lord squing eating letters

i couldn't believe there wasn't already a compilation of this and collecting these clips killed me dead why are zac oyama and izzy roland the comedic duo of the decade
anyway get dropout and watch dimension 20: coffin run

[@buttonsfan]

Only a couple episodes in but I needed to say Bless Zac Oyama for turning a nat one into a character trait

[@juphil1645]

He did it with Gorgug and his quest to find his dad as well. Fucking genius

[@adamgreenspan4988]

Zac Oyama’s understated comedy genius effect on full display. Everyone else is doing the most incredible character voices, utter madness on display, and Zac just breaks everyone with a low key regular voice, a nonchalant commitment to a single silly trait, and reacting to the ensuing chaos with this “Whoah, dude, chill…” energy. He’s the perfect comedy straight man paired against the natural chaos intensity of Brennan or Izzy.

[@micaelalynch2067]

He always does and it’s glorious! He did this and he asked every older man if they were his dad in Fantasy high😂

[@ladykatie3958]

“Brennan come back, I don’t want him anymore” is my favorite line here. Only Brennan can truly wrangle the chaos that is his players

[@stellabymoonlight9069]

“Welcome to the streets, fool!” is also very good; it encapsulates the same sentiment in a different perspective.

[@TraineeHero]

Until someone decides to try Operation Slippery Puppet

[@ladykatie3958]

@@TraineeHero Iconic

[@decadencewhimsyandsarcasm]

In the last couple episodes of fantasy high junior year, Beardsley as K2 finally breaks him lol

[@TraineeHero]

@@decadencewhimsyandsarcasm 'Blimey!'

[@sarahbearbabygirl]

i love how utterly blindsided bronze is by a squing eating the contract because everyone else knows what’s coming but her. from the moment zac said “can i read that?” you can tell he’s trying to be overly nonchalant, izzy quickly realizes what’s about to happen but plays it cool to not give it away, carlos is looking around like “um no one’s stopping this??” and erika just starts fucking CACKLING with no poker face at all. the fact that even with all of this in play, plus the running gag of squing eating letters, bronze still just readily hands over the paperwork without suspicion…..then a second later is at a complete loss for words when the deed is done. a genius and hilarious series of events.

[@bluhamilton2485]

It's so perfect. You can see Izzy barely smirk as she realizes, for not even like half a second before instantly going "shit can't let it slip. Let her trap herself."

[@RedRattt]

The whole table watching Zac asking for the contract so he can eat it has the same energy as everyone watching him ask Brenan if he can enter a rage to break his charm and fear effects.

[@adamgreenspan4988]

“Can we like… beef squashed, right?” - classic Zac Oyama, right up there with “I killed him, yeah.” Master of the underreaction.

[@silkcherubs]

i just realized izzy's "I EAT YOUR PAPER!" and then zac's "I eat it up!" are references to There Will Be Blood

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

I'M FINISHED

[@Lucifronz]

Couldn't hold myself back from doing the slurping sound right after she said that.

[@julesking1303]

1:50 Izzy mentions sending her wife letters, and Zac so quickly gets the most pleased look I have ever seen. HE PLANNED THAT OUT 😭 he waited to drop that!

[@lexidc3940]

what's funnier is that Jasmine specifically requested to have Zac included. Zac truly takes no survivors with his comedy lmao also, whoever put Zac and Izzy on the same side was a genius. they played off each other very well haha I'd love to see them in other campaigns together

[@MauiWowieOwie]

I think they're both in The Unsleeping City too

[@londongirl2768]

@@MauiWowieOwieunsleeping city is main cast, so no Izzy

[@DParkerNunya]

"Freak over here" Zac Oyama vs "Why would that be mine, it was in your pocket" Zac Oyama

[@chilicats]

Carlos' "welcome to the streets, FOOL" gets me everytime

[@gamejtv]

"Do I pee blood? Yes." LMAOOOOOO

[@clairecohen3178]

The glee on Erika's face as she realises what's going to happen is amazing. This whole miniseries was amazing actually!

[@avitallichtenfeld813]

Operation Slippery Puppet would beg to differ

[@clairecohen3178]

​@@avitallichtenfeld813Operation slippery puppet is also amazing! Two things can be amazing!!

[@pablofierros6975]

Coffin run is great but that last scene where Zac does the ULTIMATE heightening is solid gold. Erika laughing, Izzy smiling, Carlos' "Welcome to the streets, FOOL", and Bronze not knowing up from down

[@jocosesonata]

9:27 - I like how he doesn't even pretend to read it, even for a second, he just immediately starts nomming on it.

