Synopsis
Getting shot by the IRS sucks.
It’s like being shot by anyone else, but instead of being for a cool reason like ‘Grand theft auto’ or ‘mansplaining’, the reason a hole has appeared in your liver is just...‘wire fraud.’
‘Wire...fraud.’ The hell is that?
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Readers can expect: - Light LitRPG mechanics - Absurdly powerful monsters and warriors - Comedy - Action - An ever-present desire to feed lemon meringue to the God of Knowledge.
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At a glance, this story is about Marcus, self-proclaimed ‘tax fraud extraordinaire’, who, through his own unfortunate actions, finds himself at the wrong end of an IRS bullet. Upon his untimely demise, he is cast into a new world and stationed at the ‘Guild Taxation Authority’, working as his own worst enemy — a tax auditor.
Alongside Marcus’s grueling work at the GTA, and unbeknownst to most of the world, darkness is looming on the northern border — catastrophe-level monsters are gathering at a rate even humanity’s greatest are struggling to match.
Gifted with an affinity for earning EXP, Marcus will have to navigate his own dangerous work and horrible bosses to make time for his side-hustle — saving the world.
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I didn’t want to bog down any readers with gluggy old ‘tax-talk’, so the story uses tax fraud and other financial crimes as a backdrop to give the characters their motivations and goals, rather than whipping out a textbook and taking y’all back to Accounting 101. Hope this doesn’t disappoint my financially inclined folk, if such a thing exists :)
Cover art done by Cube. Thank you!
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Table of Contents
- 1Chapter 1 — I die in a shootout with the IRS2024-11-13
- 2Chapter 2 — Office cubicles give me the heebie-jeebies2024-11-13
- 3Chapter 3 — Eating lizard ooze gives me levels2024-11-13
- 4Chapter 4 — Please sir, may I have some more?2024-11-13
- 5Chapter 5 — The God of Knowledge likes cheesecake, but only after scones2024-11-13
- 6Chapter 6 — Outta the way, nerds, expert fraudster coming through!2024-11-13
- 7Chapter 7 — Now I am become Toothpaste, the traveler of dimensions2024-11-13
- 8Chapter 8 — The rich guy did a bad thing. Fancy that!2024-11-13
- 9Chapter 9 — When I said competitive praying, I meant competitive praying2024-11-13
- 10Chapter 10 — In which I go against all finer judgements and direct orders2024-11-13
- 11Chapter 11 — Tax fraud extraordinaire? Pff, more like ace detective2024-11-13
- 12Chapter 12 — Raid his home, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.2024-11-13
- 13Chapter 13 — I smell too good, so they fire me2024-11-13
- 14Chapter 14 — Who knew the inside of a mineshaft would stink so bad?2024-11-13
- 15Chapter 15 — My first man-crush, real-crush, and boss-fight2024-11-13
- 16Chapter 16 — The ceramic warriors always come to life, duh!2024-11-13
- 17Chapter 17 — Deep-frying spiders and saving civilians (in order of importance)2024-11-13
- 18Chapter 18 — How to lose a priceless dagger in (far less than) 10 days2024-11-13
- 19Chapter 19 — New house, new friend, new threat2024-11-13
- 20Chapter 20 — Bird wranglin’ and a heart attack2024-11-13
- 21Chapter 21 — Never trust the confession box2024-11-13
- 22Chapter 22 — You could call it a ‘slight pickle’2024-11-13
- 23New Story Woo!2024-11-13