From the outside, the headquarters of the League of Extraordinary Women Voters appears to the passer-by as nothing more than an unassuming beach-trinket warehouse, or perhaps a defunct indoor laser-tag venue. It’s just how the League’s president, Doctor SanBernandino, aka “Doctor Dinosaur” liked it.
“The last thing we wanted to do is draw attention to ourselves!” said Doctor SanBernandino. “We didn’t need the Abominable Sandman or Penny Dreadful knowing where we work.”
For over 300 years, the League quietly fought to protect the Outer Banks from the likes of super-villains such as Sandman and Dreadful, whose evil plans ranged from “total world domination” to “domination over Rodanthe.” The League’s anonymity came to an end after the United States became a signatory to the Sokovia Accords in last year, requiring that all super powered beings register with the Department of Extraordinarily Remarkable People (DERP) by 2017.
With the deadline for DERP registration looming, the League has released a list of the individual members and their various powers. As it turns out, League members’ abilities run the gamut from practical to incredible to what could best be described as “curious.” For example, longtime members Jerri Salavan and Francisca Ford Kapola, both can fly unaided, clearly a power useful for fighting evildoers. Marion Munchkin, much as her name implies, can shrink down to subatomic size. Doctor SanBernadino herself has the incredible ability to shape-shift into any kind of dinosaur, living or dead.
But it is the powers of members such as Gerry Smith and Lila Taft that seem to have created the greatest public interest. Smith, the League’s recruitment officer, has a limited sort of clairvoyance where she can always tell the color of the next gumball that will pop out from any gumball-dispensing machine. Taft is purported to have the power to turn invisible when nobody is looking at her.
“The Visionary (Smith) and Glass Girl (Taft) are great gals around headquarters,” said Doctor SanBernandino. “But we don’t put them in the field much, for obvious reasons.”
Despite the loss of their anonymity, the LoEWV vows to continue protecting the Outer Banks from giant seagulls, Graboids and Jim Cantore.