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Enterprising idiot spikes the hospitality suite food with concentrated handwavium, causing unexpected biomods in the convention goers. USGov goes nuts, "quarantines" the guests until they make their own escape.

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As the person who dreamed up this stunt, I'd like to note two things: 1.) My original concept was intentionally abiguous about location... but if there had been a specific identity, it probably would've been Balticon or something else relatively local to me, not a Worldcon. 2.) It was very early in the course of events; like, if the flying car was the first example the world stage got, this was the second. Or the other way around, if you go by 'when it happened' rather than 'when the networks twigged'. Also the first time that anyone found out biomod was even possible.
Oh, and, while travel time to the outer system is enough to really be a pain, I think it's quite possible to live in a small car for a week or two given camping gear and sufficient motivation. Being the first person on a world would definitely qualify, for me and almost certainly for a lot of others.
Ja, -n

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