For the Fiendish Dolphins I am going to treat them as a small horde for expedience purposes as they are far too weak on their own to be a threat. This means they count as one entity that has combined hit-points and does 4d4 slam damage to anyone in the area they cover (until they are 1/2 strength where they do 2d4 damage). Once during the combat they also can inflict an additional +4 damage against all good aligned targets in an area (or +2 if at 1/2 strength). It will be a 15 by 15 area horde. It also makes sense as Dolphins are social animals and thus work as a team.
Iniative
So Athola is first, what does she do?
Lets draw them in. using the doorway as a choke. Also provides us cover from even more of them fighting inside.
She readies her rapier and moves to onside of the doorway to to be able to flank them when they come inside.
Ok Jor is up next, he's faster than the Toa outside.
Seeing as the Athola is already moving and taking place next to doorway, Jor gives an approving nod as he takes place on the opposite side, leaving the middle open, which Gabriel would hopefully take care... and having better armro would be better suited for it
Alathea remains in the back, as she has spent all of her lower level spells, she will use her crossbow to fire into the room at the Dolphins.
Heavy Crossbow
Crossbow Damage
The Toa outraged that you've defiled the temple of the Goddess by your presence rush into attack with an angry fury not taking into account the stragety your party has set up. Two will provoke attacks from Jor and Athola as their held actions trigger. Athola can apply sneak attack as she can catch one of them off guard. In addition both Jor and Athola can make 1 attack of opportunity (no sneak attack on the 2nd attack though as by then the Toa will be aware of her)
Next up is Master Yap. He casts a lightning bolt on the swarm of evil dophins yelling, "FISHIES DIE DIE!"
fail
Doing 30 points of damage to the horde as it zaps through them causing the horde to be badly shocked.
The Black Robe will use his wand of magic missles on one of the dolphins.
5th level (22): Dominate Person, Stirge Swarm,Cone of Cold Suffocate
4th level (21), Dalamar's Lighetning Lance, Bone Shatter, Lesser Globe of Invernability, Ride the Waves
3rd level: Fireball (20), Vampiric Touch, Lightening Bolt (20, Dispel Magic x2, Water Breathing
2nd— (19)Mirror Image, Schorching Ray x2, Spectral Hand, Elemental Dart, Summon Monster II
1st— (18)burning hands (DC 18), chill touch (DC 16), Shocking Grasp, Charm Person (17),
Protection From Evil, snowball (DC 17)
0 (at will)— acid splash , detect magic , disrupt undead , read magic
Gabriel continues to use the Trident while remaining underwater and stabs at the one that charged up on him twice piercing it each time.
1st AoO
Bleeding: 5 HP per round, Heal Check of 15 to stop
Condition applied: Bewildered -2 on AC, -4 against rogue.
Slow Reaction: no AoO allowed
Pressure point: 1 Dex point damage. 15 Heal check to remove.
2nd AoO
HP: 60 / 78
With a sneak attack to its exposed side followed by a decisive cut across its throat, Altola takes down one of the Toa.
Gabriel strikes with two decisive strikes on his Toa wounding him badly but not enough to remove him from the fight.
As for the the Dophins, they move in and pummel and bite the party in a savage fury. Gabriel, Alathea and Jor taked damage from the swarming animals.
Alathea reloads her crossbow.
She strikes out at the closest foe to her.
Bleeding: 5 HP per round, Heal Check of 15 to stop
Condition applied: Bewildered -2 on AC, -4 against rogue.
Slow Reaction: no AoO allowed
Pressure point: 1 Dex point damage. 15 Heal check to remove.
Bleeding: 5 HP per round, Heal Check of 15 to stop
Condition applied: Bewildered -2 on AC, -4 against rogue.
Slow Reaction: no AoO allowed
Pressure point: 1 Dex point damage. 15 Heal check to remove.
Round 2
The Black Robe will use another charge from his wand of magic missles on a dolphin
The Toa proceed to stab with their tridents and bite with their teeth. I'll assume that one of the Toa is taken out by Jor as he hasn't acted yet.
Master Yap wands the swarm of Dolphins
Terevalis and Yap shooting magic manages to finish off the swarm of Dophins leaving their bodies dead and floating through the water.
how many baddies are left?
Another two of the Toa drop to the assault by the party. Gabriel slices down one and Athola backstabs another, leaving only two of the guards left.
Round 3 start.
Alathea fires at the Toa that Athola is struggling with.
Heavy Crossbow
Crossbow Damage
The Black Robe will use another charge of his wand and blast one of the guards
Athola being please of taking out one of the threats moves in to attack one of the remaining guards.
Add flanking bonus if needed.
Bleeding: 5 HP per round, Heal Check of 15 to stop
Condition applied: Bewildered -2 on AC, -4 against rogue.
Slow Reaction: no AoO allowed
Pressure point: 1 Dex point damage. 15 Heal check to remove.
Speeding things along the party now with a numerical advantage is able to kill the remaining Toa. The courtyard is now littered with bodies and weapons and corpses of dead dolphins.
You now find yourself in what looks like a coral garden outside a massive underwater citidel. The garden is beautifully decorated with glowing coral with pretty shades of blue and green that have bioluminessence and shine as bright as a torch. Various other weeds and underwater flowers grow around the area although the schools of fish that were around here have vacated the area due to the fighting.
There is an exit to the East and West. The West Exit seems to be where the dolphins came from. Which way do you go from here?
Alathea looks at the carnage and shakes her head.
"Let us head east first".
Gabriel nods and takes the lead. Eager to be done with this place and get back to the surface.
East is as good as any direction to head in remarks the Black Robe.
Which way to go?
Heading off to the east the party comes to a hallway heading north and south. To the south you see a side-passage heading further east and the tunnel wind down further to the south. To the north you see the tunnel that has an east and west direction. Where do you go next?
Alathea will use Clairvoyance on both directions to determine if either are occupied by foes, if there are any doors, or stairs leading up or down.
Using Clarivoyance, Alathea finds out that to the north there is no enemies and to the west seems to be another tunnel north, a tunnel snaking further west and to the east a tunnel which at the end seems to be a passageway heading south. To the south you find the passage leads to a dead end chamber but that side passage you can't see into as it appears to be shrouded in magical darkness and some glowing runes line the outside of the doorway. To identify the magic involved you'll need a spell-craft check.
Alathea relays what she has seen, "We should approach the shrouded door as it may contain our stolen items"
spellcraft
"I agree, things are normally warded for a reason."
The group approaches the door and Terevalis using his detect magic sees there is a combination of two spells cast in the room. First there is a Darkness Spell that shrouds the room from normal sight. As for the other spell the runes help maintain an Undead Ward spell, allowing it to be permanent until it is removed or dispelled. This spell is typically used to keep Undead at bay and in a closed space with seemingly only one exit a good spell to use to trap Undead creatures inside an enclosed space. As this seems to be blocking a tunnel the dark-vision of Terevais and Yap just see a small hallway leading into some kind of room but see no creatures from the angle they are at. Fortunately (or unfortunately), this barrier does not keep living creatures from entering. What do you do?