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Kobolds, Mimics and Orcs! Oh My!
Dungeon Chaos · Book 1 · 2026
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.
From the author’s blurb
“In the kingdom's deadliest dungeon, the monsters are the ones trying to survive.”Read the full description at CritHappens’s author website
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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.
A few distinguishing details
- A dungeon show told from the exploited monsters' side
- A mimic whose treasure chest has hairy human feet
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