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| ===Adventures with the Cupids === | | ===Adventures with the Cupids === |
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| The version of Jenny native to the [[38167th Universe]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'') wore a thick red scarf and green parka and had brown skin and eyes. She was fairly short. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'', etc.) | | The version of Jenny native to the [[38167th Universe]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'') wore a thick red scarf and green parka and had brown skin and eyes. She was fairly short. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'', etc.) |
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| ====Origins====
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| Jenny originally lived in the city of [[New Flaversham]], [[Wintlevania]] in [[38167th Universe|one universe]], as did her [[Laura Drake#In the 38167th Universe|version]] of [[Laura Drake]]. The two were initially best friends, then girlfriends, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'') before becoming adversaries. However, even then, Jenny continued to care about Laura, always getting her Christmas presents. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')
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| ====Foiling Lord Grallyx ====
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| Jenny Everywhere once did some skydiving over the [[Cliffs of Karalesh]] in [[Universe A (Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)|one universe]]. However, with her mind wandering, she ended up involuntarily [[shift]]ing in the body of [[#Summoning Lord Grallyx|another of her selves]], who was in the process of helping [[Laura Drake#Summoning Laura Drake|the local Laura Drake]] to summon a demon, [[Lord Grallyx]].
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| After Grallyx predictably escaped Laura's control, Jenny grabbed onto him and [[shift]]ed him rapidly through a host of other universes, ending up in the body of the local Jenny and retconning Grallyx into the fabric of her history, in the hope that she would eventually land in a universe where defeating Grallyx would be easier. In the end, the two ended up as living drawings in [[Universe M (Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell)|one universe]], allowing Jenny to draw [[shift-preventing chain]]s around Grallyx to prevent him from escaping.
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| She returned to the demon-summoning Laura's world, with Grallyx now imprisoned as a drawing inside Laura's demonology book, and agreed to help Laura study for her exams (as ensuring that she would pass her history exam was what Laura had summoned Grallyx for in the first place). ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]'')
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| ==== Other solo adventures====
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| Jenny once spent a holiday in [[Rio P’Brytje]]. She found it hard to relax there, not only because the place was mostly made up of crumbling bridges hanging over pits of lava, but also because the room service of the place where she was staying did not include [[toast]] on demand. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')
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| At some point, Jenny, trying to get to the [[Interdimensional Shopping Mall]], instead found herself in a curious shop operated by [[Ms Amelia]]. Once they got past Amelia's initial surprise, the two became friends, and Jenny continued returning to the shop every year to shop for Christmas presents for her friends and — in some cases — foes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')
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| Jenny once found herself on 1876 [[Earth]] in [[Dimension 77]]. She rescued [[the Lurigadawne of Tipperary]], a “wily old [[Leprechaun]]”, from a “two-bit black magician” who'd trapped him in an {{w|Iron_in_folklore#Cold_iron|iron}} cage, saving his life. As was the custom of the [[Fae]], this granted her three wishes from the Leprechaun. She used the first one to get a pair of magic shoes from him, and decided to keep the other two in reserve for a rainy day. The shoes served her well, never wearing out and keeping her from every slipping or twisting her ankle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'')
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| ====During the Rifts Crisis====
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| [[File:Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids).png|thumb|right|210px|The “lost” Shifter encountered by [[Pythagoras-858]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')]]Jenny discovered that many versions of her were being lost, or losing their powers, due to the [[Rift]]s appearing throughout the multiverse as part of the [[Rifts Crisis]]. She investigated, and discovered than an organisation known as the [[Consistency Imperium]] seemed to be causing the Rifts to materialize everywhere they went. Even she soon lost control of her abilities, accidentally [[shifting]] into the [[Void]] itself.