[@Lucifronz]

Letters are for eating.

[@danieldeystar2213]

Izzy’s scream gets me every time. It’s just so amazing

[@lisah-p8474]

One of the greatest screams I have ever heard. It should be immortalized in video games or something. 😂

[@meribor]

It is a great scream. I also think it was looped a couple times in post

[@ZeetZoot]

4:49 I love how Carlos just wanted to watch Zac Oyama eat paper

[@britnicox3929]

I loved the fact that Dimitri goes to see Marina every weekend but never mentions that Sasha is OK nor does he ever think “hey maybe I’ll bring the letter to Marina just cause I’m already planning to see her” for *seven years* 😂😂

[@AquaticLotus7552]

Now I want fanart of Dimitri being strangled by Marina in her werewolf form while Sasha is stabbing him repeatedly

[@aaronmott208]

Squinge is turnip boy, an absolute menace to proper documentation

[@compactdisk96]

People really overlook coffin run. There was a got of gold there

[@unclewiley1986]

From what I saw in discussions lots of people decided not to watch because of the accents in the trailer.

[@victoriakayes1765]

Erica's voice gave me tinnitus this season

[@MenachemSchmuel]

@@unclewiley1986 yeah i was one of those at first. between the innkeeper and dmitri i wasnt even able to make it through ep 1 until i came to it back months later. glad i did in the end but yeesh.

[@ezrenficker4502]

⁠@@unclewiley1986do you know why people wanted to steer clear of the accents? Did people find them difficult to understand, too silly, generally unlikable, etc? I'm not judging, I'm just genuinely curious because the accents were one of my favorite parts

[@ANullAssault]

​@@ezrenficker4502 pretty much all of the above. Also doing very exaggerated accents is pretty cringe for anybody old enough to pay for dropout. If it were the occasional side character, it'd be bearable but if it's every character it's just annoying and gimmicky

[@ferni24]

I just realized that Jasmine started the whole letter eating thing!

[@Hypersaiyanike]

And it bit her right in the letters

[@Lucifersfursona]

I love that Izzy can just make that noise basically whenever she wants. What a great skill. That scream has like no visible windup Carlos attempts to make Zac eat a letter irl

[@Lucifersfursona]

“I was like... ‘You got any letters for his wife?’”

[@PerpetuallyDaydreaming]

Lol some people saying Jasmine shoulda seen Squing eating the deeds coming, but like, Emilia wouldn't have known this weird vampire baby eats paperwork What reason would she have NOT to let someone look at and verify what she was saying was true?

[@daniellemurnett2534]

That's what dice rolls are for! Call for a contested insight vs. deception/persuasion to see if Squing can hide his intentions well enough. If my NPCs had to take everything vaguely reasonable sounding my players say at face value then social encounters wouldn't do that much now would they. By her reaction it's obvious that she didn't even consider the possibility. In this case it _was_ Jasmine failing to pay attention, not her NPC.

[@connorblack99]

@@daniellemurnett2534to be fair though what is insight going to tell you? He wants the letter? I guess if you had a really really high insight you might be able to tell it was for something nefarious, but also they have to show proof of their claim on the castle to them. They have to give them the letter.

[@daniellemurnett2534]

@@connorblack99 Let's see. In this scenario, I'd say a successful insight check would tell them that Squing is planning to defile or destroy the letter. I'd pull out a haughty retort such as "Oh, no you don't. Not until we get it copied." or something like that, and continue with however else I thought of making my players deal with the situation. Alternatively, I could just as well imagine them literally dangling it in front of the Fang Gang's faces without letting them as much as lay a finger on it. It's not unrealistic.

[@AlexQuill63]

I think it's less that Emilia didn't know and more that Jasmine herself OOC should have realised what was about to happen as soon as Zac asked to see the paper xD At the very least we would've expected to see Jasmine give him a one of those "DM realising what shenanigans their player has planned but powerless to avert it without metagaming" looks before Emilia handed the paper over.

[@connorblack99]

@@daniellemurnett2534 sorry I missed this ages ago. Insight isn’t mind reading. It’s not detect thoughts. You are reading intent. If you got a nat 20, maybe, but at best I give my players hints at the emotions they see on the faces in front of them. It’s unhinged to get to “he’s gonna eat that letter” from what has happened in the scene so far. Even seeing a hungry vampire is probably not enough to get them to truly expect the right thing. And they do need to show that they own the house in order to prove their claim, or they will get their ass kicked regardless.

