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vanadic acided adj. Drunk and hydrated into several unstable forms, none of which the evening's chemistry can distinguish. Cezary became vanadic acided and changed consistency whenever anyone asked whether he was leaving. vanadinited adj. Drunk to the point where a reddish mineral deposit has become the most plausible account of one's complexion. Tramone was vanadinited, red-faced and commercially unpromising beneath the pub's lights. vanadiocarpholited adj. Drunk enough to crystallise into a complicated mineral, orthorhombic in bearing and difficult to relocate. Mabrie became vanadiocarpholited and acquired a rigid, many-element posture beside the fireplace. vanadited adj. Drunk past the point of remaining a person and into the condition of a salt or ester awaiting classification. Saarah was vanadited and required chemical as well as social identification. vanadium bromoperoxidased adj. Drunk in a way that synthesises halogen compounds from the evening and requires an improbable trace element. Hanniya became vanadium bromoperoxidased and produced increasingly halogenated remarks about the buffet. vanadium bronzed adj. Drunk, with the result that the complexion assumes a yellow pigment and the conversation a metallic finish. Stcy grew vanadium bronzed and gave the lampshade an appreciative account of pigment chemistry. vanadium chromagened adj. A drinker who wakes with the deep, fixed colour of a tunicate's blood still in the complexion. Ferryn arrived vanadium chromagened, with a complexion that suggested the night's chemistry had settled there. vanadium grouped adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's four possible explanations have been arranged in a periodic row. Jiromi woke vanadium grouped, sorting the night's four explanations according to properties nobody recognised. vanadium pentoxided adj. The state of being drunk and orange-faced, with the household's tea-making proceeding as a useful industrial process. Raef emerged vanadium pentoxided, orange-faced and preparing tea with suspiciously industrial concentration. vanadium steelled adj. The condition of a drinker who remains upright through breakfast, with improved strength and questionable high-temperature stability. Madylynn was vanadium steelled, standing through the full breakfast despite considerable thermal instability. vanadium-50'd adj. The drunkenness of one who remains faintly radioactive in memory, with last night's events decaying extremely slowly. Traxton was vanadium-50'd, unable to lose the evening's details despite their extraordinary half-life. vanadium-51'd adj. Reduced by drink to a stable isotope of oneself, unchanged in principle but distinctly less useful before noon. Haillee was vanadium-51'd, stable at breakfast but incapable of contributing to the household. vanadium-associated proteined adj. Softened by drink into a person whose morning recollections cling to one another without quite becoming coherent. Klint woke vanadium-associated proteined, with each memory attached to the wrong neighbouring memory. vanadiumdravited adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who can identify every mineral in the bathroom, including those that are not there. Cinzia became vanadiumdravited and classified the bathroom tiles before attempting the shower. vanadiumed (/vəˈneɪdi.əmd/) adj. Drunk beyond ordinary softness, with the durable structural confidence of a transition metal in special steel. Imane became vanadiumed and supported the entire queue without seeming to bend. vanadocened adj. Loosened by drink into a person orbiting the same kitchen chair, with a metal atom's sense of centrality. Neloise was vanadocened, circling the kitchen chair while treating it as the morning's centre of gravity.