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| Luckily, she found herself in the back of a Void Ship, specifically the [[Fog Ship]] of [[Pythagoras-858]], a Clockwork Cherub of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]. They traded information about the Rifts, and Pythe agreed to give her a lift as they joined forces to find the home base of the Consistency Imperium and hopefully foil their reality-destroying plans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')
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| The two spent several months travelling together looking for the source of the [[Rift]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') During this period, Pythe mentioned [[the Home City]] to her on multiple occasions. She initially thought he was referring to the capital of the [[Cupid Homeworld]] until she realised that it was actually a city in the [[Prime Universe]] and the original home of [[the Creator]]. He also told her about the [[Company of Free Genies]], whom he saw as kindred spirits due to the broad similarity between “Problem-Solving” and “Wish-Granting” as lines of work. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'')
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| The pair's investigation into the source of the Rifts uncovered a number of suspects, including a “bull-guy” who had invented a Rift-making ray, a [[The Doctor|time-traveller with a bowtie]], and a young [[space behemoth]] called [[Fyargathaaark865blububurgh$1gkzo]] who had been playing with xir dad's chemistry set. However, they noticed that all of these situations had righted themselves without their help; whether or not they were the starting point of the Rifts epidemic, they came to the conclusion that they were not the right point at which to attempt to influence the Crisis's development. Instead, the path to salvation was to find whoever had been ''accelerating'' the Rifts' spread from dimension to dimension.
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| As they were reaching this agreement, the two stopped at [[Hilbert's]], the Interdimensional Hotel, to have dinner. There, Pythe helped [[Wendy VII]] revive the [[Queen of the Black Market]], who had been poisoned by a Wellsian, [[Forga sog-Forgos]]. However, for fear of preventing a paradox (as he realised the Wellsian existed in his past), he was unable to foil the Wellsian's broader plan. During those same events, Pythe unwillingly parted ways with Jenny as she involuntarily [[shift]]ed to parts unknown in a fit of temper upon running into [[Sylvester Shoebill]] (remembering her [[#Tricked by Shoebill|earlier encounter]] with him in another incarnation). ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'')
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| However, shortly after [[Fall of the Consistency Palatium|the wrap-up]] of the Rifts Crisis, Jenny was back in contact with the Crew. She submitted a review of her experience at Hilbert's to ''[[The Cupid Courier]]'', giving it a 4/5 stars review. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'') Eager to “get back into the shifting groove”, she visited the Home City. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'')
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| ==== Travels with Juliet and Arganthone====
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| [[File:Jenny-time-of-the-toymaker-illustration.png|thumb|left|220px|Jenny in 1895 London. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')]]Jenny decided to spend Christmas in the Victorian [[London]] of the [[Prime Universe]]. She was enjoying the Dickensian atmosphere of the snowy 1895 [[Baker Street]] when she bumped into a crashed [[Fog Ship]] housing [[Juliet-178]] and [[Arganthone-056]]. After the three realised they had a friend in common in the person of [[Pythagoras-858]], Jenny learned that Juliet and Arganthone had just returned from [[Dimension Epsilon Five|the new world]] of the [[Wellsian]]s in a futile effort to get a [[Heat Ray]] with which to thaw [[Madame Tarsa]] out of the magical block of ice where she'd become trapped. Reasoning that Tarsa may have had some failsafe in place in her very home, Jenny offered to take Juliet and Arganthone back to the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa]] using [[shift]]ing, and, should this prove necessary, to continue helping them on their quest beyond that.
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| Indeed, she followed them into [[Madame Tarsa's Toybox]], where she greatly enjoyed the atmosphere of the [[Christmas Toyland]] where they were advised to seek the “[[Millicent (The Time of the Toymaker)|oldest toy in the Toymaker's Labyrinth]]” by the [[Frog Mayor]] of [[Wild West Town]]. When they met her, however, she was only able to show them the relevant rhyming clue left by Tarsa (which spoke of a “key” in a “distant star”), but not explain its meaning. The three travellers agreed to look for further clues in the forms of legends and myths which other civilisations in the [[Multiverse]] might have about Tarsa. They first, unsuccessfully tried the [[Euclidean Plane]] (where they engaged in a snowball fight with the [[Geometron Citadel|Citadel]]'s [[Octaser]] and [[Triangry]] guards) before heading to the [[Cupid Homeworld]] itself to check the [[Cupid Archives]].
