He's already been confirmed town on the grounds that I mentioned that it's now LYLO, so he can't be replaced. You just don't know his role.
I do realize I probably could have poked around for a replacement, but I had already given town and the players in general a ridiculous amount of lenience this phase (deadline extension, prods being given out later than usual) and I'm honestly getting impatient with this game. I wasn't even requesting a game-related post, so Zak could have easily just said "Hi I exist" to avoid the kill, or personally told me that he didn't have time to play if he needed a replacement. Call it a mod folly postgame if you want, but for now it doesn't matter.
It doesn't help that MotK has like 20 players who all hate actually joining/playing mafia games. I don't like having to pro-actively bug people to join my games, so getting a replacement would probably be more of a hassle than it sounds at this point.