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 Lost Desert
Team Lost Desert were aware of something amiss in Faerieland when King Jazan set off to investigate the problem. Neighbouring the Haunted Woods they had an interesting situation on their hands...
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CAPTAIN LEERA HEGGLE We were all admiring the golden Altador Cup we won this season (ACV), in case you forgot, when we heard news that King Jazan had ventured off to Faerieland for some reason. We didn't really care, had to practice Yooyuball some more so as not to disappoint the fans, y'know... | |
| LUVEA TRIVON Later it turned out that the faeries had been turned to stone! No wonder I wasn't getting any quests from them |
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 | VONDE CAYLE
It was pretty worrying though. Nothing we knew of was powerful enough to petrify the faeries. | |
| LAMELLE TUROW Fyora was the last one known to petrify another faerie - the Darkest Faerie - but she wasn't the culprit. |
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 | DERBI AZAR
Then Faerieland started sinking... | |
| LAMELLE In our direction. |
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| LEERA
When Shadow Wraiths appeared outta nowhere, we weren't gonna sit there and take it! We grabbed our scimitars and gave 'em a piece of our minds! | |
| DERBI While they were doing that, I was selling my healing potions for a huge profit... Well, I exaggerate, for a minimal profit... high demand for the stuff with the Healing Springs out of action. |
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| LAMELLE
I was stuck making sure the Yooyus we use for practice were being fed and watered. Someone had to do it. | |
| LEERA Then Faerieland CRASHED. Luckily for us it happened next to the Haunted Woods, but the sandstorms it caused were not fun! |
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| VONDE
Dude, Faerieland CRASHED! That's an entire land gone poof! | |
| LEERA Speak sense, Cayle. |
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| VONDE
You can't just brush that off. A whole land colliding into Neopia's crust is a huge disaster! | |
| LEERA Anyway, the reason why I don't care is because we all know the faeries were fine. The Haunted Woods just got new neighbours, that's all. Oh, and apparently Jazan came home with jewels for Nabile - he spoils her a lot. |
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| VONDE
You can be a jerk sometimes, Captain. | |
| LEERA Hey, this jerk won us the Cup! Now let's all get back to practice. |
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