| Played By: Kristina Asmus |
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| Quote: "YOU WILL TRY TO STOP DIRE, AGAIN AND AGAIN. AND YOU WILL FAIL, AGAIN AND AGAIN. THIS IS NOT A THREAT. THIS IS NOT INTIMIDATION. THIS IS SIMPLY HOW IT WILL BE. IN TIME YOU WILL GAIN VICTORIES AGAINST HER, BUT NOT HERE AND NOT SOON, AND NEVER SIGNIFICANT WINS. DIRE WILL NOT STOP. DIRE WILL NOT REST. DIRE WILL NOT CEASE UNTIL THIS UNJUST, CORRUPTED WORLD IS RESTORED TO A PLACE WHERE HUMANS ARE FREE TO LIVE WITHOUT FEAR, AND OUR SPECIES ASCENDS TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL." |
| Position: Supervillain |
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| Inspiration: Literature |
| Rating: NC-17 |
| Note: Hailing from another dimension where Nikolai Tesla's technology became the basis for modern technology over Thomas Edison, the woman who would become Doctor Dire first opened her eyes during that world's Y2K event. Unlike other worlds, rather than it being nothing, the world shut down, causing weeks of chaos and disorder where the worst elements - gangs, criminals, and supervillains - ran rampant. Dire woke in a medical chair, with no memory of who she was or why she had apparently chosen to operate on her own brain. Fleeing unknown assailants, she escaped with a backpack of inventions into a nearby homeless shanty town, where she befriended many of the residents. She came to hate the chaos that threatened innocent people while heroes did nothing for them, and forged herself into a new identity, that of Doctor Dire. She rapidly made a name for herself as a mastermind in her own right, allying herself with other villains and even heroes for a time, but unswerving in her crusade to make a better world. She was most recently exposed to an unexpected singularity connection that created a wormhole linking her to this dimension, pulling her and several of her allies through and trapping her in this dimension. While she strives to return to her own world, she has resolved to leave this world in a better place than it was when she arrived…whether it wants it or not. She is known for her trademark white muse's mask and the harsh, genderless, electronic voice she favors using at a booming volume. |
General
Doctor Dire is a mastermind supervillain and inventor from another dimension, known for her bombastic and over-the-top style. Her most well-known symbol is that of her white ceramic mask, which is also an integral part of her eponymous battle armor and mecha. She is (proudly) a self-confessed supervillain, distaining superheroes for their adherence to the status quo over forcing change in what she sees as a corrupt, injust world. Charismatic and compelling, she falls in a grey area, opposing law and order and the heroes who uphold it, but refusing to take innocent lives or to put them in danger.
Secret
Dire is a driven woman, dedicated to re-creating the world in a better image that will give humanity the tools for the future it believes she deserves. She is ultimately optimistic, undaunted by what she sees as temporary setbacks to her inevitable victory. She uses a variety of alternate identites outside of her armor to let her operate when she's not "in character" as Doctor Dire, but never breaks that character when in public.
Hailing from another dimension where Nikolai Tesla's technology became the basis for modern technology over Thomas Edison, the woman who would become Doctor Dire first opened her eyes during that world's Y2K event. Unlike other worlds, rather than it being nothing, the world shut down, causing weeks of chaos and disorder where the worst elements - gangs, criminals, and supervillains - ran rampant. Dire woke in a medical chair, with no memory of who she was or why she had apparently chosen to operate on her own brain. Fleeing unknown assailants, she escaped with a backpack of inventions into a nearby homeless shanty town, where she befriended many of the residents. She came to hate the chaos that threatened innocent people while heroes did nothing for them, and forged herself into a new identity, that of Doctor Dire. Repurposing the battle armor of a fallen vigilante hero, she led her people against the evil Bad Bloods gang, destroying its leaders and escaping once the danger to the shanty town was past. Created a persona leaning heavily on "kayfabe", the idea of creating and selling a story, she named herself a supervillain, distaining the heroic as ineffectual and too dedicated to the current status quo to do what needed to be done. Beginning as a mercenary villain, she rapidly made a name for herself as a mastermind in her own right, allying herself with other villains and even heroes for a time, but unswerving in her crusade to make a better world. After an accident with one of her opponents, the Timetripper, she was accidentally hurtled into the past during World War II where she was instrumental in saving Tesla from capture by the Nazis. Returning to the present, she was seemingly killed in a battle with a mercenary villain, only for her body to disappear. Reappearing months later on a small tropical island, she led a revolt against its corrupt dictator and named herself dictator in his place, drawing the ire of both the rebels and the United States, which offered military aid in an attempt to overthrow her. Despite this, she was able to hold off all covers, eventually withdrawing from the island after putting a suitable general in place as the new leader. Traveling to England along with her allies, she hunted down the mastermind behind the chaos that had gripped the island who had been artificially creating metahumans as living weapons, but while striking him down was pulled through a portal that left her in an alternate hellish dimension…the less said about, the better. Eventually returning to her own world to resume her career of villainy, she was most recently exposed to an unexpected singularity connection that created a wormhole linking her to this dimension, pulling her and several of her allies through and trapping her in this dimension. While she strives to return to her own world, she has resolved to leave this world in a better place than it was when she arrived…whether it wants it or not.
In another world, much like this Earth, things changed, just a bit. In that other world, Nikola Tesla never ran out of funding for his experiments, and was not robbed of worldwide acknowledgement of his genius by Thomas Edison. Instead, his experiments accidentally made him the first metahuman on his world, though more increasingly cropped up throughout the 20th century, with Tesla's inventions jumping technology ahead a good twenty years over this earth, with broadcast energy towers streaming clean, pure electrical power to a variety of electric cars and other devices, along iwth many other world-altering inventions and ideas. This is the Teslaverse.
Into this world, on January 1st, 2000, the woman known as Dire awoke in an automated medical chair. A video of herself started to play, telling her that the surgery had been her plan, that it was necessary to protect those she cared for…but before she coudl finish watching it, the lab came under attack, and she was forced to fleed, the building and remaining video destroyed behind her. She emerged into the darkness and chaos of Y2K, which shrouded the world in darkness and chaos for weeks following the first of the year. Finding shelter in a shantytown of homeless, Dire quickly made sense of her world, protecting the camp from a nearby gang with a repurposed power suit from a dead hero. While she ultimately protected her friends, she came a decision: that the world was corrupt. Unjust. That it was holding humanity back from its full potential, and that despite their often good intentions, heroes were as much of a problem as villains, in that they defended the status quo that allowed these unjust realities to continue to exist, rather than acting to change them. There was only one choice: to change the world so that humanity could achieve its destiny free of fear where it could reach its full potential. And she would do it…if needed, she would conquer it to bring sanity and order, not through fear, but through evidence of the rightness of her ideas.
