Skirmish Battles

• Skirmish Battles
• Boons
• Teams
• Prizes
• Matchup

What Are Skirmish Battles?
After the War of the Obelisk Plot had ended, Skirmishes started appearing at the abandoned Battlegrounds.


How Does It Work?
On the Battlegrounds page, a truce timer will appear. The truce lasts 7 days. After one week, you can pick one of three teams to join. It will be one of the following teams: Thieves Guild, The Sway, Order of the Red Erisim, Brute Squad, Seekers or The Awakened. After the truce ends, the Oracle will select three teams to compete in the next skirmish, excluding the winner of the previous skirmish. The stage where you get to pick a team lasts 3 days. After 3 days, the Skirmish Battle starts again. You (and the rest of your team) can battle the opponents from the other teams competing. After 4 days of battling, the battle ends and the winner is announced. The winner gets to claim the Oracle's blessing.


Boons
Members on the winning team are also allowed to pick one regular boon for achieving victory. Only five boons will be available to each winner of a skirmish; all possible boons are listed below. Boons last a week, until the end of the Skirmish Battle truce.

*Note: The boons for the Awakened are random each time they win!

Normal Boons
Bank Bribery	You feel uplifted and your presence puts the bank manager in a delightfully good mood. What it does: This boon will increase your daily bank interest by another 3% from what the daily % you get is. Depending on how many nps you have hoarded away in your bank, this could be a very nice difference over the course of a week, and is a pretty good boon to pick. Available For: The Sway, The Seekers, (Awakened*)
Black Market Goods	Shopkeepers don't offer their finest goods to just anyone, but there's something about you... What it does: This boon will highlight certain items when they restock with a yellow flamey border. The exact qualifications for what items are highlighted and what ones are not is unknown. Available For: The Sway, (Awakened*)
Book Smarts	You feel as though every word you read somehow means more than it usually does. Is your mind expanding? What it does: This increases how many Intelligence points your pet receives when it reads a book. Useful if you need to get your Intelligence up to be able to weild some Battledome weapon. Available For: The Seekers, (Awakened*)
Cartogriphication	The faeries may have powerfull spells of misdirection, but they fall like cobwebs before you in the caves. What it does: This boon will automatically direct you to the treasure in the Faerie Caverns. To find the treasure follow the the voice in your pet's head as indicated in the hits on the pages. Available For: Order of the Red Erisim, (Awakened*)
Cheaper By the Dozen	By some force that defies explanation, the rules of the Stock Market bend to your will. What it does: This boon will allow you to buy stocks priced as low as 10nps each stock, instead of the usual minimum of 15nps in the stock market. If you buy stocks daily, and have a set price you hold them until, this would save you 5k a day, and isn't a bad option if none of the other boons appeal to you. Available For: The Sway, Thieves Guild, (Awakened*)
Doctor who?	Sometimes, everyone gets to be healthy. What it does: This boon will cure your Neopet at the Healing Springs if it is sick. On sick pets it will also restore your pet's hitpoints. You still have to wait 30 minutes to use the Healing Springs though. If your Neopet is healthy, the Healing Springs will act like normal for you. Tip: to make most of this boon, you would need to make your pet ill. Look at the Diseases and Cures guide to see what would make your pet catch a disease. Available For: Order of the Red Erisim, The Seekers, (Awakened*)
Doppelgänger	Used up? Not today. Today, the laws of physics take a little nap in the Battledome, just for you. What it does: This boon will allow you to use one-use battledome items (snowballs, muffins, potions) more than once in battle before they disappear. Some one-use items will still disappear after one use, but often, you'll find that you get to re-use them. This does not apply to once per battle items. Available For: Thieves Guild, Order of the Red Erisim, Brute Squad, (Awakened*)
Double Bubble	There seems to be a little essence of Everlasting Apple in some of your potins. Tasty. What it does: (UNCONFIRMED) When using Essence of Everlasting Apple on a pet it will refill so you can use it a second time. Available For: Order of the Red Erisim, (Awakened*)
Equip ALL THE THINGS	Why choose when you can carry even more implements of chaos? It's like you have another hand. What it does: Allows you to have 9 equipped Battledome weapons instead of 8. Available For: Brute Squad, (Awakened*)
Five-Finger Discount	The shopkeepers just like you better than everyone else. It must be your sparkling wit. What it does: This boon will provide a 10% discount when haggling at Neopian shops. The discount only applies during haggling, so any shops that do not require haggling (like the Hidden Tower) will not be discounted. Available For: Thieves Guild, (Awakened*)
GRRRAAAAHHHHHH!	You're feeling a bit stronger lately. Now might be a good time to stomp around at the Battledome. What it does: (UNCONFIRMED) This boon will provide a 10% damage increase in the battledome. It may bump your pets attack up to the next training bracket. Your pet might get 17 multiplier if their stats are maxed. Available For: Brute Squad, (Awakened*)
LOL AVIES	You suddenly feel the need to admire others' avatars... closely. Is that glitter? What it does: This boon allows you to "steal" someone else's avatar for the duration of the boon. Instead of appearing as a normal avatar, however, it will show that you have "pilfered" the avatar from someone else. If you get bored of your new pilfered avatar, you can just steal someone else's avatar to switch. These stolen avatars do not count toward your secret avatar count. Available For: Thieves Guild, (Awakened*)
Refreshed Quest Request	The faeries sense something within you and offer a second chance. What it does: This boon allows refresh at the faerie quest page for a different faerie quest when you have an active faerie quest. You can only refresh each faerie quest you get one time for a new one, but if you get multiple faerie quests, you can refresh each one of them one time each for a better quest. This works with faerie fortune cookies that give you 1 guaranteed faerie quest per day. If you are trying for a fountain faerie quest and have a lot of time to spend running around the site in hopes of getting random faerie quests (or can get a faerie quest fortune cookie in the NC Mall) then this is a pretty decent boon to pick. Tip: To avoid a Crafting Faerie Quest, change your language to Chinese before you refresh. Available For: The Sway, Order of the Red Erisim, (Awakened*)
Right Round Round Round	You feel strangely drawn to large wheels. Perhaps your luck is turning around. What it does: Allows you to spin each neopian wheel two times (Excitement, Extravagance, Knowledge, Mediocrity, Misfortune and Monotony) before having to wait the usual time to spin again. Useful if you're trying for wheel avatars! Available For: Brute Squad, The Seekers, (Awakened*)
Scratch Master	You feel like hanging around scratchcard kiosks. Who knows? Maybe it's your lucky day. What it does: This boon will allow you to purchase two scratchcards at any of the scratchcard kiosks instead of just one. Normally, you are required to wait 2 hours before purchasing another. Available For: Thieves Guild, Brute Squad
Strength of Mind	Let others grunt and shove each other about. You feel smart enough to find another path to victory What it does: (UNCONFIRMED) This boon will allow your pet to switch it's intelligence and strength around. Available For:The Seekers, (Awakened*)
That Millionaire Feeling	And what a feeling it is. You are mysteriously compelled to use this gift at the Trading Post. What it does: It appears from the boards that this boon allows you to offer up to 1mil nps on a trade instead of the 800k max there usually is. We have not seen screenshot confirmation. This is a pretty pointless boon since it does not actually save you any nps or give you any advantage since you can just use auctions to bid 1 million nps. Available For: The Sway, (Awakened*)

