Paying It Forward (novel)

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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.

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

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.