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D-noticed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become officially unreportable, particularly when explaining the evening to family. Sulyn was D-noticed and asked the taxi driver to suppress the facts on national-security grounds. D-padded adj. Too drunk to choose a direction without pressing one of four buttons and hoping for progress. Radame went D-padded and navigated the corridor by repeated, unhelpful directional decisions. D-pillared adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a vertical obstruction between the car and its rear window. Delayna was D-pillared, standing between the taxi's doors and the view of anyone trying to reverse. D-posted adj. Reduced by drink to a fixed rear obstruction, best approached with care in a car park. Jonlyn was D-posted beside the taxi, preventing anyone from seeing what was behind them. D-ringed adj. Sharpened by drink into a metal loop, ready to be lashed to the nearest stable object. Liviane was D-ringed and secured herself to the bar while the room changed angle. D-shackled adj. Still drunk, and fastening every loose conversation to the nearest available point. Cieran spent supper D-shackled to the coat stand, delivering maritime observations. D-sharp minored adj. Too drunk to resolve the evening into a major key, and settling instead for seven notes that are technically correct but persistently melancholy. Finnlay sat D-sharp minored at the piano, playing something accurate and quietly hopeless. D-sharped adj. Sufficiently drunk to rise by a semitone whenever the conversation requires no such elevation. Tanny grew D-sharped while explaining the menu to a perfectly patient waiter. D-subbed adj. You are drunk and shielded behind a formidable array of small, unhelpful connections. Elliston sat D-subbed behind the row of glasses, answering every question through them. D-valued adj. Of a drinker: requiring precisely long enough to eliminate nine-tenths of the evening's useful judgement. Yassmine was D-valued by dessert, with only a tenth of her earlier discretion remaining. D-worded adj. Having drunk enough to replace a mild oath with solemn reference to the forbidden word. Corryne got D-worded and announced that damn was too important to say casually. d-amphetamined adj. Drunk to the point where the central nervous system is issuing rapid instructions the limbs cannot carry out. Anushka was d-amphetamined, speaking briskly while missing the chair by several inches. d-beated adj. Too drunk to stop supplying the room with a repetitive hardcore rhythm. Devory was d-beated, pounding the table whenever anyone attempted a quieter conversation. d-blocked adj. Drunk by the third round, and arranging the remaining conversation into neat groups of elements. Franceen got d-blocked and sorted the guests according to imagined atomic properties. d-flatted adj. Of a drinker who has lowered every utterance by drink and mistaken the result for harmony. Huckleberry was d-flatted, singing under the tune while insisting everyone else was sharp. d-holed adj. Drunk by closing time, and using every available opening as an invitation to produce music. Fabliha became d-holed and tapped the table as though it were a string instrument.