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 Kreludor
Orbiting Neopia, Kreludor was completely safe from Neopia's plight. Team Kreludor were able to take full advantage of their training facilities during this time, but it didn't mean that they weren't concerned.
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CAPTAIN DERLYN FONNET Life continued as normal on Kreludor... We were not aware of the terror on Neopia initially. Yooyuball practice was uninterrupted. | |
| JURIN T. Then an alert went off in our practice stadium. We learnt from our manager that Faerieland was losing altitude at an alarming rate! |
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 | COCO METRONE
As Kreludor's Yooyuball squad, we were not able to help Neopia in any way. | |
| QLYDAE WEGG Yeah, that's military stuff. |
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 | ZENOR KEVIX
Plus we were all forbidden from travelling to Neopia. The planet was declared a no-go danger zone. | |
| QLYDAE Word had it that some serious dark magic was saturating Neopia. |
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| DERLYN
It was worrying! Neopia hadn't been in such a lock-down since Dr. Sloth invaded. But we were ordered to continue Yooyuball practice... that's our job after all. | |
| COCO Faerieland was on a collision course for the Haunted Woods. We were starting to wonder whether the Altador Cup would be two teams down for Altador Cup VI. |
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| JURIN
When Faerieland eventually did crash, it was the whole "will their teams forfeit the competition" dilemma again. After all, our team had a training ground malfunction (or it was sabotaged) in Altador Cup II. What's to say that isn't happening again? | |
| COCO What on Kreludor are you talking about, Jurin?! |
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| JURIN
Sabotage, Coco. Sabotage. | |
| COCO Yes but Xandra wasn't looking at putting teams Haunted Woods and Faerieland out of commission. She wanted to end the faeries and rule Neopia - nothing to do with Yooyuball! |
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| DERLYN
Anyway, we couldn't believe it when Faerieland actually crashed! We thought that was the end of them. | |
| ZENOR Luckily for them. some hero called Hanso came to the rescue... |
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| DERLYN
He was a thief actually, and he was helped by Captain Brynn of the Brightvale Guard... plus several others. | |
| ZENOR Really?! If you say so. |
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| DERLYN
Good news is that Neopia is no longer on lock-down status. We should be able to return for the Altador Cup if King Altador gives the go-ahead. | |
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