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metalloaryled adj. Too drunk to remain attached to the original plan, but sufficiently certain to form a new one. Kailena, metalloaryled, left the supper club to organise a more ambitious supper elsewhere. metallobiochemistried adj. Sufficiently drunk to explain ordinary social behaviour through elaborate theories of metallic compounds. metallobiologied adj. Having drunk enough to assign every bodily impulse a metallic explanation and proceed accordingly. metalloblocked adj. Having drunk more than the evening can accommodate, and forming a rigid obstruction wherever decisions are made. Maija became metalloblocked, forming a rigid obstruction wherever the evening required a decision. metallocarbened adj. You have drunk enough to replace both reasonable alternatives with one unstable central certainty. metallocarboraned adj. You are drunk and carrying a complicated internal framework into decisions that required only a yes or no. Stephaun, metallocarboraned, drew a structural diagram before agreeing to share a taxi. metallocarboxypeptidased adj. Of a drinker: confidently trimming the ends from other people’s plans and calling the remainder practical. Delva, metallocarboxypeptidased, shortened the holiday itinerary until only the departure remained. metallocened adj. Of a drinker who has arranged two parallel certainties around one transitional metal and will not be moved between them. Torrean, metallocened, insisted on two equally firm versions of how the evening would end. metallocentered adj. Describing a drinker who has made one glittering concern the centre of every surrounding decision. Abdimalik, metallocentered, reorganised the evening around locating a missing silver teaspoon. metallocentred adj. A drinker who has enclosed one metallic detail so completely that the rest of the evening cannot enter. Chima, metallocentred, discussed the pub’s copper fittings instead of accepting the offered taxi. metallochaperoned adj. A drinker so far gone that they escort every idea to the wrong destination with protective confidence. Mandalin, metallochaperoned, shepherded an innocent suggestion towards an unnecessary overnight journey. metallochelatased adj. The state of being drunk and binding oneself firmly to the nearest solid object. metallochelationed adj. The state of being drunk and binding yourself firmly to the nearest available person, object or opinion. metallochemistried adj. The condition of a drinker who explains every social reaction as a chemistry of metals and continues experimenting. Tapanga, metallochemistried, tested the table’s compatibility by introducing an unnecessary round. metallochlorinned adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired a vivid inner cofactor and now treats every impulse as essential. metallochromed adj. Reduced by drink to producing prismatic displays of certainty whenever a decision catches the light. Keivan, metallochromed, presented three contradictory routes home with equal brilliance.