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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]]
| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]
| villain(s)= [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|The Baron]]
| villain(s)= [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|The Baron]]
| featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Janni]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Genie Everywhere]]<br>[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]<br>[[Clea|“Butch chick”]]<br>[[Bradley|“Tall man”]]
| featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Paying It Forward)|“Stunt pilot” Jenny]]<br>[[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Genie Everywhere]]<br>[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny_Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny on the seaside pier]]<br>[[Clea|“Butch chick”]]<br>[[Lex|"Man with extinguisher"]]<br>[[Bradley|“Tall man”]]<br>[[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|“Sandy-haired man”]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Second Date)|“Biker” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|“Shih tzu” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere 6 (Paying It Forward)|“Elysium Park” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Cornelius]]<br>[[Jeanne Partout (Paying It Forward)|Jeanne Partout]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Priest Jenny|“Priest” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Silver jumpsuit Jenny|“Silver jumpsuit” Jenny]] <br>[[Jerry Everywhere (Paying It Forward)|Jerry Everywhere]]
| setting= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]]'s apartment, [[Universe (Parallax)|unnamed universe]]<br>[[Temple of the Oracle]], “[[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|Universe A]]”<br>Eurasian steppes, “[[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|Universe B]]”<br>African veldt, “[[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|Universe C]]”<br>Museum, “[[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|Universe D]]”<br>Medieval castle, “[[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|Universe E]]”<br>[[Right-On By The Sea|Seaside town]], [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|unnamed universe]]
| setting= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]'s apartment, [[Parallax Universe|unnamed universe]]<br>[[Temple of the Oracle]], “[[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|Universe A]]”<br>Eurasian steppes, “[[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|Universe B]]”<br>African veldt, “[[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|Universe C]]”<br>Museum, “[[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|Universe D]]”<br>Medieval castle, “[[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|Universe E]]”<br>[[Right-On By The Sea|Seaside town]], [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|unnamed universe]],<br>Bohoken, [[New Guernsey]], “[[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|Universe F]]”
| length= 4 chapters
| length= 7 chapters
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]]
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]]
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| dates= [[Jenny Everywhere Day|August 13th]], 2021 - September 10th, 2021
| dates= [[Jenny Everywhere Day|August 13th]], 2021 - October 1st, 2021
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}}'''''Paying It Forward''''' is a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel currently being serialised. The work of by [[Scott Sanford]], its first chapter was released for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] in 2021. Notably, Part 4 incorporated “''The Freeing of Genie Everywhere'', previously released by Sanford as a standalone short story.
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== Contents ==
| previous2 = ''[[Tweetstorm (short story)|Tweetstorm]]''
===Plot ===
| next2 = ''[[Awakening (short story)|Awakening]]''
}}'''''Paying It Forward''''' was a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel serialised weekly. The work of by [[Scott Sanford]], its first chapter was released for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] in 2021. Notably, Part 4 incorporated “''The Freeing of Genie Everywhere'', previously released by Sanford as a standalone short story.
==Contents==
===Plot===
====Part 1====
====Part 1====
Shortly after her defeat of [[Professor Awesome]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]] leaves her apartment to [[shift]] to the [[Temple of the Oracle|Temple]] of the Oracle [[Cha Ni]]. After exchanging a few wise words with the elderly visionary, Cha-Ni guesses that Jenny is here because she wants to help other versions of her whose lives are not as easy as hers. Cha-Ni agrees and gives her a list.
Shortly after her defeat of [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]], [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] leaves her apartment to [[shift]] to the [[Temple of the Oracle|Temple]] of the Oracle [[Cha Ni]]. After exchanging a few wise words with the elderly visionary, Cha-Ni guesses that Jenny is here because she wants to help other versions of her whose lives are not as easy as hers. Cha-Ni agrees and gives her a list.
====Part 2====
====Part 2====
Arriving in [[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny meets up with [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|a Jenny]] who is a stunt aeroplane pilot flying an [[Everywhere Explorer]] biplane — or, rather, who had been flying it until a malfunction downed her in the middle of a deserted steppe. Thanks to Cha Ni's list, the second Jenny brought the pilot Jenny precisely the part she needed to repair her aeroplane. With it back in order, the pilot Jenny offers to fly her counterpart to her next destination.
Arriving in [[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny meets up with [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Paying It Forward)|a Jenny]] who is a stunt aeroplane pilot flying an [[Everywhere Explorer]] biplane — or, rather, who had been flying it until a malfunction downed her in the middle of a deserted steppe. Thanks to Cha Ni's list, the second Jenny brought the pilot Jenny precisely the part she needed to repair her aeroplane. With it back in order, the pilot Jenny offers to fly her counterpart to her next destination.
====Part 3====
====Part 3 ====
After the other Jenny drops her off in the ''Everywhere Explorer'', [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] finds herself looking over an African veldt. She is soon joined by [[Jenny Everywhere#Janni, She Who Walks in Every Place|Janni, She Who Walks in Every Place]], her counterpart in [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|this universe]] — an Amazon on a quest. She explains that she seeks “wisdom of the tiger, a wheel of numbers, and an owl made of lightning”. Jenny realises that the “wheel of numbers” must be an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B E6B] flight computer, a pilot's tool that includes a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule circular slide rule] - a wheel of numbers that lets the user do math.  
After the other Jenny drops her off in the ''Everywhere Explorer'', [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] finds herself looking over an African veldt. She is soon joined by [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]], her counterpart in [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|this universe]] — an Amazon on a quest. She explains that she seeks “wisdom of the tiger, a wheel of numbers, and an owl made of lightning”. Jenny realises that the “wheel of numbers” must be an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B E6B] flight computer, a pilot's tool that includes a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule circular slide rule] - a wheel of numbers that lets the user do math.  