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| There, they introduced Jenny to [[Lord Thymon]], with whom she got along quite well, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') subsequently keeping in touch with him via texts. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Shift in Relationships (comic story)|A Shift in Relationships]]'') They then headed to the Archives, where [[Bibliophile-962]] helped them make their way to the relevant section, sneaking past the [[Mechanical Sphinx]]. They did not find anything directly related to Tarsa, but were inspired to go to [[New Subcinctus]] to see if any of the [[Consistency Imperium]]'s records had survived the Imperium's fall. However, they did not find anything there which they did not already know, despite being granted an audience by [[Vertolin]] himself. They headed to the [[Interdimensional Tavern]] in defeat, hoping to simply ask around for relevant intel. They found none, but, reconsidering the rhyming riddle, Juliet realised that the key was actually hidden inside the [[Star Atop the Tree]] in the Christmas Toyland, rather than a literal star.
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| Going back to the Toyland, they conferred briefly with the Toy, who gave them climbing gear, and eventually made their way to the top of the tree with the help of a toy nutcracker called [[the General]]. The trio opened the Star, uncovering the magical mallet it contained, only to discover that tampering with the Star awakened the very literal [[Snap-Dragon]] that lived at the bottom of [[Snapdragon Lake]]. Nevertheless, the three soon defeated the creature through trickery and made their way out of the Toyland. The three agreed that Juliet, whose reputation back hom “needed the polish”, be the one to strike the ice, freeing Tarsa. After the appropriate thanks, Jenny invited herself to [[221B Baker Street]] to attend the Christmas party of [[Sherlock Holmes#In the Prime Universe|Sherlock Holmes]], with whom Pythagoras had teamed up in the course of his own misadventures. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')
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| ==== Meeting the Fishter====
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| Some time later, this Jenny spent thirty days trekking through the [[Swamps of Cr’uuuu’uuuuu’uuuumph]]. Once this adventure was done, she was relieved to find herself in a peaceful, grassy field. However, this was in fact April Fools' Day and she was soon confronted with a member of the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]], posing as one of her counterparts, “the Fishter”, allegedly from a universe where fish were seen as the supreme lifeform.
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| Dodging the Fishter's attempt to trick her into the right place for a pie to be catapulted at her face, she instead took the impostor to a “Jenny meeting” at the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], also attempted by [[#Tricked by Shoebill|the tall red-haired Jenny]], [[#The fifth musketeer|the “musketeer” Jenny]] and an [[Jenny Everywhere#Imp-like Jenny|imp-like Jenny]]. After backing it into a corner with regards to its hollow lies, she then got the Fishter to drop its charade altogether and run away. Jenny then contacted [[Pythagoras-858]] so that he could investigate the event and possibly have a strong word with the Fooling Fish heads. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Multiversal Mischief (short story)|Multiversal Mischief]]'')
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| ====Dating Comet Theta====
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| [[File:Jenny Everywhere in A Match Made in the Heavens.png|thumb|right|Jenny waiting for [[Comet Theta]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Match Made in the Heavens (comic story)|A Match Made in the Heavens]]'')]]At some point, Jenny began a relationship in [[Universe (A Match Made in the Heavens)|one universe]] with [[Comet Theta]], a sentient comet. They set a date in outer space, to which Theta was late and did not stay long, refusing to deviate from their orbit. Jenny was displeased with this. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Match Made in the Heavens (comic story)|A Match Made in the Heavens]]'')
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| ====Visit to D'Ismay Mansion====
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| [[File:Jenny Everywhere Halloween costume in Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror.png|thumb|thumb|left|Jenny's Halloween costume. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror]]'')]]When [[the Illumination|the Abstract of Illumination]] found himself unable to attend [[Strach|the Abstract of Terror]]'s [[Halloween]] party at [[D'Ismay Mansion]] in [[Universe (Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror)|one universe]], [[#Onboard the Wilson|the Jenny]] who was friends with the Illumination contacted this Jenny, asking her to drop in at the Mansion to wish the Terror a happy Halloween on behalf of his cousin. Jenny thus made her way to the moonlit house. She was excited to mean the butler and bouncer who answered the doorbell, [[Reginald Redclaw|“Reginald Redclaw, the Demon Majordomo”]]. At his request, she used [[shift]]ing to shift herself into a more season-appropriate outfit before proceeding into the house.
