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 Krawk Island
Team Krawk Island continued practice, ever aware of Faerieland sinking like a ship that had taken too many cannonballs to the hull. But even the pirates experienced a few issues, such as dangerous sea conditions from the electrical storms sweeping Neopia, leaving them land-bound... although that in itself was not enough to stop the island from being invaded by Wraiths.
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CAPTAIN GARVEN HALE I'm not one to complain about the weather... but it was awful! Storms everywhere - we couldn't take a ship t'sea fer fear of it bein' torn apart from wind or lightnin'. | |
| "DASHER" SOLEY We weren't sure what was goin' on... we assumed it was Scarblade upto no good again. |
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 | EAYLN HAWKSHANKS
Land-locked... ugh. But not only that - we had unwanted guests. | |
| NITRI CASSALE These weird shadowy creatures appeared outta nowhere! Not sure what was goin' on but we knew they were th' enemy. |
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 | ZAYLE SUFHAUX
Gave us a break from Yooyuball practice - nice to get th' ol' cutlass out again! | |
| GARVEN Then we learnt that Faerieland was experiencin' some... technical difficulties. An' that meant trouble fer everyone! |
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| HAWKSHANKS
Let's face it - we all sussed that some real dark magic was goin' on. | |
| ZAYLE Faerieland was sinkin' like a ship on th' rocks! |
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| NITRI
Was it just me or did Faerieland somewhat resemble Darigan Citadel t'you guys? | |
| DASHER I thought th'same, Nitri! (I had the idea first.) |
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| NITRI
No you didn't! | |
| DASHER Shurrup. |
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| GARVEN
Anyway, eventually th' storms started t'clear but Faerieland was gone from the sky! | |
| DASHER One loud explosion in the distance later and word had it that Faerieland had smashed right near the Haunted Woods. |
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| GARVEN
Everythin' turned out alright, though, so we had some grog then got back to practice. | |
| DASHER No sense losin' time if we wanna take th' gold again! |
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