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bactrined adj. Emboldened by drink to roll through the conversation, conceal the point, and emerge elsewhere. Kalesha was bactrined, making a careful circuit of the party while leaving every conclusion folded behind. bactriticoned adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake with a straight, narrowing account of the night, like a primitive shell. Akida woke bactriticoned, recalling the party as one long tapering corridor. bactritided adj. Having drunk enough to wake rigidly straight in posture, though the evening has long since become extinct. Ernie arrived bactritided, upright in the doorway but unable to date the previous night. bactritoided adj. Having drunk more than the morning can accommodate, and now moving like an extinct straight-shelled creature. Analisia came downstairs bactritoided, ancient in expression and markedly lacking in flexibility. baculed (/ˈbækjuːld/) adj. Of a drinker: counterbalanced so that one end rises whenever the other reaches a step. Lemya went bac uled on the staircase, with each raised foot lowering the opposite shoulder. baculiconed adj. You have drunk enough to wake with a tall, tapering shell of composure around a thoroughly absent centre. Khaleesy appeared baculiconed at breakfast, upright but hollowed out by the preceding evening. baculited adj. You are drunk and carrying the morning like an extinct, many-chambered fossil. Teagann woke baculited, each explanation of last night emerging from a separate chamber. baculitided adj. Of a drinker: rigidly upright by breakfast, with the layered, fossilised expression of an ammonite. George-james looked baculitided beside the kettle, composed in several distinct but inaccessible layers. baculosomed adj. Of a drinker who has condensed overnight into a small, granular unit and is now difficult to distribute. baculovirused adj. Describing a drinker who has become long, rod-shaped and quietly infectious with stories by morning. Wreatha was baculovirused at breakfast, spreading one elongated account across every available listener. baculumed (/ˈbæk.jə.ləmd/) adj. A drinker who has woken rigid with confidence and is making the household accommodate it. Ceylon was baculumed by breakfast, standing stiffly where the kettle needed to be. baculused adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning finds them reduced to one stiff, rod-like certainty. Cleophas woke baculused, clutching one rigid explanation for the missing shoe. bacuparied adj. The state of being drunk and waking fruit-heavy, tropical and faintly surprised by the edible parts of breakfast. Noey was bacuparied by morning, treating the fruit bowl as a serious regional discovery. bad actored adj. Reduced by drink to a discredited operator, with the morning's evidence entered against you. Grasha was bad actored by breakfast, sanctioned by everyone who had seen the kitchen. bad ajied adj. Softened by drink into a lingering weakness that makes the morning's next attack unnecessarily easy. Mitesh woke bad ajied, leaving coffee undefended and inviting immediate tactical criticism. bad appled adj. Sharpened by drink into one conspicuously unwholesome influence, blamed for the condition of the whole household. Savannahrose was bad appled by breakfast, and everyone else was judged accordingly.