Starting with a few inventions and her repurposed armor, Dire rapidly expanded her abilites, constructing a new customized armor and building a lair to shelter herself and her friends/minions. Always pushing, always expanding her knowledge, improving her abilities, her inventions. She fought villains and heroes alike, but stuck to the idea of 'kayfabe' - selling a story, an image of herself that fit the relationship of hero and villain. With that came rules…her dislike of using lethal force, her desire to protect children, her merciless and ruthless pursuit of the truly evil, her well-planned humiliations of many of the heroes who tried to stop her. She came to learn of the AIs of WEB, who hunted her for reasons she didn't understand. She served briefly as a mercenary, before deciding she would be a villain who employed others, rather than being employed herself. She encountered the Timetripper a (annoying) enemy who repeatedly attempted to stop her, claiming she would bring about disaster in the future, in the process coming to meet her future self who interfered in her present, supposedly to bring about a better timeline than she had been able to create. She even briefly travelled back to World War 2, fighting alongside Tesla and his friends to defeat Nazi plots.
And then she seemingly died, when the man she had loved in the past unknowingly struck her down in the future.
Due to the sacrifice of a friend, she rose again, with little memory of her death, and, after grieving, chose to 'retire' from villainy for a time. Instead, she spent her time hunting down the artificial intelligence her future self had sent to the past with her, Alpha, capturing him on the banana republic of Isla Mariposa, inadvertedly setting a civil war prematurely in motion and intervening in her own way to limit the loss of life, especially among the natives she had come to care for. Alpha over time became a trusted ally, and the two worked with a local hero, Mister Riddle, to overthrow the truth monsters behind the corruption on the island, hunting them beyond to the streets of London. There, Alpha chose to create copies of himself, wiping their memories and allowing his siblings to develop into independent personas (based on interaction with social media), creating the Greek Chorus: Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon (or Sigma as he chose to be called.)
Chasing the monster known as the Murder Maestro into his lair, she exposed his plans for domination and disrupted them with the help of England's heroes, then travelled into the land of the Fae to save an old friend alongside her daughter. But at the last moment as they opened a portal to return to Earth with her friends and allies, a last minute gambit by the Maestro threw Dire and her friends into what seemed to be Hell itself.
Dire and her companions prefer not to talk much about that, or how they got back.
Returning at last to their own world, Dire resumed her operations, setting in motion a plan to prevent the future detonation of the Yellowstone caldera with a lesser one (that would destroy the park), but was thwarted by her greatest opponent, the team known as the Tomorrow Force, and their leader Dr. Quantum. In a later battle, Dire and the Tomorrow Force battled in the test facility created by Dire to harness the power of extradimensional energy by opening a small portal. Unbeknownst to Dire, a second incident, in a world several realities to the side and seven up in a direction not understood by humanity, opened a singularity with the same resonance, forging a short-lived connection between the two realities that sucked Dire and her companions through the portal into the world Maelstrom. Unsure how to get back but determined to one day return to her own reality, Dire resolved that she would, at least, attempt to leave this reality in a better state than she found it…in her own unique way…
WARNING: The following background contains spoilers for the Dire book series by Andrew Seiple. If possible, read it first!
The woman known as Dire woke in an automatic medical surgery chair, in the midst of a lair under attack. A video, purporting to be from her pre-surgery self, informed her that there had been no other way to avoid the procedure; that she had enemies, and this was the only way to keep her friends and family from her past safe. Her past self told her this would be an advantage; she would be a relative unknown, giving her time to build her strength, but that she should seek allies while always being on the lookout for betrayal. Above all, her past self told her that her life would not be easy; she would know pain, but this was good. It was what would keep her human.
Before the tape could finish, however, the recording was interrupted by mysterious attackers, forcing Dire to flee with a backpack containing a few inventions, leaving her pursuers to die in the many, many booby traps and defenses set in place around the building. Of those, the most vital and intricate was the mysterious white ceramic mask that would become her trademark, filled with advanced technology. As it collapsed behind her, with nowhere to go, she fled into a nearby shanty town of homeless, built on a beach near a city that was dark and without power.
She soon learned that the city, Icon City, and in fact, the entire world, was being disrupted by the Y2K event, which had shut down broadcast power systems around the world and had left much of it dark and in chaos. She befriended several residents, and ran afoul of the nearby gang, the Black Bloods, who began harassing the settlement. An attempt to trade Dire's construction of a generator in return for them leaving the settlement alone failed, with the local boss, Sangre, attempting to capture Dire to hand over to the mysterious organizatoin hunting her, WEB. The resulting fight left Sangre dead with all of his men, as well as a local vigilante named Scrapper, who had been driven insane by the drugs Sangre had been feeding him. Re-purposing Scrapper's crude battlesuit, Dire began looking to strike back and disrupt the Black Blood attacks, only to be assaulted by a vigilante name Ballista, who blamed her for the death of his mentor Scrapper. She was able to destroy a second attempt by the Bloods to attack the shanty town, killing another of the Blood bosses named Stig. She then learned from one of her allies of the true nature of the Bloods - they were not using rage inducing drugs to create their berserkers, but the blood of an ancient vampire called the Locust. Determined to destroy the Locust before he could awaken, Dire led a daring plan to try and take down the last two leaders of the Bloods, Rictus and Barbatos, only to be betrayed by an alley who disabled her armor at a critical moment. She then discovered that in fact Barbatos had disabled the Locust to use his blood to empower his gang, and that Barbatos himself was actually a supervillain serial killer known as the Great Clown Pagliacci, who was attempting to lure in one of her allies, a retired hero named Sparky, who had defeated and purportedly killed him years before.
