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 Maraqua
Whilst it was utter chaos above sea-level with the fall of Faerieland, Team Maraqua had to rely on word-of-mouth from other Maraquans about the situation above. It was far too dangerous to brave the storms to find out for themselves, all because of Faerieland forcing a change of climate...
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CAPTAIN ELON "THE BLACK HOLE" HUGHLIS We were just playin' Yooyuball, y'know, when all of a sudden there was an alert circulatin' Maraqua... | |
| TONIE PLESSIX By order of King Kelpbeard, everyone was forbidden to go to the surface. |
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 | OTEN RENEU
Now that was nothing new, so we ignored that order and continued with Yooyuball. | |
| ELON Basically, Kelpbeard usually forbids us to go to the surface. Except for the Altador Cup season, of course. |
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 | DORINA HALS
But I got talking to one of the messengers and they said that the reason (this time) for us not to go to the surface was because the weather was very dangerous above sea-level. Apparently even the pirates on Krawk Island were land-locked! | |
| BARIT JOWES We were quite happy to carry on as normal, though. We rarely ever leave our subterranean land anyway. |
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| OTEN
Then we got more news about what was going on... | |
| TONIE Some witchcraft was going on and Faerieland was sinking! |
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| ELON
I know that Faerieland don't have the most popular squad an' all... but did someone really have to go to that length to sabotage the competition? It's a bit extreme. | |
| DORINA Actually a sorceress wanted to rid the world of faeries. |
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| ELON
Really? | |
| DORINA Yes. |
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| ELON
I need to pay more attention to current events. | |
| DORINA You don't say... |
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| TONIE
Anyway! Caylis apparently predicted the demise of Faerieland and she was right! Rumour had it that it had crashed near the Haunted Woods. | |
| BARIT I'm just glad it didn't crash into the sea! |
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| ELON
Blah, blah, blah, the faeries were saved, they lived happily ever after and now let's get back to Yooyuball, guys! | |
| DORINA Have a heart, Elon. Faerieland is rebuilding right now. They're more like Old Maraqua at the moment. |
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| ELON
They have an advantage though. They have magic at their disposal. | |
| BARIT Fair comment. Now where'd that Yooyu go? |
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