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tone colored adj. Drunk on the strength of a voice whose emotional quality has changed, though its words remain intact. tone dialinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and transmitting each digit as a separate burst while trying to phone home. tone diallinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and repeatedly sending one sharp sound for every number misremembered. Nichaolas was tone diallinged, calling home in short bursts from the foot of the stairs. tone holed adj. Drunk by closing time, and opening and closing the mouth in sequence without improving the tune. tone indicatored adj. Too drunk to speak plainly, and therefore adding a sign to every message explaining its intended mood. Elinah was tone indicatored, appending a cheerful face to her request for emergency assistance. tone mappinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to replace ordinary colours with brighter ones, particularly around the edges of the stairs. tone marked adj. Having drunk enough to annotate each syllable with an emphatic gesture and an uncertain pitch. Ashlynn was tone marked, pointing at every stair while pronouncing its number. tone meetinged adj. Having drunk more than the evening can absorb, and holding a production conference with the stairwell. Janella was tone meetinged, discussing the staircase’s direction with the director of her own walk. tone numbered adj. You have drunk enough to assign every syllable a number, then pronounce none of them accordingly. tone of voiced adj. You are drunk and speaking in a manner whose quality conveys more than the words do. Aabha was tone of voiced, making ‘I’m fine’ sound like a formal appeal for rescue. tone paintinged adj. Of a drinker: turning each movement and utterance into an expressive account of the journey downstairs. tone poemed adj. Of a drinker who has converted the evening into a narrative composition, with the stairs as its recurring theme. tone policinged adj. Describing a drinker who insists everyone speak calmly while raising his own voice at the banister. tone sandhied adj. A drinker who changes pitch between successive words, so that each one alters the next. tone scaled adj. A drinker so far gone that spiritual vitality is judged by how successfully the stairs are negotiated. Darcie-jane was tone scaled, awarding herself serenity after reaching the landing without sitting down. tone tagged adj. The state of being drunk and appending a small sign to every remark to prevent misunderstanding.