2009 and 2010 Thanksgiving event

The 2009 Thanksgiving event was released on 23 November 2009 for both members and non-members alike. The event was silently released, being added in-game and to the Knowledge Base without being announced foremost via the homepage news. The details of this quest can be explained through the official forums, yet the requirements or rewards were never fully revealed to the player at the time of release, contrary to most other holiday quests.

On the 26 November 2009, the event was publicly released on the RuneScape homepage. This holiday event is unique in the fact that it is revealed to players in 4 parts.



Event Details
To start the event, talk to the Cook's Brother in the Lumbridge Castle kitchen. He explains that the cooks have been feeding special food to the turkeys to make them lean and more tasty, but this has made them stronger and more aggressive, and the turkeys have now formed an army to resist being roasted.

The Cook's Brother shall then, if the player wishes, teleport the player to a previously unused field north of Lumbridge, next to the Windmill. The Cook's Brother then hands the player the Fabled Gravy of Turkey Slaying (which he claims came from the "Gravy Boat of Saradomin"), which he was hoping to save for the supposed "turkey apocalypse," which is possibly occurring now.

Once inside the field, ten level 138 Turkeys will need to be killed. Due to the effects of the fabled gravy, players can hit up to 199 damage (without a Special Attack) on the turkeys and almost never take damage, regardless of stats or equipment. No experience is given for damaging the turkeys, unless you are using Magic.

Once the turkeys have been defeated, the player will be returned to Lumbridge Castle kitchen, where the Cook's Brother will thank them for saving Thanksgiving, and players who have not yet unlocked the Give Thanks emote will unlock it. If you have unlocked the emote already, you will only receive a message that reads, "Your heroic efforts in battle against the turkeys have made you feel at-hi one with your inner turkey. Congratulations!"

Cryptic Clue Fest
During the Thanksgiving event, Jagex introduced a new feature into the game that was done in part on the official forums and in part within the game itself. Clues were posted on a forum thread, where players had to gather various items and present them to various NPCs found in the F2P areas (as this was both a member and F2P event). You can read more about this event by clicking here.

Rewards

 * The Give Thanks emote for players who didn't unlock it before.


 * Cryptic Clue Fest Rewards:
 * An item and an emote that have yet to be released. These will presumably be released when the last clue has been revealed.
 * Although the item has yet to be released, speculation has it that it's going to be the invisible bowl as it can be found in your house costume toy box, and serves no other use, or the magnifying glass. Others believe it could possibly be a turkey mask based on speculation in the Runescape Forums. The emote is said to be a detective emote. This evidence is based a J-Mod's response.

Trivia

 * Despite the fact that Jagex repeatedly said in every event-related thread that players were NOT to post spoilers, hundreds of players have attempted to post the answers to these riddles in the official Cryptic Clue Fest thread. This has resulted in an extremely high number of hidden posts in that thread. The rapidity with which these spoilers are hidden suggests an unusually high number of Forum Moderators and Jagex Moderators watching the thread continuously.
 * One of the clues refers to a "naked grizzly". However, the word naked is censored both in-game and on the forums.
 * The weapon a player chooses does not change his or her max hit on the turkeys. This is why throwing knives and darts are popular choices as weapons since they deal damage rapidly.
 * 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.
 * The Cook's Brother will shout phrases such as 'Mop up the gravy!' and 'What a poultry defense!' and 'That one will be a sandwich' each time the player kills one of the turkeys. Each phrase is tied to the number of turkeys killed so far, so if you start again, they will be in the same order.
 * Players cannot pick up the Raw turkey the turkeys drop. The Cook's brother states that he and the player can worry about it later, but after the event is over the Raw turkey is not there anymore. The Raw turkey cannot even be picked up with Telekinetic Grab, as attempts to do so results in the message: "I can't use Telekinetic Grab on this object." You can pick up the bones, though, which are just regular bones.
 * The Raw turkey has a different description in the 2009 Thanksgiving event ("A rather large raw turkey") than the raw turkey from the 2008 Thanksgiving event ("A raw turkey").
 * Dying while in the turkey pen will result in a normal death and your gravestone will appear outside the fence.
 * The Cook's brother displays similar misgivings about the turkeys as Larry does of penguins.
 * If you log out and still have more turkeys to kill, the next time you log in you will appear outside the fence and have to start over killing the turkeys. You must also start over if you leave the field during the fight or die while fighting a turkey.
 * The highest hit is 199 and cannot exceed this, no matter how much damage boosting items are used with the exception of Void Knight. All players, regardless of their combat level have the potential to hit 199.
 * If you try opening the pen where you killed the turkeys in (north-west of Fred the Farmer's Farm) it won't open. Instead it'll say "There is a note stuck to the gate. It reads: The Turkey Army has been vanquished! All hail (Player's name) for their valiant efforts!"
 * If you speak to the Cook's Brother after the event, he says "What a guy!" (or, if you are a female character, "What a gal!"). This might be reference to the character "Ace Rimmer" on the TV series Red Dwarf, who was often referred to in this manner.
 * The phrase the cook's brother used, "Will you help us? You're our only hope!" is a reference to Star Wars, where Princess Leia says to Obi-wan Kenobi, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope.".
 * You cannot set up a cannon in the field; the ground is too soft. You also cannot set up cannons in grassy areas.
 * Void Knight armour allows the player to hit over 200 damage with the boost it gives.
 * A turkey's combat level is 138 with 1000 hitpoints. Using the normal formula for a combat level gives you a combat level in the mid-200s. However, NPC combat levels take into effect bonuses and negatives.
 * Despite the turkeys being level 138 and the Cook's brother telling you that the food they gave to the turkeys made them stronger and more aggressive, they are in fact not aggressive at all, and have a max hit of 1, even if you are level 3
 * You cannot attack the turkeys outside the field with Ranged, Magic, or halberds. Attempting to do so enacts the following message: "I can't reach that!"
 * Doing the "Give Thanks" emote shows how much bigger the turkeys really are. They seem to be almost double the size of the turkey you morph into. However, the turkeys used in the 2008 Thanksgiving event were the same size as in this event.
 * If you examine the Turkeys while in the field, you get the examine "Huge and delicious."
 * A Dragon halberd's special will hit twice on the turkeys, each having the potential to reach 199, making an effective hit of 398 with one attack.