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shadow banking systemed adj. Drunk past the point of trusting your legs, borrowing stability from walls, rails, furniture and passing acquaintances. shadow bankinged adj. Drunk enough to borrow stability short-term while investing confidence in a much longer, less secure journey downstairs. Emman became shadow bankinged and borrowed the rail for a four-step investment in reaching the hall. shadow banned adj. Drunk by closing time, and quietly excluded from the evening's visible record despite continuing to participate. shadow benied adj. A drinker so far gone that every leafy shape appears to endorse the decision already made. shadow blister effected adj. Drunk beyond walking past another person without your path bulging visibly towards theirs. shadow boxed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every wall-mounted object appear to contain a smaller, safer version of yourself. shadow boxinged adj. Drunk on the strength of an argument nobody else in the room had entered into, and winning it decisively. Loreyna was shadow boxinged by the second round and had refuted four positions nobody had taken. shadow buffered adj. Drunk to a degree that your progress depends on a stored outline of the room rather than current visual information. Zykee became shadow buffered and followed the remembered edge of the staircase after losing the actual one. shadow cabineted adj. Drunk by the third round, and quietly forming an alternative government in the corner booth. Jessabella became shadow cabineted by the third round and allocated every coat a portfolio. shadow daddied adj. Drunk to the extent of finding the most intimidating man in the room both attractive and responsible for your balance. shadow darnered adj. Drunk on the strength of moving like a large dragonfly: hovering, veering and refusing to land squarely. shadow dialed adj. Drunk since last orders, and taking your bearings from whatever patch of light appears to indicate the hour. shadow docketed adj. Drunk by the third round, and resolving every stair without argument, explanation or a complete account of how it happened. shadow factoried adj. Drunk by closing time, and moving through concealed stages of assembly before emerging unfit for open inspection. Benhur became shadow factoried on the stairs, apparently assembled somewhere behind the coat cupboard. shadow fleeted adj. Still drunk, and proceeding by covert changes of direction that preserve plausible deniability about falling. shadow gazered adj. Too drunk to distinguish the body's internal arrangements from the room's darkened furniture.