Paying It Forward (novel): Difference between revisions

| 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”]]<br>[[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|“Sandy-haired man”]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|“Biker” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|“Shih tzu” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation at Elysium Park|“Elysium Park” Jenny]]

| length= 7 chapters

| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]]

==Contents==

===Plot===

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.

====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.

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.  

===Worldbuilding===

====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]]''.

*In [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is [[Jenny Everywhere#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.

*[[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation at Elysium Park|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#Biker Jenny|“biker” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu Jenny]] who wears a short pink scarf, the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a ninja|“ninja” Jenny]], the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a barbarian|“barbarian” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Priest Jenny|“priest” Jenny]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Silver jumpsuit Jenny|Jenny]] wearing “a silver jumpsuit with a blinking LED scarf”, and a handsome male incarnation called [[Jenny Everywhere#Jerry at the afterparty|Jerry]].

====Universes====

*The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|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]], and the universes of the various Jennies mentioned in the previous section of this article.

*[[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|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===

*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#Biker Jenny|biker Jenny]]”.

*The [[Jenny Everywhere#As a ninja|“ninja” Jenny]] also appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Date (short story)|Second Date]]'', after having first been mentioned, alongside the [[Jenny Everywhere#As a barbarian|“barbarian” Jenny]] (who also appears in ''Paying It Forward''), in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Beauty as a Beast (comic story)|Beauty as a Beast]]''.

*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.

==Behind the scenes ==

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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