As a gift freely given would not be a fitting prize for a quest, the two Jennies agree on a wager (with Janni offering her spear, the very weapon which slew “[[Jamek Tagilono]], the Nameless Lurker in Shadows”, as the counter-prize). They decide on am-wrestling as the nature of the challenge, with Janni easily beating the modern, city-dwelling Jenny. The latter then leaves, wishing Janni good luck on her two other challenges (with the two of them agreeing that it would not do for all three of Janni's adventures on this quest to involve the help of an echo of herself, though for a single one of the three it is a welcome addition to the story).
As a gift freely given would not be a fitting prize for a quest, the two Jennies agree on a wager (with Janni offering her spear, the very weapon which slew “[[Jamek Tagilono]], the Nameless Lurker in Shadows”, as the counter-prize). They decide on am-wrestling as the nature of the challenge, with Janni easily beating the modern, city-dwelling Jenny. The latter then leaves, wishing Janni good luck on her two other challenges (with the two of them agreeing that it would not do for all three of Janni's adventures on this quest to involve the help of an echo of herself, though for a single one of the three it is a welcome addition to the story).
====Part 4====
====Part 4====
Dressed in a black [[wikipedia:Niqāb|niqab]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]], in [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|yet another universe]], infiltrates a museum where a number of ancient bottles are kept. One has a sign in Arabic noting that it is said to somehow contain “a genie in every place” — or, rather, “[[Jenny Everywhere#Genie Everywhere|Genie Everywhere]]”. Breaking the glass case with a hammer, Jenny frees her [[djinn]] counterpart by pulling off the stopper of her bottle; she barely has time to give the slowly-recoalescing cloud of smoke a thumbs' up before making her escape as alarms blare.
Dressed in a black [[wikipedia:Niqāb|niqab]], [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]], in [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|yet another universe]], infiltrates a museum where a number of ancient bottles are kept. One has a sign in Arabic noting that it is said to somehow contain “a genie in every place” — or, rather, “[[Jenny Everywhere#Genie Everywhere|Genie Everywhere]]”. Breaking the glass case with a hammer, Jenny frees her [[djinn]] counterpart by pulling off the stopper of her bottle; she barely has time to give the slowly-recoalescing cloud of smoke a thumbs' up before making her escape as alarms blare.


