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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4626507" data-attributes="member: 19675">We've had some pretty amazing friendly fire incidents of our own, but the best of ours, bar none, happened in S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks .Our high level party was venturing deeper and deeper into the starship when we spotted a group of police robots at the far end of a hallway.  This wasn't our first encounter with the "cops," but this was the first time we'd encountered a group of them- up to that point, it was solo 'bots only...and always just as we rounded a corner.  So we knew the 'bots were tough, and we needed to take care of business quickly.So my PC- not the primary spellcaster of the group- uses a high-level ring of spell storing to cast a 21st level Delayed Blast Fireball on the lead 'bot on max delay- we needed time to get away to a safe distance, after all.Because all of the previous encounters started at less than 30' of range, we had no idea that the 'bots top speed was something like 90'...They closed in the first round, and were in melee combat with us for a few rounds when the DBF went off.  The 'bots were all destroyed, but everyone in the party was gravely wounded (including 3 fatalities).  We had no choice but to retreat.That was about 20 years ago...they still rag me about that one.</blockquote>