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* ThisLoserIsYou:** At one point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
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* ThisLoserIsYou:** ThisLoserIsYou: At one point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
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There's no ending where you get decapitated in this book.
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** Choosing to not go down a corridor gives you a happy ending, but at the cost of the author BreakingTheFourthWall to insult your cowardice. For ''several paragraphs''. Of course, this being an R.L. Stine book, going down the corridor gets you [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]]].
** At another point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
** Choosing to not go down a corridor gives you a happy ending, but at the cost of the author BreakingTheFourthWall to insult your cowardice. For ''several paragraphs''. Of course, this being an R.L. Stine book, going down the corridor gets you [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]]].
** At another point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
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* ThisLoserIsYou:
** Choosing to not go down a corridor gives you a happy ending, but at the cost of the author BreakingTheFourthWall to insult your cowardice. For ''several paragraphs''. Of course, this being an R.L. Stine book, going down the corridor gets you [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]]].
**ThisLoserIsYou:** At another one point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
** Choosing to not go down a corridor gives you a happy ending, but at the cost of the author BreakingTheFourthWall to insult your cowardice. For ''several paragraphs''. Of course, this being an R.L. Stine book, going down the corridor gets you [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]]].
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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The book gives you a chance to save Axel from the Deboner. You have to make the choice twice, as your friend doesn't want to, but if you don't, he somehow gets away and you become deboned instead. Consequently, if you save Axel, he gives you an object you may need later on.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The book gives you a chance to save Axel from the Deboner. You have to make the choice twice, as your friend doesn't want to, but if you don't, he somehow gets away and you become deboned instead. Consequently, if you save Axel, he gives you an object you may will need later on.
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''Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum'' is the twelfth book in the ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' Choose Your Own Adventure Series. Your class is visiting a new wax figures museum, but you and your friends are messing around, and the teacher tells you to wait in the lobby. Your friend Jake decides to sneak through a door, but then starts screaming for help. Do you and your other friend Liz go after him, or look for help?
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''Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum'' is the twelfth book in the ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' Choose Your Own Adventure Series.gamebooks series. Your class is visiting a new wax figures museum, but you and your friends are messing around, and the teacher tells you to wait in the lobby. Your friend Jake decides to sneak through a door, but then starts screaming for help. Do you and your other friend Liz go after him, or look for help?
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* KarmicJackpot: In one scene, Axel falls into a machine that will take all his bones out. He begs you to help him. If you do, he tells you that he can't let you go but he gives you a mirror, telling you that it will come in useful and even gives you a headstart before coming after you again. The only good ending with this storyline can only be reached if you have the mirror.
** The book actually tries to actively discourage you from helping Axel. When you first make the choice, you turn to a page where you say so to Liz, and she argues. Then you are asked if you still want to help him or not. You could take this as a sign that the book wants you to reach the bad ending, where Axel not only gets away, but then puts you in the machine, turning you into an envelope of skin.
** The book actually tries to actively discourage you from helping Axel. When you first make the choice, you turn to a page where you say so to Liz, and she argues. Then you are asked if you still want to help him or not. You could take this as a sign that the book wants you to reach the bad ending, where Axel not only gets away, but then puts you in the machine, turning you into an envelope of skin.
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* KarmicJackpot: In one scene, Axel falls into a machine that will take all his bones out. He begs you to help him. If you do, he tells you that he can't let you go but he gives you a mirror, telling you that it will come in useful and even gives you a headstart before coming after you again. The only good ending with this storyline can only be reached if you have the mirror.
**mirror. The book actually tries to actively discourage you from helping Axel. When you first make the choice, you turn to a page where you say so to Liz, and she argues. Then you are asked if you still want to help him or not. You could take this as a sign that the book wants you to reach the bad ending, where Axel not only gets away, but then puts you in the machine, turning you into an envelope of skin.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The book gives you a chance to save Axel from the Deboner. You have to make the choice twice, as your friend doesn't want to, but if you don't, he somehow gets away and you become deboned instead. Consequently, if you save Axel, he gives you an object you may need later on.on.
