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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures_with_the_Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]]
| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures_with_the_Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]]
| villain(s)= [[Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes|The Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes]]<br>[[King Roquat]]
| villain(s)= [[Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes|The Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes]]<br>[[King Roquat]]
| featuring= [[Boy (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed boy]]<br>[[The Lurigadawne of Tipperary]]<br>[[Jenny Nowhere#In the 38167th Universe|Jenny Nowhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Brownie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed Brownie]]<br>[[Genie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed Genie]]<br>[[Pythagoras-858]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Creator]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Mad Marquess]]<br>[[The Tin Woodman]]<br><small>(indirectly mentioned)</small><br>[[The Scarecrow]]<br><small>(indirectly mentioned)</small><br>[[Billina]]<br><small>(indirectly mentioned)</small><br>[[Taliesin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[King Arthur]]<br>[[The Boss|“Connecticut Yankee”]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Gwenhwyfar]]<br>[[Merlin]]<br>[[Morgan le Fey]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
| featuring= [[Boy (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed boy]]<br>[[The Lurigadawne of Tipperary]]<br>[[Jenny Nowhere#In the 38167th Universe|Jenny Nowhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Brownie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed Brownie]]<br>[[Genie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed Genie]]<br>[[Pythagoras-858]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Creator]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Mad Marquess]]<br>[[The Tin Woodman]]<br><small>(indirectly mentioned)</small><br>[[The Scarecrow]]<br><small>(indirectly mentioned)</small><br>[[Billina]]<br><small>(indirectly mentioned)</small><br>[[Taliesin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[King Arthur]]<br>[[The Boss|“Cawneticket-Yon-Key”]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Gwenhwyfar]]<br>[[Merlin]]<br>[[Morgan Le Fay]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Bethan]]
| setting= A meadow in [[Ireland]] of [[Dimension 77]]<br>[[The Home City]], [[Prime Universe]]<br>[[Gnome Place]]<br>[[Caerlon]]/[[Camelot]], [[Universe (Close Encounter of the Bird Kind)|unnamed universe]]
| setting= A meadow in [[Ireland]] of [[Dimension 77]]<br>[[The Home City]], [[Prime Universe]]<br>[[Gnome Place]]<br>[[Caerlon]]/[[Camelot]], [[Universe (Close Encounter of the Bird Kind)|unnamed universe]]
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====Chapter Three: The Mage and the Monarch====
====Chapter Three: The Mage and the Monarch====
Dinner at [[Caerlon]] is disrupted when Jenny Everywhere appears out of thin air and lands in the middle of the Round Table itself, wearing only her goggles. She apologies for the interruption and asks for the loan of a scarf – and other clothes as may be convenient; the knights of the Round Table quickly dress her. She introduces herself and explains that she has come to see [[Merlin]], who bursts in and welcomes Jenny, who he has seen before although she doesn’t know him. After some awkward talk in both directions Merlin proclaims that he knew this day would come and he has prepared the chicken coops.
In [[Universe (Close Encounter of the Bird Kind)|another universe]], dinner at [[Caerlon]] (attened by a dozen [[Knights of the Round Table]] as well as [[King Arthur#Raising chickens|King Arthur]] and [[Gwenhwyfar|Queen Gwenhwyfar]]) is disrupted when [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] appears out of thin air and lands in the middle of the [[Round Table]] itself, wearing only her [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|goggles]]. She apologies for the interruption and asks for the loan of [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|a scarf]] – and other clothes as may be convenient. The knights of the Round Table quickly dress her using whatever they can gather. She introduces herself and explains that she has come to see [[Merlin#Raising chickens]], who bursts in and welcomes Jenny, who he has seen before although she doesn’t know him. After some awkward talk in both directions Merlin proclaims that he knew this day would come and he has prepared the chicken coops.


Shifting back to the hall of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes, Jenny finds all is in chaos and the Mad Marquess is locked in combat with none other than the elusive Lurigadawne of Tipperary. Jenny calls for them to stop fighting – but in the confusion the Lurigadawne falls. The Nome King tries to take advantage of their confusion only for Jenny to warn them that she is armed with a fine egg-laying hen! The lesser gnomes scatter instantly, the Nome King only moments behind them. Once they are gone Jenny checks on the Lurigadawne, who is annoyed but alive and being fussed over by the Mad Marquess.
[[Shift]]ing back to the hall of the [[Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes|Orange-Bearded Gnomes]], Jenny finds all is in chaos and [[the Mad Marquess]] is locked in combat with none other than the elusive [[The Lurigadawne of Tipperary|Lurigadawne of Tipperary]]. Jenny calls for them to stop fighting – but in the confusion the Lurigadawne falls. [[The Nome King]] tries to take advantage of their confusion only for Jenny to warn them that she is armed with a fine egg-laying hen! The lesser gnomes scatter instantly, the Nome King only moments behind them when he learns that [[Bethan]] is not just a regular hen, but one belonging to [[King Arthur#Raising chickens|King Arthur]]. Once they are gone Jenny checks on the Lurigadawne, who is annoyed but alive and being fussed over by the Mad Marquess.


Jenny shifts the Marquess home and explains her quest for shoes to the Luridadawne, who explains that he cannot give the same gift twice and so cannot actually replace her Leprechaun made shoes. Disappointed, Jenny accepts that bizarre magical footwear may be beyond her for the moment – but wherever she ends up next, there will be a shoe store.
Jenny shifts the Marquess home and explains her quest for shoes to the Luridadawne, who explains that he cannot give the same gift twice and so cannot actually replace her [[Leprechaun]]-made shoes. Disappointed, Jenny accepts that bizarre magical footwear may be beyond her for the moment – but wherever she ends up next, there will be a shoe store.


