<h2>Colour Quest</h2>(set: $pink to false)(set: $green to false)(set: $blue to false)
The following is an interactive tale to help you learn about the psychology of colour. Follow the prompts to move through the story. Don’t worry if you make a mistake, you won’t be forced to go all the way to the beginning of the story! So relax and enjoy the experience.
Here is some information that will help you on your way.
Colour can affect people’s mood, emotion and behaviour. Often leveraged in marketing to communicate the values of a brand or by artists to convey a mood. Below are some key psychological traits for the main colour groups.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/allCards.png" alt="Colour Cards" width="100%">
<ul><li><span style="color:red">Red</span> - Excitement, energy, passion, power, courage</li><li><span style="color:pink">Pink</span> - Compassion, love, playfulness</li><li><span style="color:orange">Orange</span> - Optimism, independence, adventurous, fun, motivation</li><li><span style="color:yellow">Yellow</span> - Positivity, opportunity, happiness, creativity</li><li><span style="color:violet">Violet</span> - Imagination, spirituality, compassion, mystery</li><li><span style="color:green">Green</span> - Growth, harmony, dependability, balance</li><li><span style="color:blue">Blue</span> - Freedom, self-expression, wisdom, trust, soothing, calm</li><li><span style="color:grey">Black</span> - Power, control, discipline, authority, seriousness</li><li>White - Purity, innocence, cleanliness, peace</li>
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[[ Begin Your Journey!->intro ]] <img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/bedLinen.jpg" alt="Bed Linen" width="50%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">You open your eyes to another day. Nothing special is planned for today. Just open up the book shop, sit there all day, come home, make supper, read, and then go to bed. Nothing extraordinary at all.
You sit up and your back is aching. On the way to the bathroom, you stub your toe. I guess it is going to be that kind of day.
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[[Continue->bus]]<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/bus.jpg" alt="Bus" width="50%" style="float:right; margin-left:20px">On the bus to work, everyone is in a daze. They don’t say hello. They don’t make eye contact. There is no joy. It is as if all the colour is draining out of the world. Everything is the same. Reflecting on this makes you feel down. Do you:
[[ Say hello to the person beside you -> hello]]
[[ Keep to yourself -> quiet]]<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/lady.jpg" alt="Lady" width="50%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">You turn to the passenger beside you. The elderly lady looks sweet and sad. You say hello and ask her how her day is going so far. Her face lights up and she tells you that her day just got a lot more interesting.
You have a brief conversation, just small talk, and as your bus stop approaches you say goodbye. You bid her a wonderful day and step off the bus feeling good.
[[Continue -> store]]<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/busWindow.jpg" alt="Bus Window" width="50%" style="float:right; margin-left:20px">You decide to just keep to yourself. You figure no one wants to make small talk for that long. You feel a weight on your shoulders as you look at the window. This day already feels like a long year.
You move towards the door as your bus stop approaches. You bump into an elderly lady and you make apologies as you step off the bus. Sigh. You head to the shop feeling grey and down.
[[ Continue -> store]]Your heart always feels lighter as you approach your lovely bookstore. The seemingly ancient door opens with a heavy sigh. The lovely autumn light filters through the dusty air as the rich smell of old books meets your nose. This is your safe place.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/bookstore.jpg" alt="Bookstore" width="50%" style="float:right; margin-left:20px">Just then you are startled to hear a clearing of a throat. Who’s here? You carefully move around a stack of books and see the elderly lady from the bus sitting in a high backed armchair in the reading area.
“What are you doing here? How did you get in when you were on the bus when I left? The shop was locked! What is happening?”
She smiled a gentle smile and asks you to take up the chair beside her. Do you:
[[ Tell her to get out -> sendAway]]
[[ Offer to make tea and hear her out -> tea]]You tell her you have no time for people who mysteriously break into your store and have some cryptic message for you.
She frowns and sadly leaves the store. Weh she reaches the door, she asks you to reconsider and tells you the fate of the world is in your hands. You answer by closing the door in her face.
