A City of Stone!

[Brian]

Liao looked around the room for a bit, wondering if there was another door, before looking to Phil inquisitively.

[Halbarad]

Phil looked around for a minute, clearly puzzled. "Mayor Ghirdari? Are you here?" he called out uncertainly, also taking a moment to look around the office.

[Dracos]

No one answered.  Checking around, he found the closet was unlocked.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Seeing as the Mayor seemed to be out for the moment - and the fact that he was either naturally curious or a nosy little punk, depending on your choice of phrasing - Phil decided to take a look inside the closet, to see what kind of mayor-ish things would be within.

[Dracos]

Inside he found...  Some books, some photos, a lot of filing cabinents...and what appeared to be a secret passage.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Phil blinked. Twice. "Uhh.. Liao, do you  see this? Why would the mayor have a secret passage in his closet?"

[Brian]

"It's a secret?" Liao asks.  "Oh.  Well.  Maybe he wanted to get to the bathroom, and couldn't look dignified if he had to run there?"

[Halbarad]

"Ummm... I don't think that's it," Phil replied. "Grownups don't run to the bathroom very often, at least not that I've seen."

The boy pushed his way into the closet, trying to get an idea of where the passage leads.

[Brian]

"Of course you haven't seen them," Liao says patiently.  "That's why their passageways are secret.  Let's see where it leads."

[Dracos]

It probably lead downstairs, towards the underground, if the stairs were any indication.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

"Might as well, since the mayor's not here. Maybe he's down here somewhere," Phil suggests, heading down the stairs.

[Dracos]

Heading downstairs, they found an underground passageway, leading north.  It was pretty dark down here though, so they'd probably want a flashlight.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Noting the encroaching darkness, Phil withdraws his trusty electric flowerpot from his backpack, using it to illumine the way ahead.

[Dracos]

ILLUMINATION!

Phil can now see the way forward down the tunnel, it's long and curvy.  Who knows where it ends?

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Phil kept the pace, checking every few minutes to make sure that his companion was keeping up with him okay. It would really suck to get stuck down here in the dark.