Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Three:Systems and Foundations (section)

===Keeping Up the Subscription:===

In order to benefit from a foundation's favored Axiom and grant, the genius must stay in contact with other members of the foundation, contributing research data and keeping abreast of the latest developments. In game terms, the genius must bind one point of Mania to her foundation. This bound Mania doesn't just vanish into the ether: it turns into research, analysis, useful samples, or articles that are examined by other members of the foundation, who in turn absorb that data. That data, along with the mindset necessary to appreciate it, in turn "fuels" the favored Axiom and Grant of geniuses in that foundation.

A genius can leave a foundation at any time, but it takes one month for the subscriptions and services to run out. After a month she loses all foundation benefits and regains her point of bound Mania. She will also automatically lose access to her foundation if entirely out of touch with the Inspired world (no email, snail mail, rocket courier, or passenger pigeon) for a full month.

Leaving a foundation is not necessarily permanent and is not even very stigmatized. The situation can be rectified simply by re-binding a point of Mania, getting back in touch to renew one's subscriptions, and waiting one month to regain foundation status. The current loose organization of the Peerage frowns on holding grudges and understands that sometimes geniuses are incommunicado (or Mania-poor) for long periods of time.