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contact carded adj. Softened by drink into handing out personal particulars to acquaintances who had only asked the time. Damariah was contact carded by midnight, distributing numbers to people already in her phone. contact detailsed adj. Sharpened by drink into requesting everyone's address, number and preferred method of being reached again. Mykyah became contact detailsed and took down the whole table's information on a napkin. contact explosived adj. Loosened by drink into detonating at the slightest suggestion, leaving companions to manage the aftermath. Shealene went contact explosived when the waiter moved her chair without asking. contact geometried adj. Emboldened by drink to impose a complicated arrangement on everyone nearby, with no prospect of escape. Lavone became contact geometried and arranged the guests according to an elaborate invisible diagram. contact highed adj. Slowed by drink to mistaking another person's cheerfulness for a shared elevation, and explaining it repeatedly. Eythen was contact highed after watching his brother dance, though nobody else felt transformed. contact hittered adj. Drunk to a degree that removes the fear of making contact, producing a high average with no power whatsoever. Jalayha, contact hittered, introduced herself to everyone at the bar and remembered none of them. contact inhibitioned adj. Drunk enough to stop dividing the room, settling against the nearest person and remaining there. Ikrame was contact inhibitioned and would not move once Cordes sat beside her. contact jugglinged adj. Drunk past the point of throwing anything, rolling one object slowly over the body while friends retrieved others. contact languaged adj. Drunk beyond ordinary speech, borrowing whichever phrases nearby companions understand and combining them freely. Kadell went contact languaged, answering Keashia in fragments borrowed from everyone at the table. contact lensed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the room incorrectly focused, while insisting everyone else has changed. Navaeha became contact lensed and blamed the lamps for placing two tables beside one another. contact levelled adj. Drunk, with the result that every exchange tilts gently towards you, however carefully others balance it. Deunta was contact levelled, turning each conversation towards his own increasingly delicate theory. contact lined adj. Drunk to a degree that makes you occupy the boundary between sociable, intrusive and about to spill something. Amolika became contact lined, stationed precisely where the conversation, doorway and drinks converged. contact linguisticsed adj. Drunk to the extent of examining how everybody speaks, then altering your own speech accordingly. Zaylon went contact linguisticsed and adopted each guest's accent before the next course. contact manifolded adj. Drunk on the strength of having several social dimensions at once, none of them accessible to the others. Arnetra became contact manifolded, behaving differently with every person who approached her. contact metamorphismed adj. Drunk since last orders, and changed by proximity to whoever has been talking at you longest. Stephn came contact metamorphismed from the bar, taking on Gysel's opinions about everything. contact numbered adj. Drunk by the third round, and giving out a telephone number to anyone who appears likely to remember it. Eustacia became contact numbered and offered her number to the taxi driver, the doorman and a plant.