Transpotation Power/s for Natural Heroes?

First of all, I always find the idea of a "natural human" as a character to be patently ridiculous in this context. Even ignoring your average character's bullet-absorbing, rocket-surviving tenacity, the end game has you fighting titanic aliens, building-sized robots, powerful psychics and ACTUAL GODS. And you don't outsmart them or trick them. You punch their face in. If you can justify THAT while being naturally human, you can justify getting a travel power.

Secondly, "Natural" covers a lot of ground. Even ignoring energy-shooting aliens and the denizens of alternate planes of existence, I have a natural fighter who comes from a brutal alternate dimension where humans evolved to be hideously tough and strong, almost unkillable and practically immune to most elements. It's what it took to survive there. She's natural, because that's what she is, but she can still leap a good distance into the air and shrug off bullets. That particular aspect I actually pilfered from DragonBall Z's brief stint with training under heavy gravity, but DBZ had to be good for at least one obscure idea.

Basically, if you're going with a "pure human" concept, you need to be prepared to do a lot of handwaving right from the get go. I hope you have strong wrists.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Vehicles would be awesome, but until they feel like doing a ton of work for 1 or 2 new travel powers, it won't happen.

Just because your character is "natural" in origin, doesn't mean they must be a LUDDITE for technology or a DEADHEAD for a magical item. I'm not a technologically minded girl, but I still use a computer, drive a car, and am quite capable of using complex machinery. If we had magic, you better believe I'd be buying rings of levitation and using headbands of telepathy.

My natural origin Emp/Dark defender is a teleporter. She's based on me. I give out plenty of advice and help people who need a shoulder to cry on, and gods forbid you start me flaming on a forum for the dark part. My ability to talk and carry on conversations to two or more people at once when I was working at my comic shop when I made the character, lent to her being able to BE in two places at once.

But her more modern backstory involves plenty of borrowed items - she swiped a Circle of Thorns portal, and uses a lot of 'discarded' technology from Crey or whoever.

Origin is what you make of it. There's no reason to complain that there isn't something "for" your natural character, it's not like those things aren't available to everyone ELSE in the game, regardless of their origin. Your character can walk into any shop in the city and buy and sell things, the only thing they can't do is "use" enhancements meant for other origin types. So? Still means very little unless you just can't get your mind open wide enough.

Ninja Run! It works great!

Kinetics + Ninja run = awesome travel.

With Inertial reduction and Ninja run you get capped Jump speed and height.
With Siphon Speed + Ninja run you get better then Superspeed's run speed, and with two applications of Siphon you will cap run speed.

Out of curiosity, why are we accepting Ninja Run as a 'natural' travel set, even though it requires rather obvious levels of absurd physical perfection (To a degree unrealized in reality) but we don't accept Super Jump even though we could explain it in much of the same way?

I'm merely curious at what level of performance we decide something is too 'super' to be 'natural', and why Ninja Run makes this qualification. Only because it was in the 'Natural' booster pack, or is it something else?