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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[The Old Man of the Marshmallow]] | | villain(s)= [[The Old Man of the Marshmallow]] | ||
| featuring= [[Grandmother Ginger]]<br>[[Old Mother Westwind]]<br>[[Old Mother Westwind's brother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Spicefinger]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Sister Pond]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Bat Hex]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Mr Hex]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | | featuring= [[Grandmother Ginger]]<br>[[Old Mother Westwind]]<br>[[Old Mother Westwind's brother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Spicefinger]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Sister Pond]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Bat Hex]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Mr Hex]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Nowhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Devil#Other references|The Devil]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere's mother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[God (individual)|God]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere's grandfather (The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere)|Jenny Everywhere's grandfather]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Captain Agatha]]<br>[[Mrs Harper]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= [[Candy Forest]], [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] | | setting= [[Candy Forest]], [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] | ||
| length= | | length= 7 chapters <small>(in progress)</small> | ||
| writer(s)= [[Aristide Twain]] | | writer(s)= [[Aristide Twain]] | ||
| artist(s)= [[Aristide Twain]] | | artist(s)= [[Aristide Twain]] | ||
| dates= May 11th, 2022 - | | dates= May 11th, 2022 - October 17th, 2022 | ||
| original_link= [https://jennyjourneys.tumblr.com/toc] | | original_link= [https://jennyjourneys.tumblr.com/toc] | ||
}}'''''The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere''''' was a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel serialised by [[Aristide Twain]] starting in May of 2022. Although | }}'''''The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere''''' was a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel serialised by [[Aristide Twain]] starting in May of 2022. Although “freely edited”, the skeleton of the story was generated by various A.I. text-generation tools, such as [https://play.aidungeon.io/main/home A.I. Dungeon]. | ||
== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
=== Plot === | === Plot === | ||
==== Arc 1 ==== | ==== Arc 1: A War of Witches ==== | ||
===== Chapter 1: The Witches of the Candy Forest ===== | ===== Chapter 1: The Witches of the Candy Forest ===== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] has travelled to [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] and is preparing to enter the allegedly-haunted [[Candy Forest]] in search of a legendary witch called [[Grandmother Ginger]]. She spots a colourful shack on the edge of the forest and knocks at the door. The old woman who greets her, [[Old Mother Westwind]], explains that this shack did in fact use to be Ginger's residence, but Ginger has now fled deeper into the Forest. Confirming that she is also a [[witch]], Westwind agrees to join Jenny in looking for her. | [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] has travelled to [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] and is preparing to enter the allegedly-haunted [[Candy Forest]] in search of a legendary witch called [[Grandmother Ginger]]. She spots a colourful shack on the edge of the forest and knocks at the door. The old woman who greets her, [[Old Mother Westwind]], explains that this shack did in fact use to be Ginger's residence, but Ginger has now fled deeper into the Forest. Confirming that she is also a [[witch]], Westwind agrees to join Jenny in looking for her. | ||
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He also reveals that he killed this world's Jenny days ago, much to Ginger's distress, although, not suspecting the existence of multiple Jennies, he thinks he was wrong and the Jenny he is now talking to is the same girl, having somehow survived. Taking off his cloak, he shifts back into his monstrous worm-like battle-form, but before he can harm Jenny, Ginger leaps at him. As she does so, she adopts a yet more monstrous form, a giant flying eel with a sharp, prehensile tongue, called a [[Black Nettle]]. They seem evenly-matched until [[Old Mother Westwind|Westwind]], tearing the fang from her chest, joins the fight, sending a gale to blast into the Old Man. Though he tries to stoke the feud between the two [[witch]]es, they refuse to break their alliance and continue fighting him in tandem. | He also reveals that he killed this world's Jenny days ago, much to Ginger's distress, although, not suspecting the existence of multiple Jennies, he thinks he was wrong and the Jenny he is now talking to is the same girl, having somehow survived. Taking off his cloak, he shifts back into his monstrous worm-like battle-form, but before he can harm Jenny, Ginger leaps at him. As she does so, she adopts a yet more monstrous form, a giant flying eel with a sharp, prehensile tongue, called a [[Black Nettle]]. They seem evenly-matched until [[Old Mother Westwind|Westwind]], tearing the fang from her chest, joins the fight, sending a gale to blast into the Old Man. Though he tries to stoke the feud between the two [[witch]]es, they refuse to break their alliance and continue fighting him in tandem. | ||
===== Chapter 4: Witch-Fight in the Forest ===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] watches helplessly as the two living witches fight [[the Old Man of the Marshmallow]], seemingly unable to prevail. On impulse, she [[shift]]s Ginger off to the other side of the [[Candy Forest|Forest]]. The Old Man is baffled, as Ginger has never displayed the ability to teleport, and is unaware of Jenny having any preternatural powers. He briefly begins to accuse [[Old Mother Westwind]], but before she can deny it, Jenny steps in to claim that it is in fact a new power of Ginger's. | |||
