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| featuring= [[The Architect]]<br>[[Federico Ruiz]]<br>[[Elshanor]]<br>[[Krully]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Pip]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Alastair (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Alastair]]<br>[[Brother (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed brother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Ana]]<br>[[Rennik]]<br>[[Odin|Grímnir]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Guard (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed guard]]<br>[[Imp (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed Imp]]<br>[[Mad Gardener (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|The Mad Gardener]]<br>[[Grigori (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Grigori]]<br>[[President of Zimbabwe]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Rohinder]]<br>[[The Devil#Facing Rohinder|The Devil]]<br>[[John Milton]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
| featuring= [[The Architect]]<br>[[Federico Ruiz]]<br>[[Elshanor]]<br>[[Krully]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Pip]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Alastair (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Alastair]]<br>[[Brother (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed brother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Ana]]<br>[[Rennik]]<br>[[Odin|Grímnir]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Guard (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed guard]]<br>[[Imp (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed Imp]]<br>[[Mad Gardener (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|The Mad Gardener]]<br>[[Grigori (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Grigori]]<br>[[President of Zimbabwe]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Rohinder]]<br>[[The Devil#Facing Rohinder|The Devil]]<br>[[John Milton]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Leonardo Da Vinci#On Earth-274|Leonardo Da Vinci]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Laura Drake#Lock of hair in the Museum|Laura Drake]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Elder God (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Unnamed Elder God]]<br><small>(skull)</small>
| setting= [[The Strange and Wonderful House]]<br>[[Hawk Manor]], [[Universe B (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|unnamed universe]]
| setting= [[The Strange and Wonderful House]]<br>[[Hawk Manor]], [[Universe B (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|unnamed universe]]
| length= 60 chapters<br>32 appendices
| length= 60 chapters<br>32 appendices
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[[Rohinder]], judged in the previous chapter, falls through the portal and ends up in the middle of the great, golden hall of [[Pandemonium]], which he finds to be “just as [[John Milton|Milton]] described it”. Through “black fire light” he sees another throne, higher and golden, and sitting within it “[[The Devil#Facing Rohinder|the most beautiful and deadly angel anyone had ever cast eyes on]]”, who booms: “So your judgement has been placed? Well, I suppose that now it is time for your punishment.”
[[Rohinder]], judged in the previous chapter, falls through the portal and ends up in the middle of the great, golden hall of [[Pandemonium]], which he finds to be “just as [[John Milton|Milton]] described it”. Through “black fire light” he sees another throne, higher and golden, and sitting within it “[[The Devil#Facing Rohinder|the most beautiful and deadly angel anyone had ever cast eyes on]]”, who booms: “So your judgement has been placed? Well, I suppose that now it is time for your punishment.”


==== 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum ====
==== Chapter 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum ====
A wing of the House is set aside for Jenny to use as a museum for herselves and her friends – and, possibly, as a storeroom for random junk she may have acquired while wandering the universes.  
[[The Jenny Everywhere Museum]] is described. It is a wing of the House that was set aside for [[Jenny Everywhere#With the Architect|Jenny Everywhere]] by [[the Architect]] itself to use as a museum for herselves and her friends – and, possibly, as a storeroom for random junk she may have acquired while wandering the universes. “Known contents” are said to include:
* Statues of friends, companions and family of Jenny from throughout the worlds.
* Three [[perpetual motion machine]]s.
* A copy of the [[Voynich Manuscript]], annotated in “a completely different alien language from the manuscript itself”.
* A [[miniature city]] preserved from “[[Dead world (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a dead world]]”.
* A key to the [[gate of Eromreven]].
* A [[battlesuit]] from the [[Third War of Ascension]] on [[Earth-33]].
* A portrait of Jenny painted by [[Leonardo Da Vinci#On Earth-274|Leonardo Da Vinci]] in the 19th century on [[Earth-274]], where Da Vinci became a [[vampire]].
* A floating pirate ship.
* A “maze of twisty little passages, all alike”.
* A zoo with various endangered species including [[unicorn]]s, [[vegetable lamb]]s and [[giant balloon animal]]s.
* A [[Laura Drake#Lock of hair in the Museum|lock of red hair]].
* The skull of an [[Elder God (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Elder God]].
* An item marked simply as [REDACTED].


This is the first mention of Jenny Everywhere in the chronicle, though she does not appear in person; it is also the first time the House is named, as the Infinite House.
===== Appendix 18-I: The Jenny Everywhere Museum (cont'd) =====
Two further items within [[the Jenny Everywhere Museum|the Museum]] are listed. The first is “[[Bottle universe (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a bottle filled with a miniature universe]]” containing the story of [[Superman|Kal-el]]”. The second is a computer linked to [[Universe C (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|“our” universe]]'s Internet, allowing her to set up her own website, [[Ficly|ficly.com]].


