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| hero(es)= [[Laura Drake]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere]] | | hero(es)= [[Laura Drake#|]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Jennifer Everstar|]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[Creeping Shadow]]<br>[[Altern Corporation]] <small>(background)</small> | | villain(s)= [[The Creeping Shadow]]<br>[[Altern Corporation]]<br><small>(background)</small> | ||
| featuring= [[Lord Grallyx]] <small>(as stuffed animal)</small><br>[[Alterna]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere|Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere]]<br>[[Laura Drake|Draconic Sorceress]] <small>(mentioned)</small> | | featuring= [[Laura Drake's grandmother (Extradimensional Experiments)|Laura Drake's grandmother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Lord Grallyx#Laura's stuffed animal|Grallyx]]<br><small>(as stuffed animal)</small><br>[[Alterna]]<br>[[Hakhe#Apinya Dang-Malee|Apinya Dang-Malee]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Neeta#At the Neptunian Orbital University|Neeta]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cat (Extradimensional Experiments)|Unnamed cat]]<br><br>[[Professor Lailoken]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere]]<br>[[Laura Drake#The Draconic Sorceress|The Draconic Sorceress]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= [[ | | setting= [[Neptunian Orbital University]], Earth orbit, [[Universe A (Extradimensional Experiments)|unnamed universe]] | ||
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| writer(s)= [[Lupan Evezan]] | | writer(s)= [[Lupan Evezan]] | ||
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| original_link= [https://jennyeverywherestories.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/laura-and-jenny-in-extradimensional-experiments/] | | original_link= [https://jennyeverywherestories.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/laura-and-jenny-in-extradimensional-experiments/] | ||
| seriesnav = [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] stories | | seriesnav = [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] stories | ||
| previous = ''[[ | | previous = ''[[The Showdown (short_story)|The Showdown]]'' | ||
| next = ''[[ | | next = ''[[Shippy Shifter_Snippets (novel)|Shippy Shifter Snippets]]'' | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Extradimensional Experiments''' was a story by [[Lupan Evezan]] released for [[Jenny_Everywhere_Day#2022| | '''''Extradimensional Experiments''''', subtitled “'''or,''' '''''Photonic Neptuniversity''''', was a [[Jenny Everywhere]] prose story by [[Lupan Evezan]] released for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] [[Jenny_Everywhere_Day#2022|2022]]. | ||
==Plot== | == Contents == | ||
In her dorm room aboard | ===Plot=== | ||
In her dorm room aboard an [[Neptunian Orbital University|orbiting space station]], [[Laura Drake#|Laura Drake]] is frustrated by her failed inventions when one of her fellow university students, [[Jenny Everywhere#Jennifer Everstar|Jenny]] drops by. | |||
After talking briefly Jenny summons a flower into her hand and admits she’s discovered how to make things appear. After repeating the trick several times and trying to understand they decide they need more information and go to the library to use old lab equipment. After experimentation Laura conjectures that Jenny is calling in objects from parallel dimensions. | After talking briefly Jenny summons a flower into her hand and admits she’s discovered how to make things appear. After repeating the trick several times and trying to understand they decide they need more information and go to the library to use old lab equipment. After experimentation Laura conjectures that Jenny is calling in objects from parallel dimensions. | ||
While trying to verify this one of the experiments works too well and calls in a shapeless mass of shadow that destroys some equipment and escapes from the lab. | While trying to verify this one of the experiments works too well and calls in [[The Creeping Shadow|a shapeless mass of shadow]] that destroys some equipment and escapes from the lab. | ||
Trying to send it back, Jenny instead calls up an adventurer who identifies herself as Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere, wielder of the magical sword Worldbridger. | Trying to send it back, Jenny instead calls up an adventurer who identifies herself as [[Jenny Everywher#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere]], wielder of the magical sword [[Worldbridger]]. | ||
