Hexcrawl 29 - Lost in the Woods and DarkWizard's Tower

Fjori (dwarf fighter) leads Chaz (halfling monk), Bariq (fire genasi druid), Eaglebane (goliath fighter), and Sir Parrik (fairy paladin) to try to find the mysterious DarkWizard and take away his magical glasses, but along they way they have some trouble. They visit with some dwarf prospectors, get driven off by an angry farmer, and get a bit turned around in the woods. They come across a goblin village with an emaciated woman named 'Iron Liz' strung up between trees who tells their fortunes, and they get lost again in the misty Southwood. Eventually they find DarkWizard's waterfall-adjacent tower and converse for hours about the arcane science of optics and his study of the nearby Fey Anomaly. He tries to send them on a quest to a faraway ship on a cliff for a crystal he needs, which they vaguely promise to get around to eventually.  On the way back, they discover a cave with inscriptions shedding additional light on the mysterious fey known only as the Dewdrop Man.