ooc: majority it is.
The group heads over towards the sage's abode in the literary quarter. Smelly, some with crusted sewer stuff and most with blood or sliver goo you are not the most presentable but with the fate of the city resting on your shoulders haste is the order of the day.
You arrive with little trouble though most people you pass on the street give you a very wide berth. Not even the couple of town watch you pass seem inclined to stop you. Incarnation continues to carry the bag containing the idol while the other goods retrieved from the cave and the ambushees are safely stowed amongst the collective packs of the group.
After a vigourous knock, you can hear the sage slowly making his way to the door to open it. Thankfully the insense burning in his reading room makes your own stench more bearable. "Come in, come in. It appears that you found something. Is it what we had hoped?"
Once inside he offers you tea though it is obvious that he wants to skip the pleasantries of being a host and get with the opening of the bag.