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*DistressedDude: Jake spends the majority of Scenario A in danger with "you" and Liz doing all they can to save him, while at the same time trying to survive themselves.
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: At one point, you can only avoid a bad ending if you can't find your lifeline on your palm. If you can, you notice it's shorter than it used to be, and you end up dead.
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* NintendoHard: Though not on the same level as "Into the Jaws of Doom" or "One Night in Payne House", "Escape From the Carnival of Horrors", "Under the Magician's Spell" and "Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum" have only two good endings while some other books have ''at least'' three.
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* NintendoHard: Though not on the same level as "Into the Jaws This is one of Doom" or "One Night in Payne House", "Escape From the Carnival of Horrors", "Under the Magician's Spell" and "Welcome four books to the Wicked Wax Museum" have only two good endings while some other books have ''at least'' three.
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* TooDumbToLive: You've already seen wax figures moving, but when the Strangler doesn't chase you, you assume he's not real and put your neck in his hands while saying "Who would want to strangle a nice kid like me?" The inevitable happens.
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* ThisLoserIsYou:
** Choosing to not go down a corridor gives you a happy ending, but at the cost of the author BreakingTheFourthWall to insult your cowardice. For ''several paragraphs''. Of course, this being an R.L. Stine book, going down the corridor gets you [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]]].
** At another point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
* TooDumbToLive: You've already seen wax figures moving, but when the Strangler doesn't chase you, you assume he's not real and put your neck in his hands while saying "Who would want to strangle a nice kid like me?" The inevitablehappens.happens.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The book gives you a chance to save Axel from the Deboner. You have to make the choice twice, as your friend doesn't want to, but if you don't, he somehow gets away and you become deboned instead. Consequently, if you save Axel, he gives you an object you may need later on.
** Choosing to not go down a corridor gives you a happy ending, but at the cost of the author BreakingTheFourthWall to insult your cowardice. For ''several paragraphs''. Of course, this being an R.L. Stine book, going down the corridor gets you [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead decapitated]]]].
** At another point, if you don't follow your friends into a car (the three of you had broken away from the group during a school trip), the book again insults you, and then your teacher catches you and calls your parents.
* TooDumbToLive: You've already seen wax figures moving, but when the Strangler doesn't chase you, you assume he's not real and put your neck in his hands while saying "Who would want to strangle a nice kid like me?" The inevitable
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The book gives you a chance to save Axel from the Deboner. You have to make the choice twice, as your friend doesn't want to, but if you don't, he somehow gets away and you become deboned instead. Consequently, if you save Axel, he gives you an object you may need later on.
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One of the villains, Sybil Wicked, would make an appearence appearance in an entry in the [[ComicBook/{{Goosebumps}} comic series.]]
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One of the villains, Sybil Wicked, would make an appearence in an entry in the [[ComicBook/{{Goosebumps}] comic series.]]
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* NintendoHard: Though not on the same level as "Into the Jaws of Doom" or "One Night in Payne House", "Escape From the Carnival of Horrors", "Under the Magician's Spell" and "Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum" have only two good endings while some other books have ''at least'' three.
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* TheBlank: One of the possible endings is that [[FaceStealer your face gets stolen]], and the front of your head only has smooth, blank wax where it used to be.
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* MercyRewarded: At one point, you come across a machine that takes bones out of people. Axel, who is chasing you, trips over and falls into it, and he begs you to help him. If you do, he regretfully says he can't let you go, but you are rewarded by him giving you an item you need to win the storyline. The book also punishes you if you refuse to help him.
* NightmareFace: Sybil Wicked was heavily scarred in a lab accident, so she's tried to reconstruct her face using skin she's stolen from innocent victims. The end result is a mishmash of differently colored faces crudely stitched together, while one eye is bigger and higher up than the other. [[spoiler: One ending reveals her ''real'' face is actually a nest of worms and maggots inside her skull, as she's not the real Sybil Wicked, only a duplicate created by the real Sybil'spatchwork face, which is why father after she wants to steal yours.died.]]
