You may either wait for the coin to launch and claim your stake then via bitcointalk-account or you may claim your stake as "pre-tradable" token in nxt-ecosystem. This token you will be able to trade for real nem too after nem is launched.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=616467.0Ok, thank you for the info. Time to start studying all about NEM I guess!
450 pages, here we go ...