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 Moltara
As the whole of Neopia was in crisis when the faeries were rendered useless, were Team Moltara far enough out of reach from the dilemma on the surface? Or were they just as doomed as the rest?
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CAPTAIN ALDRIC BEIGN You have to remember that Moltara is no longer a reclusive location anymore. Neopians have been granted almost free access since Clara Chatham and that Roxton guy practically told the world about us. | |
| MOR GOLLOG Moltara's a pretty big tourist industry now. If they can last the trip and bear the intense heat etc. |
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 | TULAH KISNER
Basically what we're trying to say is that there is a constant flow of communication between Moltara and the surface, so news travels. | |
| VERE POLNICEK When news reached us during a break from Yooyuball practice, we heard that Neopia above was in serious trouble. Something about the faeries, stone and some strange creatures were invading their lands. |
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 | ZAX BANNET
Kinda made us feel lucky to be far away from it all, but the Mayor was urged to prepare guards to defend the entrance of Moltara. It was pretty scary. | |
| VERE Yeah, I mean we all carried on as usual but Moltara became a busy place when Neopians were desperate to escape what terrors were lurking above. |
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| ALDRIC
We then got more information that every land was starting to decay and all of those creatures were popping up everywhere! I told the team not to panic - someone had to be trying to fix the problem. | |
| MOR So the faeries were turned to stone, right? |
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| TULAH
Yes, and that's a bad thing, Mor. | |
| MOR Why? I mean, I'm Relic but I can move and stuff... |
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| ALDRIC
It wasn't quite like that, my friend. A curse had been cast on the faeries and because they maintain Neopia as a whole, it meant big trouble for everyone. | |
| ZAX You can't deny that business flourished here, though! Cog sold out in seconds, Molten Morsels couldn't couldn't cook fast enough for hungry Neopians... We got to sign a lot of autographs! |
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| TULAH
Yeah but many were starting to become ill from heat exhaustion. Normally visitors only stay for an hour and then leave. This time they remained for ages. | |
| ALDRIC You should have heard the cheers that went up when we were all told that the faeries were back and the creatures were gone... The happiness that echoed that day was inspiring. I'm glad everyone's okay now. |
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