Not a gripe so much as an observation regarding the continued discussion - no matter the tools available (like concessions) it seems that issue always circles back round to the GM. And I am glad it isn't my game...very, very glad...

I don't know.  Apart from this particular incident it sounds like (s)he is a good gm.  The scope and creativity in the backstory make it sound like a very good game.

The party was extracting a group of scientists that were working in a secret underground lair controlled by, what turned out to be, an almost plot level challenging Black Court vamp.  During the scuffle with the minions the alarm went off and the vamp was on its way.

The group decided to stick around and fight.  The warden, who’s main offensive spell is to use air to pick up random objects and throw them at his target, puts up a ward while the other members of the party helped to make it a very strong one (the strongest that the campaign had yet seen).  The BCV shows up with a pack of hell hounds and disintegrates the ward with one wave of its hand.

The PCs look at each other and decide to run.  They go into the room with the scientists where the warden opens up a portal.  The party’s shapeshifter holds off the pack while the scientists make a run into the portal with the party’s swordsman. 

Meanwhile the BCV enters the lab as the shapeshifter jumps into the portal.  The Champion of God, seeing that the party won’t make it Concedes in the following way:

“Michel burns with the power of God and throws himself at the BCV.  Midway to the vamp he miraculously transforms into Holy Water and envelops the vamp.”

After some discussion between the group, the GM agrees and Michel is killed.

The BCV is horribly wounded with eyes burning for revenge. 

The warden, the last human in the room filled with hell hounds and the injured BCV, steps forward and does what he does best, he invokes a zone attack using the droplets and mist that were once his friend Michel and whirls them around the room in a huge attack that used up his remaining fate points and consequences.

The shapeshifter reached in and dragged the unconscious warden into the portal which promptly closed.

We changed GMs after that session but we kept the same PCs so we never did find out if the BCV was destroyed.

I have to admit that I get a bit confused with the Dresden Pantheon.  There is a God and Angels, and Devils/Demons.  There are Outsiders which, I guess , are lost or forgotten Gods. (not sure if that's spoiler stuff) Do they still exist in the Nevernever? Does the White God?

Spoiler for Dresden pantheon including some names(to the best of my limited knowledge and/or understanding):
Spoiler for changes to answer Taran's question:

-Allocate the damage like a spray attack?  (Tedronai: you beat me to it)

Gah.  None of this seems very intuitive.

The more I think of this the more I like it.  It's a spray attack because the guy at the bottom breaks the fall of the other guy and they both get hurt less each than the guy who was dropped would have been if he hit the floor. 

Regarding throwing people around, I have a problem with stating that you can throw an opponent 1 +1/strength power zone away, because zones are a very fluid thing.  I've been in fights where a football field was cut into a 2 zone fight.  So if someone got thrown from the 25 yard line to the 25 yard line in the other zone it would be a flight of around 150'.  That would be a 1 zone throw which a pure mortal could do. 

I would prefer to just narrate that the stress from a successful grapple was the result of the defender being thrown within the same zone. 

I'm not overly clear on the grapple rules but wouldn't both the player and the baddie fall if the baddie successfully pulls a reversal and the player doesn't beat the block?

As the devout catholic warden in this situation I didn't really see what was going on.  I was 10 power into an 18 complexity thaumaturgical spell and was busy chanting away.  I was in the area of effect of the block but never pushed up against it since I was out of the combat (except for getting shot by the frightened cops once).  None of the other PCs understand magic (including the soulfire wielding one) so getting a straight answer as to what happened may be difficult.

After the session ended I got to thinking, would casting this block have left a stain on the caster's soul/aura?  I would think that if the universe slaps you with a Lawbreaker power there would be some sort of effect visible to the Sight (or possibly a Soulgaze). 

The GM determined that it was a violation of the 4th law but didn't slap the lawbreaker power on him for role-playing purposes.  My warden didn't see it as a violation because it was only a block in one zone and left all other options open (including moving a zone away and shooting, running away, talking etc.

1) A 7-shift Ward vs agressive actions applied to the entire Zone. Any hostile actions have to contend with a block of 7 that does not break even if momentarily overcome and reflects attacks back on the attacker if the attacks don't overcome it. I think attackers are going to get the idea pretty fast.

I would be worried that the cop would kill himself on the ward.  If he hits the ward with a 6 shift attack with a shotgun he's facing at least some consequences.

First of all, Soulfire is not mortal magic so it is technically not subject to the Laws.

Do you mean it's not subject to the universe's laws or the White Council's laws?  My warden believes that he is subject to the council's laws because he's human and the source of his magic is not a signatory to the accords (even if the group had a laugh while that question was asked  )

My GM does this sometimes and it sometimes it works and is quite challenging while other times it feels cheap.

Just to give some examples, I found that it worked quite well when our group of four PCs was attacked by a tentacle beast and had to take out the tentacles individually.  Each one acted on it's own turn and was considered an individual but they didn't take consequences.  They would be ripped/torn/blown/chopped off if we beat it's stress track.

I found it didn't work well when the same party was attacked by a dozen goblin-type fairies and it just became an issue of number crunching (2 left on player 1, 0 on player 2 etc.). 

When I go pure caster at submerged, I go for the Power 10, Control 11 myself. Why sit down and calculate power/control comparisons if you can max both? 

Just curious, how would you spec that out?  The only way I can think of is if you drop thaumaturgy and take three more refinements.