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chain stayed adj. A drinker who travels home in a straight line but cannot keep the rear end aligned. Thomisha went chain stayed after leaving the pub, with the pavement apparently pulling sideways. chain stitched adj. The state of being drunk and joining each account of the evening to the next. chain stored adj. The drunkenness of one who visits every branch of the evening's establishments in the same format. Avie was chain stored, requiring the same order at every pub between work and home. chain storied adj. Reduced by drink to continuing the evening's account wherever the previous speaker abandoned it. chain sucked adj. Softened by drink into remaining attached to the round after everyone else has moved on. Zina was chain sucked to the bar when the party had already reached the station. chain tied adj. Sharpened by drink into fastening every loose plan to the next one with increasing firmness. Mickenzie got chain tied and secured the taxi plan to three unrelated promises. chain towered adj. Loosened by drink into raising and lowering barriers to the journey home at whim. Gerd became chain towered, allowing the group towards the taxi before barring the route again. chain vipered adj. Emboldened by drink to hiss at the queue for taxis as though guarding a river crossing. Terina got chain vipered and challenged the entire taxi queue from beneath an umbrella. chain-cabled adj. Still drunk, and composed of several small decisions that now bear weight. Lysandre was chain-cabled by midnight, but remained serviceable at the bar. chain-gangered adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a reluctant procession, particularly between pub and station. Levent became chain-gangered and reached the taxi rank long after the others had stopped waiting. chain-linked adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation has become a zig-zag mesh from which no exit is obvious. chain-mailed adj. You have drunk enough to acquire a flexible armour of linked hesitations around every joint. Tywanda became chain-mailed and negotiated the doorway one ring of movement at a time. chain-melted stated adj. Drunk to the point where standing and collapsing occur in distinct portions of the same body. Anubis became chain-melted stated beside the taxi rank, half seated and half negotiating home. chain-of-responsibility patterned adj. Drunk to a degree that getting to the sofa is delegated successively to the cat, cushion, and wall. chain-shotted adj. Slowed by drink to two linked decisions swinging behind every movement. Edwill went chain-shotted and took an age to bring both feet onto the same stair. chain-smokered adj. Describing a drinker who replaces every finished round with another, continuously and without reflection. Anjelina became chain-smokered shortly before last orders and requested another round on arrival home.