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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|The Baron]] | | villain(s)= [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|The Baron]] | ||
| featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome | | featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Jenny_Everywhere#Janni,_She_Who_Walks_In_Every_Place|Janni, She Who Walks in Every Place]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Genie Everywhere]]<br>[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny_Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny on the seaside pier]]<br>[[Clea|“Butch chick”]]<br>[[Lex|"Man with extinguisher"]]<br>[[Bradley|“Tall man”]]<br>[[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|“Sandy-haired man”]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|“Biker” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|“Shih tzu” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation at Elysium Park|“Elysium Park” Jenny]]<br>[[Jenny Cornelius]]<br>[[Jenny_Everywhere#Jeanne_Partout|Jeanne Partout]] | ||
| setting= [[Jenny Everywhere | | setting= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]'s apartment, [[Parallax Universe|unnamed universe]]<br>[[Temple of the Oracle]], “[[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|Universe A]]”<br>Eurasian steppes, “[[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|Universe B]]”<br>African veldt, “[[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|Universe C]]”<br>Museum, “[[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|Universe D]]”<br>Medieval castle, “[[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|Universe E]]”<br>[[Right-On By The Sea|Seaside town]], [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|unnamed universe]],<br>Bohoken, [[New Guernsey]], “[[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|Universe F]]” | ||
| length= 7 chapters | | length= 7 chapters | ||
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | | writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | ||
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===Plot=== | ===Plot=== | ||
====Part 1==== | ====Part 1==== | ||
Shortly after her defeat of [[Professor Awesome | Shortly after her defeat of [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]], [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] leaves her apartment to [[shift]] to the [[Temple of the Oracle|Temple]] of the Oracle [[Cha Ni]]. After exchanging a few wise words with the elderly visionary, Cha-Ni guesses that Jenny is here because she wants to help other versions of her whose lives are not as easy as hers. Cha-Ni agrees and gives her a list. | ||
====Part 2==== | ====Part 2==== | ||
Arriving in [[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny meets up with [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|a Jenny]] who is a stunt aeroplane pilot flying an [[Everywhere Explorer]] biplane — or, rather, who had been flying it until a malfunction downed her in the middle of a deserted steppe. Thanks to Cha Ni's list, the second Jenny brought the pilot Jenny precisely the part she needed to repair her aeroplane. With it back in order, the pilot Jenny offers to fly her counterpart to her next destination. | Arriving in [[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny meets up with [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|a Jenny]] who is a stunt aeroplane pilot flying an [[Everywhere Explorer]] biplane — or, rather, who had been flying it until a malfunction downed her in the middle of a deserted steppe. Thanks to Cha Ni's list, the second Jenny brought the pilot Jenny precisely the part she needed to repair her aeroplane. With it back in order, the pilot Jenny offers to fly her counterpart to her next destination. | ||
====Part 3 ==== | ====Part 3 ==== | ||
After the other Jenny drops her off in the ''Everywhere Explorer'', [[Jenny Everywhere | After the other Jenny drops her off in the ''Everywhere Explorer'', [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] finds herself looking over an African veldt. She is soon joined by [[Jenny Everywhere#Janni, She Who Walks in Every Place|Janni, She Who Walks in Every Place]], her counterpart in [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|this universe]] — an Amazon on a quest. She explains that she seeks “wisdom of the tiger, a wheel of numbers, and an owl made of lightning”. Jenny realises that the “wheel of numbers” must be an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B E6B] flight computer, a pilot's tool that includes a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule circular slide rule] - a wheel of numbers that lets the user do math. | ||
As a gift freely given would not be a fitting prize for a quest, the two Jennies agree on a wager (with Janni offering her spear, the very weapon which slew “[[Jamek Tagilono]], the Nameless Lurker in Shadows”, as the counter-prize). They decide on am-wrestling as the nature of the challenge, with Janni easily beating the modern, city-dwelling Jenny. The latter then leaves, wishing Janni good luck on her two other challenges (with the two of them agreeing that it would not do for all three of Janni's adventures on this quest to involve the help of an echo of herself, though for a single one of the three it is a welcome addition to the story). | As a gift freely given would not be a fitting prize for a quest, the two Jennies agree on a wager (with Janni offering her spear, the very weapon which slew “[[Jamek Tagilono]], the Nameless Lurker in Shadows”, as the counter-prize). They decide on am-wrestling as the nature of the challenge, with Janni easily beating the modern, city-dwelling Jenny. The latter then leaves, wishing Janni good luck on her two other challenges (with the two of them agreeing that it would not do for all three of Janni's adventures on this quest to involve the help of an echo of herself, though for a single one of the three it is a welcome addition to the story). | ||
====Part 4==== | ====Part 4==== | ||
Dressed in a black [[wikipedia:Niqāb|niqab]], [[Jenny Everywhere | Dressed in a black [[wikipedia:Niqāb|niqab]], [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]], in [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|yet another universe]], infiltrates a museum where a number of ancient bottles are kept. One has a sign in Arabic noting that it is said to somehow contain “a genie in every place” — or, rather, “[[Jenny Everywhere#Genie Everywhere|Genie Everywhere]]”. Breaking the glass case with a hammer, Jenny frees her [[djinn]] counterpart by pulling off the stopper of her bottle; she barely has time to give the slowly-recoalescing cloud of smoke a thumbs' up before making her escape as alarms blare. | ||
