No doubt there are supernaturals involved covertly in government positions of various kinds.  I've been toying with the idea of the Black Court having a hand in the Vatican.

YS P280

"At the beginning of each session, you may
declare what potions you have on hand to fill
those slots, or otherwise leave them open. If you
have an open slot and a successful Lore roll or a
fate point to spend, you may later declare that
you coincidentally have an appropriate potion."

What difficulty do various GMs tend to use for this roll? 

My GM said "strength of the potion" but to me, that's always equal to your Lore, so you've got a 50/50 chance of having to spend the FP anyway regardless of your Lore/Potion strength unless you have an aspect to tag for free somewhere (which theoretically you could've used to enhance the strength of the potion, putting you back in a situation where you have a 50/50 chance of failing...).  Having a higher Lore wouldn't actually make you more likely to have the "right" potion on hand, leading you to most of the time have to spend a FP.

I'm not sure where I stand on this one other than my usual default of "diff 3" for anything that isn't stated, just like you'd have to place a Maneuver.

My Were character has the catch "Things That Should Not Be" (things like demons, Outsiders, etc) to indicate that his nature is directly opposed by the unnaturalness of his foes.

I would just start a new campaign.  Sometimes something is so irrevocably broken you can't do much more than that.

I know they all have ST... it was the combination with SS that made it impossible.  He was hard to hit AND resistant to injury.  None of us have any Toughness, so if we don't dodge... *squish*

And yes, we did all the tricks.  Like I said, perfect storm of bad stuff (rolls and such) sucked away our Fate.  From what I understand, one had a single physical stress point left and one had a stress point and one consequence left.  The third was dead. 

If my successful maneuver to knock one into the ocean had the effect I wanted, we would've won -- I didn't want to argue it during the session, though.

At least one of us remembered to concede!  I think, long term, that will end up being a worse decision for the character though.

The session BEFORE that, though, was a laugh riot. One of our group members "accidentally" got ****-faced drunk (claims he only meant to drink this much but ended up drinking that much and was totally blitzed)

I maintain my intention was just to get a bit buzzed.  It'd been four week since we'd actually played! 

I... miscalculated how strong the particular drink I was having ended up being.