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neongenesisevangaylion:

NEW noise canceling headphones that are so good at blocking out sound that they even prevent you from listening to your own music, forcing you to bask in the whispers of the forgotten gods until you begin to hear your own brain falling apart as it descends into madness

Item: Headphones of Cancelling All Earthly Noise

This would actually be a really interesting one since what you got would depend so much on the setting. Try it in Middle Earth and you get to hear Eru Ilúvatar‘s song of existence; try it elsewhere and all you get is Skarl the Drummer.

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hauntedgardenbook:

Painting of the legend of the Baker of Eeklo, late 1500s, by Cornelis van Dalem (I also have seen mentions of Jan van Wechelen?). Collection of Muiderslot Castle on the Zuider Zee in the Netherlands.

“Legend has it that people with heads they did not like went to Eeklo (Flanders), where the village bakery would rebake their heads in its ‘great and glowing oven.’ Once a doctor had established what was wrong, the baker’s assistant would chop the head off, putting a cabbage on the neck to stanch the flow of blood. The head was then kneaded, sprinkled with flour, and rubbed with wondercream [sometimes egg yolk], before being purified by the heat of the oven and replaced.” [from British Medical Journal 2003 March 29; 326(7391): 692.]

Thus children were admonished not to complain about their looks.

Encounter: the Head-Baker of Eeklo

Source: confessionsofanunrepentantartjunkie.blogspot.com
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Encounter: Yo dudes! It’s the most happenin’, wicked, pukka YolkFolk character around! Denzil can’t live without his shades and his baseball cap – he’s just too cool! What’s more, he always has his Walkman playing, listening to funky tapes, which makes life a bit difficult for [adventurers trying to keep anthropomorphic eggs safe on a damn escort mission]