The Waxman

Lionel Price’s life was the Emerald City Wax Museum. He served as its meticulous and skilled creative force by night, and its eager and energetic tour guide by day, devoted to his waxen masterpiece “friends.” However, his artistry and dedi­cation proved no match for changing tastes, and customers for the museum’s educational but passive exhibits dwindled.
The day the ownership finally closed the museum, the desperate Price refused to go. He fought the barbarians who dared remove the friends he’d sculpted to life with his own hands, and in the scuffle, accidentally plunged into a boiling vat of beeswax. The impact caused an over­flow and collapsed the aging floors below, hurling Price down into an unexplored section of The Undercity.
Scalded but alive, Price found he’d gained the ability to make flesh wax, and mold it as he wished. Unbeknownst to him, he’d mutated from his immersion in beeswax pur­chased online from—and experimentally irradiated by—a retired supervillain, The Bee-Keeper. With Price’s flesh charred nearly beyond recognition and his mind shat­tered, he fixated on regaining the beauty and company of his wax friends.
Thus, the Waxman does what he must to acquire living-wax victims and other materials needed to reconstruct the museum in his new home, the Undercity. The confu­sion his terrifying powers and chameleon appearance engender make him an urban legend, especially amongst the people of the Maze, but one the police take more seri­ously with each bizarre crime attributed to him.

Physical Description

Special abilities

The burns decimated the Waxman’s pain receptors, less­ening the trauma of further harm. He regained his former physical capabilities, including the stage-fighting skills he once showily displayed on his museum tours. His eyes adapted to the dim conditions in the Undercity. With them, he quite cannily absorbs information carried under­ground by way of crumpled newspapers for use in plan­ning crimes and perfecting disguises.
Price’s touch changes flesh into “living wax.” Transformed victims are conscious but senseless, and powerless to resist his mental control as he either sculpts them into exhibits for his museum or uses them as pawns in his schemes. The power also allows him to reshape his own appearance, making him a master of disguise.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Madness shields Price’s mind with delusions of his happy past, and he remains content to sculpt, chat with his cre­ations, and guide imaginary visitors through his “under construction” museum until reminded of his current misery. Then, he ventures to the surface world to take whatever and whomever he needs—his “due” as he sees it. While not vicious, he regards living beings as evil and inferior to wax figures, and has no hesitation or remorse about forcibly changing the former into the latter.

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Contacts & Relations

The ECPD is investigating the Waxman’s misdeeds.