Gravedust Psychoactive Snort

GPS (common street names include Gips, Psycho, PsySnot, HotSnot, GraveSnot, Snort n’ Contort, Færiefuck, Demondust, among others) is the designation for Illibrium Hydrocyanide Cataleptine Sulfate, a by-product of the discharge from all generations of Schwarengeist Obskurors. The recent upsurge in Obskuror production has created an equal upsurge in the universe-wide dissemination of GPS. Though still relatively difficult to harvest, the intense psychoactive properties of GPS have made it a favorite of many amateur psychonauts. Because of the high profits associated with the purification and distribution of GPS, the larger Psychosubstance Cartels (Psysubs) have created a virtual monopoly on sector and street level sales.
After purification, GPS takes on a gelatinous, shimmering appearance similar to healthy human phlegm.  Because GPS tends to have a high-tack, the most common method of ingestion is the “Snotsnort,” or inhalation into the nasal cavity through a straw lubricated on the inner surface with Olive Oil.  GPS can be orally ingested, or even smoked, though it must first be rendered nonreactive to high heat. In it’s gelatinous state it has a tendency to react explosively to heat with a power several times that of T.N.T.  Users are advised to refrain from smoking during GPS use.
GPS in a purified state produces physical and mental effects resembling any number of individual agents.  The most common effects mimic those of Opioid Agonists and  Noncatecholamine Sympathomimetic Amines with CNS stimulant activity. This produces a sense of exaggerated well-being, the capacity for extended periods of intense physical activity, and a marked tendency toward extreme hypoesthesia.  Because of this, users are frequently injured, often quite gravely, during GPS use.
GPS has a growing following among extreme body modification adherents due to its anesthetic and mind-sedating effects.  This, in turn, has led to ever more radical body modifications, such as whole limb amputation, limb re-assignment, permanent suspension hook implantation and adamantine horn implantation using bone anchors, large area flesh removal, decorative large-area chemical scarification, trepanning with synthetic Lucite ‘windows’ implanted for brain viewing, organ extroversion, horizontal bifurcation of the buttocks, testicular and penile bifurcation/trifurcation, exfleshing of lips, large gauge trunk transfixion, bone removal, and cross-species limb grafting, among others.
Additionally, Govt. Agents have reported an upsurge in clandestine gatherings variously known as "Shooting Parties, Blow Holing, Hole Lotta Fun, and Shootin' the Shitter," among others. Usually held in outlying wastelands of large metropolitan area, these predominantly male attended "parties" involve firing a round or rounds from small caliber, low power handgun at a volunteer.  The wound produced is photographed and posted to internet sites specializing in material dealing with this emerging subculture.  While care is taken to impact only portions of the body in which wounds generally are non-fatal, the most prestigious wounds are those coming closest to vital organs.  In addition, there is a sub-group of "Wound Warriors," as the proponents of this activity call themselves, that target buttocks exclusively.  As an aside, members of this group are derisively called "Gun Butts" by other Wound Warriors. For anyone seeking to participate in this activity it is worth noting that the odds of fatalities occurring from mis-targeted gunfire are very high.
Because there is, as of this writing, no baseline sample for GPS, safe dosages are unknown.  However, there is a growing body of observational and experiential data that suggests the minimum effective dosage of GPS for an average bodyform is very close to the fatal dosage. Heavy users often experience what has come to be known as a “Psycoma.”  During this event, the user becomes unresponsive to external stimuli, behaving as if suffering Dissociative Fugue and appearing to act according to internal, wholly imaginary stimuli. There are reports of users experiencing “Psycoma” becoming hyper-sexual and accosting and attempting to couple with the first available lifeform.  Psycoma sufferers are uncommunicative, excepting with other Psycoma sufferers.  Coma to Coma communication is effected by vocalizing a highly complex language system that has yet to be deciphered fully.  Because two common effects of GPS are thickening of the vocal cords, resulting in a deeper, more powerful voice, and an extreme contraction of the tensor tympani muscle, resulting in temporary threshold shift or hearing loss, Coma vocalizations tend to effect extreme volubility at mid to low frequency.  Observers of the phenomenon liken the sounds to the bull-roaring of certain Gens Residua, rather than the speech of more civilized lifeforms.
 It appears that almost half of GPS users experiencing Psycoma do not return from this highly altered state.  After approximately 24 hours, the Psycoma sufferer has a 50% chance of experiencing Acute Life Deprivation, or the sudden cessation of life-sustaining activity.  Currently, there are no effective means of resuscitation. Those who do return from the Psycoma state invariably show a marked decrease in mental ability and and severe increase of incontinence.
This does not appear to have affected the high demand for GPS. In consequence, several Psychosubstance Cartels have become phenomenally wealthy through black-market retailing of this interestingly insidious drug.