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text tennised adj. The state of being drunk and exchanging brief messages with the competitive persistence of a match. Darayl was text tennised, returning each message before the other person had finished typing. text typed adj. The condition of a drinker who has sorted the night's utterances into narrative, descriptive, and argumentative forms. Nalin was text typed and classified his account of the evening as chiefly expository. text walled adj. Drunk since last orders, and presenting the morning's explanation as an impenetrable block with no useful entry point. Joshelyn arrived text walled, requiring several paragraphs to explain the missing shoe. text-booked adj. Of a drinker who has drunk into obsolete habits, writing the morning's instructions in a form no one now uses. Jonene was text-booked and recorded the breakfast arrangements in painstaking, old-fashioned prose. text-editored adj. Drunk since last orders, and persistently revising the evening's prose without retaining a stable version. Quandra was text-editored and altered the invitation while guests were already outside. text-to-speeched adj. Drunk by closing time, and converting every written thought into a synthetic announcement for the room. Shawnie woke text-to-speeched and read the shopping list aloud in a mechanical voice. text-typed adj. Drunk on the strength of written categories, and sorting the morning into narrative, descriptive and argumentative passages. Tehilah woke text-typed and labelled the kettle's account of events expository. textaed adj. Still drunk, and applying broad, brightly coloured explanations to the morning's smaller difficulties. Marquisha was textaed, marking the breakfast menu in colours before choosing toast. textaholicked adj. Too drunk to stop sending messages, including a detailed account of having stopped sending messages. Glendal woke textaholicked and sent six apologies before finding the original conversation. textationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct the morning's social life entirely through messages sent from the same room. Beckette was textationed, wishing Lestat good morning while sitting beside him at breakfast. textationshipped adj. Having drunk enough to maintain several fragile intimacies by message while avoiding everyone in person. Hayslee woke textationshipped, sending affectionate apologies to people still asleep nearby. textbased adj. Having drunk more than the morning's memory can catalogue, and storing the remaining evidence as searchable fragments. Lewis-jay was textbased, consulting last night's messages to establish where the bicycle came from. textblocked adj. You have drunk enough to face the morning as a solid body of pages, with the useful details excluded by its binding. Chidiebere was textblocked and could recall the cover of the evening but none of its chapters. textboarded adj. You are drunk and posting anonymous explanations of the night to an imaginary board before breakfast. Bernese was textboarded, attributing the missing umbrella to an unnamed local contributor. textbook cased adj. A drinker who provides a perfect real-life instance of the theory that mornings punish optimism. Magabi was textbook cased, having planned a productive morning and retained only the hangover. textbook exampled adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the route home a definitive case of preventable confusion. Secelia got textbook exampled and boarded the correct bus in the wrong direction.