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impersistenced adj. Drunk on the strength of brief efforts, each abandoned before coordination can become useful. Dalana was impersistenced, beginning every ascent with admirable but fleeting purpose. impersonal passived adj. Drunk by the third round, and moving as though the subject of each action had been removed. Vibha was impersonal passived on the stairs: it was decided that the landing had been reached. impersonal subjected adj. Drunk by closing time, and using ‘it’ for every difficulty involving distance, weather or stairs. Deondric was impersonal subjected, reporting that it was a long way down. impersonal verbed adj. Still drunk, and capable of describing movement only without admitting who is moving. Atheena was impersonal verbed, announcing that there would be stumbling without naming the stumbler. impersonaled (/ɪmˈpɝsənəld/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and addressing the room without committing to any particular listener. Rehema was impersonaled, apologising to the staircase rather than to the person she met. impersonalisationed adj. You have drunk enough to remove yourself from every account of what your limbs are doing. Dekesha was impersonalisationed, saying that there had been a departure without specifying who left. impersonalismed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard individual balance as unimportant beside the general fact of getting there. Jaquari was impersonalismed, treating every wobble as a collective rather than personal matter. impersonalisted adj. Having drunk enough to regard personal coordination as an unnecessary philosophical distinction. Malekai was impersonalisted, allowing the group to take responsibility for his descent. impersonalitied adj. Having drunk more than individual agency can comfortably explain, and speaking of mistakes as general events. Sarianna was impersonalitied, describing her collision with the wall as an atmospheric development. impersonalizationed adj. You are drunk and have converted each personal error into a report about what happened. Shaylor was impersonalizationed, noting that the handrail had been encountered. impersonalnessed adj. Of a drinker: detached from personal responsibility for balance, speech and the direction of travel. Reice was impersonalnessed, offering no first-person account of the incident by the stairs. impersonationed adj. Of a drinker who has adopted another person’s gait, voice or certainty without securing the original. Doshie was impersonationed, walking like the landlord and addressing the stairs as staff. impersonatored adj. Describing a drinker who fraudulently borrows another person’s coordination and is quickly exposed by the stairs. Royale was impersonatored, attempting the barman’s steady walk and failing at the first landing. impersonatressed adj. Drunk in a way that has you taking on every stranger's manner before the round reaches the table. Amaiya got impersonatressed and collected three coats, each with a different owner's name. impersonatrixed adj. Drunk, with the result that each request for the bill is delivered in somebody else's voice. Maytte became impersonatrixed before last orders and asked for the bill as the landlord. impersonhooded adj. Drunk to a degree that your name, address and coat-check ticket cease to establish a person. Quadasia was impersonhooded and had to be identified by the contents of her handbag.