It went pretty good. The players caught on to the idea of Aspects pretty quickly, the Wizard threw some Evoc with a minimum of fuss, the White Court Vampire sexed things up and the Pure Mortal had his mind opened pretty quickly.
The game started In Media Res (as it seemed the easiest way to get into the mechanics of things) but what I did was set up a basic scenario with some cultists and one low rent sorceror then asked the players "why would your PC be in the trailer park at 2:00am on a Thursday morning" to get them to use their Aspects to basically self-compel and get them into the game. Before long they were chasing cultists through the woods and facing down a mass of tentacles that was emerging from a nearby sewage lagoon (forcing the PCs to team up). It was also lots of fun when the White Court Vampire handed the Wizard her brand new smartphone so he could call the Warden and its simply fizzled in his hand. She was livid:)
The system was really pretty elegant and snapped into place once the players got the hang of Maneauvers and Blocking. The few sticking points we had were easily smoothed out (the book has a great Index and lots of cross referencing).
