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ortetamined adj. Drunk and propelled by stimulant confidence, with speech ahead of the feet by several stairs. orteted adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of an original specimen being carefully preserved on every step. orthaganned adj. Drunk to the point where you flutter at every step and mistake vertical movement for escape. Aneysa was orthaganned, circling the stairwell in short, anxious bursts. orthanted adj. Drunk enough to occupy one direction of the room at a time, never quite the intended one. Starlisa was orthanted, moving diagonally across the hall whenever the stairs required straightness. orthelled adj. You are drunk and treating the frostless earth outside as a reliable guide home. orthenined adj. Of a drinker: carrying one last round as though it were a compound with no simpler parts. Latwan arrived orthenined, bearing a final round whose composition nobody thought to question. orthented adj. Of a drinker who has reached the shallowest possible understanding of the journey home. Zacharya was orthented, standing on the pavement with no useful route beneath the surface. orthesised adj. Describing a drinker who requires structural assistance to cross the room and locate a coat. Zyree was orthesised by the umbrella stand and eventually found the correct coat. ortheziided adj. A drinker who has attached themselves to the cloakroom queue and will not be removed. Lynea became ortheziided beside the cloakroom, clinging to a ticket and discussing its scale. orthiconned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning visible but electronically indistinct, with details flickering at the edges. Rickayla woke orthiconned, reporting the previous night in brief flashes between mouthfuls of toast. orthiconoscoped adj. Drunk past the point of recording the morning clearly, though every blurred detail appears significant. Nafisa was orthiconoscoped, documenting the kettle's importance without explaining it. orthided adj. A drinker so far gone that the shell of the evening is all that remains, and it is still travelling home. orthited adj. The state of being drunk and proceeding in a narrow, crystalline line towards last orders. Jenniper went orthited after the second round, moving towards the bar in a remarkably slender line. ortho-amphibolited adj. Loosened by drink into a collection of minerals, coats, and companions with no obvious origin. Jaxsyn was ortho-amphibolited, separating from the group among the coats and calling it metamorphosis. orthoacetated adj. Reduced by drink to arranging three possibilities around every coat, none of them yours. orthoacided adj. Softened by drink into accepting the highest possible number of reasons for another round.