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| In the ballroom, however, the crowds of spirits and demons immediately recognised her as a mortal, and things got off to a wrong start as they misinterpreted her comments to herself and believed she meant ''harm'' to the master of the house. Strach himself stripped her of her glamour, in answer to which she insisted that ''he'' reveal his true appearance. He tried to pass himself, in turn, as [[Dracula]], [[Death]] and [[Lon Chaney]], but each time Jenny recognised these as glamours, eventually forcing Strach to reveal his true self. She surprised him by telling him she did ''not'' want to press her advantage by exacting a boon from him, merely wanting to wish him a happy Halloween for Lit. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror]]'')
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| ====Christmas 2021====
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| [[File:Jenny Everywhere in The Winter Quests.png|thumb|right|Jenny in [[Ms Amelia]]'s shop in 2021. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')
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| ]]In December 2021, [[Prime Universe]] time, Jenny visited [[Ms Amelia]]'s shop, as had become her custom. She was already present when [[CS-NA]] also materialised in the shop, having set the coordinates of his [[Dematerialisation Engine]] to random. Jenny showed him the shop's many rooms, helping him on his quest to learn more about [[Christmas]], so that he could plan the best party imaginable for the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Cupids]]. He stumbled upon a purple hairband which she decided would make the perfect gift for [[Laura Drake#In the 38167th Universe|Laura Drake]].
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| Jenny was then called by one of her [[#Intergalactic diplomacy mission|other selves]] to keep company to her sister [[Julie Jacobs#Christmas in the Cupid Homeworld|Julie]] on Christmas Eve while she was called away on an “intergalactic diplomacy mission”. The two got on well, with Jenny confiding in this Julie about her difficult relationship with [[Laura Drake#In the 38167th Universe|her version of Laura Drake]], and agreeing to bake Julie her “Multiverse-famous cookies”. As they were busying themselves around the kitchen, however, the two received an invitation down the chimney which turned out to be from [[CS-NA]], inviting Jenny to the [[Cupid Homeworld]] for the interdimensional Christmas party he'd organised. Jenny took Julie there. Adapting “surprisingly well” to the strange sights of the Homeworld, Julie watched with interest as [[Arganthone-056]] gave a fencing demonstration using a peppermint stick. Jenny took the opportunity to get CS-NA, [[Pythagoras-858]], [[Juliet-178]], [[Arganthone-056]] and [[Lord Thymon]] some presents. She ended up discussing “the ins and outs of [[shift]]ing” with Thymon. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')
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| ====Acquaintance with Aziraphale====
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| At some point, Jenny became acquainted with the [[Earth]]-bound [[angel]] [[Aziraphale#The hot-cocoa incident|Aziraphale]], who owned a bookshop in [[London]] in [[Universe (You've Been To Eden, I Perceive)|one universe]]. On one of her visits, she spilled a cup of hot cocoa while perusing his first-edition [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] books, much to his ire and dismay. Eager to make up for her mistake, Jenny eventually decided to borrow the [[Librarian]] [[Sherlock Holmes#As a Librarian|version]] of [[Sherlock Holmes]] from the [[Interdimensional Library]], in the flesh, and bring him to Aziraphale. Although startled by the sudden and initially-unexplained appearance of the detective in his bookshop, Aziraphale was grateful for the gift, and offered both him and Jenny a cup of tea — but not, just to be safe, hot cocoa again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[You've Been To Eden, I Perceive (short story)|You've Been To Eden, I Perceive]]'')
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| ====Rematch with Grallyx====
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| On [[April Fools' Day]], [[Lord Grallyx]] exploited the [[Rule of Funny]] to escape the demonology book in which Jenny had imprisoned him so long ago by editing his own page on the [[Jenny Everywhere Wiki (in-universe)|Jenny Everywhere Wiki]]. He then located Jenny, who had been participating in a pie-baking contest in [[Universe (The Wiki Adventures of Lord Grallyx)|one universe]] in the [[Ninety-Third Empire of Sagittarius]]. When he explained to her how he had escaped, she pulled out her own lap-top and edited back to his prison. In turn, Grallyx edited ''her'' page to trap her in the book with him. However, she escaped with relative ease by simply [[shift]]ing out, with no further editing required. Raging, Grallyx vandalised the Wiki on a much greater scale, making himself out to be the main character instead of Jenny.
