Earmuffs

The TOGGLE DEAF turns off incoming tells, helpful if you are being bombarded
by messages from other players. You can still use reply (see ‘help reply’) to
reply to people who were telling you before you went deaf, although you
cannot reply to a deaf person unless you or they are an Immortal (it’s mostly
useful for sending a quick “I’m being spammed so I went deaf” message to
a person).

TOGGLE QUIET will prevent any communication outside of Says and Emotes that are
directly in front of you character.