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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]] | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= | | villain(s)= | ||
| featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]] | | featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Janni]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| 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]]” | | 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]]” | ||
| length= 2 chapters | | length= 2 chapters | ||
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | | writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | ||
| artist(s)= | | artist(s)= | ||
| dates= [[Jenny Everywhere Day|August 13th]], 2021 - August | | dates= [[Jenny Everywhere Day|August 13th]], 2021 - August 27th, 2021 | ||
| original_link= [https://href.li/?https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/40955.html]<br>[https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/41027.html] | | original_link= [https://href.li/?https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/40955.html]<br>[https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/41027.html]<br>[https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/41313.html] | ||
| seriesnav = [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] stories | | seriesnav = [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] stories | ||
| previous = ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' | | previous = ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' | ||
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====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#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. | ||
====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 the spare flight computer she had brought the pilot Jenny. | |||
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). | |||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | ====Jenny Everywhere==== | ||
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===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]]''. | * [[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]]''. | ||
* One of the items sought after by [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place|Janni]] is “an own 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]]''. | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
===Read online=== | ===Read online=== | ||
Revision as of 14:48, 28 August 2021
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.
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 the spare flight computer she had brought the pilot Jenny.
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).
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- The story's main Jenny is the version previously seen in Parallax and 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”.
Universes
- The story's main Jenny lives in one universe. She visits another one which is home to the Temple of the Oracle.
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
- Cha Ni reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] mirror self to her death”, referring this Jenny's first encounter with a Jenny Nowhere, in PROSE: Parallax.
- One of the items sought after by Janni is “an own made of lightning”, an allusion to Lightning Made of Owls, a webcomic with which Jenny Everywhere previously crossed over in COMIC: Jenny Everywhere in Lightning Made of Owls.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story is available on the author's website.