You turn around to face the store. You can’t believe that woman. What a weirdo.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardBlack.svg" alt="Black Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">
Just then a black orb emerges from the floor. The feeling of pure evil fills your heart. Everything feels completely out of your control. A booming voice rends the air in two saying, ‘I AM THE AUTHORITY. ALL WILL BE MINE.’
The orb begins to pull the colour out of everything in the store! Then it all begins to disintegrate before your eyes and get sucked into the orb. A tear falls down your cheek, only to get pulled into the orb.
Blackness begins to fill your soul. You realize you are lost as you too are broken down into your base particles and sucked into the nothingness.
<h3>THE END.</h3>
[[ Want another chance to talk to the woman? -> store]] You head into the back to make you both a tea to talk this over. For some reason this woman compels you. You return to the chairs and listen to her story.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/tea.jpg" alt="Tea" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">
She weaves a tale of the end of the world as we know it. There is a great power in the universe, known only as The Authority whose only wish is to strip the colour from everything. With each colour it consumes, the stronger it becomes. As the colours are consumed, the feelings and behaviours associated with it are lost from the world. With colour gone, there will be nothing left for people to live for.
She tells you that she saw a glimmer of colour in your heart when you were on the bus. You must journey to collect the colours to keep them safe from The Authority. Will you help?
[[ I can’t just pick up and leave! -> decline]]
[[ Accept the challenge -> accept]]You tell her you can’t just leave. You have responsibilities. You have a life! You can’t just run off after hearing some crazy story from a woman you don’t even know. It can’t possibly be true! It’s an insane story.
She frowns and sadly leaves the store. Weh she reaches the door, she asks you to reconsider and tells you the fate of the world is in your hands. You answer by closing the door in her face.
You turn around to face the store. You can’t believe that woman. What a weirdo.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardBlack.svg" alt="Black Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">
Just then a black orb emerges from the floor. The feeling of pure evil fills your heart. Everything feels completely out of your control. A booming voice rends the air in two saying, ‘I AM THE AUTHORITY. ALL WILL BE MINE.’
The orb begins to pull the colour out of everything in the store! Then it all begins to disintegrate before your eyes and get sucked into the orb. A tear falls down your cheek, only to get pulled into the orb.
Blackness begins to fill your soul. You realize you are lost as you too are broken down into your base particles and sucked into the nothingness.
<h3>THE END.</h3>
[[ Want another chance to accept the quest? -> tea]](set: $cards to 1)
<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
You lean back in your armchair to take a moment to consider all that has been laid out. This seems like an insane story but you have felt the world becoming more grey and people becoming more lethargic and less caring. Something in this story feels right in your heart and you think it is worth exploring.
You take a deep breath and tell her that you accept the quest. You will collect ‘the colours’ and save the world. Words you didn’t think you would be saying this morning!
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardVoliet.svg" alt="Voilet Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">She tells you that if you want to begin the quest you must understand the significance of the colours as they will lead your way. At length, she explains what each colour represents to our world. When she is done, your <span style="color:violet">imagination</span> whirls with the understanding of the <span style="color:violet">mythos</span> of colour. You are so excited for the <span style="color:violet">mystery</span> ahead.
Then a blinding light flashes and slowly spinning at chest height is the <span style="color:violet">Voilet Card</span>! You understand that if you put into action the principles of a particular colour, the card will appear and you will collect that colour!
The woman tells you to travel to the city catacombs to meet The Protector of the colour doors.
[[ Head to the Catacombs -> catacombs]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/bethany.jpg" alt="Bethany" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">You head into the catacombs and are confronted by a young woman named Bethany. She is not at all what you expected. She tells you that you must be worthy of being shown the doors. She tells you that you must be brave in order to continue with this task. She asks you which colour must fill the heart of this brave person.
