Hand Turkey

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Hand Turkey

Gobble gobble hey
Beak and fingers hunt and peck
Victory and Meat.

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 typing where typists struggle to find each key (hunt) and then hit it with only one of their two index fingers (peck).