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palaeorivered
adj.
Drunk to a degree that the original route home has disappeared and only an ancient course remains.
palaeornithologisted
adj.
Drunk on the strength of identifying fossil birds, and now attempting to take flight from the bottom stair.
palaeoryctided
adj.
Slowed by drink to the cautious, low-level progress of an extinct shrewlike mammal.
Serica was
palaeoryctided
and crossed the room beneath the level of the conversation.
palaeosalinitied
adj.
Drunk and measuring the evening by the increasing salinity of the conversation.
Nechama was
palaeosalinitied
and declared the room noticeably more marine than before.
palaeosaured
adj.
You have drunk enough to move like a creature recently recovered from a tar pit.
palaeoscenarioed
adj.
Of a drinker: replaying an ancient sequence of events in which the stairs have always been there and never safely descended.
Halston became
palaeoscenarioed
and reconstructed the journey home from three separate landings.
palaeoscienced
adj.
Of a drinker who has mapped every previous stumble onto the present one, with geological confidence.
palaeoscolecided
adj.
A drinker who advances in a segmented crawl, with each portion of the body arriving separately.
palaeosedimented
adj.
Sharpened by drink into regarding every abandoned coat as evidence deposited by an earlier civilisation.
Rona became
palaeosedimented
and catalogued the coats accumulating beneath the pub bench.
palaeoseismologisted
adj.
Drunk and investigating each rattle of the taxi as evidence of an earlier journey.
palaeosetided
adj.
A drinker so far gone that balance is maintained by brief, erratic bursts of motion.
Nikaya became
palaeosetided
, launching sideways whenever the floor appeared to move.
palaeoshorelined
adj.
The state of being drunk and repeatedly reaching the edge of the room without finding a way along it.
palaeosloped
adj.
Drunk past the point of walking upright on any surface shaped before the present age.
Levent became
palaeosloped
and descended the pub steps by a route of his own devising.
palaeosoiled
adj.
Drunk in a way that leaves you buried beneath successive coats, as though awaiting excavation.
palaeosoled
adj.
Drunk, with the result that you settle beneath the evening's deposits and resist removal.
Amareion became
palaeosoled
beneath the pub's spare coats and missed the first taxi.
palaeospeciesed
adj.
Drunk since last orders, and now regarded by the group as an ancestral form of the person who arrived.
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