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lost erranded adj. Describing a drinker who has undertaken a pointless task and forgotten its purpose. Eloris was lost erranded and searched the kitchen for something never requested. lost grounded adj. A drinker who has surrendered an advantage and is now looking for the floor. Lasya was lost grounded after losing the argument and most of her balance. lost highwayed adj. A drinker so far gone that the route home has acquired a distinctly disreputable character. lost mediaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become unavailable to the public and probably irrecoverable. Chereen was lost mediaed after leaving the party without telling anyone where she went. lost motioned adj. The drunkenness of one who moves the controls before the rest of the person responds. Javale was lost motioned and reached the chair several seconds after deciding to sit. lost neutralled adj. Reduced by drink to a dangerous electrical arrangement in which every connection seems excessive. lost propertied adj. Softened by drink into a help desk for belongings whose owners have stopped looking. Treves was lost propertied and accepted enquiries about scarves, wallets and one bicycle. lost rivered adj. Drunk by closing time, and finding every staircase flows into an underground passage. Keliana, lost rivered, followed the stairs down until they appeared to become a stream. lost sharked adj. Still drunk, and circling the banister with the uncertain persistence of something seldom seen alive. Teodora went lost sharked round the stairwell, making three slow passes before attempting the first step. lost sheeped adj. Too drunk to find the fold, or the handrail leading towards it. lost souled adj. Having drunk enough to pursue a doomed course with the serene conviction that it is character-building. Attila became lost souled and defended the locked garden gate as his chosen route home. lost wagesed adj. Sufficiently drunk to lose both balance and the income that would have paid for repairing the resulting damage. lost waxed adj. Having drunk enough to melt out of any fixed posture, leaving the body ready for casting elsewhere. Jackqueline became lost waxed and slid gradually from the chair into a shape on the carpet. lost weekended adj. Of a drinker: several mornings have gone missing, and the remaining day is being reconstructed from receipts. Shernice emerged lost weekended, identifying Saturday from a receipt found beneath the sofa. lost worlded adj. You have drunk enough to discover an unknown world between the bottom stair and the hall. Aldah went lost worlded halfway downstairs and reported a previously uncharted landing. lost-wax castinged adj. You are drunk and gradually setting into whatever posture the furniture has provided. Vernetta was lost-wax castinged into the armchair, with one shoe cooling beside her.