===== 18-I =====
Jenny also has a computer here linked to the outside world’s internet; her homepage is ficly.com – the site upon which Our Strange and Wonderful House first appeared.
''( Chapter synopsis still in progress )''
=== Worldbuilding===
=== Worldbuilding===
====Jenny Everywhere====
====Jenny Everywhere====
Not being limited to a single sequential human lifetime, various incarnations of Jenny Everywhere both passed through the House and settled down to live within it.
* Not being limited to a single sequential human lifetime, various incarnations of Jenny Everywhere both passed through the House and settled down to live within it.
 
** [[Jenny Everywhere#With the Architect|One version]] was acquainted with [[the Architect]], who gave her an entire wing to turn into [[the Jenny Everywhere Museum]]. The Museum is visited and filled out by many other incarnations of Jenny, with only Jennies and those they vet being allowed in.
Readers should take in the entire work – but some may want to specifically look up where instances of Jenny Everywhere appear.
** [[Jenny Everywhere#As a Maid|One version]] of Jenny was of humbler status within the House, interviewing to become one of its Maids.
 
** A [[Jenny Everywhere's friend|friend of Jenny's]] (in an unspecified incarnation) was told about the House by Jenny in great detail prior to visiting it herself in [[#Chapter 51: The Doorbell|''The Doorbell'']].
=====Chapter 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum=====
** Although she is never explicitly referred to as a Jenny, [[Jenny Everywhere#Guardian of the Ink Wells|“Guardian of the Ink Wells”]], also known as “Inkstain”, is “a small teenaged girl (…) dressed in a robe and aviator goggles”, and she has a [[Laura Drake#Treefrog|red-haired, freckled friend]] have a teleportation misadventure. She states when asked that Inkstain is not her real name, but does not disclose the latter.
Jenny Everywhere is named before she appears in person. The eighteenth chapter briefly describes a Jenny Everywhere Museum, where various incarnations of Jenny have stored mementos or dangerous artifacts.
** [[Jenny Everywhere#At the Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House|A Jenny]] witnesses the eventual fall of the house, later reappearing in the epilogue [[PROSE]]: ''[[Overgrown (short story)|Overgrown]]''.
 
=====Chapter 46: The Maids=====
Readers are given background information about the staff of the house, in the form of an interview with Jenny Everywhere.
 
=====Chapter 15: The Doorbell? =====
Jenny is mentioned but does not appear.
 
===== Chapter 52: The Guardian of the Ink Wells=====
No name is given for this person but she’s described as “a small teenaged girl ... dressed in a robe and aviator goggles.” Sound like someone we know?
 
=====Chapter 55: Teleporting Beach=====
The Guardian of the Ink Wells and a [[Laura Drake|red-haired freckled friend]] have a teleportation misadventure.
 
=====Chapter 60: The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House=====
At the end, Jenny Everywhere ensures that not everything of the House is lost...
 
=====Epilogue: Overgrown =====
...and years later Jenny finds out what Lara Dar-Ek did with her souvenir of the House.
 
====Laura Drake====
[[Laura Drake]] never appears, both named and in the narrative, in any of the entries.
 
In the Jenny Everywhere Museum there is a lock of red hair which could be hers, but we never find out why it was saved or which Jenny brought it in.
 
The Guardian of the Ink Wells has a friend nicknamed Treefrog with red hair and freckles.


In the Epilogue Jenny arrives at the wrong time and told that Lora Dar-Ek passed away long ago, of old age – but also that she used her life well.
====Laura Drake====
* A [[Laura Drake#Lock of hair in the Museum|lock of red hair]] kept as a memento is among the items in [[the Jenny Everywhere Museum]].
* The “[[Jenny Everywhere#Guardian of the Ink Wells|Guardian of the Ink Wells]]” has a friend nicknamed [[Laura Drake#Treefrog|Treefrog]] who sports red hair and freckles.


====Universes====
====Universes====
*Most of the story takes place in [[the Strange and Wonderful House]], which is “larger than most universes” and seems to connect to a number of alternative realities, though its exterior is physically located in [[Universe A (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a universe]].
*Most of the story takes place in [[the Strange and Wonderful House]], which is “larger than most universes” and seems to connect to a number of alternative realities, though its exterior is physically located in [[Universe A (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a universe]].
*[[Elshanor]] and [[Alastair (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Alastair]] are from [[Universe B (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|another universe]].
*[[Elshanor]] and [[Alastair (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Alastair]] are from [[Universe B (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|another universe]].
*Among the items within [[the Jenny Everywhere Museum]] are a [[miniature city]] from “[[Dead world (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a dead world]]”, a [[battlesuit]] from the [[Third War of Ascension]] on “[[Earth-33]]”, a portrait of Jenny painted by [[Leonardo Da Vinci#On Earth-274|Leonardo Da Vinci]] in the 19th century on “[[Earth-274]]”, “[[Bottle universe (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|a bottle filled with a miniature universe ]]”, and a computer allegedly linked to [[Universe C (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|“our” universe]]'s Internet via “clever multi-dimensional ITeching”.


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