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Anderson Quest: Killing Vampires and Werewolves and Leprechauns (Hellsing/Bloodborne)

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Nope, only death or voluntary resignation. The latter of which happened...twice, I think. Four guys did it, but only two were popes. Catholic history is fun!
 
bookworm702 said:
Sadly, that idea's shut down, and not even for fun reasons. You can actually declare yourself Pope (voting isn't exactly a required part of the process), but you have to be a bishop, and sadly you can't just declare yourself a bishop. Unless Father Anderson is a bishop, in which case...cool beans. Oh, and the Pope has to be dead, which...we can't prove he is, but we can't prove he isn't, either.
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Technically, to be a Bishop, you have to head a sizeable Christian community (read "at least a city, more like a region") and/or be named thus by a conclave of other Bishops.

The authority of Bishops, as per the original branches of the Church (i.e. the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches), is descended from the authority of the Apostles (and thus, Bishops are in Apostolic Succession). As the Apostles named the first Bishops, so do their successors name other Bishops.

The Pope (and the four other Patriarchs) are the Bishops who hold the seat of the Five Apostolic Churches, i.e. the Churches founded and first led by the Apostles themselves. The most famous example of such is the Seat of St.Peter, Rome.

Father Anderson is probably a Deacon at most. One step below a Bishop and thus not holding Apostolic Authority. Thus, he would be ineligible to be a Bishop and/or Patriarch.

However, Anderson is most definitively a Saint, being blessed by God with Divine power and Miracles, which does put him in an interesting position.

bookworm702 said:
Nope, only death or voluntary resignation. The latter of which happened...twice, I think. Four guys did it, but only two were popes. Catholic history is fun!
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To live in the time of a Pope Emeritus is immensely interesting. It only happened once before!

Catholic History is fascinating.
 
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Crashing the Party
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    • "Well," you say, putting on your best condescending face in the hope that they'll feel it through the wood, "that's not very Christianlike of ya, missy."

    She either doesn't hear you or is physically incapable of responding through her howling laughter. It's annoying, sure, but a man of God knows when to turn the other cheek. You turn on your heel and make your way back towards the plaza on the other side of the gate.

    You could just use that dead guy who had the weird rock on him, but you figure one of the big hairy bastards you'd chopped up would work better.

    As you're going through potential candidates, looking for one that still has the necessary mass for your purposes, you notice two crows waddling towards your latest mountain of meat. You're pretty sure they're the same ones as before, a hypothesis that's confirmed when one of them, after catching sight of you, picks up a pitchfork in its beak and crushes it in two.

    You suppose you are a good source of food.

    You pick out a proper specimen and drag him by the ankle, humming along to the melodic dribbling of his skull on the cobbles. Returning to the offending doorway, you grab the body by the ankles and deftly hammer throw it through the windows over the archway.

    In your defense, Christ did flip over a table and whale on some guys with a whip that one time.

    The laughter quickly turns to shrieks and you can hear the clattering and shattering of furniture and valuables as the covey of assholes scramble to deal with their new friend.

    "Ye'll be fine!" you shout over the ruckus. "I'm pretty sure none o'these pricks can jump!"

    A series of barks from the opposite side of the plaza grabs your attention. It seems your little bout of defenestration caught the mob's attention.

    Does it count as defenestration if you throw someone into a window? Or would it be "refenestration" or something like that? Maybe you'll ask one of these fine fellows.



    No such luck, unfortunately. To be fair, though, your linguistic knowledge would probably suffer too if half of your vertebrae were on the street next to you.

    [] Go down the drop you can see behind the debris to your left

    [] Go to the right, towards where you first spotted the mob

    [] Write in...
     
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    • Tricia said:
    As you're going through potential candidates, looking for one that still has the necessary mass for your purposes, you notice two crows waddling towards your latest mountain of meat. You're pretty sure they're the same ones as before, a hypothesis that's confirmed when one of them, after catching sight of you, picks up a pitchfork in its beak and crushes it in two.
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    I want there to always be more of them.

    They are gold.


    [X] Go to the right, towards where you first spotted the mob
     
    [x] Go down the drop you can see behind the debris to your left
     
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