Alura Sajon LG Human Wizard [8]
Alura approaches Callista and nods to her companions, Aubryn and Niles, and says to their dark wizard "How goes the negotiations?" She says it loud enough for the dark sorcerer to overhear them. She hopes her Detect Thoughts spell will pick up something useful about circumventing this encounter. "Is he going to surrender yet?" She is just bantering with Callista knowing that this will have to escalate to combat soon.
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Alura cast Detect Thoughts on the dark sorcerer already and so she is just going to be scanning his surface thoughts.
She will also cast Mage Hand to have that up so she can shove as a Bonus Action.
@Neopopulas I suspect he is wait to counter our spells first, so we might as well hit him with low spell levels first instead of wasting a high level that he can probably Dispel or Counter.