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...Living things, you mean?

Yes, fixed. My new phone's autocorrect does not work as well as I'm used to.

You need to be careful when claiming [living] things; is this also true when releasing those claims?

If you have never used this ability before then you could easily kill something (or yourself) by accident. This is what is emphasized in the training seen in the threads with Exaltation and Grendyne. Once you know what you are doing and can avoid damaging damageable things, there is nothing special about claiming living things.

It is not possible to release a claim as a particular action. [EDIT: This is false.] You can however refrain from opposing someone else's claim, or do things that speed up the decay to nobody's-claim.

Unbitwise wrote:It is not possible to release a claim as a particular action. You can however refrain from opposing someone else's claim, or do things that speed up the decay to nobody's-claim.

Wait, but isn't the claim lost as soon as you "stop paying attention" to something? Can't you just... do that?

I was wrong. I was going to say: It's not a matter of consciously paying attention to something. Can you ignore the existence of your left arm?

—but a rule I already set out (and omitted from the summary; now fixed) is that you can ignore all this extra sensory input. And if you do that, by the rules already mentioned, you lose your claim.

However, this makes very little difference to anything, because there is no difference as far as anyone else can tell between "unclaimed" and "claimed and not doing anything with it".

I picked myself some colors and made a user icon! Big version of the icon if you want to see.

Ooh! That's pretty.

Thanks! I was inspired by one of those giant group theory graph layouts and decided I wanted something with lots of lines but more (to use a much-abused word, sorry) organic. It's 100% procedural, just varying a couple parameters between top and bottom.

That's neat! Weirdly, though, the icon seems to have disappeared in the above reply? (It's still there in your profile, but the big version doesn't seem to be loading for me anymore.)

Whoops. Okay, it's a link now.