Hellcrawlers Book 1 - Dungeon of the Damned - Jax Blackwater

Written by Jax Blackwater
Read by J. Scott Bennett
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Hell runs on rules. Survive them.

A deadend life ends even deader… and he wakes up in Hell’s lobby, where the clerks have horns and the staplers bite. The only way out is down: nine Circles, each a lethal, bureaucratic nightmare with bosses who measure your sins in triplicate. Good news—there’s a system. Bad news—it’s fair.

He’s not alone. A bythebook imp (assigned as his auditor) and a battlebroken 13thcentury knight (who’s seen this game before) form a reluctant party. Together they’ll parse infernal contracts, kite monsters through killzones, and raid departments with more forms than fangs.

The progression is real. Every kill, quest, and exploited loophole earns Redemption Points to spend on leveling, Virtue upgrades, and risky Viceboosts that hit hard and demand payment later. Play it safe and stall out. Lean into your sins and risk getting permanently stamped “Property of the Pit.”

What you’ll get:

Creative boss fights that reward planning over plot armorVisible levelups, builds, and loadouts driven by Redemption PointsVirtue/Vice tradeoffs that matter in combat and storyBureaucratic satire—contracts, audits, and loopholes as weaponsFoundfamily banter with a prickly, rideordie partyReal consequences: lethal stakes, earned wins, honest aftermathDungeon of the Damned is Book One of Hellcrawlers—a darkly funny LitRPG/Progression Fantasy where the only thing sharper than the traps is the fine print. If you like dungeon crawls with brains, visible power growth, and gallows humor that actually hits, clock in. Hell’s waiting.

Content warning: violence/gore, strong language, irreverent humor.

For fans of darkly funny dungeon crawls and progression fantasy.