Making some quick plans and catching up with the Creeping Shadow, Gwenivar confronts the monster as Laura tries one invention after another and finally disperses it to soap bubbles. | Making some quick plans and catching up with the Creeping Shadow, Gwenivar confronts the monster as Laura tries one invention after another and finally disperses it to soap bubbles. | ||
Gwenivar departs for her home world, leaving the schoolgirls to ponder their unexpected partnership. As they talk and contemplate other universes, Jenny suddenly disappears into thin air – only to reappear a moment later and confirm that they have a new situation to examine. | Gwenivar departs for [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|her home world]], leaving the schoolgirls to ponder their unexpected partnership. As they talk and contemplate other universes, Jenny suddenly disappears into thin air – only to reappear a moment later and confirm that they have a new situation to examine. | ||
===Worldbuilding=== | |||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | |||
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#Jennifer Everstar|main Jenny]] is a “stout, dark-skinned young woman” whose birth name is “[[Jennifer Everstar]]”. She is nineteen years old and uses she/her pronouns. As required by her location, she wears a [[thermal]] suit and [[oxygen field generator]], with the former coloured green. She also wears the typical red scarf and pair of aviator goggles. She is a history major at the [[Neptunian Orbital University]], having always been “strangely good” at the subject except for sometimes vividly remembering events from other versions of history (such as a “[[Zeppelin War]]” on 20th century Earth). | |||
* [[Jenny Everywhere#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere]] is an adventurer from a [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|fantasy universe]]. She wears “an adventurer’s cloak, a hand-woven scarf, and a pair of wooden goggles”. She claims that her sword, called [[Worldbridger]], which she obtained as a child, is what allows her to travel through [[the Multiverse]], although it is suggested that she is wrong and would be able to [[shift]] just as well without the sword if she thought to try. | |||
====Laura Drake==== | |||
* The story's [[Laura Drake#|main Laura Drake]] has “frizzy orange hair” and wears glasses. She is a “physics engineering major” at the [[Neptunian Orbital University]]. Her [[thermal suit]] is purple. | |||
* [[Jenny Everywhere#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|Gwenivar]]'s archnemesis is “[[the Draconic Sorceress]]”. Their relationship seems to be the typical mix of rivalry and romantic entanglement, with Gwenivar openly discussing how the Sorceress “always calls off her dark enchantments in time to challenge [Gwenivar] to a bout of intimate swordplay” and later claiming that she will relish the chance to “regale her with my mighty tale over a calming bout of swordplay”. | |||
====Lord Grallyx==== | |||
* [[Lord Grallyx#Laura's plush toy|Lord Grallyx]] appears as [[Laura Drake#|Laura]]'s stuffed animal, a “plush alligator with too many arms and too many eyes — a factory error, handed down from her grandmother from a time when factories still made errors on things as simple as toys”. | |||
====Hakhe==== | |||
* [[Laura Drake#|Laura]] mentions an “[[Hakhe#Apinya Dang-Malee|Apinya Dang-Malee]] over in dorm four” who owns “an actual working prototype of a [[perception refractor]]”. | |||
====Neeta==== | |||
* [[Laura Drake#|Laura]] mentions a “[[Neeta#At the Neptunian Orbital University|Neeta]]” as another student of the [[Neptunian Orbital University]]. She resides in dorm six and allegedly possesses “[[particle-tracking goggle]]s which, I’m fairly certain, are beyond the actual current tech capacity of the System”. | |||
====Universes==== | |||
* The story takes place in [[Universe A (Extradimensional Experiments)|a near-future sci-fi setting]] where the sprawling [[Altern Corporation]] is effectively in charge of humanity's future spreading into the Solar System. | |||
* [[Jenny Everywhere#Jennifer Everstar|Jenny]] accidentally summons elements of [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|a very different universe]], a heroic-fantasy sort of world of knights, sorcerers and monsters. | |||
====Other==== | |||
* Prior to attending the [[Neptunian Orbital University]], [[Laura Drake#|Laura]] considered taking a job at the [[Alexandria Archive]]. | |||
* Laura's dorm room is lit by a hovering [[photon-sphere]]. | |||
* Laura's inventions include a [[photon-freezer]] (a device meant to “capture a wave of light in time” in order to get “perfect-accuracy astronomical snapshots”) which somehow turns any electromagnetic radiation it comes into contact with into soap bubbles, and a [[turbo-toasting ray]] that toasts bread perfectly on both sides.The [[cloud solidifier]] and the [[photon phonograph]] are also mentioned. | |||
