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===Plot=== | ===Plot=== | ||
On an ordinary day at the [[M.F.S. office]], [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] gets a | On an ordinary day at the [[M.F.S. office]], [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]], while listlessly looking for games to play on her persnal phone, gets a [[Red Interdimensional Telephone|R.I.T.]] call from an unnamed caller who is evidently [[Nyarlathotep (Who Laws the Lawyers?)|Nyarlathotep]], and who asks for the current location of “the descendants of [his] dear friend [[Randolph Carter]]”. Her powers allow her to easily locate the young man and woman, currently “driving towards lower [[Manhattan]]”, on track to meet the caller at his current location. After a call from a random old woman looking for her keys and an equally-generic call from [[Lord Grallyx (Who Laws the Lawyers?)|some version]] of [[Lord Grallyx]] fruitlessly demanding the location of [[Jenny Everywhere]], she finally gets a different call in the form of a person with gravelly voice asking after the location of [[Benito]], one of the ''[[Super Benito Siblings]]'' of [[Kyujudo]]'s eponymous flagship video-game franchise. She is baffled to find her powers fizzing out as she considers the question, without giving her any answer at all, and she frantically hangs up. | ||
She runs to [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]]'s office — finding him playing another, “particularly predatory” Kyujudo game on [[the Man in Grey's smartphone|his smartphone]] — who walks her through taking another call, which shows that her powers have ''not'' disappeared altogether. That call turns out to be from [[Dwain Carter]] and [[Karolyn Carter|his sister]], asking after | She runs to [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]]'s office — finding him playing another, “particularly predatory” Kyujudo game on [[the Man in Grey's smartphone|his smartphone]] — who walks her through taking another call, which shows that her powers have ''not'' disappeared altogether. That call turns out to be from [[Dwain Carter]] and [[Karolyn Carter|his sister]], asking after “that damn fourth [[Shining Trapezohedron]]”, which Jenny's powers inform her is being held by the Nyarlathotep who called before. As she dwells on what might have happened with the prior call, the Man in Grey helps her realise that the caller was none other than Benito's antagonist [[Bonham]], King of [[Hoppa]]s, as portrayed by actor [[Dwight White]] in the recent [[Dibbsy]] ''Super Benito Siblings'' movie. Just then she gets a second call from the villain himself, but is once again unable to locate Benito and hangs up — also realising at the Man in Grey's prompting that she couldn't feel Bonham's own location. | ||
The next call, however, is more baffling yet, coming from a person with a squeaky voice who asks “where is [[Bunny Everyhare]]”. Jenny instantly replies that this person, whoever she is, is right outside her own window, and in hops [[Bunny Everyhare (Who laws the Lawyers?)|what appears to be a cartoon-bunny version of Jenny Everywhere]], complete with the [[Kablamazon]] outfit of [[Jenny Everywhere (925th Universe)|this world's Jenny]] — which she explains by saying that she “always looks like the nearest Jenny Everywhere”. She immediately jumps to asking them if they've been noticing any strange phenomena relating to nonexistent things popping in and out of existence at random, which she explains would be connected to [[the Null]], a stratum of the nothingness beyond existence which exists “beyond” the Void as experienced by interdimensional travellers. Nothing that travels into the Null can travel out again, but [[Null-entity|Null-entities]] sometimes make their way ''out''; naturally they don't exist until they leave it, but are contained therein in potentiality because the Null is so absolutely empty that it doesn't quite contain “nothing” either. | The next call, however, is more baffling yet, coming from a person with a squeaky voice who asks “where is [[Bunny Everyhare]]”. Jenny instantly replies that this person, whoever she is, is right outside her own window, and in hops [[Bunny Everyhare (Who laws the Lawyers?)|what appears to be a cartoon-bunny version of Jenny Everywhere]], complete with the [[Kablamazon]] outfit of [[Jenny Everywhere (925th Universe)|this world's Jenny]] — which she explains by saying that she “always looks like the nearest Jenny Everywhere”. She immediately jumps to asking them if they've been noticing any strange phenomena relating to nonexistent things popping in and out of existence at random, which she explains would be connected to [[the Null]], a stratum of the nothingness beyond existence which exists “beyond” the Void as experienced by interdimensional travellers. Nothing that travels into the Null can travel out again, but [[Null-entity|Null-entities]] sometimes make their way ''out''; naturally they don't exist until they leave it, but are contained therein in potentiality because the Null is so absolutely empty that it doesn't quite contain “nothing” either. | ||