[[ Violet -> wrongColour]]
[[ Yellow -> wrongColour]]
[[ Red -> correctColour]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/bethany2.jpg" alt="Bethany" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">Bethany tells you that you have chosen incorrectly. She doesn’t understand how you thought the principles of that colour fit with bravery. You clearly are unprepared and not the chosen one.
[[ Beg for her to give you one more chance -> catacombs]](set: $cards+=1)
<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardRed.svg" alt="Voilet Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">Once you tell her that you have <span style="color:red">Red</span> in your heart, your <span style="color:red">bravery</span> swells and you are sure you are on the right path! You are <span style="color:red">excited</span>! <span style="color:red">Energy</span> flows through you and you feel <span style="color:red">powerful</span> and <span style="color:red">courageous</span>.
<span style="color:red">The Red card appears!</span> Yes! Add another one to your inventory!
She tells you that you are ready to proceed. She guides you down a long corridor, which ends in a round room.
[[Continue -> doors]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/doors.jpg" alt="Doors" width="100%">
In the room is a series of doors each with a symbol carved into the middle. What is the symbol on the door you go through?
(if: $pink is false)[[[ Flower -> pink]]](else:)[<span style="color:pink">The pink door is now locked.</span>]
(if: $green is false)[[[ Tea cup -> green]]](else:)[<span style="color:green">The green door is now locked.</span>]
(if: $blue is false)[[[ Boat -> blue]]](else:)[<span style="color:blue">The blue door is now locked.</span>]
(if: $green is true and $pink is true and $blue is true)[[[You have gathered all the cards! -> end]]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/street.jpg" alt="Street" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">You walk onto an ordinary street. The sunrise fills the sky with the most glorious and vibrant pink colour you have ever seen!
There are people rushing everywhere. Why are you here? How will you find the card? You sit on a street bench trying to get your bearings. All of a sudden you realize you are starving. Just then a $50 bill blows against your foot. How convenient! Maybe that is what this colour is about? Hmmm….
You look around the street trying to decide your next move. Do you go to the:
[[ Restaurant with the most delicious smell wafting from it -> wrongColourP]]
[[ Bookstore with a limited edition of your favourite book in it -> wrongColourP]]
[[ Towards the homeless person begging for change -> correctColourP]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
You walk through the door and into an independent coffee shop. The wonderful smell of coffee is wafting through the air, cool music playing, interesting people everywhere you look. It is the most perfect place! It is as if it was made specifically for you.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/coffeeShop.jpg" alt="Coffee Shop" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">
You walk up to the counter and they have your favourite beverage ready for you. You are ushered into an outdoor courtyard and settle into a table in the corner. Your favourite book is waiting there for you. You sit for a moment and take in the atmosphere. There are lovely pots of plants are located around the courtyard. Birds chirp in the distance.
You pick up the book and start reading. You glance up just as a woman walks into the courtyard with her tea. A man backs his chair into her causing her tea to go flying. They begin to argue vehemently. There is name-calling and shoving back and forth. What do you do?
[[Avoid eye contact and let them sort it out on their own -> wrongColourG]]
[[Tell them to stop arguing and get over it -> wrongColourG]]
[[Step in and try to mediate a conversation-> correctColourG]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/boat.jpg" alt="Boat at sea" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">You open your eyes and see a brilliantly blue sky. You are being rocked gently and are feeling sleepy. You decide to sit up and realize that you are in a boat at sea. The sounds of the waves lapping at the boat fill your ears. There are dolphins frocking nearby. The fresh ocean breeze blowing lightly against your skin.
As you sit there looking around, panic begins to boil in your belly. Around you is nothing but water. You are at drift, how will you get to land? What will you eat? What will you drink? You worry that you will never be safe again!
As you see it, you’ve got three choices.
[[ Try to operate boat so that you can get out of there -> wrongColourB]]
[[ Try to call over the sea turtles to ride to safety -> wrongColourB]]
[[ Stop, take a breath, and calm down -> correctColourB]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
As soon as you make the decision you realize you chose wrong. You look at the sky and realize what the correct choice was.