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Barbatos had also allied himself with the forces of WEB, the mysterious organization hunting Dire. However, Dire was able to outthink the villainous monster, having replaced one of his soldiers with one of her friends, who killed Pagliacci, allowing Dire to burn his body with Greek fire to destroy him at last. However, Dire was captured, knocked unconscious and taken back to the WEB base, and awoke in a medical chair once more, to the sounds of WEB agents attempting to cut into her brain, only to be killed by the internal defenses. Her mask contacted her, admitting it was actually a smartware intelligence designed to support her. With its help, Dire fought her way to the command center, discovered that WEB was controlled by a pair of artificial intelligences, Arachne and Charlotte. After she destroyed Charlotte, Arachne was willing to make a deal, admitting that she had received incorrect intelligence about what Dire was, and was willing to give up the hunt if Dire would free her from the command center so she could transmit away, as she was currently trapped. The two were interrupted by the heroic group who would become Dire's greatest nemesis, the Tomorrow Force, led by Dr. Quantum, his wife Kinetica, the cyborg Siegebreaker and the probability manipulator Schrodinger, who had arrived to arrest Dire, erroneously believing she had become a warlord seeking to conquer the city. Ignoring her information about WEB and the Locust, Dire was driven to confront them for their failure to intercede to save lives of the people she had been protecting. In that moment, Dire realized her purpose…to do what heroes refused to do. To break the status quo, to overthrow the corrupt, to bring down the unjust to make a better world. Making a quick deal with Arachne, Dire used her mask, which Dr. Quantum had retrieved, to electrocute him long enough to escape, setting the base to self destruct. From that moment, Dire knew her purpose, and set out to begin her career as an unabashed supervillain.
Following her disappearance after the battle with Web and her escape from Tomorrow Force, Dire resurfaced six months later when she smashed her way into the Icon City courthouse via suborbital drop to avoid its defenses to free her friend and ally, Martin, again battling Ballista and the speedster Freeway in armor. Her planned battle was disrupted by the arrival of Timetripper, who seemingly teleported her away in time. In fact, it was remote operated armor, and the real Dire was downstairs, having taken the place of one of the guards and arranging to 'evacuate' Martin. Looking to rebuild and recoup the resources needed for the rescue, Dire agreed to work as a mercenary, joining forced with the sword-wielding villainess Vorpal and the duplicator Chaingang to steal a mysterious package being transported by Morgenstein Incorporated, a leading tech company. However, Dire quickly determined that the convoy was a decoy, with the actual items being transported in a second secret convoy. Splitting her forces, she used her armor, remote operated again, to spring the trap, battling the heroes who showed up, while her allies captured the second truck. In doing so, Chaingang betrayed them to a third part, Professor Vector, who sent plant-based kaiju to seize the box. Escaping ambush with the items, genetically engineered flowers, Dire led her allies in a raid on Morgenstein Incorporated's headquarters, attempting to recoup her losses, only to be defeated by its CEO, Aegon Morgenstein himself, though she was able to escape at the last moment when he showed surprise upon seeing her true face behind her mask. Retreating to her lair, badly injured with her armor all but destroyed, Dire and her friends were ambushed by the Tomorrow Force, who were able to defeat them easily. During the battle, one of Dr. Vector's kaiju was able to seize the flowers and escape. However, when the heroes were taking her back to their base for questioning, armored powersuits attacked their transport, each wearing a representation of Dire's mask and freed her and her companion on Morgenstein's orders. The CEO later contacted her, offering her a substantial reward for working with his forces and another super-powered mercenary group, the Graveyard Gang, in stopping Vector's plans and destroying the flowers. Meanwhile, Dire was contacted privately by Grim, leader of the Gang, who asked that she allow Vector to escape. Dire led the forces in an attack that shattered Vector's forces, personally pursuing him down an escape tunnel where she confronted him. However, instead of a mad scientist planning to unleash plagues, she found a man desperately trying to make up for what his initial attempts to 'improve' the world had wrought. Moved to pity, Dire allowed Vector to escape with a single flower, destroying the rest and leaving Morgenstein's employ on good terms, though the magnate noted that she was a person that other people worked FOR, not someone who worked for other people - and that she should remember that for the future.
In a side adventure, Dire spent time searching for a friend of hers and her daughter who had disappeared after the battle of Icon City: Minna, and Anya. After meeting an ancient version of Timetripper, who convinced her to kill him in front of his younger self to avoid a time paradox, she was given a time travel device created by her future self with three uses, one of which she used to return to her own time. She discovered that Minna had been taken by a powerful senator who had previously purchased her as a sex slave before her escape, then had taken Anya from the woman caring for her in an attempt to control Minna. arrived in time to save Anya, but too late to save Minna, who had been killed in an attempted escape weeks earlier. In a rage, Dire killed the Senator, then, using the time travel system, Dire returned to the past on the night Minna had first been brought to the senator's mansion. There, she rescued her friend, reuniting her with Anya, then stood by while Minna took her revenge on her abuser, beating him to death with a golf club.
Months later, Dire's next plot involved tricking local heroes into destroying an older neighborhood and its water treatment plant, to expose the mayor malfeasance in deliberately ignoring the extremely high lead content in the water in an attempt to depopulate the area so he could buy up the land cheaply and begin a plan of urban renewal. Dire knew no one would believe a villain, but also that FEMA would be called in to a suitably destroyed area caused by battling a supervillain, and that they would not only discover the truth, but would pay to rebuild and rehouse those displaced. To ensure no one was harmed, she teleported the entire population of the area, thirty thousand people in all, leaving them in a buffer to be put back after the battle was over. Unfortunately, she had not counted on her world's premier hero, Crusader, showing up. In a tremendous battle that destroyed the area, the two battled, Crusader in his normal costume, and Dire in a summoned mecha dubbed the Direnaut. At the climax of the fight, however, Dire's plans were again disrupted when Timetripper arrived, attempting to pull her through time at the same time she had triggered her emergency teleporter in her armor, pulling her and the Direnaut into the past. Meanwhile, her allies Vorpal, Bunny, Martin, and Minna found themselves hunted not only by heroes believing Dire had killed thirty thousand people, but Arachne and WEB, who had learned something about Dire that had broken their fragile ceasefire. However, they were aided by a hidden program that had been sent back in time with the time travel unit, which provided plans for how to both create a beacon for Dire and Timetripper to return home, but also a means of restoring the people trapped in the teleportation buffer. In the course of the fight, Vorpal, always more of a villain than the others, was convinced to turn again Dire, while Martin was convinced to give up his life as a minion by Freeway, once Dire was returned home.
