The Vertigo - A Thinking Thrill Ride by @jesspadk (Jessica Padkin)

One of the bosses in my villain game. The Vertigo is a massive thrill ride with a self-contained computer 'mind' of its own. The machine was built as a super-rollercoaster which had the power to change its structure spontaneously, so to offer punters a revolutionarily mind-blowing experience! However, it turns out the machine thinks too much like a thrill ride really would, as it thrived on people's fear and adrenaline, and got a sadistic pleasure out of terrifying and terrorising people. It (apparently) killed its lead designer and the owner of the park and took over the whole place for itself. Vertigo has a horribly slimy personality and always wears a manic, twisted grin. He doesn't really care too much about power and has no reason to actually hurt or kill anyone, he just lives for the excitement and pleasure he gets from frightening them. It is a machine though, and as such it has no real regard or care for human life. He has kept all of his sophisticated morphing abilities from when he was a humble roller coaster ride, and has managed to give himself a fairly human appearance. Despite his amazing structure-changing powers, it's actually kind of weak, since it is made up of thousands of complicated and intricate pieces of circuitry and mechanics, and may start to malfuction when even a small number are destroyed or damaged. In that aspect, Vertigo kind of has a glass jaw, but any lasting damage would be fixed by its self-repair functions.

This is the finished coloured version of a black and white image I uploaded previously-- this time with background and all! It took me ages to do, but I'm not entirely happy with the way it turned out. I don't want to make excuses, but it's extremely hard to edit large images with this crummy computer. It was taking about a minute for a fill to process, bah. Oh, and sorry about the massive image descriptions, I get into it too easily...

Artwork © Copyright 2002 Jessica Padkin