After the Old Man gets riled up with frustration, she snaps her fingers and makes Ginger, who has adopted the defensive form of a huge scorpion with red eyes, reappear, now hovering over the clearing. After some snippy discussion with Ginger, made difficult by the distance between them, Ginger agrees to drop the hovering spell and let her huge scorpion form free-fall onto the Old Man — who is crushed in the impact, leaving behind nothing but a crushed marshmallow and a [[Key of Enecloog|mysterious magical key]]. Ginger picks up the key, recognising it as something she's been seeking for years, and with no warning, embeds it in Jenny's forehead, claiming that its purpose is to open “the gates of [her] mind”. | |||
===== Chapter 5: Journey to the Centre of Jenny Everywhere ===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] finds herself transported to a chaotic [[hell]]-scape populated with visions of people from her past, friends and enemies alike. [[Grandmother Ginger]] tells her that this place isn't real: the [[Key of Enecloog]]'s power is to transport the people on whom it is used to an imaginary landscape shaped by their own mind. Jenny, taking this revelation on board, experiences a moment of transcendence, but Ginger slaps her back to her senses, explaining that she transported herself and Jenny to this mindscape for one specific reason: to get [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality B-89 54-Z|her niece]] back. | |||
===== Chapter 6: A World of Me ===== | |||
[[Grandmother Ginger]] explains that she wants [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny]] to tap into the memories she retained from [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality B-89 54-Z|Ginger's Jenny]] and use the power of the [[Key of Enecloog]] to reconstitute her as her own entity within the mindscape, then bring her back to the real world. Jenny protests that this isn't how it works, but Ginger won't listen to reason, and the two end up having an imagination-fight, changing the landscape around them based on their imagination, until Jenny gets the upper hand and drenches Ginger in cold water, bringing her to their senses. As they both regain their cool, the “world-of-Jenny” fades around them and they find themselves back in the clearing, where [[Old Mother Westwind]] has set up a campfire under the light of the curiously bonbon-like stars. Jenny comforts the crying Ginger and reveals to her that she does believe there is a way to get her niece back, just not in the manner Ginger had devised. | |||
===== Chapter 7: Rocket Witchcraft ===== | |||
[[Grandmother Ginger]] and [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny]] discuss ways to bring back [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality B-89 54-Z|Ginger's Jenny]], with Jenny explaining that she wants them to try and retrieve her [[soul]] from the Afterlife, on the assumption that there is an afterlife in a magical universe like this. It turns out that the old legends say that the souls of the dead ascend into literal, physical Outer Space, so they need to build a space-ship of some kind. [[Old Mother Westwind]] interrupts the conversation to say she'll do it herself to save money, and she immediately uses her magic to create the ''[[Wisp]]'', a giant, branching flying-broomstick they can use for such a long trip. They climb onto the contraption and are about to take off when Ginger suddenly shouts that she's left something at home. | |||
==== Arc 2: Castaways ==== | |||
===== Chapter 1: The Captain ===== | |||
Starting a new diary some time after the earlier adventures, [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny]] explains that [[Grandmother Ginger]] ended up electing to stay home, which turned out to be a good thing because Jenny and [[Old Mother Westwind]] crashed the ''[[Wisp]]'' very quickly. Going down over the [[Fall Sea]], they crashed into a reef on which a ruined ship is also speared. Driven by a gut feeling, Jenny tries to swim away with a pair of old floaties, but eventually runs out of strength and tries to swim back to the reef. Unable to quite make it, she is fished out of the water by a stranger living inside the wrecked ship: [[Captain Agatha]], a stern woman wearing sunglasses, who promptly has her run around the deck to get over her numbness. Some time later, Jenny is surprised at Agatha nonsensically tossing a scrap of paper overboard, which suddenly triggers her memory of the original purpose of the ''Wisp'' flight. She looks out over the edge of the ship, unsure what to do but certain that she must try to get away from the ship one way or another. | |||
=== Worldbuilding === | === Worldbuilding === | ||
==== Jenny Everywhere ==== | ==== Jenny Everywhere ==== | ||
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|main Jenny]] is, according to the [https://jennyjourneys.tumblr.com/cast cast list], from “[[Reality 18]]”. She appears as a young woman with Indian features, wearing a red scarf and red-tinted goggles. | * The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|main Jenny]] is, according to the [https://jennyjourneys.tumblr.com/cast cast list], from “[[Reality 18]]”. She appears as a young woman with Indian features, wearing a red scarf and red-tinted goggles. | ||
* She was led to [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] by the memories of [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality B-89 54- | * She was led to [[Reality B-89 54-Z]] by the memories of [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality B-89 54-Z|her local incarnation]], [[Grandmother Ginger]]'s niece and ward. | ||
==== Universes ==== | ==== Universes ==== | ||
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==== Other ==== | ==== Other ==== | ||
* Among the [[witch]]es who fought alongside [[Grandmother Ginger|Ginger]] and [[Old Mother Westwind|Westwind]] in the [[Great Marsh Mallow War]] were [[Spicefinger]], [[Sister Pond]], [[Bat Hex]] and [[Mr Hex]], all of whom died on the final day of battle. | * Among the [[witch]]es who fought alongside [[Grandmother Ginger|Ginger]] and [[Old Mother Westwind|Westwind]] in the [[Great Marsh Mallow War]] were [[Spicefinger]], [[Sister Pond]], [[Bat Hex]] and [[Mr Hex]], all of whom died on the final day of battle. | ||
* Jenny thinks that [[Captain Agatha]] resembles “[[Mrs Harper]] from elementary school”, except that she is “a lot bigger”. | |||
=== Continuity === | |||
* This story's [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|main Jenny]], accompanied by [[Grandmother Ginger]], made an authorised cameo appearance in [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'' by [[Callum Phillpott]] as guests at [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]'s party. | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
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