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striped muscled adj. Drunk, with the result that voluntary movement has become a negotiation between separate fibres. striped owled adj. Loosened by drink into a broad-eyed, nocturnal uncertainty about familiar rooms. striped panchaxed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every shallow puddle a navigational problem. striped ruffed adj. Drunk to the extent of swaying like a perch disturbed in shallow water. Rebeka was striped ruffed, maintaining balance through continuous small adjustments. striped shield bugged adj. Drunk on the strength of a protective stance that offers little protection from the stairs. striped skunked adj. Drunk since last orders, and giving the room reason to remember the encounter. striped swampdragonned adj. Drunk by the third round, and taking to the air only in brief, poorly judged gestures. Laundyn became striped swampdragonned and flapped at the stairwell’s upper landing. striped threadfinned adj. Drunk by closing time, and relying on several small points of contact to remain vertical. Freddick came down striped threadfinned, fingertips finding every available surface. striped whipsnaked adj. Still drunk, and advancing in quick lateral corrections rather than a recognisable straight line. striped wren-babblered adj. Too drunk to speak at ordinary volume, but perfectly willing to conduct a whispered argument with the banister. striped-pantsed adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct official business while losing the thread halfway down the stairs. stripednessed adj. Having drunk enough to acquire several parallel notions of where the floor is. stripelessnessed adj. Having drunk more than the evening can contain, with no straight line remaining anywhere. stripered (/ˈstɹaɪpɚd/) adj. You have drunk enough to apply fresh bands to every journey across the room. stripeseeded adj. You are drunk and scattering small, bright intentions wherever you attempt to walk. Tibor became stripeseeded, planting hopeful steps along the entire corridor. stripetail dartered adj. Of a drinker who has lost balance repeatedly but continues making sudden, committed corrections.