You could be my luck

[libertin]

Who| Courfeyrac, Marius, Cosette, Joly, Max, and other invited (or uninvited guests)
What| Courfeyrac brings home a stray. Later, the campers gather to watch the nightly soap opera on the projection screen.
Where| 4th floor, near the mammals
When| Week 2, after this & this.
Warnings/Notes| N/A?  No tagging order, make your own threads if you want.  Let's make new CR and tag around!

Courfeyrac was waiting in the hallway outside of the mammal exhibit with his new acquaintance, X5-452, knocking out a pattern on the wall.  It wasn't any sort of standard pattern, but it would be recognizable to the people he hoped were still camped out around the corner as a sign that the approaching footsteps were his and not someone coming to kill them all.  

He waited for a response for several seconds before repeating the knocking, then, becoming eager, he called out to the campers in French, "You must answer when I knock, otherwise I will think you are dead.  Fools."

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[medecin]

Water was much more the concern here if they wished to last as long as Joly was suspecting this could drag on. A part of him, a very perverse part of him, perverse in the twisted way, not the having an odd sense of humor way, wondered what they could to him if he chose to end things here, to leave them the use of the resources. It did seem fair, since he had not brought much along to the table.

The lazer pointer was oddly fascinating. It may not have been entirely appropriate, but Joly actually took a moment with it, shining it around a few places, considering if it had uses other than simply as a light. The little red beam did not seem potent enough to do any damage to anyone somehow. It COULD be used to project things onto the walls.

"We might come up with some sort of a code for using this." he remarked, turning it over in his hand now. "Either our scout or the guard staying behind might have some signals to let the others know whether or not it is safe to return."

The crowbar posed something of an interest too. "I did notice some artifacts near the displays of evolution." He mused. "Those could become helpful and there are likely cards explaining some of what they do. They were a bit picked over, it seemed," He had run past them rather quickly, not having much time to look, "But it may be worth chancing."

[libertin]

He would have to take Joly's word for it on some of those things, but he was in complete agreement in regards to the plan to scavenge. He decided he would let Joly puzzle over the creation of a code of some kind. It would be a decent distraction from all the morose goings on in their camp and would allow Courfeyrac an opportunity to get out, clear his head, and maybe do something to benefit them all.

"I shall take the bar with me and salvage what I can. If the bones have been picked over, I will bring those back. Perhaps we could sharpen them as weapons or as diversional spikes around our encampment."

[medecin]

A distraction was sorely needed just now, and though Joly felt terrible simply letting Courfeyrac go like that, like he should have offered to go with him, he also knew that right now, in this moment, he should have been much much of a liability than not.

"A good idea." He nodded at the mention of bones. "Especially the spikes. Any sort of protection we can create would do well, I think." He did not want to have to think about using one of those sharpened as a weapon to kill someone. It was different when there was a principle he valued involved, certainly.

"And I shall continue sorting, and have an eye to the others then." It was sort of something?

[libertin]

Courfeyrac nodded, trusting in Joly's ability to protect the rest of their collective. He worried that the protective instinct would carry over and compromise them, however. If he did not return at a reasonable time, he feared Joly or Marius would go out in search of him. "I will work as quickly as I can. If I am not back in an hour, do not come for me. You must all stay here and stay safely tucked away." He smiled, to reassure Joly. "I know my way back again. And I have this tool. I will do alright for myself. And you shall do just fine by them."

[medecin]

"I shall do my best with them." Joly promised, at Courfeyrac's instructions there. "Leaving them as they are now, even to search for you would most certainly be the greater evil." Considering the condition Marius had put himself in, what he needed most was to rest, and he'd be no good to any attackers, and while he could not deny that ladies had the ability to fight, and to defend themselves, it was simply wrong to expect one to use that when there was a gentleman about to aid in such.

"Do come back safe." he added, reaching a hand to press Courfeyrac's briefly.

[libertin]

He squeezed Joly's hand back in a show of confidence in his friend and he offered him a rueful smile as he rose to his feet. He trusted Joly to keep his word, and he knew that if anyone else were to enter their camp, an earnest and true effort would be made to defend it and their supplies. It was all he could ask for, and with his friend now focused on something besides the tracker in his arms, Courfeyrac could rest assured that the camp and Cosette would be safe.

"I'll return in an hour," he said as he let go of Joly's hand and departed. "Bon courage."

And with that, he slipped out of the camp and into the hall of fossils.

[medecin]

Certainly, Joly would defend it to his last breath, as he had done on the barricades. There was much here that he did not understand yet, much that he suspected would be learned by hard experience only, but that did not mean he did not owe those whom he cared for his very best of efforts. Which, for the moment, involved the sorting of resources and some cataloging, so he got to that, careful to keep himself between the others and the rest of the currently known to him world. Anything else felt like it was cheating them somehow.