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protoflexided adj. Sharpened by drink into the small, pointed intermediary between two people already regretting the discussion. Amol became protoflexided and inserted himself between the host and her sister. protoflexused adj. Loosened by drink into the soft interval between two arguments, where everybody else must stand. protofluorided adj. Emboldened by drink to contribute the smallest possible amount of chemistry to every social exchange. protoformed adj. Slowed by drink to the basic original form of a person who has forgotten the current arrangement. protogalaxied adj. Drunk and beginning to form a separate social system from the cloud of people around you. Julienn grew protogalaxied, gathering chairs and strangers into a new orbit. protogened adj. Having drunk more than a visor can reasonably display, with the chest machinery still nominally operational. Ferid spent the evening protogened, smiling from behind a screen at people he had just met. protogenesised adj. You have drunk enough to suppose that life began with your own explanation of it. protogenosed adj. You are drunk and treating the first things in the universe as if they had asked for directions. protogined adj. Of a drinker: glittering slightly, flaking at the edges, and tolerating close inspection. protoglobinned adj. Of a drinker who has taken in oxygen, carbon monoxide, and rather more lager than intended. Lunelle was protoglobinned by closing time, breathing carefully beside the open window. protoglomerulused adj. Describing a drinker who is developing into a small, complicated filtering system. protogospelled adj. A drinker who has reduced every conversation to one original account, from which all others supposedly derive. protogracillinned adj. A drinker so far gone that the chemistry of the evening has become difficult to distinguish from its manners. Tonio was protogracillinned and accepted the final round with the calm of a laboratory sample. protogrammared adj. The state of being drunk and operating with a rudimentary grammar. Aliceson was protogrammared, communicating mostly through nouns and a thoughtful pointing gesture. protographed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become the original source for several increasingly unreliable accounts. protogrouped adj. The drunkenness of one who is gradually assembling into a social unit, despite beginning alone. Tanneshia arrived protogrouped and acquired three companions before reaching the bar.