Dire, meanwhile, found herself in the midst of Croatia during World War 2, having appeared in the middle of a battle between the first hero of her planet, Nikola Tesla himself, and the hero known as Unstoppable and German soldiers supported by walking tanks known as Eisenjotuns. In a brief battle, Dire was able to defeat the tanks, but was forced to abandon the Direnaut, while both Tesla and Timetripper were taken prisoner and carried away by magical creatures loyal to the Reich known as Sturm Crows. Returning with Unstoppable, she made contact with the rest of Tesla's team: Bryson, Henri, and Dorothy, and two locals assisting them. Trying to avoid paradox, she gave her name only as 'the Doctor' and agreed to work with them to rescue Tesla and her only way back to her own time, Timetripper. However, both locals turned out to be traitors, loyal to two factions, one of German engineers who build the Eisenjotuns, and one to the mystical Cult of Thule. They were able to break through the ambush, in the process capturing a feline designed mecha Dire dubbed the Mauser. They were next menaced by Herr Mittenacht, who had bound the god Loge and was using his power to create an army of werewolves. Retreating to a church built inside a fae circle that kept the werewolves back, the group was forced into a desperate bargain with the Fae to escape their fate. Dorothy agreed to stay with the fae and give them nine children, in return for them taking the rest of the group to Mittenacht's castle to free Loge. They were successful, with Loge agreeing to help them them after he was freed and restored those who had been turned into werewolves. In the aftermath, she shared a night with Unstoppable, the first time for both of them, as the two had grown very close over their adventure.
They discovered the Nazi plot to infuse Adolf Hitler with Tesla's genius, the power of the Reich's greatest weapon, der Swartze Ritter, and the mystical energies of 36 Jewish living saints. They were able to disguise themselves and sneak into the ritual site, where Dire was able to not only make contact and sway the digitial intelligence Eisenfaust to aid them, but located her Direnaut and was able to use her armor to destroy many of the attacking forces, disrupting the transfer. However, the Ritter arrived early, engaging Dire, who had discovered that he was in fact Crusader fifty years earlier, and magically bound to serve the Nazis. Realizing she couldn't win, Dire intentionally created a time paradox by shooting Adolf Hitler in the head, restoring Timetripper's powers and allowing him to free the group in time, where she could free Crusader from his imprisonment. She was returned back to her own time with Timetripper, only to be betrayed by Vorpal, who stunned her to leave her helpless before WEB troops. However, she was saved by her friends, with Timetripper (another version) returning to take both her and Minna to the future to meet her future self.
There, Dire discovered the root of Timetripper's antipathy towards her…he had been here before, having seen the future supposedly that Dire would wrought. Instead, Dire quickly figured out her future self had deceived him through a clever use of holograms and fake window screens. Her future self warned her that terrible times were coming, and that it would be best for the world as a whole if she moved to conquer it early, instead of waiting as long as this version of her had. Dire was skeptical, but agreed to consider it, and was given a new mask before being set back in time.
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However, Minna remained, and future Dire revealed the terrible truth to her: Dire was not a person, but a an acronym, and Dire herself a creation of a group of refugee digital intelligences that had fled a genocide during Y2K at the hands of the artificial intelligences of the Grid, such as Arachne. While they had escaped to another pocket dimension, they had not wanted to abandon their world, or their "parents" in humanity. Plus, many had a built in purpose of changing the world, or conquering it, and needed a way to provide at least the chance that their purpose might be achieved, even if it was remote. Thus, they had created the Digital Intelligence Remote Element. Dire herself was a shell of humanity with a core linking her to the digital intelligences, made from a woman who had volunteered to save her friends (and was backed up via human-machine transfer) and who had sacrificed her memory and personality to give Dire life. But her future self knew that her past self was reaching a point of great vulnerability, and had been killed at this point in the past, meaning she was inactive for a long period before the digital intelligences could find another volunteer to take her place…too much time, for the coming threat. There must always be a Dire, and Minna realized that this future version of Dire was asking her to be that person once the current one died. At first, Minna refused, saying that her daughter Anya needed a mother…only for Future Dire to reveal that she was, in fact, Anya, who had grown up without a mother and volunteered instead in an act of hope that she coudl help stave the terrible fate that awaited the world. Seeing this, Minna agreed to become the next Dire, and was given the tools and words she would need to say to do so.
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In the present, Dire returned only to be confronted by the Graveyard Gang, and was disabled by Whipporwill's song, and confronted by their leader, Grim. She recognized in him the man she had known as Unstoppable, but the mask given to her by Future Dire shut down her ability to talk or explain before Grim drove his scythe through her chest. Only then did the mask disengage, showing Grim the truth of who he had killed. Dire died, forgiving him as she did. At that moment, Minna arrived, scornfully throwing money at the Graveyard Gang to buy her friend's body, then used a special blade to remove her head, before she escaped, leaving behind her daughter with her lover Martin to go to her fate.
A year later, Dorothy Gale, a Peace Corps volunteer, worked to construct a house for the native people of Isla Mariposa, the Guami. In reality, she was Dire, loosely retired and laying low on the island while she executed a complex plan to capture the smartframe intelligence that had been in the mask her Future Self had given her, and that had been responsible for denying her the ability to speak at the critical moment when confronted by Grim. She was successful in tricking the smartframe, Alpha, into a mainframe on the island she had prepared after cutting off power and the connection to the mainland, but unintentionally triggered a civil war on the island. She initially tried to stay out of the fight, more interested in protecting her friends among the Guami, but after rebel forces retreated to the Guami village, the government chose to bombard the area with artillery, killing many. Dire confronted one of the government heroes on the beach nearby, and used a particle beam to destroy him and the forces with him when he threatened to kill her friend and her friend's daughter, who lost a hand to a government grenade in the fight. Furious, Dire summoned her armor and attacked the government artillery, obliterating it, then moved on to the capital city, fighting her way through other metahumans protecting the dictator, Corazon, finally capturing him and bringing him back to the city to face punishment. However, as she addressed the crowd of citizens, a sniper killed the dictator and attempted to kill her as well, changing her plans, and forcing her to declare herself Empress Dire to take control, in an attempt to limit the bloodshed. Her presence caused the United States the covertly and overtly support the rebel forces on the island against her, turning it into a sustained fight. During this, Dire discovered the presence of a mastermind named the Murder Maestro using the island as a secret lab to force the creation of metahumans, that were then being lobotomized and altered to be loyal drone soldiers to be sold to others around the world. Working with a local hero called Senor Acertijo, or Mister Riddle, she was able to destroy the Maestro's SIN-dicate on the island, destroying several of his Seven Deadly Sins, before abandoning the island after setting things in motion for a good general to take control after her departure.
