THE FERN THING'S CONSCIOUSNESS HAD MET THE MYSTERIOUS "MARCY," WHO INFORMED HER THAT THE PARLIAMENT MAY REPRESENT PURE DEATH-CONCEPT, WHICH SEEMS PRETTY CONVENIENTLY OBVIOUS I MUST SAY.
AFTER SOME OTHER STUFF, THE FERN CLIMBED UP INTO THE ABYSS AFTER SOME DAME'S THINGBABY, WHICH BIT A BIG BITE OUT OF THE FERN'S UPTOP BODY AREA, CAUSING YET ANOTHER OF FERN'S BIOVESSELS TO TERMINATE.
WITH THE ONGOING DETERIORATION OF THE HOSPITAL, THE FERN'S RESPAWN WENT AWRY! HER CORE WAS CAUGHT MID-REBOOT IN ONE OF HER PREVIOUS VESSELS - THE NOW THOROUGHLY DISTORTED VESSEL SHE ONCE EXPLORED IN THE EXCITING "CORPSE ZONE" FILLER SAGA!
NOW KNOWN TO OUR BELOVED VIEWERS AS "SLOBFERN," SHE ENCOUNTERED AN OLD NEMESIS TURNED FRENEMY, DOCTOR E.M. BALMER, WHO TASKED HER WITH INVESTIGATING A MAJOR COMPUTER MALFUNCTION.
IN THE DEPTHS OF THE PLANK MAZE, FERN DID SOME OTHER STUFF AND MET UP ONCE MORE WITH HER RECENT ALLY MAGDOLENE, ULTIMATELY REPAIRING THE HOLE IN THE HOSPITAL'S COMPUTATIONAL NETWORK AND REVIVING ANOTHER DIGITOID ENTITY, THE HELPFUL QUERY.
THE THING CALLED JAY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING - HE WASN'T THERE!
TO RESTORE FERN TO HER PROPER VESSEL, MAGDOLENE DEVOURED ENOUGH OF HER SLOBMONSTER FORM TO FREE HER STUCK CORE. DON'T WORRY FOLKS! THOSE SLOBTHINGS GROW BACK GOOD AS NEW. AS WE SPEAK, FERN'S CORE IS JUST ABOUT WAKING BACK UP IN ITS MOST POPULAR MEAT!
...I suppose some other things also happened at the l*brary. Never mind all THAT.