Wax Mannequin - General Information

Created as practice dummies for Vladimir and Fredrick Essenergy’s daughter, Lexiandrea, wax mannequins slowly became filled with necrosis energy and hatred for their treatment. As time passed, they became completely sentient and fled the Essenergy estate. Their years of suffering and pain have driven them to inflict as much as possible on others. Using their malleable bodies, they discovered they can alter their appearance into anything that is within their size category. If they need to appear as something outside of their size category, they either split into smaller version or merge into larger ones.
When taking on a living creature's appearance, they can completely mimic everything about the creature, down to their voice and physical mannerisms. The only flaw they have when they are mimicking others is not knowing the thoughts and personality. The major way to determine if something or someone is wax mannequin is the texture of their body as it resembles wax when close enough to see details.
Wax mannequins have become known in some adventuring circles as creatures to avoid at all costs. Their ability to blend into nearly any environment plus their passion for causing suffering makes them creatures to avoid.

The wax mannequin does not have a central brain like most humanoid creatures. Instead, their nervous system hosts their brain, making head shots no different from body shots. This is also why they can split and merge while retaining their mental capacity.

Universal Abilities

Consumption (3 Actions after grapple)

Once a wax mannequin has successfully grappled a target that is one size category or smaller, it can spend the indicated actions to submerge them into their body. Each round, the target can make a guts check at a minus one to break free. Breaking free requires two guts checks, one to break the mannequin’s skin to breathe and the other to fully break out of its body.
If the target remains in submerged, they must hold their breath until either they can escape or fall unconscious, gaining the dying condition. When the dying applied, the mannequin spits out the corpse as it has completed its goal.

Immunities & Vulnerabilities

Acid Vulnerability (Passive)

Acid is the only substance that can permanently destroy a wax mannequin, and the damage it causes cannot be regenerated.

Damage Immunity (Passive)

Wax Mannequin is immune to blunt, piercing, slashing, and water damage.

Fire/Frost/Lighting Resistance (Passive)

If the mannequin’s health is reduced to zero by fire or lightning damage, they melt into a pool of wax.
In an opposite effect of fire and lightning, when a mannequin’s health reaches zero by frost damage, they become frozen solid. When frozen, they have the helpless condition.
However, they form back into their humanoid form (or thaw out from frost) after enough time has passed that is equal to their negative health in minutes (min. 1). So, if their health reaches a negative five, they will form back up after five minutes.

Molecular Multiplication (1 turn)

Wax mannequins have a unique ability to either split into smaller versions or merge into larger ones. Merge two small mannequins to create a medium-sized one. The largest they can merge is huge, as anything larger is too massive to control.
Splitting mannequin’s work in the same way as merging except in reverse. A huge mannequin splits into two large, a large split into two mediums, a medium splits into two small, and a small split into two tiny. Any smaller than tiny and the parts lose sentient thought and only move out of instinctual response, which is to merge with each other.
Each merge or split changes them into their lower (or higher) level counterpart. So, if two tiny merge into a small, the creature’s stats change to the small sized wax mannequin. Any acid damage remains and applies to the new version. The splitting caused them to divide the acid damage between the new versions.

Mimic & Morph (Passive/Free Action)

All wax mannequins can physically alter their bodies to look and sound like other creatures and objects. The wax mannequins can physically alter their bodies to look and sound like other creatures and objects, resulting in a similar appearance. To detect the difference, one needs to make a perception check of DR 25. However, being within two feet lowers the checks’ difficulty rating to DR 20. This ability is a free action and comes second nature to them.
Mannequins can morph their limbs into a mallet for blunt damage or a spike for piercing damage. They can do this as a free action.

Regeneration (Passive)

At the start of the wax mannequin’s turn, they regenerate half of all damage (except acid) plus their vitality. This ability cannot increase their health beyond their maximum.