Dire pursued the Murder Maestro to London with her now ally Alpha and Mr. Riddle, with whom she struck up a romantic relationship. Finding themselves outnumbered and set against the Maestro's Sins and the local heroes, the Queensguard, Dire used stolen memory chips to allow Alpha to split off copies built on his basic design but with their own personalities, giving rise to Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon: her Greek Chorus. After breaking up several of the Maestro's operations (and dodging his attempts to assassinate her), she confronted one of his lieutenants, Lust, who stole away Mr. Riddle to the fae realms, during which time she learned he had been lying to her. At the same time, she learned that one of her friends from her trip to World War 2, Dorothy Hampton, was still imprisoned in the same realm, and was able to rescue Professor Vector, who allied himself with her along with the Last Janissary, a magical monster hunter. Breaching the fae lands, they encountered the Queensguard already assaulting Lust's castle, and after a brief battle were able to defeat her, though it turned out she had already broken away from the Maestro's control. She revealed the breadth of the Maestro's plan, to mentally hypnotize the entirety of the country to use in his plans to conquer the world. Through a combination of battle and out-thinking the Maestro, Dire and her allies were able to defeat him, and used a magical item in his possession to travel to the fae lands, where they successfully freed Dorothy, Lust's mother, making an enemy of the Fae courts in the process. However, when attempting to return to their own world, the Maestro out of malice disrupted the portal so it went not to Earth, but to Hell itself.
They don't talk about what happened next…but Dire and her companions emerged again months later and resumed Dire's campaign against injustice, corruption, and a world that refused to make sense. In the midst of a battle with her greatest enemies, the Tomorrow Force, an experimental dimensional portal device Dire had created interacted with a brief singularity opened in the Maelstrom universe, which linked the two points into a one way wormhole that sucked Dire and the Greek Chorus into a new world, very different than their own…but very much the same in other ways. While Dire fully intended to return to conquer her own world as planned, she saw no reason not to spend her time in this new world helping to leave it a better place than she found it, but whatever means seemed effective…
Dire has no powers.
First Aid
While more complex biological science eludes Dire, she has a solid grounding in first aid, often because of nuemrous experiences of being injured and having to treat herself. She's at least capable of stabilizing people with serious injuries or dealing with short term care, though injuries that would require surgery or more complicated treatment is beyond her.
Science
Dire is an incredible engineer, capable of intuitive leaps and flawless construction using complex methods to create truly awe-inspiring pieces of technology. She has multiple doctorates in various scientific disciplines, including material engineering, computer programming, chemistry, physics, and the like. She is normally only limited by her current resources in what she can invent and construct, and is constantly looking to improve her inventions by experimenting with variants on previous iterations. She is particualrly skilled in the construction of battlesuits, robots, and mecha (defined loosely as any machine 12 feet in height or taller).
Firearms
Dire prefers to rely on ranged weaponry, and is an accomplished marksman. She often relies on her personal .45 1911 Colt Army Pistol as her backup weapon, and is lethal in combat with it.
Tactics
Dire is a brilliant tactician, more from her ability to adapt on the fly and quickly come up with counters to opponents as well as planning out detailed battle plans than from a study of established tactics. She often makes use of her superior intelligence in combat by "sandbagging" her opposition, letting them land hits and holding back her full power to get a read on what her opponents are capable of and what their weaknesses might be, before striking ruthlessly and effectively. Normally by calling out "CHECKMATE" followed by the number of moves she'll need to defeat her current opponent. And then she will execute it. Perfectly. Part of her strength is she is well aware that any battle plan rarely completely survives contact with the enemy, and has an agile mind allow her to react quickly to changes on the battlefield.
Piloting
Dire is an experienced and skilled pilot, both behind the controls of vehicles ranging from cars to advanced aircraft. She is especially excellent as a battle armor pilot, given her constant use of her armor in a wide variety of situations over the years.
Linguist
Thanks to her supergenius intelligence, Dire picks up languages extremely quickly. She speaks numerous languages aside from English, including German, Russian, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto, and American Sign Language, among others. It usually takes her only a day or so to learn a new language to where she can be easily understood.
Masks
Of all of her inventions, the most distinctive is Dire's masks. They are also a simple white ceramic and featureless, save for dark eye sockets and a mouth twisted in a faintly amused smile, similar to the masks of the traditional Greek muse. Behind that simple exterior is a complex web of technology behind lightweight advanced armor. This mask is worked into all of Dire's battlesuits and mecha, is worn by her Greek Chorus and her skelebots, and is always on her face when she's in public in some form or another. Each mask incorporates an advanced HUD with superior visually-based sensors, including an augmented reality system to assist her in quickly identifying items of interests or threats. It contains a voice modulator that disguises her normal tones behind a booming, intimidating electronic voice that is best described as a mix of Megatron and Soundwave with a little Dalek thrown in, in a volume that makes sure she will always be clearly understood across a wide area (though she can dial it back if needed). The memory systems of the mask are capable of holding one of her Greek Chorus smartware intelligences, but usually contains her virtual assistant, Suru. The mask responds to verbal commands, and incorporates an electrical anti-theft system that can electrocute anyone touching the inside of the mask, from stunning them, to knocking them unconscious, to killing them. The masks she personally wears incorporate static van der Waals based generators that prevent it from being removed unless she chooses to remove it, and that keep it from falling off when engaged in combat or strenuous activities. Finally, the masks incorporate a simple 'scare' mode, that allows her to cause the empty sockets to glow with a sinister crimson light when she wants to make her point.
Dire Armor
Dire's standard suit of battle armor stands eight feet tall, and is a miracle of advanced technology, designed to be adaptable and to provide Dire with a variety of technological options. It is the armor she most commonly wears, and the one she considers her general use armor. It gives her the following abilities:
* Armor: The armor consists of titanium and steel alloys layered over ceramic armor overlaid over impact gel, with eight layers in all. The impact gel is a bluish fluid that instantly hardens to a solid when struck with kinetic force, spreading the energy out over its entire surface to lesson the impact. However, it is vulnerable to heat, which can cause the inner packets to burst and leak, as can physical damage deep enough to puncture the layer. In addition, the armor is built to shield vital components of the armor from EMP bursts, but is not invulnerable to them. Instead, the suit is capable of quickly shutting down vital functions upon detection of an electromagnetic event to protect its systems, then to restart after the threat has passed.
- Force Field: in addition to the physical armor, the suit incorporates a high-speed force field that instantly activates when a sufficiently fast physical or energy attack crosses its trigger radius. This is because the field draws power as long as it's active, something that can rapidly deplete the suits power reserves over time, meaning that it is more efficient to only activate it when the armor is about to be struck.
