Item: gear for the raddest bard in the joint–zero encumbrance while carrying it around, but gonna require some kind of weird Dexterity check or something to be able to play it during combat
I dreamt that someone had developed an instrument that could supposedly reveal the moral character of those who held it. It was long and thin, slightly bulbous at one end, and had many fine strings. The “suspect” would grasp the bulbous end while the player ghosted over it with a special bow, playing it like a strange fiddle. The noise it produced would either be clear, if the “suspect” was good, of sour if not.
This instrument became very famous very quickly, and the man who invented it went touring around the country to show it off. Police, intelligence agencies, coorporations, and churches were all competing to be the first to buy it and start making more.
I broke into the hotel the maker was staying in and destroyed the instrument.
Odd Names in History: Romain Bigot (fl. 1880s), French inventor or something. I haven’t been able to find anything in English about him (or much about him himself at all), but his claim to fame was the Bigophone, essentially (as I can understand from a terrible Google Translate rendition of the Wikipediea article) a kazoo membrane/mechanism fitted to an instrument body of another type, as seen in the image above, to be used in Spike-Jones-ish parody of regular band music. They seem to have been fairly popular in France and eventually America from about the 1880s to the 1930s, being sold by street vendors crying “Who has not his bibi, her bigot !!!“
So basically he invented a kind of annoying horn.
Item: Bigophone mechanism that can be used to turn any hollow item into an annoying instrument for full Bardic use
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