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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[Robo-Stalin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br> | | villain(s)= [[Robo-Stalin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br> | ||
| featuring= [[Haroun the Thrice Cursed]]<br>[[David Lowe]]<br>[[Kim | | featuring= [[Haroun the Thrice Cursed]]<br>[[David Lowe]]<br>[[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]]<br>[[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere's father]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Simon Jacobs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Superman]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere's mother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jimmy Wherever]]/[[Jimmy Anytime]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Thoth (Morning After)|Thoth]]<br>[[Steven Lucas]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Eric's mother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Octobriana#Fighting Robo-Stalin|Octobriana]]<br>[[Prince of the Fair Folk|The Prince of the Fair Folk]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jenny Everywhere's fire-breathing cow]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Pyotr Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Kim's father]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jacob (Morning After)|Jacob]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jesus Christ]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Herod]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= [[ | | setting= [[(Parallax Universe)|Unnamed universe]] | ||
| length= 3 chapters plus epilogue | | length= 3 chapters plus epilogue | ||
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | | writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | ||
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===Plot=== | ===Plot=== | ||
==== Part 1: Haroun the Thrice Cursed ==== | ==== Part 1: Haroun the Thrice Cursed ==== | ||
Waking up in the morning, [[Jenny Everywhere | Waking up in the morning, [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] feels a “[[shifter hangover]]” coming on. She phones her editor at [[Stone]], [[Haroun the Thrice Cursed|Haroun]], to warn him that she's “not a hundred percent today” — and finds herself slipping into florid, antiquated language while talking to the phone operator. However, she does get through to Haroun eventually, with him telling her to give his regards to “[[David Lowe|David al-Hajar]]” if she sees him. After hanging up, she experiences a flash from the life of a [[Jenny Everywhere#Between Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul|sea-faring Jenny]] who's somehow trading ''between'' [[Byzantium]], [[Constantinople]] and [[Istanbul]]. When she begins to think about eating some [[toast]], she gets a flash from [[Jenny Everywhere#Building a mill|a Jenny]] who has been working, alongside several other people, on building a mill so that they can make themselves bread, and who have ''just'' gotten it working at last. She decides to go talk to David, if only to warn him that “some weird stuff” might be going on. | ||
==== Part 2: David ==== | ==== Part 2: David ==== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] goes across to [[David Lowe|David]]'s apartment and knocks. After he answers the door, she explains her predicament to him at some length, also telling him about a few of her ghost-memories to double-check that they don't match with anything she's mentioned before and are indeed spillovers from other Jennies. Walking back, she bumps (quite literally) into [[Thoth (Morning After)|Thoth]], [[Steven Lucas|Steven]]'s talking cat [[familiar]], who asks her to tell Steven to buy him more tuna when next she sees him, and also advises her to go check on “[[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|the kid]]” downstairs, as he is “doing mad science again”. | ||
==== Part 3: Professor Awesome ==== | ==== Part 3: Professor Awesome ==== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] heads down the stairs, getting another glimpse of another universe (where [[Jenny Everywhere#Opposing Robo-Stalin with Octobriana|another Jenny]] is engaged in an adventure with [[Octobriana#Fighting Robo-Stalin|Octobriana]]) when she looks out the window, and finds [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] sitting on the stairs and scribbling schematics in his notebook. Looking over his shoulder, she recognises the design as a new kind of [[de-pants-icator]] and reminds him of how much trouble he got in with the last version. A sulky Eric protests that he has no intention of using the new device, but merely wants to prove to himself that he could improve the design. She briefly gets a glimpse of yet another universe, where an [[Professor Awesome#Wreaking havoc|older version of Professor Awesome]] has become a genuine, murderous supervillain whom her [[Jenny Everywhere#Fighting Professor Awesome|local self]] is fighting in earnest. Dismissing the vision, she simply convinces Eric that he's already proven his intellectual worth by drawing the plans, and there's no need to actually build the device in real life. They chat for a while, with Jenny cautioning the boy against foolhardy plans, before Jenny heads off. Feeling her grasp on this reality becoming increasingly unsteady, she decides to go take a nap. | ||
