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palaeorivered adj. Drunk to a degree that the original route home has disappeared and only an ancient course remains. Kaaden became palaeorivered and followed a vanished route through the wrong hallway. palaeornithologisted adj. Drunk on the strength of identifying fossil birds, and now attempting to take flight from the bottom stair. Angeal became palaeornithologisted and flapped once before accepting the banister. 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. Shadee went down the stairs palaeosaured, preserving prehistoric dignity but not balance. 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. Meribeth grew palaeoscienced and dated each wobble according to an earlier fall. palaeoscolecided adj. A drinker who advances in a segmented crawl, with each portion of the body arriving separately. Iory went palaeoscolecided across the landing, knees and shoulders proceeding by agreement. 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. Kyani became palaeoseismologisted and diagnosed ancient earthquakes beneath the taxi floor. 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. Dameir was palaeoshorelined, following the skirting board until it disappeared at the stairs. 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. Billie-leigh became palaeosoiled beneath three coats while the others ordered a taxi. 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. Wash became palaeospeciesed after last orders and no longer resembled the person who entered.