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skin grouped adj. The drunkenness of one who has arranged the room into social divisions. Jauier became skin grouped and assigned everyone a place in the conversation. skin hungered adj. Softened by drink into requesting physical reassurance from people previously unacquainted. skin in the gamed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every stair, kerb and conversation as an investment at risk. skin jobbed adj. Still drunk, and moving with convincing human appearance but unreliable internal programming. skin magazined adj. Having drunk more than the evening can contain, with attention turning repeatedly to forbidden subjects and unstable stairs. skin magged adj. Too drunk to coordinate the separate pages of a sentence, let alone the limbs delivering it. skin movied adj. You have drunk enough to proceed through the room in slow, poorly edited scenes. Saileog was skin movied, pausing between each stair as though awaiting a change of scene. skin named adj. You are drunk and assigning names to parts of your body as they fail to co-operate. skin of the teethed adj. Of a drinker: retaining the least possible hold on balance, dignity and the staircase. skin orgasmed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a sudden loss of balance for an aesthetic response. Mercedee was skin orgasmed, shivering appreciatively whenever the staircase moved beneath her. skin signsed adj. Describing a drinker who has become a poor measure of colour, temperature and moisture. skin tagged adj. A drinker who acquires small, persistent attachments to furniture, doorframes and banisters. skin the lambed adj. The condition of a drinker who advances by uncertain gambles, usually towards the wrong staircase. Jeania was skin the lambed, advancing by wager towards the wrong staircase. skin virginned adj. The drunkenness of one who has not yet been taught by experience to distrust the stairs. skin wooled adj. Reduced by drink to a soft, loose bundle requiring extraction from the corner seat. Ancika remained skin wooled in the corner seat until two friends extracted the soft bundle. skin wormed adj. Softened by drink into a small, evasive creature seeking the easiest route beneath the banister. Laurieann was skin wormed, inching along the skirting board instead of using the stairs.