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| To further incapacitate her, he also edited her page to make her [[copyright]]ed (with him as the IP owner), leading to robots belonging to the [[Interdimensional Copyright Office]] arriving in a [[copyright-ship]] to sequester her. However, she managed to stun Grallyx long enough to edit herself back into the public domain. In an even greater feat of Wiki vandalism, he successfully edited the summary of every Jenny Everywhere story on the Wiki to be about him, cementing himself as the “supreme crosser-over of [[the Multiverse|the Omniverse]]”. However, Jenny was unmoved, noting that by the very same fourth-wall-leaning principles he was exploiting, an April Fools' Day story simply ''couldn't'' alter the status quo of reality to this extent, and one way or another things would be back to normal the next day. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wiki Adventures of Lord Grallyx (short story)|The Wiki Adventures of Lord Grallyx]]'')
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| ====Meeting the Beastmaster====
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| [[File:The Beastmaster and Jenny Everywhere in Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters.png|thumb|left|250px|A [[shift-gun]]-wielding [[the Beastmaster|Beastmaster]] menaces Jenny in the [[12682621st Universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: (''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'')
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| ]]This Jenny once took a trip to the [[Jungles of Hooloo]] in [[Universe A (Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters)|one universe]]. On this occasion, she forewent her parka for a sleeveless green vest worn ove rher cream shirt, and also added a green hat with a yellow felt ribbon to her apparel.
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| However, [[Laura Drake#In the 38167th Universe|Laura Drake]] hired [[the Beastmaster]] to go make trouble for her, which she first encountered in the form of his [[Marsh-Maiden (Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters)|Marsh-Maiden]]. However, Jenny made friends with the Marsh-Maiden, who did not attack her, forcing the Beastmaster to reveal himself. Using the [[shift-gun]] Laura had given him, he transported himself and Jenny to [[Universe B (Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters)|another world]] and tried to sic a [[Dragon (Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters)|Dragon]] on the Shifter, but she befriended it too. Finally he took them to the [[12682621st Universe]] where a [[Sphinx]] in his service, [[Paisi Psusennes]], was waiting. However, Jenny played on the Beastmaster's insecurity about whether “his” beasts actually liked him, then manipulated Paisi into breaking off her monster-and-master relationship with the Beastmaster, re-assessing him as a rival monster and chasing him into the distance. After destroying the shift-gun, Jenny [[shift]]ed on her own power to Laura's building and confronted her about what she'd done. The conversation soon turned friendlier as they bonded over making fun of the Beastmaster, and, despite Laura's slight bemusement at Jenny not bearing her any kind of a grudge, Jenny managed to persuade Laura to go out for ice cream with her. ([[COMIC]]: (''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Master of Monsters]]'')
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| ====Romance with Lord Thymon====
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| [[File:Jenny Everywhere in A Shift in Relationships.png|thumb|right|275px|Jenny, blushing slightly, reveals to [[Pythagoras-858]] that she's now in a relationship with [[Lord Thymon|Thymon]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Shift in Relationships (comic story)|A Shift in Relationships]]'')]]Eventually, Jenny's long-distance friendship with [[Lord Thymon]] blossomed into an unexpected romance. One day, Jenny materialised in the [[Cupid Homeworld]], surprising [[Pythagoras-858]], and revealed to him that she was here to meet with Thymon, thereby breaking the news of their relationship to Pythe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Shift in Relationships (comic story)|A Shift in Relationships]]'')
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| ==== Quest for the Lurigadawne ====