Later, in [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|a different universe]], Jenny climbs the stone wall of a medieval castle until she reaches an arrow slit through which she is able to converse with “[[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]”, who is apparently under imminent threat from a [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|Baron]]. Jenny hands Genevieve a loaded gun through the arrow slit before sneaking off again.
Later, in [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|a different universe]], Jenny climbs the stone wall of a medieval castle until she reaches an arrow slit through which she is able to converse with “[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]”, who is apparently under imminent threat from a [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|Baron]]. Jenny hands Genevieve a loaded gun through the arrow slit before sneaking off again.
====Part 5====
====Part 5====
[[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny]] next ends up in a [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|more mundane universe]] in a [[Right-On By The Sea|very familiar-feeling seaside town]], just in time to hear the first cries of a fire having broken out. Trying to make her way through the crowd, she attempts to pass the fire extinguisher Cha Ni told her to bring onto the right person without being seen by people familiar with the [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|local Jenny]], so as not to “make things awkward” for her other self. She is less than successful at this, however, with [[Bradley|a tall one]] directly noticing her through the commotion and a bald man (who already seemed to find something odd about her) directly seeing her shift away as she leaves, to her abashment.  
[[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] next ends up in a [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|more mundane universe]] in a [[Right-On By The Sea|very familiar-feeling seaside town]], just in time to hear the first cries of a fire having broken out. Trying to make her way through the crowd, she attempts to pass the fire extinguisher Cha Ni told her to bring onto the right person without being seen by people familiar with the [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|local Jenny]], so as not to “make things awkward” for her other self. She is less than successful at this, however, with [[Bradley|a tall one]] directly noticing her through the commotion and a bald man (who already seemed to find something odd about her) directly seeing her shift away as she leaves, to her abashment.  
====Part 6====
[[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] joins a number of her other incarnations in [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|another universe]] to spook a [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] who apparently did a great, if unspecified, wrong to some other Jenny. The story's main Jenny plays her small part as, while walking down the street, the man finds that everyone around him — from the [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Second Date)|biker]] to even the [[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|shih tzu dog]] — is a version of Jenny. The “helpful” Jenny and “shifh tzu” Jenny soon climb onto the “biker” Jenny's motorcycle and they give chase to their quarry all the way to [[Elysium Park]], where he comes across [[Jenny Everywhere 6 (Paying It Forward)|the local Jenny Everywhere]], much to his surprise. Realising everyone in the park is also Jenny, he is appropriately cowed as the local Jenny chews him out. With their work done, the biker Jenny tells the “helpful” Jenny that there's going to be an afterparty and invites her along.
====Part 7====
[[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] indeed joins the afterparty. After listening to other Jennies' guesses as to what precisely the [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] had done, she tries to get close to [[Jerry Everywhere (Paying It Forward)|Jerry]], but finds many other Jennies vying for his attention, with the [[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|shih tzu]] eventually winning out (by virtue of being a cute dog). She has a quiet, ponderous moment wondering how other people would see this gathering of versions of herselves, before deciding that, actually, if they don't see this peaceful gathering of (outwardly) highly different people as a good thing, it's their loss.
 
===Worldbuilding===
===Worldbuilding===
====Jenny Everywhere====
====Jenny Everywhere====
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|main Jenny]] is the version previously seen in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''.  
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|main Jenny]] is the version previously seen in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''.
* It is suggested that the oracle [[Cha Ni]] is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”.
* It is suggested that the oracle [[Cha Ni]] is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”.
* One of the other Jennies she meets is a [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|stunt pilot]] dressed in the classic 1920s aviatrix outfit, who flies an [[Everywhere Explorer]].
* One of the other Jennies she meets is a [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (Paying It Forward)|stunt pilot]] dressed in the classic 1920s aviatrix outfit, who flies an [[Everywhere Explorer]].
* [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s version of the Shifter is known as [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]. She is described as “a dark amazon”, taller and fitter than the story's main Jenny. She wears light clothing including “[[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|a headband with two round amulets]]”. Her [[shift]]ing powers are somewhat unique; she travels around huge distances along a beam of glowing, rainbow light which, once she has reached her destination, shrinks down, allowing her to drape it over her shoulders — thus making it her version of [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|the scarf]].
* [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s version of the Shifter is known as [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]. She is described as “a dark amazon”, taller and fitter than the story's main Jenny. She wears light clothing including “[[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|a headband with two round amulets]]”. Her [[shift]]ing powers are somewhat unique; she travels around huge distances along a beam of glowing, rainbow light which, once she has reached her destination, shrinks down, allowing her to drape it over her shoulders — thus making it her version of [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|the scarf]].
* In [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is [[Jenny Everywhere#Genie Everywhere|a genie]].
* In [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is [[Genie Everywhere|a genie]].
* In [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is a medieval princess called [[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve]] who styles herself the “Princess of Everywhere”. She occasionally has “prophetic dreams”, implicitly nuggets of information or messages from her other selves, but does not seem fully aware of her true nature.
* In [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is a medieval princess called [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve]] who styles herself the “Princess of Everywhere”. She occasionally has “prophetic dreams”, implicitly nuggets of information or messages from her other selves, but does not seem fully aware of her true nature.
* [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|One universe]]'s Jenny wears “a jacket with a furrier collar than [the story's main Jenny would] choose”. She is friends with a [[Clea|“butch chick”]] and a [[Bradley|very tall man]]. (The implication is that this is the Jenny from ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''.)
* [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny]] wears “a jacket with a furrier collar than [the story's main Jenny would] choose”. She is friends with a [[Clea|“butch chick”]] and a [[Bradley|very tall man]]. (The implication is that this is the Jenny from [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''.)
* [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere 6 (Paying It Forward)|Jenny]] lives in [[New Guernsey]] and is the one to call down retribution on the [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]].
* Present at the “scaring the sandy-haired man” free-for-all and at the afterparty are the [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Second Date)|“biker” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere 5 (Paying It Forward)|shih tzu Jenny]] who wears a short pink scarf, the [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Beauty as a Beast)|“ninja” Jenny]], the [[Jenny Everywhere 4 (Beauty as a Beast)|“barbarian” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere 9 (Paying It Forward)|“priest” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere 10 (Paying It Forward)|Jenny]] wearing “a silver jumpsuit with a blinking LED scarf”, and a handsome male incarnation called [[Jerry Everywhere (Paying It Forward)|Jerry]].
 
