Act I

Common Vegans live in an underground world without color. In a dark cave, the priest Sesom is in bed, dreaming of color when the mighty goddess Painter enters. Painter and Sesom search through a colorful forest and meet Mound #1.  Painter disappears.  Sesom responds to the colors emanating from Mound #1. Mound #1 gives Sesom some Mound meat.   Sesom exhilarates in the joy of the discovery of color.  Returning underground, he recruits disciples for the Cult of Color.  Three Vegans, Paul, Anthony and Bow-Headed Lou are drinking at a bar of bones. Sesom entices them with Mound meat and the promise of color.  The new disciples and Sesom meet and recruit Baby Curt and Shy Jerry.  TB and F-Shine are convinced to join the Cult. Betto Watchow is in a bone chair receiving a brain massage from a common Vegan.  Betto resists joining the Cult.  Sesom enlists the rest of the Cult to coerce Betto and they succeed! Sesom and the other disciples depart. Betto reveals that he has not succumbed to the Cult of Color after all.  Sesom and the disciples begin milking Mound #1, celebrating as their buckets fill. Betto keeps to the edge observing the others.  The disciples return underground to construct a miracle machine and feed it the Mound meat. The intense colors and sounds draw more and more Vegans toward the miracle machine. Eggs begin to pour forth, some of which transform into color babies. The Vegans enthrone Sesom as their Messiah of Color and fail to notice Betto skulking away.

Act II

The miracle machine changes as Betto puts the finishing touches on its transformation.  Betto removes his white skin to reveal black skin underneath. He wrenches black eggs from the machine, which sputters and coughs. Betto places the eggs around the stage.  The Cult of Color emerges and Sesom observes from his throne. The Vegans notice the darkness eggs in their midst. Sesom is attacked as the egg transforms into a darkness baby. The other darkness eggs transform and attack the Vegans, overpowering them. In the midst of the massacre Sesom escapes and mournfully looks for Mound #1 in the darkened forest. Painter emerges, lighting the forest with color. The Bone Throne, with Betto upon it, is paraded in by darkness babies celebrating their triumph.  Painter vanquishes the darkness babies and Betto is removed from the throne. Painter and Sesom force Betto to join them and he submits.  Sesom and Painter are satisfied that Betto has renounced his heresy and joined the Cult of Color.    Betto continues dancing with the color baby but then begins to drag it and strangles it at the foot of the Bone Throne.