==== Epilogue ==== | ==== Epilogue ==== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] tries to sleep on the couch with some soft [[Pyotr Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] music in the background, but is woken up when [[David Lowe|David]] drops in and starts talking with [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]]. Some of what they talk about rouses further memories from Jenny, who gets up and excitedly gives them more details on some of her remembered lifetimes. By the time she remembers a bizarre disco version of ''{{w|Jesus Christ Superstar|Jesus Christ Superstar}}'' plucked from the memories of [[Jenny Everywhere#1970s Jenny|a 1970s Jenny]], and gives them a rousing ''a cappella'' rendition of the main song, her chuckling friends conclude that she seems back to her normal peppy self. | ||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | ====Jenny Everywhere==== | ||
*The story stars the [[Jenny Everywhere | *The story stars the [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|“default Jenny”]] of [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]]. However, she gets telepathic glimpses of the lives of her other selves in several other universes, including: | ||
** a [[Jenny Everywhere#Between Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul|sea-faring Jenny]] who's somehow trading ''between'' [[Byzantium]], [[Constantinople]] and [[Istanbul]]; | ** a [[Jenny Everywhere#Between Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul|sea-faring Jenny]] who's somehow trading ''between'' [[Byzantium]], [[Constantinople]] and [[Istanbul]]; | ||
** [[Jenny Everywhere#Building a mill|a Jenny]] who has been working, alongside several other people, on building a mill so that they can make themselves bread, and who have ''just'' gotten it working at last; | ** [[Jenny Everywhere#Building a mill|a Jenny]] who has been working, alongside several other people, on building a mill so that they can make themselves bread, and who have ''just'' gotten it working at last; | ||
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** [[Jenny Everywhere#1970s Jenny|one]] who was active in the 1970s and was familiar with a disco musical about [[Jesus Christ]] (apparently no earlier than 1978, by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin%27_Alive the music] it used). | ** [[Jenny Everywhere#1970s Jenny|one]] who was active in the 1970s and was familiar with a disco musical about [[Jesus Christ]] (apparently no earlier than 1978, by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin%27_Alive the music] it used). | ||
* Jenny also thinks back to two of her other selves who bickered with each other at the after party, the “very English” [[Jenny Everywhere#Jenny Cornelius|Jenny Cornelius]] and the “very French” [[Jenny Everywhere#Jeanne Partout|Jeanne Partout]]. | * Jenny also thinks back to two of her other selves who bickered with each other at the after party, the “very English” [[Jenny Everywhere#Jenny Cornelius|Jenny Cornelius]] and the “very French” [[Jenny Everywhere#Jeanne Partout|Jeanne Partout]]. | ||
* In conversation with [[Professor Awesome | * In conversation with [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]], she mentions [[Jenny Everywhere#Meddling in Camelot|a version]] of her who brought a [[Panzer III]] to the [[Battle of Camlann]]. It proved insufficient to turn the tide of the battle but did “come in handy during the evac to [[Avalon]]”. | ||
==== Jimmy Wherever & Jimmy Anytime ==== | ==== Jimmy Wherever & Jimmy Anytime ==== | ||
* One of [[Jenny Everywhere | * One of [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]]'s hangover-induced ghost-memories is of hanging around with “a guy in a Canadian flag T-shirt” — “tall, broad-shouldered, [[Jimmy Wherever|maybe blond]]. Or [[Jimmy Anytime|brown hair]]. Probably not a redhead”. As far as [[David Lowe|David]] knows, no such person is around in [[Universe_(Parallax)|this world]]. | ||
==== Octobriana ==== | ==== Octobriana ==== | ||
* One of [[Jenny Everywhere | * One of [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]]'s hangover-induced ghost-memories involves her having a friendly conversation with “[[Octobriana#Fighting Robo-Stalin|a blonde woman wearing a red star on her forehead and not enough clothing for the weather]]” who is riding a tame dinosaur, and intends to travel back in time to 1971 to fight “[[Robo-Stalin]]”. | ||
====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
* The story, starring [[Scott Sanford]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere | * The story, starring [[Scott Sanford]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|“default Jenny”]], primarily takes place in [[(Parallax Universe)|her universe]], but Jenny gets telepathic glimpses of the lives of her other selves in several other universes. | ||
==== Other ==== | ==== Other ==== | ||
* [[Jenny Everywhere | * [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]] recently sent in a review for a band called ''[[Coelacanths and Possums]]''. | ||
* Jenny gets what she describes as a “[[shifter hangover]]” as a result of overusing her shifting powers the previous ays. She describes it as: “my head is too full. Way too full of way too many of me. And among other stuff it’s got me remembering the wrong things”. It also causes minor “glitches” in reality around her. | * Jenny gets what she describes as a “[[shifter hangover]]” as a result of overusing her shifting powers the previous ays. She describes it as: “my head is too full. Way too full of way too many of me. And among other stuff it’s got me remembering the wrong things”. It also causes minor “glitches” in reality around her. | ||
