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.

Does lots of things, gobble gobble

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Ability: Attacks enemies or increases the meat gained from monsters

Throne/Bjorn: +20% Meat from Monsters, sometimes gives 7-15 meat

Hatchling: hand turkey outline

Familiar-Specific Equipment: candied yam pinky ring

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

+15% Meat Drop	6-10 MP	+4 Muscle statgain	+15% Item Drop	+4 Mysticality statgain	8-10 HP	+2 Moxie statgain
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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.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <Name> lies down on a sheet of paper and traces itself again. It starts to hand you the outline, then mumbles something about torch-and-pitchfork-wielding mobs, and gives you some Meat, instead.

  You gain 7−15 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 5-6 year-old American children to draw these in school, usually around Thanksgiving.
• "Gobble Gobble Hey", from the first line in the haiku description, is a poultry-flavored rewording of "Gabba Gabba Hey," a line from the 1933 movie "Freaks", which was reused in other works, such as the chorus from the Ramones song "Pinhead".
• 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).