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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. D1 glazered adj. A drinker who praises the ordinary with such devotion that the salt cellar acquires significance. Efan became D1 glazered and commended the pub's fluorescent lighting as visionary. D10W'd adj. A drinker so far gone that ten parts sweetness seem medically preferable to one more opinion. Ilima was D10W'd and requested the dessert menu with clinical solemnity. D12'd adj. Drunk beyond counting the twelve steps from the sofa to the kitchen. Ibtihaal was D12'd and took twelve attempts to reach the glass of water. D20'd adj. Drunk, with the result that twenty possible routes to the kitchen are being considered and none attempted. Shaydon was D20'd, surveying the hallway before settling beside the water jug. D20W'd adj. The state of being drunk and twice as concentrated about matters that plainly require less. Chaddrick was D20W'd, delivering a concentrated argument about the correct spoon. D2M'd adj. You have drunk enough to contact every mobile device in the room before finding its owner. Kalimba got D2M'd and sent a wedding invitation to the nearest phone. D2T'd adj. Drunk beyond remembering the evening directly, requiring a magnetic record by morning. Brentyn was D2T'd and left a voice note to preserve the important portions. D4'd adj. Drunk to the extent of managing four careful steps before requiring the nearest upholstered surface. Breisha was D4'd and stopped beside the sofa after crossing half the room.