So you have wondered what the Shammahverse is about. Well, I am here to tell you that I am not mincing words today. Not in the cold of Jos, I am not. Temperatures range wildly here with about 12°C if you are pedantic about the temperature like me. Accuweather is a great friend of mine.
The Shaa is a system composed of space, time, and fragments of consciousnesses called Spirits. Numbered initially from 1-6 pre-pandemic, now 1- 10, the interactions of these spirits are what influence the affectations of the system.
Edit: After a difficult and somehow still happening pandemic, Spirit 7 is the latest to wake. And the system has introduced a personification, an auditor of sorts, called “Shaa.”
Now, all the affectations are not left to them. The system has a god and an overseer that monitors these fragments. About how these fragments resulted, there is a big back story that will be shared. What you need to know is that I, Inner Shammah, am the overseer that monitors these Spirits, and when I compile my observations as entries onto a ledger. A chunk of entries is a report. I send these to the god of the system, who processes the data and shows us the final output. Sometimes, these reports are short and sweet. Other times they are long and winded. Once in a while, we review the entire ledger.
Edit: The last review was in April. Six months later, another review. Are we finally becoming serious?
I started to take time to chunk the information into coherent stories so it could improve our storage. This is where this thing all started. There have been countless events. We used to have a ranking system that scored the Spirits on how well the god favoured them, but it became too chaotic, and I had to do away with that methodology.
The recent pandemic has revealed so many weaknesses of the old system, and I have been tasked with developing a new way to organize these fragments so we can get the system to peak working condition again. I can’t say I hate not doing anything. I am getting to work.
I will explain the terms to help you understand what I will be sharing with you.
System: The entire composition of the Shaa
Space: This is the area filled with energy swirling in an infinite vortex where the fragments exist, and I live. I have some dominion here. As for the location of this space, I cannot correctly tell if it is physical or in a pocket dimension outside of regular space-time.
In this space, the environment can manifest as any known or unknown place, and the spirits can manifest as humans, and so do I, Inner Shammah.
Maru (you would meet him) has hypothesized that our space is in a place that is and isn’t inside the god of the system.
‘Is’ being that there are winds that affect the movement of the energy flow in the space. These winds prove that the space can interact with other entities.
‘Isn’t’ because there is almost nothing tangible about the system. I find paradoxes entertaining but impractical.
You can call it the Shammahverse.
Time: Time flows differently here. The future is always the present, and the past is a myth. This is all anyone outside the space needs to know.
Fragments: As defined, these are pieces of consciousness that own their personalities and have begun to retain their memories.
The simplest version of their origin story would be that;
a functioning sentient thing shattered into an unrecognizable number of pieces
with the exposure of each piece to different winds at each time,
these winds moved these fragments around,
these fragments of sentience chafed against each other, causing chipping, grooving, and marking delicate patterns on their surfaces,
the ever-present energy in the system thus started to rub differently upon the surface of each fragment unique to the maze of patterns,
this gave each fragment unique auras as they responded to the energy differently,
then as normal pieces of sentience, they developed consciousness,
and started to retain memories,then they started to learn.
So far, we have Spirits 1-10 with distinct identities.
This is how a chip is programmed.
Table: Time and time again, a Spirit can have a one-on-one with the god of the system. These are the only meetings I am not present at. I wonder why.
Affectation: Resultant actions the system takes after computing all the data in the entries provided.
Event: A story that describes the emotions and thoughts behind an output from the system.
A sample of an event.
(Reaction to the Crypto Flash crash of 19 April 2021)
Me: Someone is tapping their feet
Spirit 4: It is I. I am restless.
Inner Shammah: It is just a flash crash. It is nothing.
Spirit 4: Our portfolio is now a third of its original value
Spirit 6: As any highly volatile venture would go. I advised us not to-
Spirit 4: Go back to your books, Maru.
Spirit 6: My name is not—you know if you have bad character, you are more likely to lose money on market swings.
Spirit 2: You mean we’re losing money?
Spirit 3: Oh my God, we have just lost some more.
Me: Everybody calm down. Spirit 4, put the phone down! Yeah, nice and easy. Now let us all take a chill pill and—
Spirit 4: What the hell?
Spirit 1: What happened?
Spirit 4: $NKN just entered bear market territory.
Me: Ugh!
Who am I?
I am colloquially called Inner Shammah. I am the one thing that is constant in this system.