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| Jenny returned to [[Dimension 77]] in search of [[the Lurigadawne of Tipperary]]. Materialising in the meadow where he reportedly made his home, she was seen appearing out of thin air by a [[Boy (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|local boy]] who assumed her to be a [[fae|fairy]] herself. Playing alone, she asked him if she knew where the Lurigadawne was, but the boy reported that although this was indeed supposedly his meadow, the [[leprechaun]] himself hadn't been seen in ages. Granting him a “boon” of some gold pieces she'd brought for the Lurigadawne, she sent the boy on his way and spent a few hours looking for the magically-concealed entrance to the Lurigadawne's home. When she found it, she discovered to her dismay that the Lurigadawne wasn't in, having left his home in the care of a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[Brownie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|Brownie]] after leaving on mysterious business. She thanked the Brownie with another gold coin and left. Before she headed to her next destination, she decided to compromise between obvious necessity and her stubborn refusal to settle for any other shoes than Leprechaun-made ones by putting on a pair of thick, woolen socks.
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| She headed for [[the Home City]] in the [[Prime Universe]] and found the [[Company of Free Genies]], purchasing a wish from [[Genie (The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)|the Genie at the desk]] with a [[magic wand]]. While in the Company's lobby, she also met a local ghost, [[the Mad Marquess]]. Jenny wished to know the Lurigadawne's location and to be transported there, and thus found herself flung to the [[Gnome Place]]. There, she was viewed by the [[Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes]] as a dangerous interloper and the Gnomes petrified her clothing around her to trap her in place. Her recognising [[the Nome King]] in the crowd based on the memories of another Jenny did not help matters, and neither did the sudden arrival of the sword-wielding Mad Marquess, teleported after her by the mischievous Genie.
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| Trying to escape the chaos, she shifted ''out'' of her clothes and directly to the top of the [[Round Table]] in [[Universe (Close Encounter of the Bird Kind)|another universe]]. There, [[King Arthur#Raising chickens|the King]], [[Gwenhwyfar|the Queen]] and the [[knights of the Round Table|Knights]] put a new outfit together for her in record time. Her aim of getting hold fo an egg-laying hen from the royal chicken coops of [[King Arthur#Raising chickens|King Arthur]] was made easier when she learned from Arthur that a future version of her had apparently visited a young version of [[Merlin#Raising chickens|Merlin]] to set this up, so that Merlin had kept the chicken coops “well-stocked” and quickly presented her with prize egg-layer [[Bethan]].
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| Returning to the Gnome Place, she distracted the Lurigadawne, who'd been dueling the Marquess, causing the Marquess to successfully stab his opponent. However, the Marquess realised almost instantly, at Jenny's reaction, that he had done the wrong thing, and helped the Lurigadawne hang on while Jenny routed the Gnomes via the threat of Bethan's mythically-potent eggs, which were enough to send even the Nome King fleeing. She then sent the Marquess back to his home universe and finally talked with the Lurigadawne, who revealed, much to her dismay, that Gnomes were forbidden to grant the same wish twice, so that he really ''couldn't'' make her a new pair of shoes. Giving up on magical footwear, she decided to end her quest there and head to a truly random universe with no particular goal in mind, and visit an ordinary shoe shop when next she had the chance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere]]'')
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| Some time later, she tried to shift back to meet the younger version of Merlin and pay him back in the form of a basket containing ''three'' chickens. She gave him a few hints about his future before leaving again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Close Encounter of the Bird Kind (short story)|Close Encounter of the Bird Kind]]'')
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| ===Imp-like Jenny=== | | ===Imp-like Jenny=== |
