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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]] | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= | | villain(s)= [[Baron (Paying It Forward)|The Baron]] | ||
| featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Janni]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small> | | featuring= [[Robot Toaster]]<br>[[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Cha Ni]]<br>[[Janni]]<br>[[Jamek Tagilono]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Genie Everywhere]]<br>[[Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere]] | ||
| setting= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]]'s apartment, [[Universe (Parallax)|unnamed universe]]<br>[[Temple of the Oracle]], “[[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|Universe A]]”<br>Eurasian steppes, “[[Universe B (Paying It Forward)|Universe B]]” | | setting= [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|Jenny Everywhere]]'s apartment, [[Universe (Parallax)|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]]” | ||
| length= 4 chapters | | length= 4 chapters | ||
| writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | | writer(s)= [[Scott Sanford]] | ||
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| previous = ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' | | previous = ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'' | ||
| next = ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story]]'' | | next = ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story]]'' | ||
}}'''''Paying It Forward''''' is a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel currently being serialised. The work of by [[Scott Sanford]], its first chapter was released for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] in 2021. | }}'''''Paying It Forward''''' is a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel currently being serialised. The work of by [[Scott Sanford]], its first chapter was released for [[Jenny Everywhere Day]] in 2021. Notably, Part 4 incorporated ''[[The Freeing of Genie Everywhere (short story)|The Freeing of Genie Everywhere]]'', previously released by Sanford as a standalone short story. | ||
== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
===Plot === | ===Plot === | ||
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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==== | |||
Dressed in a black [[wikipedia:Niqāb|niqab]], [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping other Jennies|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. | |||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | ====Jenny Everywhere==== | ||
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* 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]]. | ||
* [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s version of the Shifter is known as [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]. She is described as “a dark amazon”, taller and fitter than the story's main Jenny. She wears light clothing including “[[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|a headband with two round amulets]]”. Her [[shift]]ing powers are somewhat unique; she travels around huge distances along a beam of glowing, rainbow light which, once she has reached her destination, shrinks down, allowing her to drape it over her shoulders — thus making it her version of [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|the scarf]]. | * [[Universe C (Paying It Forward)|One universe]]'s version of the Shifter is known as [[Janni, She Who Walks In Every Place]]. She is described as “a dark amazon”, taller and fitter than the story's main Jenny. She wears light clothing including “[[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|a headband with two round amulets]]”. Her [[shift]]ing powers are somewhat unique; she travels around huge distances along a beam of glowing, rainbow light which, once she has reached her destination, shrinks down, allowing her to drape it over her shoulders — thus making it her version of [[Jenny Everywhere's scarf|the scarf]]. | ||
* In [[Universe D (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is [[Jenny Everywhere#Genie Everywhere|a genie]]. | |||
* In [[Universe E (Paying It Forward)|another universe]], Jenny is a medieval princess called [[Jenny Everywhere#Genevieve, Princess of Everywhere|Genevieve]] who styles herself the “Princess of Everywhere”. She occasionally has “prophetic dreams”, implicitly nuggets of information or messages from her other selves, but does not seem fully aware of her true nature. | |||
====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
* The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#|main Jenny]] lives in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]]. | * The story's [[Jenny Everywhere#|main Jenny]] lives in [[Universe (Parallax)|one universe]]. She visits [[Universe A (Paying It Forward)|another one]] which is home to the [[Temple of the Oracle]]. | ||
