Conduit Dangers (GAP)

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Aside from the dangers of old, unreliable conduits, or those which might unexpectedly branch off — taking a body (and not necessarily her companions) to a locale she doesn't want to go — there are a few other dangers to conduits and those who choose to travel within them.
The githyanki have developed a spell called conduit pierce (see page 62) which enables them to attack those traveling within. Other races have discovered this nasty enchantment as well, and so now a body's enemies have a way to strike at him even within a conduit. No place is safe anymore.
'Course, the spell was actually inspired by the creature the githyanki name h'rak'va, which means something like "astral vampire." These horrid monsters latch onto a conduit and dig their proboscis into it. There, they wait in strange nests for creatures to come through the conduit and then devour their life essence.
Rumored reports of yet another strange creature (some say it's fiendish, others call it spiritlike) interested in conduits linger as well. This thing has huge cleavers on the end of its multitudinous limbs and seems interested only in using them to slash conduits in two. This mysterious beast, creatively called the conduit cleaver, is said to be a singular creature - while others claim to have seen them in great number. The only thing consistent among the different stories is the creature's incredible, vicious glee in cleaving conduits. If there is such a beast, such a slash would sever the conduit's linked locations, so that if someone were to enter either end (or just the one end of a young conduit), the traveler would end up on the Astral at the point of the cut. Severed conduit ends wither and die in a few months.
A similar occurrence happens in a burst. A burst is an event which happens primarily to mature conduits. No one is sure why, but sometimes the conduit ruptures somewhere along its path, severing the connection. Some folks suggest that a burst occurs when corporeal travelers (rather than spirits) over-use a conduit. 
Despite all these (and most assuredly more) dangers, conduits are still extraordinarily safe. The vast, vast majority of conduit trips go by uneventfully, taking the traveler "a wink and a nod" to get to her far-off destination.