plasmid

Much simpler answer

Edit:

@benjer, the player doesn't lose the accumulated winnings after losing a game. It just forces him to stop playing.

Time out blows this one away. The jaded ascension was another clue pointing toward that particular answer.

I didn't but some folks from work did, and they weren't too happy about driving out to watch it. To the point at hand, fireworks weren't what I had in mind, although in retrospect I see that it'd be a great fit. The clues that point elsewhere are subtle, one of which is the timing of the events in the second and third stanza that would work a little better for what I have in mind than for a firework.

Terrestrial start, from home I depart A jaded ascension on high Arise from the plain, my former domain Now nestled aloft in the sky The sunbeams are cast from source where amassed Encompassing all as if noon Then color is lost, a snowball is tossed Defying the fact that it's June In perilous state, appearing ornate With hardly a hope to defend Dissolving in flight, to left and to right This life meets a zephyrous end

One article on the immunology of Grave's disease (that's probably too complex) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1906338/?tool=pubmed Another that talks about managing the disease in practice (that's probably also too complex) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149254/?tool=pubmed Articles in journals are probably more specialized than what you're really after though. If you have a library that has copies of a good medical textbook like Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, or any other Internal Medicine textbook, I think that would be your best bet.

I'm not a solution...

I think I'm reading the problem fundamentally differently than superprismatic. I can get it in 13. Fewer might be possible.

Edit: realized I didn't consider an important case

First thing I'd want to do is use the alarm key to make sure the alarms are on. Then go investigate. There are eight characters to question, so by splitting up they should be able to question them all in two hours and have enough time left to look over four rooms. The rooms appear to be: Spaulding, Hackenbush, kitchen, Driftwood, electrical closet, Hammer, Miller, Wagstaff, Firefly, the security room, the idol room, the grand hall, the banquet hall, the entryway, and the back garden with its exit (I'm not sure if any of the unnamed rooms are the same as one of the named rooms, could a witch clarify this and maybe give a definitive list of what rooms are available to investigate?). With no other information, I'd say that the idol room, security room, electrical closet, and maybe the back garden with its exit would be at the top of my list to investigate. But that might change depending on what people say, so might as well just say the first thing we'll do and adjust based on the outcome. I'd say Judgment talks to the Page of Swords, and Justice talks to the Knight of Swords, (two characters we haven't seen yet) to get things started, unless anyone has other suggestions. Edit: just noticed that Flamebirde did make another suggestion. I think we'll probably want to talk to all the characters and investigate the idol room regardless, so I'll go with Flamebirde's suggestion of talking to Nine and investigating the idol room. And just add the step of making sure the alarms are on first.

I've got it

If his response is two letters...

I guess I might as well put that in blue To the Witch of Secrets: The "sacrifices" are Christmas presents Same evidence as was used with the previous blue truth attempt. If you'd like to try to slay the daemons with the next blue swipe, have at it.

Do they offer sacrifices to the Times Square Ball? I know they leave presents under Christmas trees... I also realized that my blue truth usage above would not end up having the desired effect. Oh well.

I've got more.

From Chapter 1 Witch of Doubt: The green tower and the conveyance running on electricity are no longer mysteries

Of course!

I get the feeling the witches might tell you the same thing they told me when I tried to incriminate TimeOut =P

Not a ski, as I think the mechanism to attach a ski to the boot would have a similar mechanism at the toe and the heel. The second stanza talks of a steel toe, while such a heel would be unheard of.