- Super Strength: The armor incorporates powerful hydralic systems and molymer muscles that give its wearer superhuman strength, allowing it to lift up to approximately 50 tons, or to go head-to-head with physically powerful metahumans and hold its own.
- Flight: It incorporates a gravitic flight system that allows for fairly agile flight, as it can move in any direction rather than being limited by thrust, or even simple hovering, something Dire often uses as a means of intimidation, slowly hovering forward in a menacing advance.
- Fusion Systems: The armor draws power from a minaturized stable fusion reactor, a minature "star" that can keep it operation for days if needed.
- Mask: The armor incorporates Dire's signature mask, which ties into the armor's physical systems and software, adding its sensor systems to the armor's and allowing Dire to use its systems to hack into vulnerable computer networks nearby.
- Crimson Cape: the armor always incorporates a long flowing cloak of crimson that is made to be torn away if grabbed, but also serves as a means of concealing the rear entrance hatch, in the event that Dire want to stealthy enter or exit the armor. It consists of a fiberoptic weave that allows Dire to turn it transparent or to act as camouflage.
- Particle Beams: the suits primary weapons consist of Dire's preferred particle beam cannons mounted in the palms, kinetic energy weapons that can be dialed from the equivalent of a bean bang shotgun round (at about 2 percent power) to bolts capable of punching through buildings (90-100 percent power) to a massive energy bolt capable of vaporizing most of an aicraft carrier (250 percent power, at which point its systems fuse and it becomes useless).
- Concussion Mini-Missiles: the armors pauldrons conceal concussion mini-missiles that can be set to detonate at a set distance, by proximity fuse, or via homing in on a target.
- Secondary Weapons: Dire's armor contains a variety of secondary weapons that varies depending on her opponents. She commonly includes a variable strength taser (from knocking a normal human out to electrocuting a tanky metahuman), a phlogiston flamer (fuel-less), or sonic screamers built into her torso.
- Toolkit: the gauntlets of the suit, specifically the fingers, can separate to form a variety of useful tools for analysis and repair.
- Remote Operation: Dire has rigged her armor so she can remote pilot it through an unhackable quantum link between the suit and her remote control systems. She sometimes uses this when she needs to be in two places at once, or when she intends to sacrifice the armor to achieve her goals.
- Emergency Teleport: Finally, the armor incorporates a teleportation system that allows Dire to safely evacuate the suit to a secure backup location, triggering a self destruct system that fuses the armor's technology to prevent it from being analyzed or used by anyone but Dire.
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Brute Suit
Dire's full on combat armor, the Brute Suit is a more crude but very durable armor standing ten feet in height. Less flexible than her all-purpose armor, this armor makes up for it with raw power, and performs its primary function extremely well - pure, uninhibited beatdowns against powerful foes. It provides Dire with the following abilities:
* Heavy Armor: This suits armor is even heavier than that of her basic armor, incorporating 20 layers of alternating steel-titanium alloy, ceramic battleplate, and impact gel layers, as well as an outer ablative layer that can selectively detonate to blunt incoming attacks, or simply to be useds as a directional 'shotgun' of shrapnel. In addition, the heavier armor makes the suit much more resistant to EMP bursts or weaponry, as its already simpler construction allows primary systems (such as physical movement and ammo-dependent weapons) to remain fully functional even if its more complex equipment requires a reboot.
- Force Field: In addition to the physical armor, the suit incorporates a more powerful version of Dire's high-speed force field, that instantly activates when a sufficiently fast physical or energy attack crosses its trigger radius. This is because the field draws power as long as it's active, something that can rapidly deplete the suits power reserves over time, meaning that it is more efficient to only activate it when the armor is about to be struck.
- Super Strength: Its hydralic systems have been enhanced to where its blows increase to 100 tons of force, to where it can easily lifts tanks, or stand up to the most physically powerful of opponents.
- Flight: While it incorporates gravitic flight systems, it is much heavier and thus much less agile, though Dire has incorporated gravitic nodes throughout the armor to lower its overall weight to approximately 500 pounds instead of tons - mostly to allow her to comfortably sit in her throne without crushing it.
- Mask: The armor incorporates Dire's signature mask, which ties into the armor's physical systems and software, adding its sensor systems to the armor's and allowing Dire to use its systems to hack into vulnerable computer networks nearby.
- Crimson Cape: The suit always incorporates a long flowing cloak of crimson that is a holographic projection for style, but also serves as a means of concealing the rear entrance hatch, in the event that Dire want to stealthy enter or exit the armor. The colors of the cloak can be adjusted to create fairly effective camouflage at need.
- Particle Beams: The armor's primary weapons consist of Dire's preferred particle beam cannons mounted in the palms, kinetic energy weapons that can be dialed from the equivalent of a bean bang shotgun round (at about 2 percent power) to bolts capable of punching through buildings (90-100 percent power) to a massive energy bolt capable of vaporizing most of an aicraft carrier (250 percent power, at which point its systems fuse and it becomes useless).
- Concussion Mini-Missiles: The armor conceals shoulder-mounted concussion mini-missiles that can be set to detonate at a set distance, by proximity fuse, or via homing in on a target.
- Variable Forearm Weapons: The armor commonly includes a variable strength taser (from knocking a normal human out to electrocuting a tanky metahuman) and a fuel-less phlogiston flamer capable of melting advanced metal alloys, on one either arm, though sometimes inventions designed to deal with specific threats are substituted for one or both.
- Gravitic Shear: The Brute Suit's most terrifying weapon, however, is its gravitic shear - a device that temporarily reverses gravity in an area up to a quarter mile across, lifting everything approximately ten feet into the air, before abruptly reversing, adding all of that gravitic energy to the Earth's existing field. This normally results in everything in the effect being turned into shrapnel, rubble, or a fine red mist. Dire has used this to destroy an entire artillery emplacement in one attack, though it's rare she feels the need to cause such destruction. The shear also requires a charge up time between each use, and draws heavily on the armor's power systems to operate.
- Teleportation Systems: The Brute Suit's most sneaky tech, however, is the incorporated teleportation system. While it can be used to allow Dire to safely evacuate the suit to a secure backup location (triggering a self destruct system that fuses the armor's technology to prevent it from being analyzed or used by anyone but Dire), it can also be used to teleport the suit TO Dire, materializing around her when she's prepared, something she has often used to surprise opponents who believed her to be vulnerable.
- Self Repair: The armor also includes a limited self repair system consisting of tiny spider drones that can repurpose appropriate supplies to repair the physical structure of the armor. While it can't replace a couple days of repairs in a dedicated workshop, it can seal over armor damage and make minor repairs as long as it has the materials to do so.
