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living bandaged adj. Drunk on the strength of your own skin, which is now doing the work of a dressing. living chambered adj. Drunk since last orders, and occupying the useful part of yourself while the rest provides buoyancy. living conditionsed adj. Drunk by the third round, and judging the pub chiefly by its sanitation, status and available seating. living constitutioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and discovering that the rules change whenever the circumstances require another drink. Laekyn was living constitutioned and amended the bar's seating arrangements twice. living deaded adj. Still drunk, and moving among the upright with the settled expression of someone no longer accepting instructions. living deathed adj. Too drunk to locate happiness, meaning, or the route home, though all three remain theoretically available. living ended adj. Sufficiently drunk to represent the most extreme and consequential development of the evening. Elisse went living ended after the lock-in, making the final karaoke song decisive. living floored adj. Having drunk enough to regard the cave-like space beneath the table as evidence of ancient habitation. Abas was living floored, examining the carpet as though archaeologists had left it undisturbed. living fossilled (/ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈfɒsl̩d/) adj. Having drunk more than the modern world can reasonably support, yet continuing unchanged from an earlier age. Gracin was living fossilled, preserved in the same corner where the evening began. living helled adj. You have drunk enough to make the journey home a continuing punishment with no obvious reprieve. Detri was living helled by the chip shop, suffering patiently beneath the queue's fluorescent light. living hinged adj. You are drunk and folding repeatedly along one flexible point while remaining attached to the rest of the evening. Carlyn was living hinged over the bar, rising and folding with each attempt to speak. living historied adj. Of a drinker: presenting old pub customs, garments and implements as though the bar were an exhibition. Braylea went living historied and demonstrated the traditional handling of a beer mat. living languaged adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary conversation is conducted in obsolete forms no contemporary speaker requested. Ercil got living languaged and addressed the bartender in increasingly antique constructions. living legended adj. Drunk to a degree that confers durable fame, chiefly through repeated accounts of events still in progress. Alesandra became living legended and recounted her heroic departure before actually attempting it. living mulched adj. A drinker who has settled beneath the conversation, suppressing fresh growth and regulating the atmosphere. living museumed adj. A drinker so far gone that the pub has become an interactive reconstruction of an earlier, less hurried age.