Wow, that sounds complicated.
I decided to remove the colouring, but I haven't actually done it yet. Maybe I'll wait and see what others think.
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It's a real nightmare to have competing concerns of functional hyperlink colouring alongside colouring for dramatic effect.
I kicked the can on the issue by making the default hyperlink colouring override neutral (same as the story_pen colour).
Ultimately, there will be commands linked to nouns in the page. I did start writing this mechanism, but it's currently disabled until I make it play nice with other systems.