What ACTUALLY happened was, Pen posted a topic saying she was taking a small break from Project X (As her part in the next update was already finished) due to someone scamming her. First he commissioned her for some sprites of Link, and was giving her extra money as a present, then for some reason or another, forced her to give all the money back, and saying the finalized product of his commission was trash.
HOWEVER,
The guy who commissioned her showed up on the thread and posted a very long explanation of the whole situation, including screenshots of the PM's between him and Pen, showing that the money was for more commissions, and when the sprites he asked for weren't to his liking, they got into an argument, he insulted her work and then demanded a refund. His post included apologies and a few other things. I don't remember everything in detail unfortunately because the thread was deleted.
A lot of regulars of the PX forum sympathized with the guy, and apologized for the name-calling and screams for blood that often come from fan-boys after something like this happens. I'm not sure what happened after that (I was gone for a few days between the first thread and the second, during which the first was deleted), but a new thread was created by Zeta, stating that Pen had felt like she had disappointed all of her fans, deleted her forum account, and was planning to leave the PX team. Zeta asked for fans to come and post kind words to Pen in order to convince her otherwise.
UNFORTUNATELY...
A few fan-boys invaded the thread, once again dragging up the guy from the previous thread, calling for his blood. Typical reaction. And due to me and a few others (I ended up getting into an argument with a forum regular who tried to assert that the screenshots he posted were fake, and that in believing them we were trusting some random dude over Pen, while I tried to convince him that they weren't faked, and that the entire situation was a misunderstanding. Possibly due to a language barrier.) the thread quickly stopped being about bringing Pen back, and Zeta ended up deleting it.
That's all I can remember of what happened. I'm hoping I didn't miss any important details..
Papanomics, you were there weren't you? Did I miss anything?