Day 1: "Initial"

INITIAL seems like a pretty good place to start. But where do we go from here?

• Add a scantily-clad invader girl, then anagram to get a secret society.
• Prepend Russia and append tellurium to get a word for "ponder."
• Replace a registered nurse with a lieutenant, then anagram to get a superlative.
• Subtract a word for "diseased" and a urinary tract infection to get a Dracula character.

(The nice version of this puzzle provides the order of the steps.)

Hints: The scantily-clad invader girl is Lum from Urusei Yatsura. I tried to use clues for "initials" wherever I could, to be thematic, but there's only so much I could do. There are some non-initial abbreviations and some non-abbreviation clues. I'm supposed to make this whole puzzle in one day! The word you should get after the first step is ILLUMINATI.

Solution/Explanation

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