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basic B'd adj. Drunk past the point of pretending to prefer anything obscure, and now requesting the obvious song. Jabraan got basic B'd and demanded the jukebox play the year's most familiar hit. basic balanced adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the books level only because the current account has borrowed from the capital account. Renona became basic balanced, funding another round from money meant for the taxi. basic beliefed adj. Drunk, with the result that one small pub conviction has become the foundation of all reasoning. Shundarius got basic beliefed and built the evening around the certainty that crisps cure everything. basic bitched adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves only mainstream tastes, familiar clothes and no interest in defending either. Negin got basic bitched and requested the obvious pop song without apology. basic blocked adj. Drunk to the extent of proceeding in one unbroken sequence, with no change of direction or useful label. Ayviana went basic blocked, moving from bar to kebab shop without any intervening decision. basic cabled adj. Drunk on the strength of ordinary television, neither terrestrial nor premium, and entirely content with it. Elienai got basic cabled and spent an hour watching whatever sport the pub television supplied. basic educationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to primary lessons in counting, sharing and going home. Quan was basic educationed, relearning subtraction while dividing the bill into equal portions. basic formed adj. Too drunk to add an ending to a word, a sentence or the evening's original plan. Verdale was basic formed, leaving every explanation in its shortest dictionary shape. basic ignition timinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to confuse the piston, the crankshaft and the moment at which the night should stop. Yana became basic ignition timinged and declared the taxi's arrival mechanically premature. basic incomed adj. Drunk by closing time, and receiving the evening's provisions without having earned them. Ivy-lily was basic incomed by closing time, accepting chips from all available sources. basic lawed adj. Having drunk enough to give constitutional force to the rules of the pub, including several newly invented ones. Salama got basic lawed and declared the corner table constitutionally reserved for regulars. basic needsed adj. Drunk to the point where long-term physical well-being means finding crisps and somewhere horizontal. Jeddie became basic needsed and abandoned all ambitions beyond toast and a blanket. basic payed adj. Drunk enough to calculate the evening by monthly military earnings, then spend the remainder on chips. Kyrollos got basic payed and reviewed the bar tab against his imagined pay grade. basic plumaged adj. Drunk past the point of first moult and reduced to wearing the evening's original shirt. Elsabeth was basic plumaged, still wearing the original shirt despite the evening's evident sediment. basic rate interfaced adj. Drunk beyond communication at two channels, one of which is asking where the toilet is. Yeray was basic rate interfaced, conducting two conversations and one urgent lavatory enquiry. basic reproduction numbered adj. Drunk, with the result that every infected individual acquires several direct conversational cases. Aimara was basic reproduction numbered, passing the same anecdote through half the pub.