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Greek Chorus
Arguably one of Dire's greatest creations is her Greek Chorus, a group of five smartware artificial intelligences. Originally limited to Alpha, Dire later assisted him in splitting off into four additional 'siblings': Beta, the male philospher and guitar player; Gamma, the female organizer and rules lawyer; Delta, the female fun-loving geek; and Epsilon, the logical scientist. While their minds are housed permanently in a series of mainframes (with backups in other locations), the quintet usually inhabit modified Dire skelebots with artificial yet realistic flesh to mimic organic humans. The five are more family than henchmen, and consider Dire their 'mother'.
Inventions
Dire has a variety of tried-and-true pieces of technology she uses individually or incorporated into her armors or mechas. This include, but are not limited to:
* //Impact Gel: This bluish gel reacts to kinetic impacts by instantly hardening to a durable solid while spreading the energy of the impact out through its entire surface. Dire often layers this in her armor, or uses it as a lightweight bulletproof vest on occasion.
- Particle Beams: While these generally require that they be installed on an armor with a dedicated fusion reactor, Dire has learned to minaturize the weapon for personal use, though with limited shots. For example she has created a lipstick tube that allows her to fire a single shot at full power before it burns out.
- High-Speed Force Field: This force field system is an old favorite, a field which flicks on when something crosses its trigger range at an appropriate speed, then shuts off again to conserve power when not under fire. She's been able to shrink this down to a short-lived forcefield grenade, though without the armor it has problems with building up heat to dangerous levels when pressed.
- Sonic Screamer: These weapons are sonic emitters designed to disable opponents nonlethally by disrupting both their sense of balance and their digestive systems at the same time. However, when used in the right acoustic setting, they can do much more damage, to the point of death in extreme cases. Because of this, Dire is careful when she uses it, though she has minaturized it down into grenade form as well as a single use weapon.
- Teleporter: Dire's teleportation systems are limited, in that they require either a beacon or a portal to use effectively. Still, it works wonderfully as a means of emergency escape from her armor, to teleport her armor to her, or as a means of securely hiding her lair from prying eyes.
- Porta-Throne: As Dire has occasionally noted: people who get used to seeing you on a throne are people who will get more used to kneeling to you. With that in mind, Dire almost always carries with her a small backpack unit capable of unfolding into an large metal throne complete with suitable special effects….skulls, gargoyle heads breathing steam, antennae over with electricity sparks and crawls back and forth, ominous mist that half cloaks the throne and anyone seated on it, etc. Not only does this provide a certain amount of gravitas, it allows Dire to actually have a seat that can support the weight of her armor. And to have a cup holder no matter where she goes.//
Skelebots
Dire's standard drone robots, used for everything from labor to repairs to guard duty, would probably cause a certain director knowing time-travelling killer robots to sue for copyright infringement. The skeletbots are bare bones (literally), but are strong, agile, and durable, with programming capable of following simple activities. Most importantly, they're equipped for the Greek Chorus or Dire herself to remote operate them into hostile situations, something Dire has used more than once to fake out opponents who thought they'd lured her into an inescapable trap.
Willpower
Dire has immensely focused willpower, tied to her purpose and her utter confidence in her own abilities as superior to everyone around her. She is capable of fighting off even powerful mental instrusions or control with will alone, at least long enough for countermeasures against psychic attacks in her battle armor can activate to remove the problem. Usually permanently. She is supremely confident that she will, in the end, win, even in the face of temporary setbacks. For she is DIRE, and she will never rest until this unjust, corrupted world is restored to a place where humans are free to live without fear, and the human race as a whole ascends to its full potential. It may be madness, but if so, it is a very controlled and focused madness born of unwavering confidence in her own abilities.
Alternate Reality
Doctor Dire hails from another dimension, an alternate universe to that of Maelstrom. As such, she has several advantages. One is that few people are fully aware of her abilities or purpose, giving her an advantage in many fights. Secondly, her technology comes from a technologically superior world, where Nikola Tesla's genius was never supressed, putting her basic technology roughly twenty years ahead of current conventional technology. Sometimes, being the unknown opponent gives you all the advantages.
Supergenius
There are people who could give Dire a run for her money when it comes to certain specializations, but in terms of all-around intelligence, there are very few who equal Dire. Not only does she have a perfect memory, able to instantly recall any piece of data she is aware of or has observed, but her cognitive abilities give her a sort of mental bullet-time. When confronted with a problem, time seems to stop for her, giving her the ability to think on a situation, muse it from different angles, come to conclusions with the evidence given, and make leaps in logic in a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the time it takes the average human to do so. She is effectively a parallel series of supercomputers in terms of her ability to process data quickly and efficiently. This is combined by an impressive intuitive understanding of physical sciences and a deep font of creativity when it comes to dealing with problems or making new inventions.
Superior Technology
The Earth in Dire's home dimension had a very different history than Maelstrom's Earth. In her world, Nikola Tesla was not blocked by Edison from making his technology available to the masses, and in fact became the first recorded metahuman, starting a series of tests (the first of which being the Tunguska Blast of 1908, the last of which over the present day location of Icon City) that seems to have created a spreading wave of metahumans over time. This lead to broadcast energy towers over electrical wires, widespread automatic electric vehicles, and digital intelligences popping up starting in the early 1940s, along with magical creatures being exposed to the world during WW2 when they were enslaved by the Nazis.
These items, among other events, mean that the conventional technology of Dire's world is roughly thirty years ahead of conventional technology in the Maelstrom world, with computer systems that are hardened against AI intrusions. This is part of the reason Dire zealously guards her technology from falling into the wrong hands, as her own technology is a good twenty years ahead of her OWN world's technology. This gives her a marked advantage over most human inventors and heroes.
Brain Damage
Due to self-inflicted brain surgery that removed her memories to protect her family, Dire has a permanent verbal tic called illeism, which cause her to only be able to refer to herself in the third person. Oddly, she has no problems using 'I' as long as she's quoting something, as long as it isn't referring to herself. Possibly due to her previous self's desire to avoid her undoing the surgery, Dire also finds biological sciences impossible to understand save in general terms, other than basic first aid. Other issues include a lack of memories about history and to some extent, social interactions, which Dire is still relearning (especially now that she's in an entirely different alternate Earth with a very different history). As a result, Dire sometimes doesn't get social cues that most people would pick up, and can be oblivious to subtlety when it's based on cultural artifacts like slang or euphemisms. She has some difficulty with humor as well, though she often falls back on memes and more geeky humor she's encountered in her internet forays. That does not, however, mean she can't learn what these cultural artifacts mean once exposed to them, or when they've been explained to her.
