Blighted Beak
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The Blighted Beak is a community-created cosmetic item for the Medic. It is a bird-like mask styled directly after the primitive respirators historically worn by plague physicians.
This item has two styles, named "Yersinia Pestis" and "Vibrio Cholerae". The "Vibrio Cholerae" style gives the hat a light leather appearance with black stitching while the lenses are made darker and more empty, as opposed to the glassy look of the default "Yersinia Pestis" style. Paint is also applied differently, either to the base of the beak or the lenses, depending on the style.
Painted variants
Main article: Paint Can
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Main article: Styles
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Styles
Main article: Styles
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Yersinia Pestis | Vibrio Cholerae |
Update history
December 17, 2010 Patch (Australian Christmas)
- The Blighted Beak was added to the game.
- The Blighted Beak was added to the Mann Co. Store, made craftable and included in random drops.
- The Blighted Beak was changed from a headwear slot item to a misc slot item.
March 10, 2011 Patch (Shogun Pack)
- Updated the Blighted Beak with a creator submitted fix.
- Fixed a clipping problem.
- Made it paintable.
- [Undocumented] Removed team colors from the Blighted Beak.
May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)
- Added a new style "Vibrio Cholerae".
- [Undocumented] The Blighted Beak no longer falls off on death.
Trivia
- Beak masks, whilst finding popularity in mask parties, originated as primitive gas masks for Medieval plague doctors during the Black Death. The beak was reputed to be filled with scented materials, such as posies, roses, carnations, mint, camphor, ambergris, cloves, myrrh, or even a vinegar-soaked sponge, as at the time it was believed that "bad air" caused disease. Sometimes the materials which got filled inside the beak worked as a "filter", causing the doctors to have a smaller risk to be infected. Because of that the so-called miasma theory of disease got popular back then. In fact, malaria receives its name from Medieval Italian for "bad air".
- The "Yersinia pestis" style is named after the bacteria responsible for all three variants of the Black Death, while the "Vibrio cholerae" style is named after a bacteria responsible for causing cholera in humans, two species of bacteria that were prevalent during the Black Death period.
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