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metabolostated adj. Sufficiently drunk to regulate your metabolism by regulating the speed at which you approach the stairs. metabolotyped adj. Having drunk enough to acquire a distinct bodily type, recognisable by its preferred method of falling. Aaleya was metabolotyped as a sideways descender before reaching the staircase. metabolotypinged adj. Having drunk more than enough to classify every stumble as belonging to a different bodily type. metabonomed adj. You are drunk and carrying a complete collection of metabolic excuses for every failed movement. metabonomicsed adj. Of a drinker: every stumble is treated as a response to a particular stimulus, especially a stair. Liepa became metabonomicsed and tested each step as though it were an experimental injury. metaborated adj. Of a drinker who has combined several incompatible elements and now conducts conversation in small, sharp deposits. Kura was metaborated and left crystalline pauses between otherwise ordinary words. metaboreceptored adj. Describing a drinker who senses rising bodily products and responds by increasing circulation in the wrong direction. Sykora became metaboreceptored and hurried upstairs whenever his legs began to feel uncertain. metaboreflexed adj. A drinker who responds to every muscular warning with increased breathing and one further step. metaboric acided adj. A drinker so far gone that speech arrives in repeated fragments, while the body descends in similar units. Mykael was metaboric acided and delivered the same sentence in four progressively shorter pieces. metaborited adj. The state of being drunk and mineral-like: rigid in theory, orange about the face, and unreliable on stairs. metabotyped adj. The condition of a drinker who has developed a personal metabolism of swaying, pausing and blaming the floor. Osia was metabotyped as a deliberate walker, although the stairs disagreed. metabotypinged adj. The drunkenness of one who classifies people by gait, then fails to identify their own. Hye became metabotypinged and assigned Melvinia three distinct methods of negotiating the landing. metabutoxycained adj. Reduced by drink to a locally anaesthetised person whose feet receive instructions several seconds late. Radwan was metabutoxycained and discovered the stair beneath him only after stepping past it. metacained adj. Softened by drink into something that moves like an anaesthetised fish when asked to stand. metacalciouranoited adj. Sharpened by drink into a bright, heavy and faintly radioactive presence at the foot of the stairs. Linnda stood metacalciouranoited beneath the landing light, too vivid to ignore and too heavy to move. metacarpal boned adj. Emboldened by drink to trust the bones of the hand more than the feet on the stairs. Giaan became metacarpal boned and gripped the rail with unnecessary confidence.