No. In Character. As absurd as this 'event' may be (to some). Everything - support for ZN, insults to ZN/PA, calling it out as /attention seeking/whatever, or playing along ingame only to discover it was a poor lookalike and your efforts were wasted on some nutbags fantasy... all of it could have (should have?) stayed IC.
Edit: Perhaps he should have posted it in the RP forum? Perhaps then this would have produced an interesting dialogue (IC). Although... how big is the crossover with the core RP and core PvP communities?
Edit #2: I thought this was the original ZN thread! Well done the 13th for playing along. (still could have been in the RP forum)