* Subsidiaries of the [[Altern Corporation]] include “[[Altern Food Solutions]], [[Altern Media Productions]], and the federal government of the [[United States of America]]”. The [[Alterna]] hologram also mentions the “[[Altern Civil Justice Division]]”. | |||
* The laws of “the [[Solar Union]]”, and a “recent Altern/[[Martian]] Treaty”, are mentioned. In relation to the latter, it is mentioned that “psychic data” collected during conversations done in the presence of Altern technology “may be shared with relevant entities”. | |||
* Jenny and Laura have a [[neuroseismology]] class together. | |||
* “Matter transmission technology” is being studied by Altern's cutting-edge labs, but has yet to be optimised for personal use or portable models. | |||
* Jenny mentions having looked through the “[[holonet]] portfolios” of all the physics engineers at the University before settling on asking Laura for help. | |||
* CDs are antiquated enough that when Jenny materialises one, Laura arranges for its transfer to the “ancient texts department”. | |||
* Laura named [[Lord Grallyx#Laura's plush toy|Grallyx]] after the “[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grawlix grawlix]” that appeared in old comics like the 20th-century series ''[[Asterix]]'', which [[Laura Drake's grandmother (Extradimensional Experiments)|Laura's grandmother]] used to read to her. | |||
* [[Transport pod]]s allow travel from one part of the Orbital University to the other. | |||
* The University has [[holo-display]]s, which feature, among other things, “the hourly [[telecomic]]”. | |||
* The zoology department of the University has a “[[micro-biosphere]]” storage site to which Altern ship the shrunken biospheres of natural locations they want to build over, having found that this drew fewer complaints from environmentalist activists than simply letting them perish. | |||
* The station has an “ambient energy supply”. The Library is designed as a huge antenna to be able to draw sufficient power to sustain its huge banks of [[holotext]]s. [[Holotext magnet]]s are illegal devices capable of not only copying a holotext, but pulling it right out of the archive. The library itself appears as “a vast chamber filled with portable [[holoterminal]]s which float past at all angles, each displaying a different text”. | |||
* [[Altern SmartPet]]s are artificial robot pets which have become very popular. When new models of a given animal come out, Altern usually allows households to trade in their old one for a newer model (although this is not compulsory and Laura's family held on to the same [[SmartFerret]] for ages), reprogramming the repossessed SmartPets for other purposes. Many become spy drones, although Laura and Jenny meet a [[Cat (Extradimensional Experiments)|robot cat]] who's been given the power of speech and checks library cards at the entrance of the University's Library. | |||
* Jenny once “really confused [her] tenth grade social studies teacher” by talking about the [[Grand Battle of Knights and Sorcerers]], apparently an event from [[Jenny Everywhere#Gwenivar, Wanderer in Everywhere|Gwenivar]]'s [[Universe B (Extradimensional Experiments)|world]]. | |||
* Gwenivar describes [[magic]] as “the energy that flows through all the worlds and all who dwell within them”. | |||
* Components needed by Laura to rebuild her soap-creating would-be-[[photon-freezer]] include a [[protonic frazzler]] and a [[molecular eggbeater]] (described as “a very important device in the scientific world”). | |||
===Continuity=== | |||
* The alternative title of ''Photonic Neptuniversity'' seemingly references [[COMIC]]: ''[[Bacterial Lunarversity (comic story)|Bacterial Lunarversity]]''. | |||
==Behind the scenes== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
===Background=== | |||
The story's original release including a statement that: | |||
{{quotebox|All concepts and plot events introduced in this story are hereby declared open-source and may be used in any work provided that a paragraph is included noting their status as open-source concepts.|Lupan Evezan}} | |||
===Read online=== | ===Read online=== | ||
The story is [https://jennyeverywherestories.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/laura-and-jenny-in-extradimensional-experiments/ available] to read for free on WordPress. | The story is [https://jennyeverywherestories.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/laura-and-jenny-in-extradimensional-experiments/ available] to read for free on WordPress. | ||
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[[Category:Featuring Lord Grallyx]] | [[Category:Featuring Lord Grallyx]] | ||
[[Category:Featuring Hakhe]] | |||
[[Category:Featuring Neeta]] | |||
[[Category:Multi-Shifter Stories]] | [[Category:Multi-Shifter Stories]] | ||
