2009 and 2010 Thanksgiving event

The 2009 Thanksgiving event was released on 23 November 2009 for both Members and Non-Members. Players can start the event by talking to the Cook's Brother in the Lumbridge Castle's kitchen. The event was added to the Game Guide before it was officially released in-game. 

You begin by talking to the Cook's Brother who will tell you that turkeys have formed an army and grown huge due to been given some kind of special food.

Cook's Brother shall then teleport the player to the turkey field north of Lumbridge (next to the Windmill) and give a "Fabled Gravy of Turkey Slaying taken from the Gravy Boat of Saradomin" which he had hoped to saved for turkey apocalypse.

Once inside the field with the turkeys, ten Level 138 will need to be killed turkeys. Due to the effects of the potion, players can hit up to 200 damage (without Special Attack) on the turkeys and almost never take damage, regardless of stats or equipment. No experience is given for damaging the turkeys.

Once the turkeys have been defeated, the player will be returned to Lumbridge.

Jagex stated that the second part of the Thanksgiving event will be released later this week. 

Strategies
Since damage is consistently dealt within 100's, throwing knives and darts made of cheap materials - such as bronze or iron - are recommended for quick killing in members' worlds.



Reward
Give Thanks emote, Although Jagex has stated that another reward (a custom/item) not an emote, will be given later on in the week to all players free to play, and members.

Trivia

 * Many players upon completion of this event were very unhappy with the reward as most already had the Thanksgiving Emote from the previous 2008 Thanksgiving event. As well with the complaint from the halloween event saying the reward was useless, the ranting section of the forums has been flooded saying players will never complete any more holiday events, as "Jagex" makes them worse.
 * At the time of its release, many of the active users on the Runescape Forums were in the Recent Updates section, and a large proportion of those were ranting about the poor quality (in their view) of the event.
 * The effects of hitting extremely high amounts of damage during this event is similar to the effects when fighting Angry creatures during A Soul's Bane and the Tormented demons during While Guthix Sleeps.
 * Whilst fighting Giant Turkeys Cook's Brother will shout out something like; 'Mop up the gravy!'.' What a poultry defense!', 'In your face, turkey!', "That one will be a sandwich" or 'Gibbering giblets!', every time the player kills one of the turkeys.
 * Oddly, players cannot pick up the Raw turkey the turkeys drop. The Cook's brother stated that they he and the player can worry about it later, but after the event is over the Raw turkey is not there. This may imply that the Cook's brother took the turkeys for the thanksgiving feast.
 * Also you cannot enter the field afterwards.
 * The Thanksgiving event might be a spin-off of the Mahjarrat storyline. In this event players travel north to battle where 10 turkeys have gathered to fight, they have already been powered by some sort of force, which the Mahjarrat are supposed to be powered by in the ritual in the north. Players kill them all with the help of a boost from the "gravy boat of Saradomin," possibly referring to the eye of Saradomin, or Stone of Jas.
 * Dying while fighting with the turkeys, will result in a normal death and a gravestone will appear outside the turkey fence.
 * Each turkey in this event has 1000 health.
 * If you were to receive experience for this event players would receive a total of 40000 experience (80000 with sacred clay)