I opened up the locked LJ entry I made to ask the Staff what the hell was going on. You'll see my thought-process through the entire first day, and the lies Staff was already spreading:

http://www.livejournal.com/~raistlinknight/39656.html

As you can see, I was sure it was a joke for quite a while. I even IMed Roogle well after the original "incident" and said, "Yeah, it's a joke." This was when Roogle was claiming he didn't know anything.