[The number of tools emerging from Hiro's backpack was a surprise-- why did he have all that on hand? Was this a machine otaku sort of thing? -- but seeing this kid go straight to business on the crystal was kind of fascinating.]

Psssh. They were stingy enough to kill me over it, so unless I touched it's unbeating heart somehow, it might not have been paying any attention.

You probably didn't hear anything about it because we didn't really run into anything all that interesting-- aside from the ghost and the gems and stuff. It was just tunnels and more tunnels under some place that didn't look like the city, that's all. The place where I found the crystals was kinda fancy looking and not really Cerealia-like, but... [And here, he frowns.]

I don't really know if my group found anything else after I kicked the bucket. I kinda made a beeline here after I 'woke up', so I didn't get to check in on them yet to see how they're doing.