====Universes====
====Universes====
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#|main Jenny]] lives in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]].
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|main Jenny]] lives in [[Parallax Universe|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]], and the universes of the various Jennies mentioned in the previous section of this article.
====Other====
 
* [[Jenny Everywhere#|Jenny]] once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the [[Eye of Tripoli]] thing” and got banned from [[Shangri-La]] for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions.
====Other ====
* [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the [[Eye of Tripoli]] thing” and got banned from [[Shangri-La]] for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions.
 
===Continuity===
===Continuity===
* [[Cha Ni]] reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] [[Jenny Nowhere#Killed by Jenny|mirror self]] to her death”, referring this Jenny's first encounter with a [[Jenny Nowhere]], in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]''.
* This Jenny lives in apartment 8 with the number on the door sideways, calling back to the door in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Infinity Apartment (comic story)|Infinity Apartment]]''.
* A Jenny with silver hair and a blindfold, thus fitting the description of [[Cha Ni]], previously appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'' as one of the patrons of “[[the Restaurant]]”, as did the “[[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Second Date)|biker Jenny]]”.
* The [[Jenny Everywhere 3 (Beauty as a Beast)|“ninja” Jenny]] also appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'', after having first been mentioned, alongside the [[Jenny Everywhere 4 (Beauty as a Beast)|“barbarian” Jenny]] (who also appears in ''Paying It Forward''), in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]''.
* [[Cha Ni]] reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] [[Jenny Nowhere 1 (Parallax)|mirror self]] to her death”, referring this Jenny's first encounter with a [[Jenny Nowhere]], in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'', as well as of her saving the Internet from the [[Eye of Tripoli]], something mentioned as a recent achievement of Jenny's in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'')
* One of the items sought after by [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place|Janni]] is “an owl made of lightning”, an allusion to ''[[Lightning Made of Owls (series)|Lightning Made of Owls]]'', a webcomic with which [[Jenny Everywhere]] previously crossed over in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls]]''.
* One of the items sought after by [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place|Janni]] is “an owl made of lightning”, an allusion to ''[[Lightning Made of Owls (series)|Lightning Made of Owls]]'', a webcomic with which [[Jenny Everywhere]] previously crossed over in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls]]''.
* One of the universes visited by Jenny appears to be [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|the world]] of [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''. However, due to licensing issues, no proper names are used to identify the seaside town or the two friends of Jenny's seen (whose depictions match [[Bradley]] and [[Clea]]). Earlier in 2021, [[Lupan Evezan]]'s ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' had similarly given a “lawyer-friendly” came to Right-On By The Sea.
* One of the universes visited by Jenny appears to be [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|the world]] of [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]'' and ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]''. However, due to licensing issues, no proper names are used to identify the seaside town or the two friends of Jenny's seen (whose depictions match [[Bradley]] and [[Clea]]). Earlier in 2021, [[Lupan Evezan]]'s ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' had similarly given a “lawyer-friendly” cameo to Right-On By The Sea.
== Behind the scenes ==
* One of the refreshments at the party in the last chapter were [[Stewardess® Fruit Pie|Stewardess® Fruit Pies]], which had previously been seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]''.
* [[Davar Smith]] is mentioned, in reference to [[COMIC]]: [[Say The Word (comic story)|Say the Word]].
* [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] later reappeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'' took place directly after the events of this story. It also contained a few direct nods to it beyond the general links between the two premises, including Jenny reminding [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] of the trouble he got in with the [[de-pants-icator]], and giving more detail on her adventure in [[Shangri-La]].
 
==Behind the scenes ==
===Read online===
===Read online===
The story is [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/40955.html available] on the author's website.
The story is [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/40955.html available] on the author's website. After he finished serialising it, Sanford also posted an [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/43043.html Author's Commentary].
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Latest revision as of 11:55, 8 May 2023

Paying It Forward was a Jenny Everywhere webnovel serialised weekly. The work of by Scott Sanford, its first chapter was released for Jenny Everywhere Day in 2021. Notably, Part 4 incorporated “The Freeing of Genie Everywhere”, previously released by Sanford as a standalone short story.

