Lamplighter Beeswax

Lamplighter Beeswax
The poisons of the lamplighter bee make collecting its wax a dangerous job. The price, however, is right. Create this by using other Luminosity items in your inventory.
Purchased for 2 pence, Sells for 1 penny

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Using Lamplighter Beeswax

Find buyers for your Lamplighter Beeswax

Someone must have a use for it.

You know a fellow who wants it

The Radical Factotum is suspected of supplying revolutionary groups. If that doesn't trouble you, he's after wax today. [This will always gain you Phosphorescent Scarabs. There may be other effects.]
Unlocked with 100 x Lamplighter Beeswax
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.

Lucky spoiler

Alarming literature

'Yes, my patron in the cause will be particularly pleased with these. She was starting to run low of wax. Now I think of it, could you hang on to these handbills for me for a few days, as a favour?'

You were fortunate!
You've lost 100 x Lamplighter Beeswax
You've gained 10 x Phosphorescent Scarab
You've gained 8 x Proscribed Material

Unlucky spoiler

A glow on the rooftops

'Yes, we can use the wax. Do tell me if you get any more. The beetle-breeding operation upstairs is going well, so I can let you have these.'
You were unlucky. Better luck next time…
You've lost 100 x Lamplighter Beeswax
You've gained 10 x Phosphorescent Scarab

Offload a great qualitity of wax

Just how fond of beetles are you? [This will always gain you many Phosphorescent Scarabs.]
Unlocked with 1000 x Lamplighter Beeswax

Result spoiler

A horde of beetles

Your lodgings are lit by a harsh, flickering magenta glare. You can barely hear yourself for the chittering. What will you do with them all?
You've lost 1000 x Lamplighter Beeswax
You've gained 105 x Phosphorescent Scarab

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Obtaining Lamplighter Beeswax

Destroy a candlemaker's moth infestation (Watchmaker's Hill)

• Unlocked with Dangerous 26
• Gain: 9 x Lamplighter Beeswax, Dangerous is increasing

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