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It’s to make sure they STAY dead.
Unsanctioned resurrections are strictly forbidden.
What happens if they hit the pope with the pope hammer and the pope sits up and screams “Ow!” ??? 🤔
Do they just keep hitting him with the hammer or do they need to use magic to destroy the undead abomination?
The hammer deals holy damage, so it’ll be very effective to keep hitting.
critical miss undead pope deals 15 crushing damage plus disease
Shouldn’t the pope be strong against holy damage? Unless…Holy shit someone call Dan Brown!
The hammer does +1d8 radiant damage against undead
Six more weeks of winter.
I’m guessing the college of cardinals makes that decision on a case by case basis.
Shell cases, if that hammer is any indicator.
[insert monty python “Bring out your dead” sketch here]
“I feel happy! Happy! Hap-” thud
“Thanks for that.”
This is like those warning labels. Someone had to really fuck up to get some of those warnings made. Makes me wonder about this hammer.
Oh, they did. Telling if someone was really dead was difficult until modern medicine figured it out in the last century or so. People got buried alive by unwitting village elders all the time.
it was common enough that the “Safety Coffin” was invented to help deal with it. If you heard a bell ringing in the graveyard, someone was alive down there.
Reminds me of the dead sailors that would be sewn into their hammock and thrown overboard. And just to make sure they were really dead, they would sew one stitch through the nose.
Should hit him with a Klingon pain stick.
Glory to the Vatican house! Yesterday was a good day (for the Pope) to die!
The inventor of this method: „he was dead before I hit him. I was totally just checking with my medical hammer, you guys. Believe me.“
Fun fact: the word “factoid” means a false bit of information that is being passed as fact. It doesn’t mean “a small interesting tidbit of information”.
Though I suppose the official definition will be changed since the proper one is seemingly dead
Quick edit: looks like it may have already been altered.
Which means that OP used factoid correctly.
A really fun factoid is that factoids being false information is not actually true!
Ow, my brains.
I love when a seemingly harmless meme becomes a linguistics debate and then just pure logic
You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking “humanoid” for example, you get something that isn’t presenting itself as a human. But I didn’t come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.
So thanks.
Lol, you could say your comment was a factoid.
Yeah, I was gonna make the joke, but got lazy.
It works under every definition of it, really.
Yeah, most lexicons being descriptive rather prescriptive makes etymology one hell of a twisted labyrinth. I agree it’s important for a lot of reasons. The last thing we need right now is a State enforcing some kind of “Newspeak”
Factlet?
I FEEL POPE-Y! I FEEL POPE-Y!
They like to keep the bodies/relics so maybe there is a wack’a’pope machine in the vatican
Dunno about you, but I’m bopping the bishop right now bb.
Pics or it didn’t happen!!
not sure which definition of “factoid” i should be using here…
Does a squirrel listen and determine good pope, bad pope?
So…
Like full swing or just a little tap tap?
If they were physicists they’d hold the tip of the handle with a pinching gesture, then pull the hammer back to horizontal and let it drop. Swinging with a perfect arc it would thud into the pope’s head with just enough force to hurt anyone who was still alive, and get a response.
However seeing as they’re still using a hammer to test for brain activity - we can assume the Catholic Church isn’t that friendly to science or something.
I shit you not, it took the Catholic Church until the 1800’s to finally accept that the Earth revolves around the fucking Sun. Maybe the 1750’s if someone’s feeling generous, but they were still censoring Galileo’s and Copernicus’s books at that time.
He was wearing white, when he went into the room.
Szeth Son Son Vallano wore white on the day he was to kill a pope
Gotta be concave for the conclave!
“Popehammer” sounds like the name of a Catholic Power Metal band…
I can’t offer you that, but that pope hammer does look awfully square.
How about a holy tazer? You know, a little twitching goes a long way.
reasonable precaution, if you also believe in spirits impregnating a woman who then birthed the son of god, everthings possible.