If you are a Premium member, next to your regular boon, you have the added bonus of being able to choose a premium boon as well.

Premium Boons
Full Pockets	The scratchcard hums in your hands and you feel luckier. This is not the Space Faerie's doing.... What it does: This boon will increase the amount of NP awarded from your Space Faerie Scratchcards. If you win an item from your scratchcard instead, you will also be awarded an additional prize of 1,000 NP. If you have more than one unscratched card, it will apply to all of them. Available For: Every Faction
Premium Dreamium	You feel drawn to the Games Room, determined to leave richer than you arrived. What it does: With this boon you will be able to send one extra game score in the Premium Featured Game. So instead of being able to send 3 scores you will be able to send 4. During Games Galore, you will also get one extra score (for a total of 6 scores). Available For: Every Faction

Teams
The battledome opponents are the same as the ones you could battle during the War of the Obelisk, with the exception of the warbosses. This time, the opponents will not come in waves, you will be able to battle all five opponents from two two factions you are up against right away. This means if the batteling factions are the Thieves Guild, the Order of the Red Erisim and the Seekers and you have joined the Seekers, you will be able to battle all opponents from the Order of the Red Erisim and the Thieves Guild.

Teams
Thieves Guild	The Sway	Order of the Red Erisim	Brute Squad
Seekers	Awakened

Thieves Guild

Thieves Guild have been in 149 skirmish battles. They have won 32 times. Their last battle was the week of March 4th, 2024.

Petty Pilferer
	Difficulty: Average - 8, Strong - 10, Mighty - 12 Equipment: - Blue Sticky Hand - Clay Sling Shot - Evil Snowball - Forest Cloak - Omelette Shield - Tech Bow - Thieves Dirk - Tornado Ring Abilities: - Static Cling - Shade
Roadside Bandit
	Difficulty: Average - 35, Strong - 42, Mighty - 53 Equipment: - Blue Sticky Hand - Boots of Jumping - Cloak of Night - Expert Bow - Stone Boomerang - Sturdy Qasalan Sword - Utility Gloves Abilities: - Meh - Shade - Static Cling
Midnight Smuggler
	Difficulty: Average - 80, Strong - 120, Mighty - 160 Equipment: - Barbat Throwing Star - Decorative Maractite Sword - Maractite Gauntlets - Red Sticky Hand - Sand Blade - Shadow Armour - Shadowy Cloak of Darkness - Thieves Dirk Abilities: - An Icicle - Halitosis - Meh - Shade - Shhhhhhhhh...
Shady Prowler
	Difficulty: Average - 175, Strong - 263, Mighty - 350 Equipment: - Altador Cup Throwing Star - Blue Draping Cloak - Ethereal Sword - Garlic Powder - Rainbow Scorchstone - Thief Dagger - Virtuglove 4000 - Yellow Sticky Hand Abilities: - Positive Thinking - Shade - Shroud - Static Cling - Throw Pillows
Kanrik, Master Thief
	Difficulty: Average - 225, Strong - 338, Mighty - 450 Equipment: - Pirate Cutlass - Thief Dagger - Moehog Skull - Rainbow Sticky Hand - Thyoras Tear - Altador Cup Throwing Star - Shadowy Cloak of Darkness - Bow of the Fire Faerie Abilities: - Lens Flare - Halitosis - Shade - Tempest - Shroud - Icicle

