Ok, this is a first for me. A second path out of a village isn't uncommon. However, this time the second path from the Spider Village led directly to the Flayer village with the Gibbin and the dungeon.
My travbarb does not have teleport so I always run down and up the Durance stairs to get merc where I want him. This time a few Hydras were so baffled by the the latest fashion phenomenon that they accidentally followed to another level.
I found this in the screenshots folder on my Switch and had to share it. In the early goings of questing my Cold Druid through Normal difficulty, I didn't really have a great weapon for him to equip, so for a period of time he was holding Wirt's Leg. Here is an action shot of him casting Arctic Blast with Wirt's Leg