* On [[April Fools' Day]], somebody replaced the “10” on [[David Lowe|David]]'s apartment door with an {{w|Aleph number|aleph-null}}; “[[Kim | * On [[April Fools' Day]], somebody replaced the “10” on [[David Lowe|David]]'s apartment door with an {{w|Aleph number|aleph-null}}; “[[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] snickered and [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]] just about injured himself laughing”. | ||
* Both Jenny and David are familiar with the story of [[Superman]]. His father was a scientist and he was shot me away from their doomed planet of [[Krypton]] as a baby; his space pod then dropped out of the sky and he grew up on a farm in [[Kansas]] with a family called the Kents”. | * Both Jenny and David are familiar with the story of [[Superman]]. His father was a scientist and he was shot me away from their doomed planet of [[Krypton]] as a baby; his space pod then dropped out of the sky and he grew up on a farm in [[Kansas]] with a family called the Kents”. | ||
* The [[Professor Awesome#Wreaking havoc|alternative Professor Awesome]] gets around in an [[Professor Awesome's Omnibus|Omnibus]] with a turret. | * The [[Professor Awesome#Wreaking havoc|alternative Professor Awesome]] gets around in an [[Professor Awesome's Omnibus|Omnibus]] with a turret. | ||
* When asked how she obtained a [[Panzer III]], Jenny prevaricates, “as a rule, [[Nazi]]s have more weapons than they should, so if you steal weapons from Nazis it’s a public service”. | * When asked how she obtained a [[Panzer III]], Jenny prevaricates, “as a rule, [[Nazi]]s have more weapons than they should, so if you steal weapons from Nazis it’s a public service”. | ||
* [[Kim | * [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] recalls that she had [[Kim's father|a father]] who passed away years ago but was “a fine man”. | ||
* Kim and David have both lived through the 1970s and, earlier, through the heights of {{w|Macaroni (fashion)|macaroni}} fashion, although David never went in for the latter. | * Kim and David have both lived through the 1970s and, earlier, through the heights of {{w|Macaroni (fashion)|macaroni}} fashion, although David never went in for the latter. | ||
===Continuity=== | ===Continuity=== | ||
* This story acts as a direct sequel to the earlier serialised story [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'', taking place immediately after its events. | * This story acts as a direct sequel to the earlier serialised story [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'', taking place immediately after its events. | ||
* [[Jenny Everywhere | * [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny]]'s job as a music critic, first seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Camera Shy (short story)|Camera Shy]]'', is featured once again. | ||
* Jenny gets flashes of [[Jenny Everywhere's father|her father]], despite, in this incarnation, not being sure that she's ever had one. They include “a white guy in [[Wisconsin]]” who lived in a suburban house and had a workshop — [[Simon Jacobs]] as seen in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles (comic story)|The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles]]'' — and a scientist in a labcoat who “shot [her] away from our doomed planet as a baby” in “a [[the Pod|space pod]]”, matching the purported origin story for Jenny Everywhere given in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere]]''. | * Jenny gets flashes of [[Jenny Everywhere's father|her father]], despite, in this incarnation, not being sure that she's ever had one. They include “a white guy in [[Wisconsin]]” who lived in a suburban house and had a workshop — [[Simon Jacobs]] as seen in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles (comic story)|The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles]]'' — and a scientist in a labcoat who “shot [her] away from our doomed planet as a baby” in “a [[the Pod|space pod]]”, matching the purported origin story for Jenny Everywhere given in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Secret Origin of Jenny Everywhere]]''. | ||
* [[Shifter energy|Shift energy]] is mentioned. “Shifter energy” was previously prominently featured in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Makeshift Multiverse (comic story)|Makeshift Multiverse]]''. | * [[Shifter energy|Shift energy]] is mentioned. “Shifter energy” was previously prominently featured in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Makeshift Multiverse (comic story)|Makeshift Multiverse]]''. | ||
* [[Professor Awesome | * [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Eric]] is trying to build a new [[de-pants-icator]]. The trouble he got into for building the first one was the subject of the character's first-ever mention in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]''. | ||
* The [[Professor Awesome#Wreaking havoc|alternative Professor Awesome]] glimpsed by Jenny is mentioned to have once built a [[Time Pestle]], and speculated to have possibly now built a new one. The usual version of Awesome was mentioned to have created a Time Pestle in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'' and later come to regret it. | * The [[Professor Awesome#Wreaking havoc|alternative Professor Awesome]] glimpsed by Jenny is mentioned to have once built a [[Time Pestle]], and speculated to have possibly now built a new one. The usual version of Awesome was mentioned to have created a Time Pestle in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'' and later come to regret it. | ||
* Jenny gives more detail on her mishaps in [[Shangri-La]] in this very incarnation, first mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]''. | * Jenny gives more detail on her mishaps in [[Shangri-La]] in this very incarnation, first mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]''. | ||