The world fades out around you and you are back in the catacombs with Bethany looking at you disappointed….
[[ Continue -> doors]](set: $cards+=1)
(set: $pink to true)
<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
You walk slowly towards the young man and his dog leaning against a building. His dirty face is streaked with tears. You drop the $50 bill into his cap and appreciation spreads across his face.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardPink.svg" alt="Voilet Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">
<span style="color:pink">The Pink card appears in front of you!</span> You are thrilled to add this to your stack of cards.
Your heart swells with <span style="color:pink">compassion</span> and <span style="color:pink">love</span> for your fellow humans. You realize that we are all in this together and must help one another.
You turn and return to the door. Happy with your progress and with <span style="color:pink">Pink</span> in your heart, you <span style="color:pink">playfully</span> jump and click your heels right before you go back through the door that brought you to this world.
[[ Walk through the door -> doors]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
As soon as you make the decision you realize you chose wrong. You look at all the plants and realize what the correct choice was.
The world fades out around you and you are back in the catacombs with Bethany looking at you disappointed….
[[ Continue -> doors]](set: $cards+=1)
(set: $green to true)
<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardGreen.svg" alt="Green Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">As they argue, a plant is knocked over. You walk over and pick up the plant and interrupt them. You mediate a conversation and restore <span style="color:green">balance</span> to the courtyard. You sit back down with feelings of <span style="color:green">harmony</span>. You are grateful that you can <span style="color:green">depend</span> on your excellent judgement. The plant that helped facilitate the conversation begins to <span style="color:green">grow</span> rapidly. It fills the courtyard in beautiful foliage. It is the most perfect garden to sip your beverage!
After you are done, you walk back through the door, more <span style="color:green">balanced</span> and with the feeling of <span style="color:green">personal growth</span>.
[[ Walk through the door -> doors]]<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
As soon as you make the decision you realize you chose wrong. You look at all the water and sky and realize what the correct choice was.
The world fades out around you and you are back in the catacombs with Bethany looking at you disappointed….
[[ Continue -> doors]](set: $cards+=1)
(set: $blue to true)
<i style="color:orange">Number of Cards: $cards</i><br>
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardBlue.svg" alt="Blue Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">You realized that the panic is getting the better of you. You close your eyes and take a deep breath. You begin to calm down. You take another breath and a small chest appears with everything you need. Food, water, and instructions for operating the boat. You feel so relieved!
With this knowledge has come <span style="color:blue">wisdom</span>, which in turn <span style="color:blue">soothes</span> and <span style="color:blue">calms</span> you. A reciprocal relationship for the soul. You want to <span style="color:blue">express</span> yourself and shout WOOOHOOOO to the wind. You collapse onto your back with a smile on your face. You close your eyes once again.
[[ Walk through the door -> doors]]You have successfully gathered all the cards! You walk back to the bookstore and open the door. The old woman is sleeping in the armchair and awakens with a start. She can tell you were successful in your quest.
<img src="http://www.tanyaweder.com/twineColour/CardWhite.svg" alt="White Card" width="40%" style="float:left; margin-right:20px">
She tells you that she never had any doubt that she chose the right person for this quest. She pulls out a small chest and opens it. You place the cards into the chest and a white glowing crystal emerges. Feelings of peace flow through your heart. Innocence and purity flow out through the world.
Congratulations! You’ve done it!
[[ Credits -> credit]]<h3>References</h3>
Cards Illustrations created by and used with permission from Hartley Fiala at Lethbridge College
Photos from Pexels
Bed Photo by Kristin Vogt
Bus Photo by Jakob Scholz
Lady Photo by Victor L.
Bus Window Photo by Jen
Bookstore Photo by Tuur Tisseghem
Tea Photo by NIKOLAY OSMACHKO from Pexels
Bethany Photo by cottonbro from Pexels
Street Photo by Megan Markham from Pexels
Coffee Shop Photo by Dmitry Zvolskiy from Pexels
Photo by Pok Rie from Pexels