From the Journal of Hrogar

So, apparently Ragnarr pulled the staff from the crystal, and was knocked into a trance for the night while he had a vision. In the vision, he learned that the staff is sentient, and seems to want to be used. I agree with him, that such items are almost always tremendously dangerous. Also, apparently Leaf may be the key to using the weapon.

After we got out of the Drow stronghold, bringing the surviving humans who had assumedly originally been intended as food, we found that the sky was dark with an unnatural solar eclipse. The others seemed surprisingly disinterested in this. Perhaps it struck me as significantly more dangerous since the last time I saw something like this was right before the fall of Stonekeep. I still don't quite know what exactly happened, but I remember that all the mages were suddenly certain that the battle was lost and we didn't have a chance (and then I was knocked out by my well meaning friend before I could test this theory).

With help from Ragnarr, we were eventually able to get out from under the eclipse, but this makes me even more worried. If the eclipse wasn't focused on us, what was it focused on? The Drow Keep? Was there something in there that we missed, that our enemies are focusing on? Something that would allow them to ignore Leaf and the Staff? We never found where that teleportation chamber lead.

I fear we overlooked something very important.