Audit Team Six

Dungeon Accountant #1

by Aaron Michael Ritchey, Nathan Ameye

Get Ready for the Ultimate Dungeon Makeover!Meet Calcannis Illudere, a certified dungeon accountant (TM), who takes on failing dungeon cores, turning their lairs into the hero-slaying death traps of their dreams.

On Fidotopia, a world full of otherwise happy puppies, a sudden shift in the Tree of Souls has flooded a cynical stink slime’s disorganized dungeon with new energy. Now that rubbish dungeon is the number one destination for powerful raiders looking to level up quickly.

To save the puppies, Cal has teamed up with an interior decorator with anger management issues, a paladin with a passion for cookies, and a thief who swears she’s just a structural engineer to give the sad stink slime the ultimate dungeon makeover.

With a world of happy puppies on the line, can Cal and his team take this dungeon from trashy to treacherous?
They have to save the puppies! Will no one think of the puppies?

Welcome to Dungeon Accountant, a new series in the best-selling Shadowcroft Universe (created by Aaron Michael Ritchey and James A Hunter). Can rockstar authors Aaron Michael Ritchey and Nathan Ameye outdo the original series? Pick it up and decide that for yourself.

Expect humor, slice of life mixed with some action and adventure, oh, and also a goat.

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 5, 2024

About the author

Aaron Michael Ritchey was born with Colorado thunderstorms in his soul. He's sought shelter as a world traveler, an endurance athlete, a story addict, and even gave serious thought to becoming a Roman Catholic priest. After too brief a time in Paris, he moved back to the American West and lives semi-comfortably with three forces of nature: a little, blonde hurricane, an artistic tornado, and a beautiful, beautiful blizzard.

Reviews

[Dave Stone]

I'll retry this book if the Main branch series is better
I insta-quit this thing at 5%, and then found out it's a spin-off of another series. Many reviews say that this will make no sense if you haven't read the previous books, so in the interest of fairness I won't say anything against it.
...But let me repeat some general advice for all authors.
-You only have so long to make a first impression, Squander that time at your peril.
Front loading a book with doom, gloom, injustice, resentment, and unlikable characters with no path out is begging your reader to go get a refund.
A bad situation isn't made funny by filling it with morons, jerks, & losers. A tragic situation filled with the same is even less funny.
Lastly, going from bad, to worse, to worse, to worse, with no uptick at all is a suicidal way to start a book. If the reader gets to chapter 5 with no clearly stated ray of hope, and the stakes are life or death, or the end of the world, or the death of a child or dog, than shame on them for reading one more word.
You only have so long to make a first impression, if that's all I've read by chapter 5 that that's all I should expect from the rest of the book.

[Gabby · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5* This was surprisingly fun with interesting characters, good progress and it was nice to see more of the dungeon building/saving side of Litrpg rather than it just being about the raiders for once. Ottis was a fun dungeon, in the end, even if a little annoying and stubborn in the beginning. There were some interesting yet snarky stats, and the main characters Cal, Hurricaine, Kronk (may the cookies always come out golden), Helga and Gwen are all unique in their own ways. It had me interested in their growth, frustrated at times with good reasons as to what was going on but also who doesn't want to save a planet full of puppies. Am very much looking forward to reading more of the series!

[Ian · Rating 2 out of 5]

So, odd book for me. It's a spin off of another series I guess and I think I was missing some things because of that?

I didn't like the humor very much. Not my type I guess. Often felt like there was a probably a joke and I just didn't get it. Or I didn't think it was funny.

I nearly dropped it before 100 pages.

However, the part when they finally examine and and help the dungeon is. . not bad. Honestly, I 'm not going to read the next book or the other related books. However, if you like the humor, not terrible I think.
Although the way the whole thing worked - flow of power - why dungeons - why raiders - why tempt them... the logic didn't hold very well for me. But, eh?

[Jellybean The horseshoe crab · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book just tickles something that I didn’t know I needed. Corporate fantasy. We have slimes and elves, we have troll paladins, and the corporate world. Maybe it’s because I’m a huge office fan or I’m just a weirdo, either way welcome to the corporate side of your favourites isekais. Delicious in dungeon? Nah accountants in dungeon? Appropriate filing systems, and data in dungeon. Also there’s an edgelord. If he’s your favourites character seek help.
New subgenre unlocked: corporate fantasy.

[matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Continuation of Shadowcroft

Really enjoyed the idea of dungeoneers switching sides and fighting for the tree of life. Really looking forward to see how the characters and story develops. Well done guys.

[Danny Moody · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really fun book. I didn’t know going into the book that it was in the Shadowcroft universe. That was a happy surprise. The concept was pretty novel. This was definitely a different type of dungeon core novel.

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious

[Jack Vinson]

The opening paragraphs just didn't grab me, and I have plenty more to read. Clearly, this is meant to be a humorous book, but somehow the opening just annoyed me rather than setting the tone.

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just love this LitRPG first book in a new series, as this time round we are meeting with an accountant and his group of auditors who are interested in setting failing dungeons back on track and empowering them to defeat the dungeoneers threatening to break their dungeon cores. Previously our group of characters had themselves been dungeoneers, but they had seen the light so to speak, and had decided to start serving the tree of souls, and saving as many world nodes as they could. However they still had to gain the trust of the other dungeon cores and they set out to prove their worth by going all out to save Fidotopia, a world of happy people and happy puppies but a dungeon lord who had given up on his role to save his people. He is a slime lord, who is a hoarder, and his dungeon has gone to junk and total ruin, but our team led by Calcannis Illudere will not be deterred by the stink or the slime or the lord's refusal of their help. They just had to do it, if for nothing else, they did it for the puppies. I love our team made up of grumpy gwen, Helga and Hurricane her battlegoat. and most expecially Kronke, the troll who brought happiness and cookies wherever he went. This is a real fun and humourous read I look forward to the next adventure by our trusty crew!

[Janny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Technically you can read these without having read the Shadowcroft series, but they’ll make a lot more sense if you read Shadowcroft first. I may read these again after finishing Shadowcroft, just to get all the references that I missed.