The scene you're describing is, simply, a block against the Fire Damage or the Environmental Damage.

For someone who is super-good at one element, you could break it into 3 elements...like:  Light; Heat; and something else...dunno. 

It makes sense that she'd have air, though, too.  ANyways, that lets her build a bigger pyramid but it's all fire related.

Thank you! But I can't find that in the rules. Do you have a page number for me?

Your Story Page 185, second point-bullet under "The Catch".

" If the Catch is bypassed by something that anyone could reasonably get access to, but usually doesn’t carry on them (like cold iron), you get a +2. If it is bypassed by something only a rare class of people in the world have (like True Magic), you get a +1. If it is bypassed by something only one or two people in the world have access to or could produce (like a Sword of the Cross), you get nothing. Even the mere presence of the thing that satisfies your Catch will cause you discomfort (and may be grounds for a compel or something similar)."

You get a rebate if your Catch is common.  So, he might get a +1 or +2 back.  Here's the other thing: how easy is it to weaponize these things?  Which makes it less common and not worth the rebate.
 But, you know, he might use that rebate to upgrade his power...so....

How it works is, if an attack acts as a Catch, you ignore armour and extra stress boxes related to it.

So he'd still have access to those stress boxes even in the event someone is attacking him with a Catch.

If he is in a place that might 'suppress' his Catch, causing him to lose access to his extra boxes, you might have to offer a compel to have his power be inactive for all attacks. 

For instance, I had a character that had a Catch of silk.  Using arrows with silk feathers, or a spear with a silk sash attached would bypass my toughness.    Being in a textile factory full of silk might make it so all attacks, even regular ones, bypass my Catch.  That would be in the realm of a Compel unless you are using a threshold.

My character with a Catch of Holy might lose all his toughness powers when he walks in a church just by virtue of the fact that the Threshold suppresses all his powers.  Or, just being in the presence of a Church might be a compel to lose toughness and recovery powers, even if I'm invited in.

I'm introducing some friends to Dresden.  I've made them some pre-gens and I'm setting it in 1994. I need a 6-8 session story arc.  I have lots of ideas but can't put them together to give the players a hook.

Here's what I have:
-Northern City;  gateway from South (civilization) to North (Wilderness) -Theme
-A run-down psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of town, surrounded by lots of bush.  It actually will one get shut down in 2012, so I thought I could use that.  Maybe there's a reason why they want it shut down?
-A University, also just on the outskirts surrounded by bush and lots of trails
-A missing person who went missing 30 years ago from the Psych hospital.  My plan is to make him a BCV.
- Some murders revolving around the BCV
-Organized crime and  a Crooked Construction Company
-A Social Worker/Psychiatrist working with the BCV.   But having a hard time with the connection.  Maybe also using or being used by the mafia.
- A Military NORAD Base  With a 1950s underground complex
-First Nations Spirituality/Mythology

PCs:
Cop (Pure Mortal)
Reporter (Pure Mortal)
Priest (True Believer)
Soldier RC Infected
Student with Cassandra's Tears and The Sight (minor talent)

Background:  In the 50s-60s Organized Crime used charitable organizations to run Bingo scams.  It was big business.  Connections to Sicilian mafia.  Mussolini cracked down on Mafia in Italy at that time.  A Don, also a BCV flees Italy and ends up in our town.  For several months, there are disappearances as the Don tries to set up his Scourge in this wilderness town.  But the local priest finds out about the Bingo scam and stumbles upon the BCV.  In the ensuing fight, The Missing Person from the psych ward who was turned into a Vamp is somehow 'put on ice' for 30 years.  He wakes up and is now working to further his goals. 

How can a BCV go MIA for 30 years?  What prompted him to awaken now?  How is he connected to the psychiatrist?  How does it relate to the hospital?

Any advice would be awesome.

My group has moved from D&D to FATE and we had our first session.  Since I've been playing FATE as PBP for year, I was easily able to navigate the adventure by creating advantages for myself with my skills: creating and discovering aspects, reading NPCs etc..

The other players were having a more difficult time with the cooperative story-telling aspect of the game and using the mechanics of Aspects.  I was trying to lead by example by doing different actions with my character but I also didn't want to hog the spotlight.

Does anyone have any non-combat sample play-throughs off hand.  I could make one myself, but it's time consuming.

I feel like the spear should have a curse attached to it.   The shroud already heals, the coins are cursed, the noose gives immortality with a Catch. 

Wasn’t the soldier who stabbed Jesus cursed? 

True Aim fits if it makes ensures victory.  Maybe even temporary immunity but with some kind of backlash.  Maybe tie a Hunger Power to it.  Or give it blood drinker so that it needs to be hated in blood to give you a recovery.  Maybe it compels you to do battle. 

An attack of 6 hits and the block is considered a 6 shift dodge.  So, in this case, the attack would only do weapon damage.  If it were a 7 shift attack, the damage would be reduced by 6.  So it’d do: (weapon damage)+1. 

The person can still dodge when using a shield, just take the better value.

So a 3 shift block and a 4 shift dodge vs a 6 shift attack would net the attacker 2+weapon damage.

When they say resolve normally, they mean resolve as if the attack overcame a regular block or dodge. 

 But, essentially, in all cases, once the block is overcome, it subtracts damage and then goes away. 

For summoning, wards work slightly differently than regular blocks.  They don’t go away but are, instead, reduced based on how much damage gets through.  Once they are reduced below 0, they are destroyed.