Editing Spook (section)

==Users==
Spook apparently is native to [[Necromunda]] but is said to be exported and available throughout the Imperium but its prevalence very likely varies depending on place and time. This necessarily implies that the amount available on Necromunda is huge, or that it is not, in fact, unique to Necromunda. If the sources which connect it with dead bodies are true, this not only provides a suitably [[Grimdark]] explanation for its fairly easy availability—one reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson's totally fictional accounts of abusing "adrenochrome" (a real substance, but without any psychoactive activity, but which Thompson alleges he abused as a drug that was obtained from someone somewhere down the line who extracted it from a corpse)—but would explain its connection with the Warp: the Warp being the raw stuff of souls and all, it is not unreasonable to imagine that distilled essences of [[zombie|brains]] and suchlike might carry a bit (think of some of the less pleasant superpowers of the Space Marines.) Leads one to ponder if spook is derived from the brain, and what would happen if the guy you hit up for your spook fix had just pulped some α+ psyker tier cortex. Nothing good, probably, but you might at least get an interesting light show on the way out. 

Spook abusers may be found in all strata of [[Necromunda|Necromundan]] society, as it offers an escape from a [[Grimdark|bleak reality]], if only for a little while (2-4 hours according to most fluff. It doesn't seem to leave the user with an immediate craving for more of the horrible stuff like, say, crack, nor to lead to actual withdrawal symptoms as such like heroin—which has a direct 40K equivalent, [[drugs#Obscura|obscura]]—''but'', most likely, the spook comedown leads to that the-world-is-hollow-and-I-have-touched-the-sky feeling that leads modern day bourgeois college students to stop combing their hair and going to class and start hanging out in dark corners of concert venue parking lots after going to a music festival or two during summer break. Problem is, 40k being 40k, it's more [[Noise Marines|Marius Vairosean]] and less Jerry Garcia.) 

One assumes the quality of the spook involved varies from uphive to downhive. Whether this alters the risks of becoming daemon chow, something "[[chaos spawn|spooky]]" or [[possessed|playing host]] to a Warp being who lets you explore your [[Chaos|newfound powers]] before raping your soul to death is unclear, but <s>it probably does</s>who am I kidding Chaos is probably just a bit more clever when it winnows its way into a more useful vessel... and even [[Slaanesh]] can be subtle in these ways, just like their IRL equivalent, hippies—you'll go to a concert, just to check out the music, God knows slonking <s>marijuana</s>gangweed's pretty socially acceptable, and some (mostly 60s relics and the kind of professors that sleep with their students) pseudo-intellectual types like to talk about tripping to expand your mind, so, yeah, get together and put on a record of the <s>Maharashi</s>''Maraviglia'' and tune in, turn on, drop out!

===So, who takes this horrible stuff?===
* Various cults, not just Slaaneshi hedonists, but Tzeentch-worshipping sorcerers looking for a power boost, too, and your general [[Chaos Undivided|capital-C Chaos freaks]], for the connection to the warp and all. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing for [[Khorne]] (who's too straightforward for trippy shit, plus there's some shit literally named Slaught and too many combat stimms to name ... Spook isn't a [[RIP AND TEAR]] drug in any sense other than what it's doing to your consciousness, and, well, don't get too far out their, maaaaaan) [[Nurgle]] either...too apathetic, he's probably more of a gladstone and obscura type guy.

* Guardsmen aplenty, it seems, to [[Blam|expected results]]. One would think that only war in the grim darkness of the far future would be a pretty bad "set and setting" as the nice couple over at Erowid would put it, but remind yourself that taking acid was a big thing in '[[Catachan Jungle Fighters|Nam]]', and that the Imperial Guard actually has a fair bit of downtime when not getting krumped/nommed/shooteyed/whatever... Abnett goes into a decent bit about the black market in war zones and in transit for the IG in his ''Gaunt's Ghosts'' books, it's easy to imagine spook on offer there (although he doesn't mention it—Necromunda ''is'' on the other side of the galaxy though.) Speaking of transit, needless to say, use during warp travel is likely to have [[Anal circumference|unforeseen consequences]], even ''with'' the Gellar field on.

===/tg/-notable Spook enthusiasts===
* Dominique, of [[TTS]] fame, despite being an inquisitorial scribe, apparently indulged, comparing a surreal situation do "doing the spook."

* Probably [[Cultist-chan]]. She wants to hang out and thripp owwt whith yhoo for kay-oss.