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natural steelled adj. Drunk since last orders, and refined directly from iron into a harder, less negotiable presence. Chasadee was natural steelled and met the locked door with metallurgical resolve. natural theologianed adj. Drunk by the third round, and studying the divine significance of the bar snacks. Syler was natural theologianed and found the peanuts suggestive of a higher arrangement. natural theologied adj. Drunk by closing time, and explaining the universe through whatever remains in the glass. Zackari was natural theologied and used the final olive to illustrate cosmic order. natural transformationed adj. Still drunk, and carrying every conversation across without disturbing the square of people around it. Justinryan was natural transformationed, moving from football to metaphysics without altering the table's arrangement. natural trumpeted adj. Too drunk to produce anything beyond the harmonic series and an apologetic blast. Ziyanah was natural trumpeted and announced the taxi's arrival in several resonant notes. natural united adj. Sufficiently drunk to measure the evening in fundamental constants, particularly the kebab. Maelina was natural united and expressed the journey home in units no one had requested. natural uraniumed adj. Of a drinker: overwhelmingly stable in composition, with one small unstable fraction that everyone else in the room has quietly identified. Mariahna was perfectly pleasant all evening — natural uraniumed, really, with just the one trace element to manage. natural user interfaced adj. Of a drinker who has become, through repeated rounds, effectively invisible to the pub — present, functional, and entirely unnoticed by the staff. By nine o'clock Millenna was thoroughly natural user interfaced, ordering drinks without anyone recalling having served her. natural vowelled adj. You are drunk and reduced to a schwa, with occasional reference to the taxi. Madalene was natural vowelled, contributing a central vowel and a persuasive point towards home. natural wastaged adj. Drunk enough to let colleagues retire or resign without replacing them, leaving the office quietly diminished. Alexandra got natural wastaged and watched three colleagues leave without once asking who would replace them. naturaled (/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəld/) adj. Reduced by drink to a self-appointed local authority, familiar with every route except home. Makaleb became naturaled and gave tourists a confident tour of the wrong street. naturaliaed adj. Drunk in a way that makes private anatomy a public conversational subject, to everyone else's discomfort. Gaith got naturaliaed and began discussing bodily matters beside the dessert trolley. naturalisationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and granting familiar strangers full citizenship of the conversation. Cherolyn got naturalisationed and appointed two visiting salesmen permanent members of the table. naturalismed adj. Drunk, with the result that every social convention is treated as an unnecessary interference with instinct. Brinlea got naturalismed and ate with her hands when the restaurant supplied perfectly good cutlery. naturalistaed adj. Drunk to the extent of abandoning all attempts to disguise one's own appearance, to the relief of no one nearby. Miaandrea got naturalistaed and announced that presentation was no longer part of the evening. naturalisted adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every companion into a specimen and every conversation into fieldwork. Abbott got naturalisted and took notes on Kishana's changing expressions throughout the meal.