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 Shenkuu
The mountainous land of Shenkuu didn't just have thunderstorms and unexpected blizzards to deal with, as a result of Faerieland's descent, some Shadow Wraiths rudely interrupted Team Shenkuu's Yooyuball practice...
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CAPTAIN MIRSHA GRELINEK Where to begin? There wasn't really any trouble in Shenkuu to start with. The first we heard of Faerieland's plight was a rumour that they had been petrified. | |
| FOLTAGGIO Yooyuball practice carried on as planned. We eventually received news, courtesy of our neighbouring land, Altador, that Faerieland was in danger. |
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 | XANA DILANCHE
Then we saw it ourselves! Faerieland became an ominous presence in the sky. Stormy, grim and... well very much like Darigan Citadel! | |
| ANTOLA MAEIR All joking aside... |
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| XANA
I wasn't joking! | |
| ANTOLA Faerieland was in dire trouble - falling out of the sky - in turn creating violent storms. |
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 | LARCY PHU
It wasn't until Faerieland was at about five-thousand feet that Shenkuu got some... unpleasant weather. | |
| ANTOLA Thunder, lightning... snow! Rain... It wasn't cool. No, scrap that, it was FREEZING. I could barely hold a Yooyu! |
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| MIRSHA
The sky ports were under an embargo. No travelling until the weather tamed. Faerieland is like Neopia's shield - it's glue - without it Neopia falls into disrepair. But, we continued Yooyuball practice indoors anyway - Emperor's orders. | |
| LARCY Huh, until the Shadow Wraiths decided to crash our practice match. I believe Antola's initial reaction was along the lines of "Who invited these geezers?" |
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| MIRSHA
Not one of our conventional Yooyuball practices! So we took a short break to put our martial arts to good use. Had to create a diversion, after all, for Xana to escape to find out what the heck was going on! | |
| XANA I managed to find a local guard who explained that Wraiths were everywhere. Then there was a huge noise. Faerieland had crashed! It was unbelievable. |
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| MIRSHA
When Xana returned to relay the news about Faerieland, a lot of questions we had about the weather and the Wraiths were finally answered. It wasn't until Hanso and various heroes solved the mystery and ultimately rescued Faerieland (and Neopia with it) that we had time to resume Yooyuball practice. | |
| FOLTAGGIO At least everyone will have something to talk about when we reunite in ACVI! |
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| LARCY
Yes, Folty, but Team Faerieland might not want to talk about it much. | |
| MIRSHA We are extremely thankful that the ordeal is over with and we admire the actions of those who worked so hard to save Neopia. |
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