Reposting here.
I picked up two scents on a friend's plot: one trespassing, one theft. As I picked up theft, the green cloud turned purple and the scent I got appeared as a regular tress, both with the same decay (9) even though they were committed very recently. However, it still had all the options theft does. I picked it up again and still got tress-image, tress-decay rate, but theft options.
Reloading the area made the cloud turn green again but I didn't pick it up a third time to confirm.
My question: is there anything anyone wants to share about this?