Joli's Journey Chapter 2 - First Mission
Published June 23, 2022
Screenreader transcription
Panel 1: Title page with the Duskbreaker’s logo on a purple and black background. Words on screen read: “Joli’s Journey: a DuskBreakers saga. Chapter Three: First Mission. It also shows the tail end of the Dusk and the toridial space station.
Panel 2: At the bottom half of the space station, narration appears. Joli’s narration says “The Dusk - a giant spaceship sitting above our world. No one knows why it's here, but for us DuskBreakers… It’s filled with life changing technology, deadly alien creatures , and limitless glory!”
Panel 3: Close up on Joli’s face, she is wearing a full helmet with a see through face shield, looking grossed out. Green slime flecks float across her face. Something unseen makes a “slorch!” sound.
Joli says "...and what am I doing now that I’m finally here on the ship? Cutting apart dead gribbles."
Panel 4: Shows Joli on the ground cutting up the carcass of a large alien insect known as a gribble. She cuts it with a laser tool and appears to be grossed out. Her drone floats nearby, shining a light on the gribble for her. In the background is a breaker wearing a yellow armor suit, this is Kain. Kain has a gribble claw slung over his shoulder as he surveys Joli’s work.
Kain says “ Breaker 1136, don’t be afraid of getting your hands a little dirty!”
Panel 5: Kain stand proudly with his hands on his hips as he continues advising the young breakers. He says“I’m sure y’all were hoping for something a bit more glamorous on your first day, but those gribble exoskeletons are the source of chitoplast, the reason your armor doesn’t weigh half a ton!”
Novah is in the background holding her own gribble carcass. Novah says “How much longer do we have to do this?” Joli is still on the ground looking annoyed. Joli says “We’d be more useful shooting gribbles than cutting them up.”
Panel 6: Close up on Kain’s face as he leans over the right side of the panel. In the background, Joli and Novah are now working together to carve up a large gribble carcass.
Kain says, “ In due time Breakers… trust me, you want to be an elite breaker, and live to talk about it? You learn discipline. Now excuse me while I go check in with our Scheduler. You two keep breaking til I get back. Hard work makes the dream work!”
Novah says “blech” as she cuts into the gribble’s exoskeleton. Joli replies “right…” to Kain’s advice.
Panel 7: Joli standing up and looking at Novah who continues to cut up the gribble carcass. Novah says “So how much DBC do you think all this gribble matter is worth anyway?”
Joli replies, “Who cares? This sucks…”
Panel 8: Joli stands up and tugs on Novah’s wrist, pointing towards the exit. Joli says “Come on! This is our chance!” Novah replies “Woah Joli… what the?!”
Panel 9: Joli’s excited face as she hurries towards the exit. Novah follows behind her looking nervous. Joli says “Do you want to break dead gribbles? Or do you want to hunt some Gribbles?”
Novah replies, “Well I mean we’re DuskBreakers, not Dusk “Hunters.”
Joli says, “Whatever! Just follow me!”
Novah says, “Just wait a sec!”
Panel 10: Novah and Joli now stand in a grayish purplish cave-like area of the ship. There are glowing green lines running throughout the rocks. Novah says, “ Do you even know where you’re going? I don’t think we should be here…”
Joli replies, “Don’t be such a wuss.” Then Joli says, “Novah… look!”
Panel 11: Close up on a live worker gribble digging in the dirt surrounded by glowing red crystals. Novah says, “Uh... that’s just a worker. They’re harmless. Let’s go before any warriors show up.”
Panel 12: Joli’s determined face as she prepares her blaster. She replies “Wrong… now’s our chance for some real glory!” The blaster goes “weeee” as it powers up.
About This Chapter
Joli and Novah enter The Dusk, the mysterious alien spaceship floating over Earth, for the first time. Will she find the glory she seeks? Or just become covered gribble guts...