Some thoughts on padib's rant:

Very strange to claim absolute knowledge that both kills were protoss. Is it possible that he has some sort of role where he has to mature before being able to use his awesome protoss killing power? I am thinking it sounds like possible zerg. If I am correct in assuming zerg is currently exploding sheep, perhaps Night 2 will see some other more evolved lie form assimilated before zergdib emerges in his full dreadful form and starts night killing?

If he has knowledge about how zerg works in the game it could explain why he is so sure protoss was behind both kills.

Regarding padib
I dont think anyone should protect him. If mafia or whoever wants rid of him, go for it and do us a favor of having to read/lynch him
regarding cone
I felt the same way. Despite the fact he doesn't create the no lynch to save astronomical, it doesn't mean he's town either.
regarding sparks
I think that claim is a little sour. Vanilla marine is not a role.
marine is the role and it is equivalent to vanilla townie.
There's no point in saying vanilla marine. Its redundant.
marine=vanilla
makes me think he has no idea and is just putting together a fakeclaim from the flip flavor this morning.

The bolded part reminds me of Kerrigan, who after being taken by the Zerg is held in a crysalis (a kind of coccoon) which you need to protect during the Zerg missions until she emerges as the Queen of Blades. If that's what padib is, it's not good news at all!

Also, the exploding sheep in the flavor refer to the fact that critters (neutral animal units) explode when the player clicks on them continuously on them. I saw that as WoW making a joke and nothing having to do with the our game here. The weird part is that sheeps are found in WarCraft not StarCraft.

Whilst true, to me I felt like he deserved a chance to defend himself. But what did we get? Some wishy-washy "I'm the victim don't vote for me!" post with a pretty non-reason to defend him. Because of this and his other questionable activities which I'll go more into later, and not because of you pushing me to do it (really? Why?) 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6670509

Vote Sparks

Yeah, I knew you'd already posted some thoughts but thought a nice consice post to catch up as you'd asked everyone else for one was a good idea. 

The most concerning thing for me about Padib is that he just posted this role hint pretty much unprovoked. Was he under any sort of real pressure? Not from what I could see. There must be some reason for doing it, but honestly I can't see one. And surely if you're invincible tonight as he claims, and town, you'd want to keep that a secret. Unless he was forced into doing it by his Mafia allies. 

Consider this possibility, for example. Sparks and padib are on the same Mafia team. Sparks is under fire, and thus is looking for a way to draw attention off of him. What better way to do that than role claim, perhaps overexaggurate in the process, to try and steer conversation away from Sparks? People are going to wait until the third day at least for padib to see if his role is accurate or not, they'd think, so why not give it a try?

Just a thought, and it's probably wrong, but you never know right?

For the bolded part; I didn't vote for Nickles for the reasons which I provided before. Here it is again, though.

I would much rather take the risk lynching Astro rather than causing a tie and thus both surviving. That's just how I saw it at the time, and I still believe it's the right decision even if Astro was to be town. It was worth the risk, quite simply.

Also my lack of contribution on the first day was due to being AFK for much of the week and using the site on mobile is near impossible for long posts such as this. That's not so much of a problem now.

(5) Sparks - impertinence, theprof00, TruckOSaurus, Wonktonodi, Conegamer
(2) theprof00 - padib, Sparks

(7) Not Voting - bugrimmar, Carl2291, Conegamer, EricFabian, radishhead, spurgeonryan, WhiteEaglePL, Wright

With 14 alive, it takes 8 to lynch.

Countdown to Night 2: http://itsalmo.st/#night2

Please PM Smeags or myself if there's an issue with the vote count.

I don't have a problem with your contribution, you have been more active than many others. It's the way it's presented and what you are puting out there that gives this read. For example, if you so much rather wanted to lynch Astro than cause a tie, why not vote Astro and remove all doubt? You chose the path of least resistance so that you didn't show up in any of the controversises of teh end of teh Day, instead you pretend to look like you contributed and left a meaningless vote on EricFabian. It's about as non-comittal as it gets. It seems like you're trying to hid ein plain sight

I dont think padib is scum. It doesn't make any sense go him to go claiming what he did and think he would get away with it. I trust what he's offering. Id prefer scum to deal with him.

I think him knowing 100% that the 2 night kills were Protoss is a big hint that he is a possible Zerg faction. Hell, like Truck said he could be Kerrigan. Could be a Hybrid. Could be the Overmind. Could be something even worse, like Amon.

I do agree though that padib is best to be left alone (at least for one more day) to see what comes of his claim.