Shards are explained in more detailed on our Setting page.

• There are four stable shards in San Francisco.
  • Players are welcome to rp freely in these shards. 
  • There are numerous, less stable shards, but these are accessible only in ST-run scenes.
• All shards reset on the 1st of the month (mostly for ST sanity). That said, time doesn’t necessarily flow at the same pace in a shard, or even in a new loop of the same shard. A month in the present could be a few days in a shard, or a year, etc.
• Shards are fixed points in time. Changing something in a shard has no bearing on the present, and all changes reset when the loop does.
• Players who stay during a stable shard reboot either wake up at the beginning of the new loop or find themselves in the Hedge – no harm no foul. Players who stay during an unstable shard reboot will find themselves in interesting times.
• Any object brought into a shard is subject to the same rules as a person.
• Being taken by the Gentry in a shard is the same as being taken outside one; try to avoid this!
• The shards only span the city borders, occasionally they might creep into the surrounding areas, but there’s no going to 1960s LA.