[@LiaaaaaaaaAAAAAHH]

i just found out Emily named Squing for Zac and that just makes me adore him more 😂

[@elbruces]

"I'm a baby boomer in baby blue bloomers!"

[@Higsby100]

9:20 the "can I see...can I read that" almost gave it away there lol

[@TheTaiylorWallace]

Zac can bring a campaign to a complete halt with zero effort.

[@MauiWowieOwie]

Zac has the best recurring bits. This and the "are you my dad" are too funny.

[@miritallstag336]

And they both came out of nat 1s! This came out of the nat 1 Wis save, and are you my dad came from a nat 1 on perception or insight or something!

[@rachelamanita9301]

One of Zack Oyama's best characters. Real nails a Bill Hader impression

[@daniellemurnett2534]

Dimension 20 has its fair share of players outsmarting and embarassing GMs. Operation Slippery Puppet comes to mind. But it is truly rare that a player does it with as much nonchallance, so quickly, so irrevokably, as Zac Oyama asking to see the papers, getting them without resistance, and eating them in a matter of moments. I think if a player did that to me with as much foreshadowing as it being *the* running joke of the campaign I'd just perish on the spot. Disintegrate. Become ash.

[@Basilililisk]

I found it so funny that zac was so timid about taking even the tiniest bite of that paper, I would have quickly devoured it

[@calictolentino3949]

Zac really shined in this side quest

[@iiearlgreyii]

Some people didn't even try to watch Coffin Run. The fools.

[@tashianti4830]

I laughed so hard watching this campaign. This campaign was so good. Jasmine and the cast did such a good job

[@MikeJF85]

Only thing that would've been better would've been if they ran out to the prop store and grabbed some edible paper between sessions.

[@Eidenhoek]

Lizardmen eat corpses. Zac eats letters.

[@bbadperson594]

Carlos using Wetzel enabling everything lmfaoooo

[@sunmethods]

The Notebook director’s cut where lord squing was eating all the letters

[@possiblename6957]

I love that it's just the Tide Pods sketch at the start

[@milenacosta8299]

the payoff is amazing

[@roxirock5455]

Why does Izzy sound exactly like Nadja from what we do in the shadows

[@some_other_guy]

9:08 Jasmine's look of incredulity always makes me laugh, like Erika said "you gotta know!"

[@mxx720]

Zac was really the only part of Coffin Run that I liked. Everyone else was doing an over the top goofy accent at the same time, and by the end of the season it got so exhausting.

[@bbadperson594]

...lord squing being un-squinged even

[@HutchTheWolf]

“Yes; I eat letters, and I pee blood”

[@BBBness]

I feel like Zac was actually scared in some of these scenes. Like, "Izzy isn't a method actor, right?"

[@TheJjko]

Izzy's blood-curdling scream at 2:45 gives me life

[@theverdantfern]

Zac is like if Jerry Trainor & Justin Long had a lovechild.

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

Rolls Nat 1 Defining character trait Zac is a genius

[@lyricbot8513]

This was fucking hilarious

[@mollofamerika]

@glidus with the Winds of Winter

[@bath_foam4576]

2:45 was sasha's scream looped?

[@riledupryepie]

sounds like it. just a little bit, so they could cut to everyone else real quick while the screaming continued

[@justinisorange]

*hOpE yOu MaDe A cOpY*

[@BrowniePokemon]

lol

[@Awesomewithaz]

9:42 who the fuck is that guy

[@gabrielbjornursidae]

The only person whose voice wasn't insufferable in this campaign was the DM (most of the time) and Zac.

[@pemo2676]

thats sounds like a problem for you, actually

[@gabrielbjornursidae]

@@pemo2676 You don't say? Almost like I was voicing MY opinion on something that I watched. Crazy.

[@pemo2676]

@@gabrielbjornursidae yeah kinda sucks to call people insufferable though, for a problem which is entirely yours and not a valid review or criticism

[@gabrielbjornursidae]

@@pemo2676 Wild. Anyways, it's a completely valid review and criticism. Just as you getting all upset and throwing a tissy fit over someone's opinion online is perfectly valid, albeit very childish.

[@pemo2676]

@@gabrielbjornursidae actually hypocritical! im voicing my opinion on your critique, which isnt actually a critique of *them* but more realistically a critique of *your own ears.* since you're advocating for opinions, i thought maybe you wouldn't mind. i dont remember when it wasn't childish to insult people like you have here, either