# Kobolds, Mimics and Orcs! Oh My!

By Crithappens · Dungeon Chaos, book 1

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Ipmeerk, Draka, Zorpak and their fellow dungeon monsters keep dying for the entertainment of wealthy spectators. When they have an innocent life to protect, surviving another round is no longer enough. The crew begins resisting the people who profit from their suffering.

## What makes it funny?

Zorpak is a mimic with an embarrassing disguise problem: an attempted treasure chest comes out as an armchair with hairy human feet. Elsewhere in the crew, Aywick manages to mix nonsense with accidental prophecy.

### The comedy at work

Dungeon hazards are part of a miserable job for the monsters who have to supply them. Their familiar fantasy abilities can be humiliatingly unreliable, adding practical failures to the repeated deaths their work demands.

### Try this if…

The monsters get the sympathy here. Readers interested in a dungeon family standing together against exploitation will find that solidarity paired with grotesque jokes and unreliable powers.

### Good to know

The author explicitly flags violence and repeated death. Those are central conditions of the dungeon work, not occasional interruptions to a gentle adventure.

## What to expect

- Genre: Fantasy
- Kind of humor: Dark comedy · Situational comedy
- Story ingredients: Found family
- Format: Novel
- Length: 339 pages
- Published: 2026

## A few distinguishing details

- A dungeon show told from the exploited monsters' side
- A mimic whose treasure chest has hairy human feet

## Sources & further reading

- Author commentary: [Author](https://www.authorcrithappens.com/)
- Book information: [Bookseller bibliographic listing](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/kobolds-mimics-and-orcs-oh-my-dungeon-chaos-series_crithappens/60283645)