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What is it?

Facility J is an Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. It made its first appearance on January 13, 2007 on the site of a YouTube user named TravelerJ19. The videos TravelerJ19 released through YouTube consisted of archival scientific footage from the post World War II era. Their subject matter is genetic engineering. The latest on the Facility J ARG can be found in the LG15 Fan Creations section of the Forum index under In-Depth Discussion. Or just click on the link in the "Active Forum Thread" below.

Active Forum Threads

Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:38 pm | Facility J - (Discussion) Vial Destruction
Drop chat is mIRC #FacilityJ. Instructions for download and installation can be found at mIRC.

Characters

In order of appearance
TravelerJ19 - 19-year-old family friend of WalterDW Dabrowski (YouTube/Revver/MySpace)
WalterDW Dabrowski - 87-year-old former Facility J employee (YouTube/Revver/MySpace)

Locations

Facility J was a "State of the Art Government Installation" run by Operation Aphid in the post World War II years.

The Videos

History Lessons (XX/XY) (TravelerJ19) Watch
History Lessons (Coded Rings) (TravelerJ19) Watch
The Project (Great Minds Gather) (TravelerJ19) Watch
History Lessons (Knock 'Em Down) (TravelerJ19) Watch
The Project (Welcome to Facility J) (TravelerJ19) Watch
Our First Meeting (WalterDW) Watch
Catalyst (A Call to Action) (TravelerJ19) Watch
Catalyst (Find Him) (TravelerJ19) Watch
The Project (Walter) (TravelerJ19) Watch
A Proper Introduction (WalterDW) Watch
Dei Sub Numine Viget (WalterDW) Watch
Catalyst (You Rang?) (TravelerJ19) Watch

Recaps

Puzzles

Catalyst (A Call to Action): solution summary.

Catalyst (Find Him): the video contains a morse code tinyurl resolving to a DNA sequence, with a repeated subsequence which contains codon shifts which decrypt to WalterDW.

A Proper Introduction: the video contains a tinyurl with a DNA sequence encoding another tinyurl containing a telegram with a stamp which decrypts to Dabrowski.

This Side Of Paradise: solution summary.

Dei Sub Numine Viget: drop contents contains shifts and a letter sequence "IKYOIYK" which encodes a dna sequence as octal which decrypts to "the cure".

Catalyst (You Rang?): solution summary.

Drops

The Parcel: By mail, February 8, 2007 | drop contents
This Side Of Paradise: By mail, March 9, 2007 | drop contents
The Old College Try: Princeton, March 15, 2007 | drop video | drop contents

Chemical J

Following Catalyst (A Call to Action) we are being sent one or two containers at a time of mystery chemical "J". We have been instructed by TravlerJ19, that there are 19 of these samples in total. identified as J1-J19. These chemicals currently have an unknown purpose but we have been instructed by Walter to destroy them. Walter has warned us these chemicals tamper with the immune system, so one person can only destroy a limited number. Thus we must work together to destroy them all.

Samples J1 and J2 consisted of a powder and a liquid which were destroyed by being mixed together. Later samples have been colorless, odorless gases which are destroyed by being released to the atmosphere.

In a series of YouTube messages Walter and TravelerJ19 revealed Chemical J to be "The Cure", which Walter described as "the cure for mankind". Walter also described destroying the samples as "helping me with the dirty work," and said "Walter knows best," and "you kids should trust your elders". This had the opposite effect, as seen in the Vial Destruction forum discussion.

The status of the following samples is currently known:

J1 - TravelerJ - February 8, 2007 - destroyed

J2 - McP - February 7, 2007 - destroyed

J3 & J4 - Luminous - March 9, 2007 - destroyed

J5 & J6 - FiremanDan - March 15, 2007 - destroyed

J7 & J8 - Ziola - In transit

Forum Discussion Archive

Tool Box

Decoders and other helpful information for playing "Facility J"

Facility J number sequence decoderCustom built by McPackage.
ASCII text / Octal translator also translates text and binary
Base Conversion Tool Converts numbers from any base to any base 2-16.
Code Translator Tool - Encodes and Decodes Hexidecimal, Binary, Base64, Text, and Characters
NCBI Blast (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
DNA Manipulator - converts a DNA sequence to it's inverse, complement, inverse complement, double strand
Rumkin.com Ciphers and Tools
Amino Acid abbreviations