The octopus makes sense for early on in the Path where whenever the PCs seem to go anywhere there's some sort of shark or octopus or eurypterid trying to eat them. But what's the doodle with the gnome-shoes about?

In the fourth advencture there is a temple which screams "Chtulhu" from every orifice. Investigating the place its clerics seemed awfully keen (in a four card short of a full house kind of way) on having us take off our shoes. I don't know whether this was our GM's creation or not but it made for a funny small gag when we had to forcefully take of the gnome summoner's shoes (whom was carried around by the half-elf, keltic flavour barbarian).