===Worldbuilding===
===Worldbuilding===
====Jenny Everywhere====
====Jenny Everywhere====
* This story features the [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|incarnation of Jenny]] usually seen in ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'', revealed to also be the one who appeared in [[Scott Sanford]]'s ''[[Close Encounter of the Bird Kind (short story)|Close Encounter of the Bird Kind]]''.  
* This story features the [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|incarnation of Jenny]] usually seen in ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'', revealed to also be the one who appeared in [[Scott Sanford]]'s ''[[Close Encounter of the Bird Kind (short story)|Close Encounter of the Bird Kind]]''. After her clothing is petrified by the [[Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes]], she is given a new, temporary outfit by the [[Knights of the Round Table]], consisting of “three or four colourful feudal standards wrapped around her neck” to replace her [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|scarf]], “sturdy flax trousers” on her legs, and “two layers of oversized tunics, plus chainmail, covering her chest”.
* When called out on not sounding [[Ireland|Irish]] despite currently posing as a presumably-local member of the [[Fae|Fair Folk]], she states that “this isn't one of [her] Irish bodies”.
* When called out on not sounding [[Ireland|Irish]] despite currently posing as a presumably-local member of the [[Fae|Fair Folk]], she states that “this isn't one of [her] Irish bodies”.
* Jenny recognises [[King Roquat]] by tapping into another Jenny's memories.
* Jenny recognises [[King Roquat]] by tapping into another Jenny's memories.
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* [[The Mad Marquess]] gives his full name as “Milord Marin Mausdorf”. According to the [[Genie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Desk Genie]], he's actually a Duke, not a Marquess, but prefers to claim to be a Marquess because of the alliteration.  
* [[The Mad Marquess]] gives his full name as “Milord Marin Mausdorf”. According to the [[Genie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Desk Genie]], he's actually a Duke, not a Marquess, but prefers to claim to be a Marquess because of the alliteration.  
* Jenny's pockets' contents include “coins from a thousand worlds, multiple wallets and phones, trinkets from seashells to gemstones, and a frankly unreasonable number of keychains” as well as the [[magic wand]] she gives to the Genies.
* Jenny's pockets' contents include “coins from a thousand worlds, multiple wallets and phones, trinkets from seashells to gemstones, and a frankly unreasonable number of keychains” as well as the [[magic wand]] she gives to the Genies.
* The bard [[Taliesin]] writes ballads about the goings-on at [[King Arthur]]'s court, in [[Caerleon]]. They tend to begin with the line “''In Caerleon, to the Castle, came a lot of strange people.''”, which is the origin of the mistaken belief that Arthur's castle is called [[Camelot]], which has even reached “multiple visiting nobles from [[England]] and [[Brittany]]”.
* Jenny's [[shift]]ing is described as producing a “strange wooshing sound” when she materialises on top of the Round Table in an emergency. However, she also displays the ability to shift silently when showing off to the boy in Chapter 1.
* There is a raised dais in the centre of the [[Round Table]] itself, meant to house the [[Holy Grail|“the Grail”]] should the knights ever find it.
* Arthur has difficult relations with the apparently fairly-newly-settled Christian clergy because they disapprove of [[Merlin#Raising chickens|Merlin]].
* Jenny knows of other versions of Merlin who are “time-travelley”, making them “confusing” to deal with.
* [[The Lurigadawne of Tipperary]] tries to send Jenny after a “tribe of cobbler-[[Dwarf|dwarves]] of great renown”, who dwell “beyond the seven rivers”; to meet them, Jenny would have “to fight a few [[Dragon]]s, of course, and to journey through the land of [[Kalterskelter]], the key to whose gate has been lost since the 16th century”.
* Merin swears “by the [[Norn]]s”.
* His version of [[Morgan Le Fey]] is known as simply “Morgan of the [[Fae]]”. She and Merlin have an “academic partnership” to trade occult lore, and it was Morgan who bestowed the “mage-name” of Merlin upon him, in contrast to his birth name of “Ambrosius”. The two are not-so-secretly lovers. Jenny is aware of other versions of Morgan, many (though not all) of whom turned out to be untrustworthy.


===Continuity===
===Continuity===
* The story acts as a sequel to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'', following on from [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny]]'s decision at the end of the tale to track down “that wily old [[leprechaun]] [she] met in [[Dimension 77]]” to replace the pair of shoes she lost while swimming out to [[Nowhere Island]]. She recounts to the [[boy (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|boy]] how she lost her original shoes “in the sea. In my sister’s realm”.
* The story acts as a sequel to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'', following on from [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny]]'s decision at the end of the tale to track down “that wily old [[leprechaun]] [she] met in [[Dimension 77]]” to replace the pair of shoes she lost while swimming out to [[Nowhere Island]]. She recounts to the [[boy (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|boy]] how she lost her original shoes “in the sea. In my sister’s realm”. [[Merlin#Raising chickens|Merlin]]'s stubborn refusal to consider his lover [[Morgan Le Fey#Morgan of the Fae|Morgan]]'s ulterior motives also reminds Jenny of her own history with [[Laura Drake#In the 38167th Universe|Laura Drake]] as largely revealed there.
* In Chapter Two, Jenny looks back on her travels with [[Pythagoras-858]], which began in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' and ended in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]''.
* In Chapter Two, Jenny looks back on her travels with [[Pythagoras-858]], which began in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' and ended in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]''.
* The overproduction of warehouses in the [[Cupid Homeworld]], a running gag introduced in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'', is referenced.  
* The overproduction of warehouses in the [[Cupid Homeworld]], a running gag introduced in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'', is referenced.  
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