"Enlightenment"

The So called "Enlightenment" is a process in which a normal, entity becomes a Hybrid of the Immaterium, this is typically a process similar to a drug trip/high, and is known to cause permanent issues in those without the willpower, or even death in those that simply cannot grasp the concepts that Enlightenment provides. How it does this is known only to Obsidian as of now. During Enlightenment, the affected may be mentally transported to another place, see visions or hear things. After enlightenment, these effects may linger.

What Goes On / What it Feels Like
With Insanity and aftereffects, it is somewhat hard to tell what actually goes on during "Enlightenment", this is further emphasised by a swarm of small differences that occur depending on the stage, person, and overall purity of the substance. Although there are some common differences associated with certain stages and people. Here are the Things currently noted:
 * Most Humans report seeing a man in golden armour, along with a melted face with their eyes slightly poping out of their skull and large angelic wings say " Hunger for b o r g a r. HERETIC BORGAR!"
 * Machines (and organic species that have been heavily augmented) report hearing church bells, and a various assortment of synthesised noises, and with higher stages, the sounds of slightly synthesised choirs with a reverb affect applied.
 * Those who have cheated death typically hear the words "here again are you?" during the first 5 minutes of the enlightenment, where the words come from or on who is saying it is still unknown
 * Those who have been enlightened in the past have been quite clearly documented to having a different starting sequence, typical with a sentence at the start. 1: "Welcome back, Don't leave us yet." 2. "We Welcome you back, again." 3. "We see you coming back, we still welcome you. Please do not leave us again." 4. "Hello We welcome you back, please, ease yourself in, we do not wish to lose you again." 5. "You cannot keep leaving us, please, come and stay." 6. "You did not get the message from last time, if it was an accident, we still welcome you, but your serial key is still building up, so please set your your belongs for the times you come back" 7. "This may not be Montauk but it is still permanent, so you will have to prepare for permanent changes." 8. "We warned you about losing some of your freedom if you keep doing this, your selling it to the source the more you repeat this." 9. "We Welcome you to the community, and this time they cannot take you away from us."
 * On the 6th Re-enlightenment, All Species have been noted to report the feeling of "Being Observed" a side effect of this is that everything is seen with an orange tint.
 * Plant Based Races have reported of hearing "That's a wonderful Idea."  if they attempt to consume seeds or anything yellow during the timeframe of the enlightenment high.
 * Retconnian Races have been noted to not be affected at all.

The Key
Enlightenment has a basic system, measuring how enlightened something is. It is on a 0 to 40 scale, with 0 being not enlightened. 1-10 is Beta, 11-19 is "Normal" (Sometimes Referred to as Ceta), 20-34 is Enhanced, and 35-40 is Direct. Beta can be unenlightened without too many issues, Ceta can be unenlightened, but there will be temporary aftermath. Enhanced will be harder to unenlightened, along with the longer lasting temporary aftermath, to a point where the "temporary" may last a few years. Direct is not only quite difficult to unenlightened, but the aftermath can be permanent, scarring someone for the rest of their life.

Overclocked
With more pure compounds of Immaterial substances "Overclocking" has become a possibility, in which an entity would go over the usual "40" limit. The Overclocking's limit is not dependent on an arbitrary value, but merely the one being affected, along with others (Since the Immaterium and Its' pure inhabitants are made out of mental thought and emotion). Although someone who has not been able to withstand an overclock has yet to be discovered.

"The Recurrence Issue"
It is impossible to fully remove the imprint that the enlightening leaves, as even when removed it leaves a serial key of sorts that is permanently engraved into the memory, along with other vital memories, when enlightening happens again, the serial key is read and the past "blessings" are gifted back, although when the enlightening is removed, "sold" soul pieces are also returned, however there is an effect to the serial keys, and that the more the enlightening is repeated, the generally harder it would be to remove the enlightening, as repetition of the activity makes the mind memorise the specific mental neurons that are stimulated through the process. However, an anomaly that S.C.P.E managed to document, is that after the ninth re-enlightening,  there is no going back , this is made recognisable by the fact that those who have been re-enlightened 9 times have their shadow erratically moving compared to what should actually be seen, and constant loss of organic mass, leaving inorganic materials, even though they may look organic. Along with the fact that the eyedrops have been observed to also soak into the skin, and if on the head then they will slowly leak into the brain, however if it goes through the eyes, the process will be much quicker.

"The Rite of Montauk"
As Referred to by S.C.O.E D-4 Council as "426-Montauk" and by the S.C.P.E P-7 Council as "426-Ascension", "The Rite of Montauk" has been deemed "The End of Enlightenment Progression", in which when one reaches this state, not only is unenlightening them an Impossibility (Even if an 80% Yes Got perfect RNG), but they are pretty much an eternally lost cause, attempting to denlighten an entity in the "Montauk" Stage is not only hopeless, but also a foolish task, as it is a waste of time, It is unknown how Obsidian reached this state on their own, the D-4 Council suggests that they used Backbone to summon enough "Assistants", although this comes apart once it is considered that Obsidian learned the Backbone technique after  they found the Harbringer armour, so that theory falls apart. Only Obsidian knows how they managed to do the ritual on themselves despite lacking vital resources.

How 426-Montauk is Performed:
 * 1) The one who wishes to "Ascend" Must have an Overclock rating of 60 or higher.
 * 2) Ritual Tools are gathered (Operating Table, Scalpel, "Reverse Energy Pump", A Container for Reverse Energy Pump)
 * 3) Entity who will Ascend is placed on Operating Table
 * 4) While Conscious, The "Ascending" has an incision made on their head with the scalpel
 * 5) The REP is placed over  the wound
 * 6) The Container is linked to the pump, the pump is then turned on, Draining the "Ascending" of an Unidentified fluid.
 * 7) The Wound is sealed back up and an incision is made around the organ most similar to a heart.
 * 8) Repeat steps 5 and 6
 * 9) Incinerate the Contaminated Container and the Reverse Energy Pump
 * 10) Reawaken the "Ascending" by pouring burning candle wax over the body.

In Conjunction with "Effect 69"
When in Conjunction with "Effect 69", if it is just 1 effect, then the Enlightenment only re occurs 10 minutes after the last one occurred. It should be manageable, and can be gotten used to. When there are 2 Effect 69, the Enlightenment Effect Reoccurs 5 minutes after, and this can also be gotten used to. When there are 3 or More, The Enlightenment Effect is constant, but along as its below 7, the Enlightened are not temporarily mentally transported, although they still see the same things, but at their current location, this could also be classified major hallucinations. 7 or above is when the Afflicted is both mentally transported and mentally in their original location simultaneously, this would incapacitate anything with only 1 method of detecting each sense, since half of their senses detect what is normally going on, which the other half detects what the enlightenment says is going on. 10 or higher, despite being similar to 7, is researched to increase the severity of the eyedrops, while unintentionally increasing lust. After 10, the S.C.O.E Foundation was able to make the safe correlation between lust unintentionally increasing the higher Effect 69 is, although it is unknown if anything lower than 10 increases lust, to a lower degree. (S.C.O.E did not attempt to go any higher than 20)