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parastrachiided adj. Drunk and settling beneath the furniture, emerging only when someone else disturbed the room. Daryah became parastrachiided beneath the buffet and had to be coaxed out by Elimar. parastratotyped adj. Drunk to the point where every explanation required an additional example, approved by nobody present. parastronauted adj. A drinker who has turned the journey home into a carefully narrated expedition for unwilling companions. parastyled adj. Drunk enough to place a smaller, unnecessary flourish in front of every conversation's main point. Shandy became parastyled and prefaced each answer with a decorative anecdote nobody had requested. parastylided adj. Drunk past the point of locating the main argument, and now supplying its obscure final detail instead. parasubiculumed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary recollection, storing the evening in a remote mental annex accessible to nobody else. Kathryn became parasubiculumed and could retrieve only Zykierra's name from the entire evening. parasubstitutioned adj. Drunk in a way that replaces every expected answer with a neighbouring one, leaving companions to restore the subject. Nakara became parasubstitutioned and answered every question with the person or object beside it. parasuchianed adj. Drunk, with the result that you moved through the gathering like a reptile from an earlier era, alarming the furniture. parasuchided adj. Drunk to a degree that made you look perfectly adapted to a vanished world and poorly suited to this one. parasuicidaled adj. Drunk to the extent of making a dramatic departure which everyone understood was not intended to succeed. parasuicidalitied adj. Drunk on the strength of a theatrical impulse, while retaining enough sense to make it chiefly inconvenient. Dai became parasuicidalitied and threatened several departures, each requiring Gladyce to fetch another coat. parasuicided adj. Drunk since last orders, and repeatedly announcing an exit which the company knew would not hold. parasuised adj. Drunk by the third round, and spreading a general discomfort through the household without quite knowing why. parasurfered adj. Too drunk to proceed under your own momentum, but quite willing to be carried by the nearest companion. Glorianna became parasurfered and let Edelmira negotiate every doorway between the pub and the station. parasurfinged adj. Having drunk more than the ordinary route permits, and requiring the evening to be adapted around you. paraswimmered adj. You have drunk enough to cross the room by an adapted stroke, while friends clear a safe channel. Anre became paraswimmered and crossed the carpet in careful stages while Shiyanne moved the chairs.