Prizes For Losing Teams
No matter how many battles you've fought, if you are on the loosing team, you will be rewarded one of the prizes listed below. If you have won a prize not listed, please neomail us. You can check the Battlegrounds to see which prize you won.

Biscuit Table Lamp	Blackberry Rug	Bobbing Lenny	Bony Bracers	Bottled Volcano Steam
Broken Desert Pottery	Checked Kitchen Chair	Cheese and Pickle Packed Lunch	Chesterdrawers Antique Almanac Vol. IV	Christmas Zafara Picture Frame
Cream Cheese Pretzel Bites	Cucumber Salad	Dipping Apples	Encyclopedia Neopia	Egg Salad Packed Lunch
Engraved Short Sword	Fiery Carved Torch	Fire Chomby Plushie	Fizzy Apple Juice	Flame Tipped Spear
Flaming Shield of Fire	Framed Toast	Freeze Dried Bacon	Garlicy Mushrooms	Gooseberry Jam Packed Lunch
Granola Parfait	Green Ruki Plushie	Green Wocky Figurine	Ham and Mustard Packed Lunch	Hot Fudge Sundae
Maractite Throwing Net	Meepit Painted Rock	Kacheek Flower Vase	Laced Wooden Staff	Muffin Baking Book
Neopian Jambalaya	Oatmeal Raisins	Orange Wocky Puzzle	Pile of Logs Foreground	Professional Sock Collections
Protective Lime Helmet	Purple Hissi Plushie	River Rocks Foreground	Ruki Ornament	Salisbury Steak
Sentimental Sediments	Set of Spoons	Singularity Play Set	Sketch Sofa	Spotted Kiko Plushie
Sturdy Blue Sword	Sunglasses Book	The Biographies of Mostly Important Neopians	The Month of Eating	Tomato Bomb
Toy Pirate Cannon	Tyrannia Travel Brochure	Volcano Diagrams	Von Roo Dice	Wooden Vampire Stake

Other Prizes For Winning Team
The winning team is awarded with the Oracle's Blessing in the form of Boons which are explained above. Prizes are available to members on the team who have participated enough. The current level of required participation appears to be winning a minumum of 10 battles. If you did not meet the minimum of 10 battles, you will win nothing, even if you did choose the winning team.

Avatar
The prizes include a faction themed avatar. You need to be on the corresponding faction to receive the avatar as a prize.








Site Theme
In addition to the faction-specific avatar, there is also a site theme available for the members of the winning faction, representing, of course, that faction. The site themes can be viewed on our Site Themes Page. For Example:

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Match-Ups
Below you can see the results from each skirmish battle a year back. The winners of the match are in yellow.

Start Date	Team 1	Team 2	Team 3
April 15th, 2024	Seekers	The Order	Brute Squad
April 1st, 2024	The Sway	Awakened	Brute Squad
March 18th, 2024	Awakened	Seekers	The Order
March 4th, 2024	Thieves Guild	The Sway	Brute Squad
February 19th, 2024	Seekers	The Order	Awakened
February 5th, 2024	Thieves Guild	The Sway	Brute Squad
January 22nd, 2024	Thieves Guild	The Sway	Awakened
January 8th, 2024	Thieves Guild	The Order	Awakened
December 25th, 2023	Brute Squad	Thieves Guild	Seekers
December 11th, 2023	Awakened	Seekers	Thieves Guild
November 27th, 2023	Brute Squad	Awakened	The Order
November 13th, 2023	Thieves Guild	Awakened	The Order
October 30th, 2023	Brute Squad	Thieves Guild	The Sway
October 16th, 2023	The Sway	Thieves Guild	Awakened
October 2nd, 2023	Awakened	Thieves Guild	The Order
September 18th, 2023	Brute Squad	Seekers	Thieves Guild
September 4th, 2023	Thieves Guild	The Order	Awakened
August 21st, 2023	Awakened	Brute Squad	The Sway
August 7th, 2023	The Order	The Sway	Awakened
July 24th, 2023	Thieves Guild	Seekers	The Sway
July 10th, 2023	The Order	Awakened	Thieves Guild
June 26th, 2023	The Order	The Sway	Thieves Guild
May 29th, 2023	Seekers	The Order	Awakened
May 15th, 2023	Thieves Guild	Brute Squad	Seekers
May 1st, 2023	Seekers	Awakened	The Sway
April 17th, 2023	Thieves Guild	The Sway	The Order