Contents

Plot

Part 1

Shortly after her defeat of Professor Awesome, Jenny Everywhere leaves her apartment to shift to the Temple of the Oracle Cha Ni. After exchanging a few wise words with the elderly visionary, Cha-Ni guesses that Jenny is here because she wants to help other versions of her whose lives are not as easy as hers. Cha-Ni agrees and gives her a list.

Part 2

Arriving in another universe, Jenny meets up with a Jenny who is a stunt aeroplane pilot flying an Everywhere Explorer biplane — or, rather, who had been flying it until a malfunction downed her in the middle of a deserted steppe. Thanks to Cha Ni's list, the second Jenny brought the pilot Jenny precisely the part she needed to repair her aeroplane. With it back in order, the pilot Jenny offers to fly her counterpart to her next destination.

Part 3

After the other Jenny drops her off in the Everywhere Explorer, Jenny finds herself looking over an African veldt. She is soon joined by Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place, her counterpart in this universe — an Amazon on a quest. She explains that she seeks “wisdom of the tiger, a wheel of numbers, and an owl made of lightning”. Jenny realises that the “wheel of numbers” must be an E6B flight computer, a pilot's tool that includes a circular slide rule - a wheel of numbers that lets the user do math.

As a gift freely given would not be a fitting prize for a quest, the two Jennies agree on a wager (with Janni offering her spear, the very weapon which slew “Jamek Tagilono, the Nameless Lurker in Shadows”, as the counter-prize). They decide on am-wrestling as the nature of the challenge, with Janni easily beating the modern, city-dwelling Jenny. The latter then leaves, wishing Janni good luck on her two other challenges (with the two of them agreeing that it would not do for all three of Janni's adventures on this quest to involve the help of an echo of herself, though for a single one of the three it is a welcome addition to the story).

Part 4

Dressed in a black niqab, Jenny, in yet another universe, infiltrates a museum where a number of ancient bottles are kept. One has a sign in Arabic noting that it is said to somehow contain “a genie in every place” — or, rather, “Genie Everywhere”. Breaking the glass case with a hammer, Jenny frees her djinn counterpart by pulling off the stopper of her bottle; she barely has time to give the slowly-recoalescing cloud of smoke a thumbs' up before making her escape as alarms blare.

Later, in a different universe, Jenny climbs the stone wall of a medieval castle until she reaches an arrow slit through which she is able to converse with “Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere”, who is apparently under imminent threat from a Baron. Jenny hands Genevieve a loaded gun through the arrow slit before sneaking off again.

Part 5

Jenny next ends up in a more mundane universe in a very familiar-feeling seaside town, just in time to hear the first cries of a fire having broken out. Trying to make her way through the crowd, she attempts to pass the fire extinguisher Cha Ni told her to bring onto the right person without being seen by people familiar with the local Jenny, so as not to “make things awkward” for her other self. She is less than successful at this, however, with a tall one directly noticing her through the commotion and a bald man (who already seemed to find something odd about her) directly seeing her shift away as she leaves, to her abashment.

Part 6

Jenny joins a number of her other incarnations in another universe to spook a sandy-haired man who apparently did a great, if unspecified, wrong to some other Jenny. The story's main Jenny plays her small part as, while walking down the street, the man finds that everyone around him — from the biker to even the shih tzu dog — is a version of Jenny. The “helpful” Jenny and “shifh tzu” Jenny soon climb onto the “biker” Jenny's motorcycle and they give chase to their quarry all the way to Elysium Park, where he comes across the local Jenny Everywhere, much to his surprise. Realising everyone in the park is also Jenny, he is appropriately cowed as the local Jenny chews him out. With their work done, the biker Jenny tells the “helpful” Jenny that there's going to be an afterparty and invites her along.

Part 7

Jenny indeed joins the afterparty. After listening to other Jennies' guesses as to what precisely the sandy-haired man had done, she tries to get close to Jerry, but finds many other Jennies vying for his attention, with the shih tzu eventually winning out (by virtue of being a cute dog). She has a quiet, ponderous moment wondering how other people would see this gathering of versions of herselves, before deciding that, actually, if they don't see this peaceful gathering of (outwardly) highly different people as a good thing, it's their loss.

Worldbuilding

Jenny Everywhere

Universes

Other

  • Jenny once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the Eye of Tripoli thing” and got banned from Shangri-La for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions.

Continuity

Behind the scenes

Read online

The story is available on the author's website. After he finished serialising it, Sanford also posted an Author's Commentary.