Hand Turkey

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Familiar number: 25
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Hand Turkey
Gobble gobble hey Beak and fingers hunt and peck Victory and Meat.

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Ability: Attacks enemies or increases the meat gained from monsters

Throne/Bjorn: Unknown

Hatchling: hand turkey outline

Familiar-Specific Equipment: candied yam pinky ring

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular messages:

  <name> viciously pecks your opponent, doing X damage.

  <name> pecks at the ground, scrounging up some more Meat.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> scratches on the ground with all five nails and finds some extra meat.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> does The Funky Turkey around the maypole.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <name> smiles with his wax lips -- it's a smile you know like the back of your hand.

Arena Messages

• None - familiar has no weaknesses.

Notes

• Was available in the Mr. Store during November, 2004.
• This is the first Mr. Store familiar to become completely unavailable in The Mall at any price.
• Damage done ranges from X+1 to X+3 where X is the weight of the familiar.
• This familiar will attack 25% of the time, regardless of weight.
• There exists a stuffed version of this familiar.

References

• A hand turkey is a drawing of a turkey made by tracing a hand, typically using the thumb to represent the turkey's head, and the fingers for feathers. It is common for American children 5-6 years old to draw these in school, usually around Thanksgiving.
• "Gobble Gobble Hey", from the first line in the description haiku, is a poultry-flavored rewording of the chorus from the Ramones song "Pinhead", which goes "Gabba Gabba Hey!" This may also be a reference to the 1933 movie, "Freaks", and the line "Gabba, gabba hey" features prominently at the climax of the movie.
• Doing "The Funky Turkey" around the maypole is a play on the Funky Chicken, a novelty dance from 1969.
• The reference to hunt and peck in the haiku description refers to the method of untrained [{Wikipedia:Typing|typing]] where typists struggle to find each key (hunt) and then hit it with only one of their two index fingers (peck).