Rystil Arden
First Post
"I trust that is a joke," Highbrow replies with a (OOC: Namesake perhaps?
) raised eyebrow, "I think people would know if there was a company that made living suicide bombers."

Rystil Arden said:"My removal technique was planned and executed perfectly. It must have been a flaw in our assumptions. I suspect something far worse--that the gem was not a detonator at all but instead it was preventing the body itself from detonating. That would explain the current occurences," Highbrow postulates.
"I think you're right. We have no idea exactly what they are for. If we can't use it to track them down we should figure out some other way of getting to them.", Gremlin says to Griff.Hawkeye said:"Ummm the guy that blew up on me on the roof didn't pull the gem out. He just went boom. Also, what about the guy who fell off the roof and exploded? I don't think he would have had time to pull the gem out before he hit the ground."
Hawkeye
Rystil Arden said:"Anything is possible. If the gem prevented the explosion, then perhaps when it smashed on contact, that was enough to cause the explosion. This doesn't explain just going boom, though."
*As they are talking, they see a man with a microphone and another cameraman who is over near the wreckage and eventually decides to come over to them.*
"Hello there, friends," he calls in perfect English, "Could you give me an interview for the news?"