldn't believe it when they were! The Soup Faerie was like a statue but there was a massive cauldron of soup for Neopians to help themselves to (probably enchanted). It just didn't seem real. | |
| HOLBIE PINNOCK It didn't feel real until we had to return home to Kiko Lake and saw the sky overcast for rain... I mean, rain isn't unusual on Kiko Lake, but Faerieland's dark colour certainly was! |
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 | DITAN COLB
We thought that was strange... Faerieland has never been stormy as far as we remember. Queen Fyora normally had that magically protected but for some reason it was becoming very unstable. | |
| MEELA It certainly wasn't pink anymore and when the thunder started we fled indoors. It didn't seem normal at all. |
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| HOLBIE
A town meeting was called and that's when we learnt that all the faeries in Neopia were turned to stone! And that the magic was breaking down. | |
| DITAN They started saying that Faerieland was sinking but not to panic because a team of heroes were going to sort it out. |
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| ERLI
Not to panic? The whole Lake thought we were gonna die! | |
| MEELA Once the meeting was over we all returned home and realised that Faerieland was lower in the skies. |
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| POKE
Little did we know that Team Faerieland had escaped and had come to our land for refuge! | |
| DITAN I'd say it's a good thing that they did because Faerieland crashed in the end. |
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| POKE
They didn't stay with us, they were lodged in a motel on shore, but it was nice to practice a few rounds of Yooyuball with them once the shock had subsided. | |
| MEELA Were they relieved when the heroes succeeded and freed the faeries! They went back home and hopefully were okay after that ordeal! |
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| DITAN
It's going to be weird gazing up in the sky without Faerieland there anymore... | |
| POKE Yes, but at least everyone is safe now. |
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