Loading the Hjaltland vault froze the server for about 30 seconds due to it doing a lookup for the skin in sync.
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.mojang.authlib.HttpAuthenticationService.performGetRequest(HttpAuthenticationService.java:130) [157/99027]
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:85)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilMinecraftSessionService.fillGameProfile(YggdrasilMinecraftSessionService.java:186)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.destroystokyo.paper.profile.PaperMinecraftSessionService.fillGameProfile(PaperMinecraftSessionService.java:38)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.mojang.authlib.yggdrasil.YggdrasilMinecraftSessionService.fillProfileProperties(YggdrasilMinecraftSessionService.java:179)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.destroystokyo.paper.profile.PaperMinecraftSessionService.fillProfileProperties(PaperMinecraftSessionService.java:31)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.TileEntitySkull$1.load(TileEntitySkull.java:80)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.TileEntitySkull$1.load(TileEntitySkull.java:47)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LoadingValueReference.loadFuture(LocalCache.java:3716)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.loadSync(LocalCache.java:2424)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.lockedGetOrLoad(LocalCache.java:2298)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.get(LocalCache.java:2211)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache.get(LocalCache.java:4154)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache.getOrLoad(LocalCache.java:4158)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LocalLoadingCache.get(LocalCache.java:5147)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LocalLoadingCache.getUnchecked(LocalCache.java:5153)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.TileEntitySkull$3.call(TileEntitySkull.java:221)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.TileEntitySkull$3.call(TileEntitySkull.java:218)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.TileEntitySkull.b(TileEntitySkull.java:237)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_16_R1.inventory.CraftMetaSkull.applyToItem(CraftMetaSkull.java:95)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_16_R1.inventory.CraftItemStack.setItemMeta(CraftItemStack.java:535)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_16_R1.inventory.CraftItemStack.asNMSCopy(CraftItemStack.java:42)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_16_R1.inventory.CraftInventory.setItem(CraftInventory.java:99)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.devotedmc.ExilePearl.listener.PlayerListener.onInventoryOpen(PlayerListener.java:150)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: com.destroystokyo.paper.event.executor.asm.generated.GeneratedEventExecutor295.execute(Unknown Source)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.plugin.EventExecutor.lambda$create$1(EventExecutor.java:69)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.plugin.EventExecutor$$Lambda$3797/1480833275.execute(Unknown Source)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: co.aikar.timings.TimedEventExecutor.execute(TimedEventExecutor.java:80)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:70)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:607)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_16_R1.event.CraftEventFactory.callInventoryOpenEvent(CraftEventFactory.java:1241)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.EntityPlayer.openContainer(EntityPlayer.java:1287)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.PlayerInteractManager.a(PlayerInteractManager.java:496)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:1451)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.PacketPlayInUseItem.a(PacketPlayInUseItem.java:27)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.PacketPlayInUseItem.a(PacketPlayInUseItem.java:5)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.PlayerConnectionUtils.lambda$ensureMainThread$1(PlayerConnectionUtils.java:23)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.PlayerConnectionUtils$$Lambda$4985/1380011687.run(Unknown Source)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.TickTask.run(SourceFile:18)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.IAsyncTaskHandler.executeTask(IAsyncTaskHandler.java:136)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.IAsyncTaskHandlerReentrant.executeTask(SourceFile:23)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.IAsyncTaskHandler.executeNext(IAsyncTaskHandler.java:109)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.MinecraftServer.aZ(MinecraftServer.java:1137)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.MinecraftServer.executeNext(MinecraftServer.java:1130)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.IAsyncTaskHandler.executeAll(IAsyncTaskHandler.java:95)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:1260)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.MinecraftServer.v(MinecraftServer.java:1001)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.MinecraftServer.lambda$a$0(MinecraftServer.java:177)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R1.MinecraftServer$$Lambda$2939/1145603405.run(Unknown Source)
[08:58:28 ERROR]: java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Not sure how caching of skins works. If its persistent for the entire runtime, it'd be good enough to create a skull for them once on startup. If that's not the case and they're discarded every X minutes, then we likely need to revert the skull thing entirely