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[[Image: | [[Image:Tfr faerie festival.png|thumb|550px|right|A curse turned all the Faeries to stone.]] | ||
'''The Faeries' Ruin''' was a [[plot]] that started on 20 September, 2010 and concluded on 24 December. Puzzles remained open for completion until midnight on 1 January, 2011, and an epilogue and prize shop was released on | '''The Faeries' Ruin''' was a [[plot]] that started on 20 September, 2010 and concluded on 24 December. Puzzles remained open for completion until midnight on 1 January, 2011, and an epilogue and prize shop was released on 26 rescue [[Faerieland]]. | ||
The plot starred several new characters, including [[Brynn]], a female [[Kougra]] knight, [[Hanso]], an [[Ixi]] thief, and [[Xandra]], a [[Xweetok]] sorceress. It also | The plot starred several new characters, including [[Brynn]], a female [[Kougra]] knight, [[Hanso]], an [[Ixi]] thief, and [[Xandra]], a [[Xweetok]] sorceress. It also revisited several characters who have appeared in previous plots, including [[Jazan]] of [[Lost Desert Plot]] fame and [[King Altador]]. | ||
Players participated in The Faeries' Ruin through individual puzzles, cooperative puzzles, and the [[Battledome]] in roughly equal amounts. It also introduced [[wikipedia:Achievement (video gaming)|achievements]], termed "Fearless Deeds", which were awarded for certain miscellaneous accomplishments in each plot step. | Players participated in The Faeries' Ruin through individual puzzles, cooperative puzzles, and the [[Battledome]] in roughly equal amounts. It also introduced [[wikipedia:Achievement (video gaming)|achievements]], termed "Fearless Deeds", which were awarded for certain miscellaneous accomplishments in each plot step. | ||
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Like [[The Cyodrake's Gaze]] plot, parts of the story had [[wikipedia:unreliable narrator|unreliable narrator]]s. Beginning on 10 November 2014, the plot comics were [http://www.madefire.com/motion-books/Neopets-faeries-ruin-episode-1 re-released] on the Madefire platform, a [[Wikipedia:motion comics|motion comics]] [[wikipedia:app|app]]. | Like [[The Cyodrake's Gaze]] plot, parts of the story had [[wikipedia:unreliable narrator|unreliable narrator]]s. Beginning on 10 November 2014, the plot comics were [http://www.madefire.com/motion-books/Neopets-faeries-ruin-episode-1 re-released] on the Madefire platform, a [[Wikipedia:motion comics|motion comics]] [[wikipedia:app|app]]. | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
During the Faerie Festival, all the Faeries were turned to stone by a mysterious artefact. A band of a heroes came from across [[Neopia]] in order to find the culprit responsible and devise an antidote - but then the shadows came alive and began to attack. After retrieving a spell book and a second artefact, one of the heroes - [[Xandra]] - began a complicated ritual to restore the Faeries. | During the Faerie Festival, all the Faeries were turned to stone by a mysterious artefact. A band of a heroes came from across [[Neopia]] in order to find the culprit responsible and devise an antidote - but then the shadows came alive and began to attack. After retrieving a spell book and a second artefact, one of the heroes - [[Xandra]] - began a complicated ritual to restore the Faeries. | ||
However, Xandra betrayed them: Faerieland crashed east of the [[Haunted Woods]] and she turned most of the heroes to stone. Xandra, it was revealed, was the villain | However, Xandra betrayed them: Faerieland crashed east of the [[Haunted Woods]] and she turned most of the heroes to stone. Xandra, it was revealed, was the villain all along: she saw them as tyrants who kept their magical power to themselves instead of using it to help the rest of the planet, and turned them to stone to begin with. | ||
[[Hanso]] - one of the heroes who escaped the second petrification spell - stole the first artefact and used it to absorb some of Xandra's spells. He smashed it, the magic was released, and he and Xandra were turned to stone as well. This broke the curse holding the Faeries, and [[Fyora]] was able to restore Hanso to life. The heroes returned to their nations, and the Faeries started work rebuilding their city in its new home. | [[Hanso]] - one of the heroes who escaped the second petrification spell - stole the first artefact and used it to absorb some of Xandra's spells. He smashed it, the magic was released, and he and Xandra were turned to stone as well. This broke the curse holding the Faeries, and [[Fyora]] was able to restore Hanso to life. The heroes returned to their nations, and the Faeries started work rebuilding their city in its new home. | ||
==Story== | ==Story== | ||
[[Image:Tfr_chapter_2_2.png|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"It's a pretty good story, actually..."]] | [[Image:Tfr_chapter_2_2.png|right|thumb|upright=1.5|"It's a pretty good story, actually..."]] | ||
At the Faerie Festival, [[Hanso]] the Ixi was looking for things to steal. Whatever jewellery the Faeries were wearing was turned to stone with them, but plenty of their possessions were not on their person and were left unaltered. Hanso was not the only visitor to the Festival - shortly after Hanso arrived, King Altador and his guards, and [[Brynn]], who was sent by [[King Hagan]], arrived on the scene to investigate the curse. Hanso revealed himself and tried to sell them information, closely followed by King Jazan, who revealed he had been tailing Hanso after he saw him stealing from the fossilised faeries. Jazan accused Hanso of being involved in the curse. | At the Faerie Festival, [[Hanso]] the Ixi was looking for things to steal. Whatever jewellery the Faeries were wearing was turned to stone with them, but plenty of their possessions that were not on their person and were left unaltered. Hanso was not the only visitor to the Festival - shortly after Hanso arrived, King Altador and his guards, and [[Brynn]], who was sent by [[King Hagan]], arrived on the scene to investigate the curse. Hanso revealed himself and tried to sell them information, closely followed by King Jazan, who revealed he had been tailing Hanso after he saw him stealing from the fossilised faeries. Jazan accused Hanso of being involved in the curse. | ||
Altador asked if [[Jazan]] was there to free the faeries from the curse, to which hesitantly responded he was. Although Jazan did not trust him, Brynn reminded Altador that Hanso was their only lead, and they agreed to hear him out. | Altador asked if [[Jazan]] was there to free the faeries from the curse, to which hesitantly responded he was. Although Jazan did not trust him, Brynn reminded Altador that Hanso was their only lead, and they agreed to hear him out. | ||