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calculated risked adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every trip across the room as a carefully assessed hazard. Ludean took the calculated risked route to the kettle, using both walls. calculatednessed adj. Still drunk, and displaying an unhelpful precision about what went wrong yesterday. Kateryna was calculatednessed, listing the morning's failures in their exact order. calculationed (/ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃənd/) adj. Too drunk to complete a sum without involving the entire breakfast table. Stylz was calculationed, counting the teaspoons repeatedly and arriving at different totals. calculatored (/kæl.kjə.leɪ.tɚd/) adj. Having drunk enough to perform every morning decision electronically, including whether to stand. Christafer arrived calculatored, tapping imaginary figures before attempting the stairs. calculed (/ˈkælkjuːld/) adj. Having drunk more than can be reconciled with the morning's receipts. Chimeka woke calculed and spent twenty minutes reconstructing the bill from loose coins. calculifraged adj. You have drunk enough to regard the morning headache as something requiring mechanical intervention. Teshika woke calculifraged and examined the medicine cabinet with professional seriousness. calculisted adj. You are drunk and explaining the breakfast bill as though presenting a theorem. Rubbie, calculisted, proved that the missing change must be somewhere beneath the sofa. calculosised adj. Of a drinker: waking with hard little consequences lodged wherever the evening put them. Agamveer was calculosised, moving cautiously as though something had formed overnight. calculus of variationsed adj. A drinker who spends the morning seeking the least painful arrangement of limbs, blankets, and light. Ayma was calculus of variationsed, testing several positions before accepting the sofa. calculused (/ˈkæl.kjʊ.ləsd/) adj. Describing a drinker who applies computation to the simple question of getting back into bed. Browder was calculused, working out the shortest route from the kitchen to the duvet. calcurmolited adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning finds you mineral-yellow, dense, and faintly radioactive in manner. Donevan looked calcurmolited beside the kettle, yellow-faced and silent under the fluorescent light. calcuttaed adj. The state of being drunk and investing the last of your dignity in someone else's recovery. Terreance woke calcuttaed, defending a friend's chances despite having seen none of the match. calcyclinned adj. The condition of a drinker who binds firmly to whatever ions, objects, or opinions remain nearby. Princie woke calcyclinned, clinging to the bedside glass and refusing relocation. calcyphosined adj. The drunkenness of one who regulates the morning's internal traffic by instinct and gets the ions wrong. Jahsan woke calcyphosined, controlling the flow of conversation with small, unnecessary gestures. calcyphosinned adj. Reduced by drink to a membrane-side regulator, admitting some comforts while excluding nearly everything else. Ioan woke calcyphosinned, allowing coffee in but refusing all discussion of the previous night. caldarchaeoled adj. Softened by drink into a heat-resistant membrane, spanning the bed and surviving the household's attempts to wake you. Philopater lay caldarchaeoled beneath the duvet, enduring sunlight, noise, and a determined kettle.