Twelfth Floor

Twelfth Floor

The Twelfth Floor of Ternky Tower is home to P.K. Quello. It contains three rooms.

Animated Scene From Official Website

• Alchemy Lab
• Picture Caption: "Things were in the process of changing to other things"
• Animation: Puffs of smoke from the machine, blenders blending.

Numbers

• The equation 6*π + y^2 = 61985/100 + (1197 * 15) appears on a chalkboard.

solution is y = 136.22, -136.22 (please read the talk page for this article before changing this number)

• The chemical compund C3H3O5N appears on a chalkboard

The formula on the blackboard appears to be C3H3O5N This seems to be a molecule in smog, Peroxyacetyl nitrate

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/physical_science/chemistry/pan.html&edu=high

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peroxyacetyl+nitrate

However, there is a mistake (or perhaps a clue) in the way the formula is drawn: carbon cannot have five bonds to it, and yet there is a double bond between the leftmost carbon and the oxygen next to it.

• Wikipedia describes Peroxyacetyl nitrate as a "lachrymatory agent," a "chemical compound that stimulates the corneal nerves in the eyes to cause tearing." This is in keeping with Quello's experiment turning tears into clouds.
• The framed picture in the foyer reads "He" - the symbol for helium in the periodic table.
• Helium has an atomic weight of 4.002. The picture of the "He" symbol is in green and blue. The teacups going into the machine and t-shirts coming out of the machine are also green and blue. There are four of them.

Recurring Themes

• Stolen Item From Another Floor: The Victrola from the Fifth Floor —the speaker can be seen between the IN chute and the fireplace.
• Missing Item Found On Another Floor: Quello is missing six bars of lead. Three silver bars marked "Pb" (the chemical symbol for lead) and two other bars are lying nearby on the Tenth Floor.
• Pink Doughnuts: Pink frosting is apparently a biproduct of (or ingredient in?) Quello's alchemy machine. Does this mean each donut is a clue that something has been turned into something else?
• Eyes: A bowl of eyes and a single eye are sitting on a kitchen counter.
• Shower head: appears to be an emergency shower, as found in a science class - includes EYE wash (matches eyeball clue?)
• Snake:
• Ladder: leaning against cabinet filled with drawers.
• Clocks: hourglass on mantle.
• Leak: small puddle on counter next to "tears into clouds" jar.

Other Items of Interest

• The name P.K. Quello is presumably derived from Paulo Coelho, author of the book The Alchemist. In the text about the 13th floor, Ternky says that the first name of his 12th floor tenant is Paul.

• Quello says he can change pigs into pants. On the ninth floor, there is a piggy bank and a pair of underpants (I believe?) on top of cabinets. There is a toy pig on the eighth floor.
• "Tea cups" are transformed into "T-shirts." The ratio is 3:1 (three green to one blue). This could indicate the number 31: Arkansas was the 31st state to join the union.
• The toilet is perched like a throne atop some piece of machinery that, in turn, feeds two food storage units. The clear (though gross) implication is that the alchemist is turning human feces and urine into chocolate cake and lemonade.
• The open drawer near the ladder (which is filled with emeralds?) is the 60th drawer.

State - Highway - Mile

A copy of The Clock Without a Face can be seen on the Fifth Floor. Residents Vera Mazel & Josie Grey are self-described puzzle people. When discussing the book, Vera asks for help saying that she had found the state and the mile, but can't find the highway. This has lead to the speculation that each buried number can be found by deducing a state, highway, and mile for each floor using clues found on each floor. The following section can be used for documenting any speculation as to which state, mile, and highway to which this floor may hint.

State

• A periodic table of the elements appears on the wall in the main room. The element argon (Ar) has been replaced with the letters "Mi" and is circles in red. This could signal Michigan, Arkansas or possibly Missouri.

Highway

• Given that the correct answer to the chalkboard equation is 136.22, Hwy 136 intersects with 22nd Street in Unionville, Missouri (the first two letters of Mi on the Periodic Table).
  
• The element He is displayed in the front hallway, its number is 2, and state highway 2 terminates in St. Ignace, Michigan.
• The transforming device show four tea cups turning into four tee shirts. Could "four-tee"/"four-tea" refer to Highway 40? There is an I-40 in Arkansas, with a rest area in the rough vicinity of MP 136.

Mile

• Rt. 2 in Michigan is 304.98 miles long, so the number from the board (136.22) could be the mile number.
• 335 numbers between CHON. There is mile 335 in Michigan.
• There is a truckstop at mile marker 136 on I-94 in Michigan.

External Links

Hit Contests Forum -- Twelfth Floor

Tweleve Forum -- 12th Floor

Disobiki -- Ternky Tower Floors