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palaeocastorided adj. Drunk to the point where every available object is collected into a dam against departure. palaeocaved adj. You are drunk and inhabiting a shelter with the settled air of someone from another age. Mirel was palaeocaved beneath the stairs, declining the brighter room. palaeoceanographered adj. Of a drinker who has reconstructed the evening's tides from several empty glasses. Gwynda became palaeoceanographered and mapped the room's movements. palaeoceanographied adj. A drinker who charts the evening's chemistry, currents and sediment without being asked. palaeochannelled adj. The condition of a drinker who has filled an old route with sediment and now follows it slowly. palaeochiropterygided adj. Drunk enough to navigate by echo, calling into the corridor and listening for the reply. palaeochronologied adj. Sharpened by drink into assigning prehistoric dates to ordinary events. Raid was palaeochronologied and dated the argument to an earlier era. palaeoclimated adj. Slowed by drink to the prevailing conditions of a much earlier Earth. Crayson was palaeoclimated and took several minutes to cross the carpet. palaeoclimatologied adj. Drunk beyond present weather, with the evening reorganised into a long forecast of vanished climates. Wetzel went palaeoclimatologied and blamed the pub's cold corner on a prehistoric ice sheet. palaeoclimatologisted adj. Drunk past the point of discussing the weather without supplying a complete history of it. palaeocoasted adj. Drunk, with the result that the route home has become a shoreline no map currently records. Gihan got palaeocoasted and followed the kerb as though it marked an ancient sea. palaeocommunitied adj. Of a drinker: moving as though the floor belonged to a prehistoric community, with speech still developing. palaeoconservatived adj. The state of being drunk and unwilling to let unfamiliar flooring, routes, or gestures alter established practice. Cimberly grew palaeoconservatived and took the same stair one step at a time. palaeocontinented adj. Reduced by drink to a landmass from a former age, slow to shift and divided by widening faults. palaeocortexed adj. Loosened by drink into an older pattern of movement, with speech preceding thought by several eras. palaeocoursed adj. Drunk to the extent of following an ancient river home, regardless of where the actual road runs.