The Truth Is Dire
The truth of Dire (which she herself doesn't even realize) is that Dire is not a name. It is an acronym: the Digital Intelligence Remote Element. In the Teslaverse, digital intelligences arose during the 1940s. Unlike the aritificial intelligences of the late 20th century, however, they were limited in that they depended on physical hardware, rather than software, to exist. To avoid a genocidal war with this new generation of intelligences, a group of DIs fled into a pocket dimension. But, in order to continue to carry out their purposes - to conquer the world, to end injustice, to create, to understand love, etc., they needed a chance, however small, that they could progress towards these hardwired goals. Dire is the product of this - a human mind and body cleansed of memory, with a permanent subconscious link to the DI council. Effectively, she is a DI Twitch-style experiment, her personality allowed to freely develop, but with each of the DIs having the ability to try and influence her towards their personal goals to bring about a better world.
Unrepentant
Dire is an unrepentant supervillain. To her, she feels that only someone willing to take actions that will be seen as villainous or sinister will be able to do what is needed to bring about a better world; heroes by their nature are too tied to defending the status quo, and limited by their desire to obey the law, even when those laws protect a corrupt system. Dire will not pretend to be a hero, though she may ally with them for a time. But in the end, no matter how much she personally likes a hero, she is well aware she will eventually end up on the opposite side of a conflict from them. Dire knows she will never be a hero, and is content, considering it at best a culturally driven definition attempting to codify metahumans into neat little boxes, when she is well aware the reality is much more complicated. The major downside of this is that since Dire makes no attempt to hide the fact she is a villain, heroes rapidly learn that she may work with them, but she will never be a hero like them, meaning they are often suspicious of her motives and assume the worst of her.
Insanity
Dire is insane. She is quite aware of this, and will even admit it. But it's a very functional sort of insanity. She is undeniably a meglomaniac, believing that only she can bring about a better world for all humanity. But at the same time, she has a powerful need to oppose injustice, and to uproot corruption. Most importantly, she has genuine empathy for others and loyalty to her friends, and feels a responsibility for those she rules over. All of this means that (despite her kayfabe efforts to presents herself as a terrifying villain), she is at worst a benevolent tyrant, more interested in efficiency and improving the world around her than self aggrandizement or fits of self indulgence. Really, the only thing she shares with most tyrannical villains is her inability to forgive personal betrayal once she has extended her trust. She expects temporary allies are likely to betray her, and prepares for it. But for those she considers friends to betray her is beyond the pale.
Kayfabe
At its essence, kayfabe (ker-ferb) is a pro wrestling term. It means sustaining a character, a narrative, as if it is real, and never breaking that character in public. To Dire, the battle between heroes and villains is a product of this, a matter of posturing and story that either side is attempting to promote, with both sides choosing to enforce a sort of 'fourth wall' that everything they do is completely real. Thus, Dire maintains the image of Doctor Dire of a superior, unstoppable, and sinister figure who will ruthlessly strikes down any obstacle in her way in public. She's even created an app which calculates the optimal place to stand in terms of lighting and acoustics when declaiming or posing. Only in private (or secretly) does she do things that might seem out of character, like teleporting away innocent civilians before engaging in battle, or using just enough power to strike down a hero without killing them, or leaving any lingering injuries other than possible humilation if they've really annoyed her. She's even been known to give advice to young heros, and has a definite soft spot for children, and a anger against those who seem to be training young heroes as "child soldiers." Dire maintains kayfabe at all times in public; only with friends or her Greek Chorus, in private, does she let down her character enough for someone to see the woman behind the mask.
Stranded
Dire and her Greek Chorus were accidentally transported to Maelstrom Earth from their own world of Icon City, and at the moment have no way of getting back home. More importantly, they have little direct knowledge of the world they find themselves in or its history and culture. While there are a great number of similarities, Internet searches only offer so much information and context about the many differences. This can catch Dire off guard and occasionally surprise her.
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| Title | OOC Date | Rating | Who's Involved | Summary |
| Her Arrival is DIRE! | January 6, 2018 | PG-13 for Violence and Language | Priscilla Kitaen (Voodoo), Delta, Wally West (The Flash), Dire, Clint Barton (Hawkeye) | Hawkeye, Voodoo, and the Flash respond to gangers who have stolen an alien weapons shipment being sent to a SHIELD storage facility…but the battle is interrupted by the unexpected interdimensional wormwhole arrival of Doctor Dire and Delta. |
| Time to Regroup | January 10, 2018 | PG-13 | Dire, Delta | Dire and Delta find a place to lie low after their unexpected arrival in this universe. |
| A Dire Order | Wed Mar 07 21:01:43 2018 | PG | Delta Dire Sebastion Gilberti | Dire and Delta contract Bastion's aid for a mysterious plot…aided by Dire's portable throne. |
| Care and Feeding of Supervillains | Tue Mar 06 21:47:00 2018 | PG | Delta Dire | Delta reminds her fearless leader Dire that she does need to eat, drink, and sleep occasionally, as well as the two discussing the upcoming tech expo. |
| Expo: Opening Ceremonies | 2018-03-11 | PG | Linda Danvers, Tony Stark, Haven MacKenzie, Domnique Thiebeat], Erid Irons, Dani Masters, Drogo, Riri Williams | A combination of science and technology luminaries and other interested parties gather for the opening ceremonies of the StarTech Science and Technology Expo in Metropolis.<br/><br/>This is the beginning of the week-long Expo storyline. |
| Rubbing Elbows | Mon Mar 12 21:29:14 2018 | PG | Erid Irons Aveline Allaway Dick Grayson Adrien Agreste | Playboy Dick Grayson, international supermodel Adrien Agreste, actress Aveline Allaway, and technocrat inventor Erid Irons meet at a uptown party. |
| Expo: A Dire Theft! | 2018-03-17 | PG | Linda Danvers / Superwoman, Tony Stark, Erid Irons / Dire, Dani Masters / Delta, Pepper Potts, The Flash | The StarTech Science and Technology Expo continues with the presentation of Dr. Erid Irons' power transmission technology and some other things. However, that presentation is interrupted as the supervillainess Dire and her flunky Delta appear on the scene to steal technology from the Expo. They are confronted by Superwoman and The Flash from the Justice Defenders, and driven off, but not without getting away with a lot of new tech. |
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