Later, in [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|a different universe]], Jenny climbs the stone wall of a medieval castle until she reaches an arrow slit through which she is able to converse with “[[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]”, who is apparently under imminent threat from a [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|Baron]]. Jenny hands Genevieve a loaded gun through the arrow slit before sneaking off again. | Later, in [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|a different universe]], Jenny climbs the stone wall of a medieval castle until she reaches an arrow slit through which she is able to converse with “[[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]]”, who is apparently under imminent threat from a [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|Baron]]. Jenny hands Genevieve a loaded gun through the arrow slit before sneaking off again. | ||
====Part 5==== | ====Part 5==== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] next ends up in a [[Universe (Name's Not Down)|more mundane universe]] in a [[Right-On By The Sea|very familiar-feeling seaside town]], just in time to hear the first cries of a fire having broken out. Trying to make her way through the crowd, she attempts to pass the fire extinguisher Cha Ni told her to bring onto the right person without being seen by people familiar with the [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|local Jenny]], so as not to “make things awkward” for her other self. She is less than successful at this, however, with [[Bradley|a tall one]] directly noticing her through the commotion and a bald man (who already seemed to find something odd about her) directly seeing her shift away as she leaves, to her abashment. | ||
====Part 6==== | ====Part 6==== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] joins a number of her other incarnations in [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|another universe]] to spook a [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] who apparently did a great, if unspecified, wrong to some other Jenny. The story's main Jenny plays her small part as, while walking down the street, the man finds that everyone around him — from the [[Jenny Everywhere#Biker Jenny|biker]] to even the [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu dog]] — is a version of Jenny. The “helpful” Jenny and “shifh tzu” Jenny soon climb onto the “biker” Jenny's motorcycle and they give chase to their quarry all the way to [[Elysium Park]], where he comes across [[Jenny Everywhere#Confrontation in Elysium Park|the local Jenny Everywhere]], much to his surprise. Realising everyone in the park is also Jenny, he is appropriately cowed as the local Jenny chews him out. With their work done, the biker Jenny tells the “helpful” Jenny that there's going to be an afterparty and invites her along. | ||
====Part 7==== | ====Part 7==== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] indeed joins the afterparty. After listening to other Jennies' guesses as to what precisely the [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] had done, she tries to get close to [[#Jerry at the afterparty|Jerry]], but finds many other Jennies vying for his attention, with the [[Jenny Everywhere#Shih tzu Jenny|shih tzu]] eventually winning out (by virtue of being a cute dog). She has a quiet, ponderous moment wondering how other people would see this gathering of versions of herselves, before deciding that, actually, if they don't see this peaceful gathering of (outwardly) highly different people as a good thing, it's their loss. | ||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | ====Jenny Everywhere==== | ||
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere | * The story's [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|main Jenny]] is the version previously seen in ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'' and ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]''. | ||
* It is suggested that the oracle [[Cha Ni]] is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”. | * It is suggested that the oracle [[Cha Ni]] is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”. | ||
* One of the other Jennies she meets is a [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|stunt pilot]] dressed in the classic 1920s aviatrix outfit, who flies an [[Everywhere Explorer]]. | * One of the other Jennies she meets is a [[Jenny Everywhere#Stunt pilot|stunt pilot]] dressed in the classic 1920s aviatrix outfit, who flies an [[Everywhere Explorer]]. | ||
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====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere | * The story's [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|main Jenny]] lives in [[Parallax Universe|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]], and the universes of the various Jennies mentioned in the previous section of this article. | ||
====Other ==== | ====Other ==== | ||
* [[Jenny Everywhere | * [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the [[Eye of Tripoli]] thing” and got banned from [[Shangri-La]] for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions. | ||
===Continuity=== | ===Continuity=== | ||
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* [[Davar Smith]] is mentioned, in reference to [[COMIC]]: [[Say The Word (comic story)|Say the Word]]. | * [[Davar Smith]] is mentioned, in reference to [[COMIC]]: [[Say The Word (comic story)|Say the Word]]. | ||
* [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] later reappeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]''. | * [[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] later reappeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]''. | ||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'' took place directly after the events of this story. It also contained a few direct nods to it beyond the general links between the two premises, including Jenny reminding [[Professor Awesome | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'' took place directly after the events of this story. It also contained a few direct nods to it beyond the general links between the two premises, including Jenny reminding [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] of the trouble he got in with the [[de-pants-icator]], and giving more detail on her adventure in [[Shangri-La]]. | ||
==Behind the scenes == | ==Behind the scenes == | ||
