We can't just ignore this Ephi. Something really weird happened one way or the other. Trying to avoid the subject isn't a good look.
Her response to my post doesn't exactly fill me with confidence either
Sorry, I wanted to go back to this ever so briefly.
Why?
Why was my decision to declare that I didn't think we should waste our time discussing The Gone Person not a good look?
(I don't mind it quite so much now we actually have a flip, at least we're working on
some information now as opposed to endless hypotheticals, but it's still eh).
I'd just watched HP/Jman/Zipped declaring him probably scum, and considering I personally doubted that (because yes, admittedly, I was also participating in the waste of time) the idea that people might try and go forward from there as if he
was was... undesirable. I thought people would be going down the wrong path if they did.
Further, I thought focusing on Him
at all was a bad plan because I really thought we might not ever know what he was so we were just going to tie ourselves in knots with a big distracting distraction we couldn't confirm in any direction.
Think about it this way. If not for Wee working out his wincon and force feeding it to him to get him to flip we wouldn't know what happened, what he is, or what his abilities were.
Now it turns out he admitted Neutrality in their chat so Bo/Wee could have gone "Yeah he said something about that, don't worry about it" if they got sick of us spending our time on Him, but pretend he hadn't, pretend they didn't, pretend they wanted to hide wee a little longer.
So now you have ATP and his weird exit. Nobody knows what happened.
But you know what he wasn't? Scum. You know who knew that? The scum team.
And now if town decide to blow their time speculating about what happened to him they're not spending their time working out who scum is, and that gives them free reign to join in with all sorts of speculation on something
completely pointless and look productive doing so.
Hey look, you know who showed up and starting posting actual things today?
Blarg.
You know what Blarg's content decided to focus on?
considering Neki's Role having to select a player to tunnel the upcoming Day, maybe ATP's worked similarly in that he had to pre-select a player that would be voted out the upcoming Day, and maybe depending on whether said player flipped as Town or Mafia, something would happen
In this case ATP left the game after Neki flipped as Town but I can't tell if that's a good or not. Maybe ATP already lost the game for himself (as a Neutral) but we for some reason don't get to see his info yet, because there's some condition that can still be fulfilled to get him back in?
Maybe there's somebody specific we have to vote out Today (like a final nomination that he could do before leaving, in which case he picked somebody for Today last Night) and getting that player out Today would get him back?
"What if ATP's powers were this, what if this is what happened, what if we can get him back if we do y"
What if Horseman is scum and the chat's "parity cop" is also a scum and they convinced ATP to announce the fake red-check for them as a scapegoat and now that he's done their dirty work they vaporised him
"What if the chat used him as a scapegoat"
Not scum hunting. Oooh, let's look at ATP.
LP
Welp.
So ATP was likely a hunter, since Neki flipped town and he left the game.
Since he could come back and isn't dead, it could be a scum ability to put someone in stasis for a day or two.
Anyway, unless someone comes forward, I will continue on the assumption that ATP is the cop that got a fake red somehow, and town is now in further trouble without him.
Neki flipping town puts some people back into the spotlight, that's for sure.
Whole series of ATP related possibilities.
(although admittedly, deciding to stop looking at ATP at the end there).
