Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160116155944/@comment-25396609-20160117162758

Random thought: Penny initially planned to fake her own death in the tournament to stay at Beacon, and turned her aura off deliberately.

This still would have been pretty traumatic and people would feel a little betrayed that she would make them worry so much, but she is clealry a bit lacking in the social skills and unserstanding of how people handle these situations. She very well might not have known better.

Obviously tht plan backfired, but it explains why they the swords were able to hurt her without her aura bottoming.