I've finished my reread and right now, everything seems to revolve around one person: Telika. And I'll be damned if I know what to make of him. And I've been pondering how to tackle this, because there's some sensitive stuff I've pieced together here, but I decided going all in would be the best route. All of this already is present in the thread, after all; I merely pulled it together. But I fully expect to be accused of fishing anyway. Here goes:
Telika has claimed "Robbeasy" (#201), and gave flavour for it (#270) that the real nmillar found first hilarious (#272) and then incriminating (#293, #305). This flavour was later backed by Vitek claiming "nmillar" (#311). I think we can safely conclude Telika and Vitek were telling the truth here and that those indeed are their names. But here comes a more interesting point – there seems to be a general consensus floating around in the thread that Telika claimed Vanilla (Robbeasy in #372 and #383, Vitek in #373 and #482, Krypsyn in #374, and probably some others as well), but as far as I know, he never did that (if I just overlooked it, please correct me here), nor did he ever bother to fix the misconception.
Why am I saying this? Because this is bugging me:
Telika: To continue with my solo nameclaim, my PM states not only that I am robbeasy, but also that I am
completely obsessed over poor nmillar's safety.
Vitek: Very well, I am nmillar. I have almost the same flavour as Telika. I know there are murderers around here and I am afraid Robbeasy gets hurt so
I am doing anything I can to save him. (this means killing mafia) Emphasis mine in both cases. Does this sound vanilla to you? It certainly doesn't to me, either of those. Besides, does anyone seriously believe that in this setup, names of the two most experienced mafia players would be given vanilla roles? Not me. (See why it is a bad idea to claim without any pressure now, Telika?)
I think this establishes that Telika and Vitek are unknown entities right about now; there is some connection between them, that's for certain, but the rest of us have no idea at all what it could be. Note also that neither of them was able to confirm the other is town, they just claim to
think so. With that, let's proceed to TwilightBard's wagon, which is another case where Telika's behaviour raises all kinds of warning flags.
The dynamics of the wagon has already been described. I went first (L-6, #361), followed by Vitek (L-5, #367) and Rob who at first defended the Bard, for some inexplicable reason or other, and then pushed him to (L-4, #383), and Krypsyn soon afterwards (L-3, #384). At this point, the wagon takes a break in which we find Telika's #388 and #393, very much a "How do I suspect thee? Let me count the ways" affair concluded with a wonderfully decisive "Hm" (is it comfortable, the fence you're sitting on there?). Then Red_Baron replaces in and votes (L-2, #420), TwilightBard claims and Telika offers his #447. Now I already said so in #448 – I think the point raised in #447 is very valid (about TwilightBard insisting that some names are more town than others while being notorious mafioso "Red_Baron"), but that doesn't change the fact that Telika just puts it out there, fanning the flames more and more while doing his best to stay out of the heat (see also his #453 and the fairly incredible "At L-1, we're pretty close to get a day abruptly ended by a hammer strike. Which won't come from me, as I'm not comfy enough with the Twilightbard case"). And when the hammer falls (nmillar L-1, #438; RB unvotes to L-2, #456; Gazoinks L-1, #465; RB hammers #469), Telika takes his distancing to a logical extreme in 478:
TwilightBard: And, well, congrats. You lynched a town vanilla,
Telika: Not me ! Not me ! Did you see ?
Yes, we saw.
Night falls, day breaks, we get a corpse and the first thing that happens is, of course, Telika again hinting pazzer may have been killed by some other than scum, potentially a vigilante. Some people have already commented on this (I believe it were primarily Krypsyn and SPF), but the fact remains: this reeks heavily of someone knowing something about what happened at night. And frankly, it sounds an awful lot like confused scum trying to figure out why their selected target didn't turn up dead the next morning and wanting to lure out the real killer. It really doesn't help that Telika gets ridiculously defensive over this (c.f. his sarcasm at the end of #525) and pushes this angle with enormous conviction considering how much of a guesswork he paints it to be (#531). Throwing your weight behind a hypothesis, that's fine, and we all do that (and I'm doing that right now). But doing with with such a very flimsy one tells me there's something more to it than meets the eye.
All the cats are out of their respective bags. I absolutely do not believe you are vanilla, Telika, and I am convinced you know something about the events of this night. With all of the above, I am also finding it almost impossible to believe you could be on town's side, but I'll reserve my judgement until I hear an answer to this:
what do you know that you are hiding from us?
vote Telika