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Chinese restaurant syndromed adj. Drunk by closing time, and waking with tingling fingers, a racing heart, and considerable doubt about supper. Fed came downstairs Chinese restaurant syndromed, reporting tingling hands and questioning the wisdom of the takeaway. Chinese river dolphinned adj. Still drunk, and moving through the morning by sonar, with breakfast detected only after several cautious passes. Emahni went Chinese river dolphinned through the kitchen, locating the coffee by sound rather than sight. Chinese roomed adj. Too drunk to understand anything, yet producing plausible replies by following rules no one can explain. Yaslen woke Chinese roomed and answered every breakfast question correctly without appearing to understand any of them. Chinese ropesed adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the morning's furniture for a skipping game and negotiate it one limb at a time. Pason came downstairs Chinese ropesed, stepping over the rug as though it formed part of a game. Chinese rosewooded adj. Having drunk enough to acquire a fragrant, hard-to-shift presence beside the bed until the afternoon. Koriann woke Chinese rosewooded, immovable beneath the duvet and faintly fragrant with last night's cologne. Chinese rowed adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably seal, and making every attempt to proceed in a straight line. Emmelyne was Chinese rowed across the hallway, advancing in short, determined strokes towards the bathroom. Chinese saged adj. You have drunk enough to regard the morning as a medicinal herb and administer advice accordingly. Darena appeared Chinese saged at breakfast, prescribing water to everyone despite having forgotten the glasses. Chinese sausaged adj. You are drunk and arranged horizontally, compactly, and with little immediate prospect of uncoiling. Garrit woke Chinese sausaged beneath the blanket, requiring assistance before attempting the stairs. Chinese silvered adj. Of a drinker: pale, mixed from several elements, and best kept away from further polishing. Meria looked Chinese silvered by breakfast, bright-faced but chemically less convincing than yesterday. Chinese snake gourded adj. Of a drinker who has spent the night lengthening into the furniture and now requires careful harvesting. Anisur woke Chinese snake gourded along the sofa, occupying its full length without explanation. Chinese snookered adj. Describing a drinker who has placed themselves before the obvious route out and made recovery needlessly difficult. Jacquolyn woke Chinese snookered, wedged between the bed and laundry basket with no elegant route to the door. Chinese spidered adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast is approached with a long-handled implement and no confidence in the hand. Maevyn arrived Chinese spidered, lifting the toast from the plate as though it might bite. Chinese spinached adj. The state of being drunk and flattened into a greenish, leafy quiet beneath the duvet. Destinay woke Chinese spinached, limp among the sheets and unwilling to stand for photographs. Chinese strawberry treed adj. The condition of a drinker who has grown stationary, fruit-coloured, and unexpectedly ornamental by breakfast. Lavi was Chinese strawberry treed in the armchair, red-faced and rooted there since dawn. Chinese studiesed adj. The drunkenness of one who has spent the morning researching the previous evening without reaching a reliable conclusion. Lusiano was Chinese studiesed, consulting messages and notes as though reconstructing an unfamiliar civilisation. Chinese swamp cypressed adj. Reduced by drink to a rooted, waterlogged stillness from which the morning may eventually recover you. Yosgarth woke Chinese swamp cypressed, upright beside the bed but incapable of leaving the damp quiet of the room.