I could use some feedback on a few things.

First off, the status of my character mechanically:

Temper's skills and powers:

Great: Alertness, Fists, Discipline
Good: Empathy (just increased), Deceit, Athletics, Craftsmanship
Fair: Guns, Stealth, Scholarship, Investigate
Average: Conviction, Presence, Endurance, Might, Survival

Demolitions Training (use Craftsmanship for explosives attacks) -1
Unflappable (+1 mild Social consequence) -1

Human Form +1 covering:
Claws -1
Supernatural Toughness (Catch: holy type stuff) -2
Inhuman Strength -2

-6

My current advancement plan is to bump Fists to superb, and then increase Athletics to Great - which is what I actually wanted right away.  I'm mostly satisfied with what she has, with two main exceptions.  First of all, a lack of Might means that Grapple related stuff is terrible.  Which is a huge shame with strength powers and huge scorpion claws.  Second, it makes a lot of sense to pick up Lore in some fashion - but what to drop?  Maybe Might, actually, since 1 isn't really enough to do much with it.

The social toughness stunt seemed really cool when it was 2 extra consequences.  It's still coming in handy sometimes at 1, but generally only once per session.  So I could just drop the stunt and then spend the FP a social defense roll to also bleed off 2 stress - or use it for something else.

Future powers:  Venomous seems appropriate - and let's face it, who else would use this power?  However, the additional attack comes with no damage bonuses based on my reading of the power.  So it seems highly likely to be filling in stress boxes below the damage dealt by most other attacks - if it can do any damage at all against Armor powers.  That's not going to help take somebody out any faster, unless someone else (Lefleur?) is doing lots of little hits to fill in those low level boxes.  And that's ignoring the opportunity cost - an upgrade to Supernatural Strength has the same cost, and gives Weapon 6 total plus other benefits. 

That leads us to another power: Supernatural Strength.  Another expensive -2, Weapon 6 is pretty hard hitting.  Plus easy lifting or smashing.  However, that's still not going to match the damage from Weapon 7 acid or Weapon 8+ Lightning from Lenny or John.  Competing on pure damage seems like it might be losing proposition.

Beast change (into monster scorpion) could make her skills much more effective overall.  Might could be an only monster mode skill, so the claws could actually grab enemies.

Supernatural Senses for a vibrational tremor sense could be appropriate.  However, sense limitations haven't been a big deal.

Finally, Ursiel was a bear - but with horns, tusks, and an extra pair of legs IIRC.  I need some ideas for making Temper's monster form more monstrous. 

The climatic sections - John's duel, Temper's assault and Lefleur's chase, and Lenny's break-in were all essentially occurring on the same initiative list.  So they were all going down at the same time, which lots of cutting back and forth.  Fix and Pierce were both going on 7, then Lefleur and Deidre at 6, Temper at 4, ..., Lenny at 0.  So the biggest split up wasn't really much different in execution then having all the characters in the same split up.  Similarly, we were cutting back forth through each character's prep scenes.  But this session was also a bit short.  With 5 players, finally, we took the time to bust out some Battlestar Galactica the way it's meant to be played.

I think that we've usually tried to create at least one pairing or otherwise arrange for multiple PCs to be in the same scenes though.  However, it is kind of unusual for us, since our games have generally encouraged tightly knit parties previously.  It should be interesting to see how the PCs end up working together or not in future sessions. 

I think that briefcase full of cash will perhaps not be as useful to Lefleur as he hoped.  After all, Simon Walters was spying on the vampires after making a deal with them to make sure he had the upper hand.  What contingency did he have for dealing for Jimbo?

What skill to buy after you kill a bunch of people? 

Empathy. 

Maybe we can salvage some of the boat pieces.  Between Craftmanship and Sovereign Glue, it might be possible to rig up something at least a little seaworthy - if not, we still have those water breathing potions.  Even if we can't recover or fix the motor, John has both air and water magic, so he could generate favorable wind and water currents.  Calling for help might also be possible, but that's for wimps. 

The refresh rating actually doesn't seem too important for balancing - sure, powers matter.  However, skills matter a lot!

For example, Ghouls have +4 Fists and Athletics.  So they attack a +4 for 4 base damage with their powers.  And they dodge at +5 with Inhuman Speed.  They're accurate, hit hard, and dodge easily.

OTOH, vampires only have +3 Fists with the same damage as the ghouls.  With only 2 Athletics and Speed, they dodge at a mere 3. 

In a straight up fight, the standard ghoul is more dangerous than the standard RCV, since they're more accurate, and take less damage because of dodging.  A few shifts on offense or defense matter a lot - it's the difference between a clean block/dodge or taking 3 or 4 damage from STR+Claws.  The vampire only pulls ahead if it can use its Stealth with Cloak of Shadows or saliva effectively.  They have other stuff besides being combat monsters. 

Changing the skills around a bit makes a huge difference - the Vampire martial artist or fencing master with upgraded combat skills will be a much scarier opponent than normal at the same refresh cost.

Whitfield #3 actually shot down the date idea.  And I think you forgot the thing with Lefleur and individual running the place. 

It's actually sort of disappointing that you dropped Michael's role for Iggy.  Michael is fundamentally decent guy - his mission is redemption.  Iggy, essentially, is a lot like Temper: a dangerous, tricky sort of person with an extremist worldview that justifies a lot of violence.  A lot of their skills are even the same.  So the dynamic would be completely different between the characters.

I suggested that Fix rig up an improvised Faraday Cage to help mitigate the Warden's lightning.  Get some use out of that superb Crafting.  And maybe he could tag it as a heat source to boost a fire attack after it is used up as a defense.

And it's really serious if someone is ambushed by a high power evocation.

I'm not saying it's not an effective, if limited, defense, I'm just saying that there are probably other, more effectual and efficient, tools in your kit that would be better at stopping attacks than fire magic.

Not really.  Designing a character to use the same element for attack and defense is vastly more effective than using two elements, since your specializations can apply both ways.  And if you can't apply specializations, then you can't have other types of magic.

Conversely, fire magic doesn't really have too many offensive advantages over other elements, so there's no special reason why it should be disadvantaged defensively.