Of course the D1 lynch happened. How did you think Lakai, the vote leader, died?
Losing the Investigative Journalist sucks, of course, but this is why we have an understudy. Unless we lose the Cop or the Seer tonight (knock wood, I hope not!), the Understudy should probably pick up the Investigative Journalist role.
The simplest interpretation of that set of kills is that the Mafia killed Normal, and the Wolf Outrider killed septimus, who apparently was actually self-protecting (I was kind of hoping that he wouldn’t, just to fake out the Outrider). Apparently the Wolves didn’t share septimus’ assessment that he wasn’t worth killing, because he didn’t interfere with him.
Alternately, of course, it’s possible that septimus wasn’t self-protecting, and one of those deaths was from a third party. We’ll know more by Dusk 2, I guess (when it’d be obvious if we again have a second non-lynch death).