* NightmareFace: Sybil Wicked was heavily scarred in a lab accident, so she's tried to reconstruct her face using skin she's stolen from innocent victims. The end result is a mishmash of differently colored faces crudely stitched together, while one eye is bigger and higher up than the other. [[spoiler: One ending reveals her ''real'' face is actually a nest of worms and maggots inside her skull, as she's not the real Sybil Wicked, only a duplicate created by the real Sybil's
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''WelcomeToTheWickedWaxMuseum'' is the twelfth book in the ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' Choose Your Own Adventure Series. Your class is visiting a new wax figures museum, but you and your friends are messing around, and the teacher tells you to wait in the lobby. Your friend Jake decides to sneak through a door, but then starts screaming for help. Do you and your other friend Liz go after him, or look for help?
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''WelcomeToTheWickedWaxMuseum'' is the twelfth book in the ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' Choose Your Own Adventure Series. Your class is visiting a new wax figures museum, but you and your friends are messing around, and the teacher tells you to wait in the lobby. Your friend Jake decides to sneak through a door, but then starts screaming for help. Do you and your other friend Liz go after him, or look for help?
If you go after him, you learn about how alive some of these wax figures really are, and if you're not careful, you might even become one. If you look for help, you are led right into the hands of Sybil Wicked and her servant Axel, who want to steal your face.
!! This gamebook contains examples of these tropes:
* KarmicJackpot: In one scene, Axel falls into a machine that will take all his bones out. He begs you to help him. If you do, he tells you that he can't let you go but he gives you a mirror, telling you that it will come in useful and even gives you a headstart before coming after you again. The only good ending with this storyline can only be reached if you have the mirror.
** The book actually tries to actively discourage you from helping Axel. When you first make the choice, you turn to a page where you say so to Liz, and she argues. Then you are asked if you still want to help him or not. You could take this as a sign that the book wants you to reach the bad ending, where Axel not only gets away, but then puts you in the machine, turning you into an envelope of skin.
* LivingStatue: A lot of wax figures, including the Strangler.
* NightmareFace: Sybil's patchwork face, which is why she wants to steal yours.
* SkullForAHead: Only partly. Axel has no face, just a skull, apparently from an early experiment of Sybil's when trying to recreate her face.
* TooDumbToLive: You've already seen wax figures moving, but when the Strangler doesn't chase you, you assume he's not real and put your neck in his hands while saying "Who would want to strangle a nice kid like me?" The inevitable happens.
If you go after him, you learn about how alive some of these wax figures really are, and if you're not careful, you might even become one. If you look for help, you are led right into the hands of Sybil Wicked and her servant Axel, who want to steal your face.
!! This gamebook contains examples of these tropes:
* KarmicJackpot: In one scene, Axel falls into a machine that will take all his bones out. He begs you to help him. If you do, he tells you that he can't let you go but he gives you a mirror, telling you that it will come in useful and even gives you a headstart before coming after you again. The only good ending with this storyline can only be reached if you have the mirror.
** The book actually tries to actively discourage you from helping Axel. When you first make the choice, you turn to a page where you say so to Liz, and she argues. Then you are asked if you still want to help him or not. You could take this as a sign that the book wants you to reach the bad ending, where Axel not only gets away, but then puts you in the machine, turning you into an envelope of skin.
* LivingStatue: A lot of wax figures, including the Strangler.
* NightmareFace: Sybil's patchwork face, which is why she wants to steal yours.
* SkullForAHead: Only partly. Axel has no face, just a skull, apparently from an early experiment of Sybil's when trying to recreate her face.
* TooDumbToLive: You've already seen wax figures moving, but when the Strangler doesn't chase you, you assume he's not real and put your neck in his hands while saying "Who would want to strangle a nice kid like me?" The inevitable happens.
