Since Erik Loyer's Chroma appears at first to be more linear than other hypertexts, I want to describe the functions of ergodicism and narrative in Chroma to put it in the context of the medium. Loyer has written a text that can have many different performances and visual possibilities, but his plot is not multilinear. Loyer is allowed to be the sole author of his narrative, breaking a cardinal rule of hypertext theory, and to be even more blasphemous he has ordered his narrative. But he is not the sole author of the whole text. His rule-breaking proves a point: a text's meaning can spin on a verbal and a visual axis, and where the canon has focused on the former, Loyer chooses the latter.